Seeing Bob on the "How's your month..." thread has me bringing up what has been in the back of my mind...
HAPPY NEW NUDE YEAR!I tend to think of the New Years as starting on the solstice, the natural beginning of light and warm goodness coming back. This year things are disrupted to an extent. We try to mitigate, but there is certainly a difference from previous posts.
We went to the river's henge to bring in the new year and watch the light come through the portal to shine on the other side. There were more people there at this sundown than usual, but it was strangers sitting at distance, no hand holding, singing and no prayer, sort of like a gathering of tourists. A tree has grown up directly in the way of that western light, which dissipated the effect (hoping that some extensive trim happens to the errant seed), the bozo grounds people have been propagating it.
There was a guy who claims to have been coming for a while, that would not stop his unsolicited idle party style chit chat. His mouth was just non- stop attempts at conversation, while we tried to fend it off. There was little spiritual about it. I brought my 1960's Cuban conga and DF and I let go with rhythms, entertained by the acoustics vibrating from the center from the perfect construction of the place. It is sort of a nitrus oxide effect auditorily. I wandered away from the henge and the clueless talker, standing next to that tree (partly inspecting it for size for a nighttime raid) and watched the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the clear skies. DF came with binoculars, we held hands in wonder.
We went home, started up the fire place, built an alter and shared our hopes, dreams, prayers, intention and what was on our minds with the cosmos and ourselves.
Christmas was a subdued affair of four, but we did have a granddaughter and her mom, and a new VR set to play with, amongst the gifts.
We will be restricted by lack of the usual holiday social gatherings, particularly calendar New Years. This brings us to our somewhat traditional nude New Years Day hike. DF is working that day. Well, maybe the weather will be great on New years Eve Day, she's off. I'm already looking for a spot for a bliss filled nude journey, just incase.
La Nina is giving us many days with good warm sun, but lack of rain is torturing the natural ecology in this region.
Well, isn't this season about hope and faith in the midst of darkness, the beginning of change? We aren't sitting bundled by the hearth, concerned about winter provisions, or whether the sun will return, or not. AND there was a special star traveling across the skies, again.
Jbee
