Title: August 23rd - 10:54
Medium: Super-8 film
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Resolution: 2880 x 2160
File Type: H.264 Codec / MP4.
Comments: From Los Angeles to San Francisco–From mother to daughter. We continued to visit Jason's family. His sister, Jordana, was waiting for us in her office in Oakland. She shared a striking resemblance with Jason! You can tell they are siblings. Jordana told us about the community work she was doing for the locals with social equity, food scarcity, homeless, and drug abuse in Oakland for her nonprofit organization. I mentioned to her we were going to Burning Man in a couple days which is why we made our way up north to pack up supplies at Ethan and Henricks place before we hit the desert road. She gave us a few packs of Narcan. I had never had to use one of these before, but I thought why not, maybe we can save someones life if someone took the wrong drugs at the playa. It turned out 2 of the 3 cans she gave us were put to use. One friend ate too many weed edibles he Narcanned himself, which did not make any sense. Another person in the camp took way too much ketamine and passed out so we gave a can to his friend and woke them up from their black hole. Shit was scary, and I don't really like to be around drugs like that. If I were to partake, keep that shit organic and from mother nature. Lately, I am happy to be sober and quit smoking weed. You can't be high all the time right? How else can you dream or process reality; instead of numbing pain and hardships we have to embrace that hard stuff to learn and grow, and most importantly. FEEL! If we don't feel we bottle our emotions for it to get suppressed and cause more stress. The drugs become bandaids rather than the cure we may think it can be. I've learned to stop, is to make the choice and decision to let it go. It was hard at first, but now I don't even think about smoking anymore. This was a habit I picked up since I was a kid in middle school. Trying to cope with the pain of having a parent who was suffering from cancer. Numbing instead of embracing. Pain is not meant to hurt us, it is meant to teach us. So FEEL that shit, its not going to be fun or pretty, but you will learn to accept it instead of hiding from the discomfort, which causes more pain in the long run anyway. Being human is hard, and you are not alone. Sometimes we just need a little help from our friends and families to get by.
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