As noted last week, I made my first trip to Burning Man this year.  It became clear to me about a year ago that I had to go this year.  2012 is obviously a year much about the future so this was finally the year.  Obviously many other people felt that way as well as this year had record attendance of 62,000+ up from approximately 50,000 each of the last two years and much more than the thousands in the 1990s and the tens of thousands earlier this century.  This growth is something I will discuss in Part Two.

I have …

This is a flat out apology to all my long time readers and to all of those that have signed up for email notifications in the past two months.  It has been more than two months since my last blog post.  I have never gone more than three weeks and usually post every other week.  I apologize!

The reasons for this absence are two fold.  First I am just finishing up the epilogue and notes for my fourth book, “Entering the Shift Age”.  I have been writing it most of the year but intensively July and August.  This book is being …