Never-Not-Broken
There is Power in a Name…
The name of our camp is inspired by the 2026 Love Burn theme, and the Hindu goddess Akhilanda, the Buddhist philosophy of wabi-sabi and kintsugi, and the path Chick and Jaidy took to find one another.
Akhilanda’s name is the never-not-broken universal cosmic egg. It is a double negative, emphasizing the utter brokenness of her nature, the nature of our reality, of holding and being held in community, in love, and in kindness, and us all.
She is a perfectly imperfect cracking-crackling-budding goddess. She rides a crocodile that is both her consort, and as she falters, her chariot-consumer-creator-self. The crocodile takes her to the depths, spins her into chaos, chomps her into quantum pieces. As they spin together into one whole and broken-break-apart reforming pieces. Again and again. The destruction and creation of all universes.
And they rise, healing, still-broken, perfect and at peace, with a Mona Lisa smile upon her face. They are all of us, all of existence. Wild-bound and unbounded-free, restrained and struggling to be held. Holding All within their bellies. She is utterly and completely breaking-broken.
And her wisdom shows us how the lightness of Being shines in the liminal spaces that are left. Akhilanda helps us, our camp, and the people celebrating with us, to find the light of our own essence through the cracks caused by crossing the Abyss upon Choronozon—Chaos toying with our material existence.
Buddha on Bumpy Rides, Breaking and Re-Union…
Our camp name also hearkens to the first of the Buddhist Noble Truths around Duhkha, the cause of pain and unpleasantness, the broken wheel of our broken chariot’s broken axle, all leading to an unavoidable bumpy ride on the path of the wabi-sabi life. To celebrate the stories and events that led us to break, to seal them with the gold of the kintsugi experience.
Life’s imperfections and imbalance lead us toward meaning, harmony and equilibrium. We seek and find. We share awareness and compassion within ourselves and one another. We tie knots in our web of life and implant lotus-jewels in the minds of our friends. We weave stories of interbeing with people so precious and dear to us. We find meaning in the light as it shines through the flickering nature of our bodies. We witness each other, kith and kin.
