On anticipating a return to my home in Canada, I was flying high after three months of Caribbean sunshine and many, many hours of clothes freedom. I was flying high because I believed that the world back home had changed simply because I had changed. But it didn’t take long for that euphoria of going home to turn dark. The fact that it was still winter with snow piled up more than a metre in yard and garden with skies…
There’s a down side to the whole having naturism/nudism become a part of one’s way of being in the world. The upside is easy – freedom, freshness, and the exhilarating feeling when one feels the sun and the breeze touch the whole body. When around others who are in a state of undress, there somehow seems to be less anxiety about one’s body. The visible proof that almost all bodies are imperfect in comparison tells the truth about one’s own body….
It’s our last full day in Puerto Morelos. I went to sunbathe close to Desires. My wife had shown me a few places between the shore and a barbed wire fence that had somewhat private spots where I could sunbathe without causing any issue. After all, they were close to the nudist resort where passersby got to see nude volleyball games on the beach, as well as others getting all-over tans. By going to this spot to sunbathe, I spent…
It takes time . . . Somehow, time doesn’t seem to be plentiful enough for me to be out taking photographs and writing. I know that this is an illusion, a state of mind (or no mind) as I don’t have anything that needs to occupy my time. My days in Puerto Morelos are more about relaxing than of working, especially now that it is beginning to be slightly more than warm. The beaches have been jam-packed with mexicanos because of the Semana Santa ,…
Naturism and Nudism are faces of the collective shadow. In depth psychology, shadow is partially defined as those things that we repress, that we deny about ourselves. Individually we react, unconsciously, with heat and perhaps anger when we are confronted with that which we deny in the actions and behaviours of others. Nudity provokes all kinds of heated response. When one reacts with heat to something or someone or some behaviour, one reacts to one’s own repressed shadow. One of the big problems is…
We are now in Puerto Morelos at Casa Sorpresas. My wife took a photo of me at my writing table located on the patio outside of our door. The owner lives in the front half of the house while we have the back portion including the high-walled yard. It is perfect. The owner, a woman called Kim, spends the day at her real estate office which means that I can be nude whenever she is away. I brought up the…
We are in Playa del Carmen in Mexico. Our plans to go to a second location in Belize were trashed, a decision that cost us a month’s paid rent. Though we liked Belize, it was a disappointment in comparison to Puerto Morelos. We were able to book another casa in Puerto Morelos. Until then, we will spend another week in Playa. We found a bit of privacy at the southern end of the long beach. As we approached that end…
Mmmmm – I feel good and rested and at peace. It’s amazing what four weeks without much of an agenda, lots of sunshine, a place to enjoy that sunshine without worrying about clothing or offending others can do for a person’s well-being. I know that at some point I will be returning to the real world, and by that I mean the world where I have my home, my neighbours and community; a place that is more of a fish bowl…
We only have a few days left in our colourful casa near Puerto Morelos before we head off to Belize. It took my wife’s encouragement for me to go out to the end of a pier to meditate for the sunrise. She took this photo while I meditated. I am surprised at how little time I spent nude. Our casa is just over two kilometres from the centre of the town via the beach. When we walk to town for…
The Christmas decorations are up. This is my job, the putting up of the tree and the Christmas decorations. I do this every year on December first, even when we were in China. There is no religious aspect for me. If anything, I am a pagan who is preparing for the winter solstice and Yuletide.