Hey! I was just watching the Skill Toys and Your Health video. Good stuff.

 

Burning Man conclave was an incredible rite of passage! I honestly can't give you much of an opinion about the actual performance because I was just on auto-pilot. One of my fellow spinners turned to me after it was over and asked "were you there for that?" I told her "not completely." That makes sense too, because the choreographed stuff went great, but at the end when it turned into a free spin I found myself there in front of the crowd all of a sudden - as if teleported - not knowing what to do. I did a few moves and it was fine, but I definitely didn't have a good flow going.

 

But the crowd loved us and we felt so honored to have been chosen for the inner circle, and afterward we were all riding such a high from it all! We cruised all around on our art car(bus), stopping at various places to throw down more fire. It was amazing.

 

I wish there was some video... but nothing has surfaced yet. We did have an official photographer who got some good shots. They're at:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.760225679677.2212579.19600840&type=3

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.760238703577.2212583.19600840&type=3

 

But I don't know if those are public. If not, you can see a bunch on my FB profile - they're the most recently tagged ones.

 

In other news... we've been bringing the hoops to OccupyWallStreet! Dawn Zuppelli came down from upstate and has been camped out there. I did some hooping there today, and yesterday Ann Humphreys, Ali Luminescent, $mall ¢hange, and others spun... I know Ter'i was there a few days ago too.

Hey Caroleeena! Hope all is well with you. I am just catching up on what's been going on with everyone and I saw your tornado vidoe. Oh my,,,I know mother nature very well and she can be quite scary. Sending you love and good energy! huggssssss!

Your tutorials are awesome! You've really opened up my flow!  <3

Hello!

I have a question that Im thinking you can answer! I've read your posts on fuel choice for fire hooping and others posts as well, and Im just wondering if this fuel would be suitable?!

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100112454/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

Hey Beautiful,

I forgot to tell you that I passed on your regards to Chad.... and the moment I mentioned your name his face lit up like a Christmas tree!

Oh, and I was wondering if you ever dug up that peanut dressing recipe. I found a really good one online ( http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Japanese-Peanut-Salad-Dressing/Detail.aspx ) but it's not THE one.

O <3

don't dislike me caroleena ! i promise i'm really nice!! (referring to my smacking people with hoops comment)

OMG... it was so amaxing to finally meet you Caroleeena! I felt like I was with a kindred spirit. You were so inspirational and helpful for developing my hooping further (amoung other things beyond hooping as well). We can hardly wait for you to come to Madison to do a workshops. It was be such a huge blessing to our community!

Absolutely will say hi to Chad for you. I met him at the Fall WF (my first) where I did my first burn.... and bought my rope dart from him. Hugs!

Oooh, good stuff. Thanks. I didn't see that album on the HC page.

 

I half unpacked, enough to do laundry, because tomorrow we're off to Wildfire! My body isn't so crazy about back to back spinning retreats, but my spirit is too damn high to care.