Thursday, February 19, 2009

Bottled Dream


Bottled Dream.

I awake amidst a deserted open air market near a booth stocked with beautiful colored glass bottles of all shapes and sizes; short rounded bowls, swollen jars capped with shiny brass lids and tall fluted vessels in blue, yellow, red, green and violet sing as the breeze swirls past full lipped openings. The quiet silence yields to the soft melody, the wind’s voice bending around and over what it must to find expression and being.

I lift my gaze from the nearby booth and look far down the row of market booths seeing them almost tip into the sea clinging to the shoreline with distant silent flapping of white cotton curtains fluttering in frantic attempts to hold their balance. Hundreds of small pitched tents line the shoreline.

No one is there.

No one is here.

I seem to be standing near the last booth of the long market. I notice the colored glass overspills onto large flat stones dotting higher just behind the tent on what appears to be the beginnings of a steeper slope shouldering the land mass against the ocean. Fresh blue green foamed and salted air smells cool, fresh and clean. I breathe richly, bringing the air deep into my body.

Refreshed, I am drawn towards the large outdoor stones covered with shaped blown glass. I feel the breeze rushing about in invisible eddies becoming visible as it lifts my long dress feeling the material soft and thin brushing gently higher on my knees then lifting higher still to my thighs now fully exposed. I feel my body being softly caressed by the wind in its wanton self expression. I have the sudden urge to undress and be part of this beautiful sensual experience.

I leave my clothes in a soft crumpled pile on the ground against the side of the booth and continue forward to the stone tables beyond.

As I step away from my clothes, I become more aware of my outward nakedness feeling more openly exposed as I move further from the offered modesty of the market booth and the soft pile of clothing resting silently against its side. A sudden worry rushes forth but as quickly melts away as I continue forward. Anyone could see me taking this liberty of indulgence in my pure and simple nakedness as I wander about this Eden in an excited feeling of complete freedom.

I move closer to the glass covered stones feeling excited and vibrantly aware of my lucidity. It is then that I realize I am dreaming. Dreaming a dream I’ve had before which I have come to know quite well.

I touch the cool hardness of the stone granite sparkling in the sun’s brilliance. The bottles beckon me to touch them too. Lifting a tall slender vessel shaped in beauty, my hands clasp its thickness and feel its full weight warmed by the sun.

Closing my eyes, I bring the smooth glass to my body cradling it between my breasts feeling my heart beating a soft rhythm against the vessel. Uncontrollably, my hands move the glass down my body as the rhythm quickens. My legs weaken and I lean back against the stone table, the coolness of the granite touching hard against my bare skin. I begin to yield to a sensuous rush of feeling. Waves of expression build inside me trying to crest, yearning to crest higher, and higher still before beginning to tumble over falling and falling then crashing powerfully in deep gushing with quivering flows outward over spilling everything with intense feeling.

Gasping, I open my eyes breathing heavily. Now fully awake and feeling vibrantly alive in this world, I realize I am in my bedroom. I smile softly knowing I will dream that dream again and again until I learn its meaning.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Beautiful Hope

(Free: by Nessy Shepherd)


We had such a glorious December here with 24 of the days of the month in the 70's. I went to the beach and layed-out under the warm December sunshine several times over Christmas break. Feeling the warm sun against my all but naked skin is a beautiful sensual pleasure. I found that even with the sun at its lowest point in the sky it still softly worked up my tanlines, you know the ones where you cant help but look in the mirror and notice just how white your natural skin really is forming stark contrasts as if framing the special private places. Sigh.

Somehow I knew we would pay for such winter splendor and we certainly did in January and early this month in the form of several hard freezes, even at the beach. I was called down late one night to join the family in tenting our sensitive Florida plants bringing those we could inside the house. Before the call, I was warm and comfy wearing my pj's but I reluctantly donned a coat slipped into some Crocs, which offer no warmth I soon found out, and traipsed around outside bare legged for what seemed like an eternity moving the soft sensitive flora inside the house and garage. We covered what we could not move with a mixmatch of bed sheets and blankets and rushed inside to thaw out.

Well our efforts did save many of our potted plants but it seems we lost many things we thought could survive on their own but they became bruised, wilted and brown.

Much of this seems to parallel my personal experiences having met someone in December who was my warm sunshine caring for me deeply helping me feel stronger in a time when I needed that the most. It was special and will always be special to me. Sadly, the freeze did come and I've become bruised, wilted and brown.

The weather has again become beautiful here. As I move about, I cant help but hear the birds chirping and flittering about near me. These beautiful little angels again busying themselves with the repair of my heart. It is Spring to them and soon they will continue on their journey moving north as the sun moves higher in the sky.

I went to dinner with some friends last weekend. We went to a japanese steakhouse, the kind where you share a table with strangers. There was a young couple with their beautiful newborn baby girl seated at one end of the large table. They were quiet, probably exhausted from caring for this beautiful new little human being that was their recent blessing, but they seemed happy and content. I started to talk to them and they were nice people with fast smiles and direct and honest gazes. They told me their little girl was born on January 13 and it was their first child.

What I found out next raced through my soul in a rush of healing beauty... it brought tears to my eyes so much that I had to leave for the restroom...

They named their beautiful little angel...

...Grace

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Forgiveness


Well it's Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit Day... that is the first day of a new month. The magic is supposed to work if the very first thing you say when you wake up is "Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit." If you do this, wonderful things will unfold for you during the month... Smiling softly.

Of course it is all about refreshing our thinking on things, being mindful of new starts and new hopes and new options. It's about living again with wonder and awe of even the slightest things which can have beautiful meaning.

I've been thinking for a long time about forgiveness; a very elusive concept for me to face. I've thought forgiveness meant that I had to face the other person and work through the pain we caused by apologizing for hurting each other. I've learned that this is not necessary because forgiveness does not mean reconciliation.
Forgiveness is within me. It is something I must do to rest peacefully and rise away from all the sadness that anchors me in darkness. Forgiveness is the only way for me to accept closure; to accept that the other person has moved on in happiness; to accept that in our love, happiness is what I wished above all for my lover. Heartbreak and loss can be quite selfish and I had lost sight of the love I had nurtured.

This song is about forgiveness. It is full of meaning and relates to all of our losses in love. It certainly relates to mine. Please listen to it again and please hear the lyrics. Please enjoy it and please forgive.

I forgive you for everything my love. Everything...
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Don Henley » The Heart Of The Matter

I got the call today, I didn't wanna hear
But I knew that it would come
An old true friend of ours was talkin' on the phone
She said you found someone
And I thought of all the bad luck,
And the struggles we went through
And how I lost me and you lost you
What are these voices outside love's open door
Make us throw off our contentment
And beg for something more?

I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again
I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore

These times are so uncertain
There's a yearning undefined...People filled with rage
We all need a little tenderness
How can love survive in such a graceless age
The trust and self-assurance that can lead to happiness
They're the very things we kill, I guess
Pride and competition cannot fill these empty arms
And the work I put between us,
Doesn't keep me warm

I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you, Baby
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I figured out, I have to learn again
I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But everything changesAnd my friends seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore

There are people in your life who've come and gone
They let you down and hurt your pride
Better put it all behind you; life goes on
You keep carrin' that anger, it'll eat you inside

I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
ForgivenessEven if, even if you don't love me anymore

I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
Because the flesh will get weak
And the ashes will scatter
So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore