Four years in the maelstrom

A baby holds your hands, and then suddenly, there's this huge man lifting you off the ground, and then he's gone. Where's that son? And at one point, I noticed that Grotowski was at the center of one group huddled around a bunch of candles that they'd gathered together. And like a little child fascinated by fire, I saw that he had his hand right in the flame and was holding it there! And as I approached his group, I wondered if I could do it. I put my left hand in the flame, and I found I could it there for as long as I like and there was no burn and no pain. But when I tried to put my right hand in the flame, I couldn't hold it there for a second. So, Grotowski said, 'If it burns, try to change some little thing in yourself.' And I tried to do that - didn't work. This time two years ago, I wrote two-years sitting in an airport lobby, waiting to head to MicroConf. I was unable to make it to MicroConf this year, but the absence reminded me about that post — which, to this day, is one…