I love it here… It is only Thursday and I am looking for ways to make time slow down… The workshops I have been doing are just for fun… I figure with all the work I have been doing the last few months, I owe it to myself to have fun this week… So I have been learning henna, charms, and chanting… Today it is 84 degrees and sunny, although a bit humid, all the children are playing in the pond, and the teens are playing volleyball on the sandy shore… If I didn’t know better I would think this was the world of the ordinary, also known as the mundane… Thankfully in this world nothing is ordinary, there is true magick all around us here and everyone is willing to be it… Here it is not a judge able offense to be nude, to wear a skirt or a sarong if you are male… It matters not if you are small or large, if your clothes do not match, or even match your gender… I love that…
In fact this has been the theme of my journey this week… To wear what I would not wear in the other realm… So I brought beautiful bras to wear as tops, and sarongs without bottoms… My hope was that I would have the courage to be skyclad sometime during the week; to be in a place of safety without judgment, while being completely undressed with others… I found and attended a ritual that was focused on being comfortable in your own skin… The name was your body is beautiful… This is very true, my body is beautiful…
Isn’t it funny the things we say to each and mostly to ourselves… The last couple of weeks have been so enlightening… Here is a bit of background of what I mean; we get so lost in our own story we forget to see those around us… For instance my daughter is what most would consider traditionally beautiful for this age… She is thin and petite… She wears a size #1, she shops in juniors, she balances in a 10 to 15 pound range… She can look great in anything and until a week ago, I would have thought her worst issue with her body was that people stare at her… They do, especially guys… I know, I watch them all around her, you would not believe how many fall all over themselves to talk to her, even with me standing right there… It is really quite funny to watch… However, we got into this conversation about things that people assume when you are thin, apparently they say horrible things about eating disorders, to flat out eat a sandwich… All because her body is naturally little… Today, while in a workshop several small framed girls and I were chatting about it as well, and they were saying the same types of things, one of which has been asked on many occasions if she eats, and usually the person says it as if it is a compliment… Wow!!! We really do not consider the other side of the coin… Why is that??? We just put people in a category and assume that when we make this judgment they are only that… Here is another example; there are some really beautiful men here… When I make that statement I mean that they are extremely attractive to the greater population of women… One specifically keeps stopping to say hello, and I keep thinking he is so pretty; he must have all the girls around him… There is another that is so lovely and social, muscular, and fit… They both attended the skyclad ritual; they both were totally freaked out to be without clothes of any kind, in the open… I find this totally amazing… It really surprises me that I rarely consider that; pretty, thin, fit, people could have body issues…
Anyway I did it!!! I was willing to be skyclad in the open… We all held hands and hugged in the all-natural… It was not as scary as I thought it would be, and it made dressing at the showers much easier, as well as wearing just a bra and shorts around the campgrounds… Welcome to body freedom… How does it get even better than this???