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jbeegoode

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Memorial Day
« on: November 01, 2024, 08:25:12 PM »
It's was Memorial Day/Decoration Day. We were in Utah, took a walk after dinner, walked through a portal next to where the creek ponds, climbed a small desert mountain and found a sort of monument high above.

https://thefreerangenaturist.org/2024/11/01/memorial-day/

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Re: Memorial Day
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2024, 06:55:20 PM »
That's a thoughtful and moving piece of prose, Jbee! Thank you.

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Re: Memorial Day
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2024, 11:00:38 PM »
Glad to hear that it had some impact in some way.

I've been focusing on freerange naturism and nudism mostly, that's the idea. But as I was writing this one up, I thought about broadening the scope and how I might have been defining DF and I as naturists only. So, I thought I'd place another aspect of myself out there, make my image more authentic. Perhaps give readers something more to identify with in Jbee. It might humanize more what to many is somewhat a character in a story. I've got more confidence in presenting myself. People, tend to categorize and project impressions, or stereotypes on people, so I'll have to be careful to be thoughtful so not to come across as "one of those" and more another human being, not preachy, or confrontational.

I'm more than the nudist. I have many interests, experiences and various knowledge accumulated. I play didgeridoo, hand drums, and have a very eclectic sense of musical tastes. I've been messing with guitar for over 50 years. I'm a grandpa, a gardener, I explore health, like eating and exercising for a quality longevity. I have been into ecological and environmental and earth studies. I have extensive background in psychology and substance use and abuse, eclectic spirituality. I'm politically involved, but I decided to take action on body freedom, as it is less political, and I could as an individual have a greater effect than with other issues as an activist...and have some fun. I like old antiques and art and engineering, and history, sociology, lifestyles.  I'm adept with transpersonal energy, I study ritual and phenomena. I've got degrees in a few of these interests. Then there is DF. I've had a full life and I recognize that there is just so much to this world, fascinations, to experience, and to explore and to be amazed by. I have had a full varied life of experience to share. So heck, maybe I'll slip some of that in to the the website here and there and be more candid. I'm unabashedly naked there, so why not metaphorically, too? What is there to fear? I have had my human flaws and mistakes, like anybody else. Perhaps these could make me more relatable. Maybe it could help me to better hone my tendency to be kinda long-winded when I write.... ;)
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Re: Memorial Day
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2024, 11:03:33 PM »
Couple of things:
I was amazed by the state of preservation of those petroglyphs, carved long ago and open to the elements.  It's incredible that they have lasted at all on the face of relatively soft sedimentary sandstone.  I looked up petroglyphs of Utah and I'm gobsmacked to find that they range from 5000 to 500 years old.  5000 years!  It's incredible they've lasted that long.  That we know so little of those civilisations has the consequence of demeaning them in the annals of history.  Who knows what majestic civilisations held sway in SW USA at the time of the ancient Egyptians and millennia before the ancient Greeks and Romans.  Do we know much about those ancient societies, Jbee?


I have been corresponding and reading your prose for 17 years and met you.  Yet, you are so right, whilst I have an inkling of your polymathic tendencies and boundless energy, I've never gleaned much 'depth' about you, upon which subject I'd be glad to read more.  Mind you, that's a consequence of being participants in this special interest group we call FRN (and latterly Secret Naturism), where we all, perforce, did something to disguise ourselves for fear of discovery by the "wrong sort of people".   I guess you don't know that much about me either.  It occurs to me though that we are all a bit more free since those earlier TSNS days and maybe that's got something to do with the times where there seems to be rather less prejudice against naturism than 17 years ago (or maybe that's just a by product of my own growth and progressive confidence in my naturism).
John