Bandera fiber and arts festival

Guten Tag,
my native language is German and I am currently writing a book in my mother tongue. It is going good so far, I am about 270 pages into my first draft.
From time to time I like to write short stories or little scenes that aren't part of my book and are just inspired by the moment. I am mainly reading English literature, though, so the inspiration naturally comes in that language.
This morning I wrote the following scene. I would like to know if it sounds any natural to you or if my English is somewhat weird.
Feel free to comment on my style, grammar or use of words if you find the time. Or just read it.
The Scene:
To an extent, I very much liked the general idea of it. The idea of folks, your ancestors, watching over you while you are alive, and they are not anymore. Watching you grow up, fall in love and divorce, fail and succeed. Watching your every step. Just as birds watch their offspring not to fall out of the nest, the parental sparrows taking turns gathering food, your grandparents might have their benevolent eyes on your daily fate.
Except unlike bird parents in a nest, an angel-like mentor, somewhere up in the clouds, does not protect you from any harm. Grandmother watching over you or not, you are getting divorced anyway. This train of thought lead me to other questions: With the rule being that every living person has a unique person resting in not-so-much-peace and watching over them, there must be exceptions to these circumstances. We thank them if we have a lucky day, but say, what happens if we lose a limb in a freak accident? What do our heavenly supervisors think of that, how do they react? Do they cry out in agony, watching their grandson lose his right leg, eventually ending his ambitious struggle for a career in professional hockey? Or do they remain in omniscient indifference with a mild smile on their face, knowing that ultimately all will work out in a positive outcome, all guided by divine providence? And if they do cry out instead, who listens to their cries? Does the celestial community comfort them or tell them to shut up? It all did not make much sense to me.
Engrossed in this suddenly metaphysical state of mind, I did not notice the sun had already risen somewhat outside, greeting the world a first ‘good morning’. Now, the ochre-colored walls of which I had called home for the last three days, gave a dazzling impression of what lay beneath it. And what was beneath it, hadn’t become any less striking than it had been the weeks before. I moved from my down feather bed to the entrance of my tent, untied a small part of the door, and peeked through, my eyes being blinded once more. I blinked a few times and with my sight finally somewhat adapted, I had a good look. Just like the sun, life had already risen in the camp.
Two camels were being led over the great dune across the central camp place, carrying what appeared to be water barrels to our camp, presumably using the last precious minutes of the day not being full-sun. Their big hoofs left paths in the sand of the dune, which were even visible from my tent at least a couple hundred meters away. In front of the small caravan, just next to the shade-providing palm tree, two servants negotiated something in a language I could not recognize, much less understand. Their custodian – or at least that’s what he seemed to be, from his remarkably-colorful leather hat – stood beside them, scribbling something on a folded map. In the periphery, I made out two soldiers patrolling the perimeter, with coats and muskets and all.
I turned away from the door, turned away from the busy scene. The sun may have risen, and so did the people, however, I was not ready to, not yet. I crawled back to my bed, taking the letter with me that lay on the tiny desk I was provided with, and leaned against a big down pillow. I had read the message the night before. It was a message from Justine, my recently divorced ex-wife. To say it was a message was an exaggeration though, as messages tend to contain information worth reading. It was merely an excuse of a letter, essentially a type of paper which had ink blots on it that coincidentally formed somewhat comprehensible sentences. A million monkeys on a million typewriters crossed my mind.
The night before, when I first read it, I was too tired from the day’s work to comprehend any of it. Now that I read it again, I knew my bad mood was not without a reason at all. “Hope you travel safely”, she wrote. “Make it back to our fort soon” and “watch out for the dehydrating sun” were other parts of it. Watch out for the sun in the hot desert, huh, I thought. If that’s not important advice. To top it all, her text ended in “Regards”. How quickly can one man be degraded from beloved husband to remote business acquaintance? I must have broken the record in that category.
I reached for my can of beer. No chance, it was empty, explaining my premature sleep last night. In lack of liquid substitute, I instead took out a cigarette out of the desk drawer, opened the tiny slit I had cut in the fabric of my tent as a means of improvised exhaust hood and lit the stub.
I knew the smoke coming out of the top of my tent would be visible to anyone. I knew the captain would be angry with me. No blame on him, after all, I smoked what should have been part of his merchandise goods and simultaneously created a fire hazard. There would be dispute about it, no question. He would yell at me, and I would make a half-assed joke about me only performing the ancient art of smoke signals. He would not laugh, his face only redden even beyond its alcohol-induced rouge. But what could I do. I was a divorced man; I needed my consolation. Besides, if they wanted to make it alive through the desert, they would need me. Reason enough to tolerate my eccentric manners, if you ask me.

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The festival is probably in its worse place at the moment, With possibly their worst recieved lineup , ticket sales have been pretty slow and most of the lineup is out, in 2019 they got it right and in 2021 they accidentally made one of their best lineups in the modern era of the festival in my opinion .
Where do you think the festival went wrong in the past few years???
I feel as though it comes down to them trying to hard to please everyone and doing that they please nobody, which is a shame cus festival republic get a lot of their lineups right R&L is just one they have dropped the ball on especially with this years lineup bar a few names.
And they’ve fully owned having the GCSE. crowd as their target audience which drives away a potential audience as the a good amount (NOT all) of the GCSE are cunts and mostly responsible for the fires last year if u put a bunch of teenagers in a field w no rules it was bound to happen.
Idk i just fear that this once respected sought after festival is heading in the same direction as VFest and Big Day Out

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Has anyone tried running the adventure modules/campaigns for OG Symbaroum using Ruins instead? Does it convert fairly easily? Any snags I should be aware of?

I mostly draw on small format, then coloring with watercolors and acrylics. I sometimes try to create art how some deranged person would create it. For me it is the way to push my imagination further. You can follow me on instagram if for more cool art

There’s a complete showing of Krzysztof Kieslowski at a film festival soon and it’ll include all ten episodes of Dekalog which I haven’t seen.
I’ve seen kieslowski’s colour trilogy in order, and while it doesn’t need to be watched in order, it will certainly has a better understanding as a trilogy (and also there’s the last scene in Red)
So I’m wondering if Dekalog is the same and should I watch it in one sitting? (Ten hours in one sitting seems crazy) Can I watch it out of order?
Also, A Short Film About Love and Killing. I understand both are an extended version of two of the episodes. Do both those movies worth the ticket price if I plan to watch Dekalog already?

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That being said, I’m under the impression that the Wooks (is that offensive?) have an extensive bartering culture. What should I bring to trade in an effort to obtain the top wook trinket to add to my home collection of weird stuff.
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I realize this is a broad claim. We can certainly find Roman frescos of a more mundane nature, etc. But by and large the great buildings and statues that remain seem to be about transcendence on some level.
Historically, was there a point in time when artists began to turn away from this model? What was the driving force?

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