Friday June 3, 2022

Goodnight friends! First full day of camping, the woods around the campground are beautiful but hard to traverse, gravelly paths wind between a series of rolling cambered hillocks dense with sweet chestnuts and spade-leaved limes, leading up to deeply grooved sandstone outcrops emerging like s-curves of moss-covered vertebrae. A blazing bright glassy morning, violets and green alkanet shining beneath the eaves of the trees. Greying and feeling sticky and clammy in the afternoon, giving way to several cool, rattling and hissing spates of rain.

Wandered around to several events and panels, having a great time and feeling like the expression of queeriness and kink is almost a straight line continuation of the creativity and inspiration from the convention last weekend. Feeling blissed and buzzing. Enthusiasm took me maybe a little further than I should have gone – legs gently gave way after dinner and I’m parked resting in a building for now.

May we find and embrace moments of unexpected delight today!