{"id":1102,"date":"2020-02-16T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:16:15","slug":"sunday-morning-at-the-casa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/sunday-morning-at-the-casa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning At The Casa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I woke up to dark skies again this morning, after a night of dream-filled sleep. The dreams were quickly forgotten once I had left our bed to check out the weather from the front patio. Since all the draperies were still closed on the other two residences in our small compound, I was in no rush to retreat to my quiet corner which is less visible to all concerned parties. This is part of the reason why I love early mornings no matter where I find myself. For a while, I own the space and I am free to be my authentic, nude self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, it is 7:30 am and the sky has lightened with a few scattered bits of blue sky peeking through the clouds. I am still nude on the patio though discretely, partly shielded by a lawn chair and a hammock for passersby. Anyone who would think to look would know that I am nude, an implied nudity as there is no way to see genitals while I am typing on my keyboard. The plan is to go for a beach walk later in the afternoon. Until then, I will likely continue to do some editing of a book that I intend on re-releasing in the relative near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhat does life ask of us, and how are we to answer that summons? Does life matter in the end, and if so, how, and in what fashion? \u2026 these questions \u2026 many of us have forgotten them in the steady drumbeat and reiterative abuses of daily life. But our choices reflect our values and our putative answers to these questions, whether we are conscious of them or not.\u201d James Hollis, Hauntings, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the problem with having the world to myself, I begin to think rather than simply bask in the moment without a thought or care to disturb me. I know I am not alone in this. I would venture to say that most people who make it into the second half of life find themselves asking so many unanswerable questions. The questions are real and there are answers. However, those answers are typically hidden from our consciousness. And perhaps, that is a good thing. It likely is more comfortable and socially safer to keep those answers buried deep within a tomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t like to complicate our lives, willingly. We want to be like others so as to avoid discovering that regardless of all the people with whom we surround ourselves, we are essentially alone. No government, no agency, no family member, no church, no one is responsible for us in the end. Regardless of our illogical wishes, we will die.  Perhaps, we need to rethink and revalue our lives. That begins with daring to discover who we are as individuals, unearth the hidden aspects of ourselves, strip ourselves of the protective camouflage behind which we have hidden. We must risk being vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, this is what is behind so many people coming to embrace naturism and nudism, taking the risk of being vulnerable. With social naturism and nudism, the risk is minimised. There is perceived safety in numbers. However, there we again find ourselves living the values and choices framed by a group and not by one\u2019s individual psyche. We are left haunted by those choices and values we have refused to recognise about ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enough Sunday musing for now. Until the next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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