You should. I'm without a family this year. It sound delicious, and nostalgic.

Thank you, Shannon. What a lovely and thoughtful post.

Cheers!
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Thanks for that. Being an Army brat, Mem Day has for me a rather different set of meanings. I'm inside writing all day, after spending much of the weekend partying.

What with her and Caleb, it's been locust season in the Burning Man community too. I think met Sunshine only once, at a party out in the Valley last year after we'd been Tribe buds a while. I found her gentle and sweet, so always felt a pang when I saw her being mauled by the usual big brave blowhards in Politics tribe, some of whom yet cower behind alt bedsheets in here.

I feel the same pang when I read most of the stuff I've seen posted on her since her death. Being a woman and a mystic, she was a *much* easier online target than a Jack London-type like Caleb. I first met him on the playa, where we fell into a heated argument at once about the role of the press during wartime. Both of us being professionals, we had very strong experience-backed opinions thought out to six decimal spaces. It was fun and we got on at once.

There's very little talk of such matters as suicide at the Burner parties this weekend, but I do notice a drawing-closer, like we all know the chain has been shortened a couple of links.

Again, Shannon, thanks so much for posting and for the oil on these troubled waters. That was about the sanest and most thoughtful thing I've read about Sunshine since she passed.