{"id":789,"date":"2018-12-31T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/?p=789"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:52:50","slug":"waiting-for-midnight-and-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/waiting-for-midnight-and-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting For Midnight And 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve, my last full day at home here on the Canadian prairies before I fly off for a winter of sunshine and warmer temperatures in Ecuador. The backpacks have been filled with what we will need for three months, not a lot as we don\u2019t wear much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am fortunate in that I will be able to live clothing-free for the most part within our casa which we rent, in Ecuador. Naturally, once we leave the casa, I wear clothing as it is a normal fishing village, not a naturist village. I accept that and actually respect that fact. The beach is not clothing optional, but a community beach meaning I will have to wear a bathing suit. I wish it could be otherwise, but that is the reality I live with in Ecuador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I said to open this post, it is New Year\u2019s Eve. It\u2019s a time when I look back at my naturist connections, whether they are online or face-to-face. I am blessed to have good friends who are naturists, such as Melvin and Sandy pictured here. This particular friendship has been growing over a few years and has resulted in both being frequently found in my posts here. There is a hope that 2019 will have us meet face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past year, I have been able to increase my presence in the world of naturism in various ways. With my friends, Will Forest and Paul Z. Walker, a Naturist Fiction site has come into existence. The three of us are writers of naturist fiction. I met Will a few years ago in Mexico after he had edited my naturist poetry books. Paul has been a writing buddy via NaNoWriMo for a few years. There is a real hope that Paul will become a face-to-face friend in the future when my wife and I travel to the Netherlands for another of our walking adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early summer, I lost a face-to-face naturist friend, Brian Wappel. He was the president of the Prairie Sun Naturist group. In August, I became a Board member of the FCN, the national naturist federation for Canada. I managed to visit Green Haven, and a new-to-me site in Manitoba called Naturist Legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, it has been a good year with my naturist novel Small Company of Pilgrims having sold 126 paperback copies, and It\u2019s Complicated selling 48 paperback copies. I have written another novel that will come out in 2019 once I come up with a title for the book and a cover. And now, here are the sales numbers for all-time for my books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. A Small Company of Pilgrims \u2013 248 print copies, and 416 eBook copies = 664<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. It\u2019s Complicated \u2013 96 print copies, and 17 eBook copies = 113<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Naked Poetry 1 \u2013 29 print copies, and 370 eBook copies = 399 *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Naked Poetry 2 \u2013 24 print copies, and 19 eBook copies = 43 *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Naked Poetry 3 \u2013 16 print copies, and 10 eBook copies = 26 *<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    And of course, there is this place, A Canadian Naturist which has managed to survive a drastic clean-up that saw it become a place with a bit more depth, and less trivial as a result. I have to thank so many who have allowed me to feature them and their images in the posts during the past year. And lastly, I want to thank you, my readers for your presence. Without you, this blog site would have never been resurrected from the ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Happy New Year to each and every one of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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