rains

I watched the storm swirl through yesterday.  It’s one of my favorite mind emptying Zen activities.

The thunder moved back and forth across the sky like waves across the ocean.  Clouds roiled in a dark sky.  A short tornado warning for towns a few miles west along the mountain range.  Unusual to say the least.  We haven’t had a tornado come down the pass since 1977.

It’s been as wet here as I can ever remember in 32 + years.  Not just the afternoon storm track from  hot air rising against the mountains and then cooling to produce short duration thunderboomers.  It’s been almost two months of each day filled for hours of overcast and drizzle.  Buckets full of rain pour from an angry sky unable to saturate the already supersaturated soils.  The sky continually weeps my tears and rivers of muddy gravel floods the streets of my life making travel difficult…..

The sun is low in the Western sky.The storm dissipates at it moves on to the Eastern plains.

rainI notice each raindrop caught in the dark green, long pine needles is a small prism, reflecting and refracting the low afternoon light as a million tiny twinkling diamonds.

It’s done raining.

I’m done crying.

I need to move along.

I can’t afford to stay……

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Crap

I was perusing the Urban Dictionary online this morning, and randomly came across this:

Writer’s Crap:

Derived from ‘writer’s cramp’, writer’s crap refers to a stage when one is only capable of writing utter crap.

HA!
Yep, that’s how I’ve felt for the past few months.  I don’t like it one bit. Nothing comes.  And if it does.  Nothing follows.

Seems I’m stuck in my head despite my propensity to write as a cathartic outlet…to grab a thought and push it through the looking glass. Move my emotions through the other side and come out clean. Or at least, satisfied with the purging of my rawness.

I’ve been plenty emotionally unsettled since arriving back in Colorado.  The not knowing why I am here….for what purpose….what lessons….no light at the end of the tunnel.  I’m up.  I’m down.  I’m exploring a host of new and old.

I’m in turmoil most days, but the writing part doesn’t come. Days I am in sync, happy and unencumbered I just have no desire to spend time with a journal.  I watch fleeting impressions but refuse to grab what passes to record.   I need to be more alone in it.  But at the same time out of my head about it all.

Make sense?

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Sitting in Silence

I sat for a long time last week taking all of it into my heart.  Trying to find the source of my unease, and at the same time the place of truth, healing, and power.  Not just for me, but for those around me as well.

My desire is to surrender.

My desire is to trust.

I can’t do the first without fully extending and receiving the second.

I’m thinking of trust as a partitioned, revolving door.

There are degrees, or a range of trust extended depending on circumstance, those involved, and past experience(s).

What I am getting at are the two door stoppers; trust in myself to make the right decision for *me*, and receiving trust from others.

Trust in self is the driver of the door.  If Trust in Self wavers the slightest bit, the door stops moving. It goes nowhere.  No one in any of the partitions is going anywhere.  We become trapped.

What I notice is that I can say “I trust you”…I can verbalize extending trust to others, but I keep the knife in front of me.  It may be sheathed, but it’s on the table. Ready.   I’m still looking for the dragon of mistrust to appear in front of me.  I am always ready to slay the dragon.  And, of course the dragon will appear simply because I am looking for it to do so, yes?

I’ve been asked to fully receive back the trust I have in another, with an open heart.  To put away the knife.  No, not just put it down….but to throw the dammed thing away.

Surrender the knife.  Trust in myself.  Extend trust to another and at the same time, fully receive that trust from another. Not push that part of it away…..

Not ask.  Not push.  Not prompt.   Consider what I want to say with what is being shown to me.

Yikes.  No easy task for one so ready to fight, ‘eh?

There are only a few I trust completely.  Where the knife is not out. Where I can and do surrender.  These are two longtime buddies.  But that same trust is not extended or received fully to my current roommate – my Muse.

My biggest and most powerful story on “not trust” is one revolving around my parents, their lack of tangible affection, my mothers lack of validation of me as a person when I was a child and throughout adulthood. I often seem to choose the default of her beliefs imparted to me over the years.  Not good enough.  Not smart enough.  Not wise enough.  Not pretty enough.  Not enough….

When I hear “you are”…..pick anything positive….pretty, smart, articulate, etc……I stiffen.  The knife comes out with NOT ringing in my head.  I’m ready to cut those to shreds with my default story.  Not only that, but the mistrust grows.  What do you want *from* me?  Why me? I’m not worth it.

This story forces a default behavior as well.  One of trying too hard to be something I am not.  Of doing more. Of being more.  All under the perception of failing.  Not good enough. It’s a no win scenario as I become more and more frustrated and try even harder…

Ouch.

I took a good look in the mirror the other day.

I’m not a supermodel.  I’m far from ugly. I’m far from plain Jane too.

For 52 years old I have a great body.  It may not be “curvy” or “feminine” – there I go with the labels again – *rolls eyes* –  but it’s a mature woman’s body that is relatively unblemished, but real.

I know when I’m happy….really happy…..my face lights up….my eyes show my happiness and I light others with it too.

I could go on, but you get my drift.

He told me it’s simply a matter of bad data.  Bad input.  Corrupt files in storage that are pulled out again and again.  They no longer need to be pulled out and examined.  They don’t make sense…..delete them.

He told me too, I’m not your mother, or your father, or any one of your ex-husbands, or old boyfriends you learned not to trust.  I’m not them.

He keeps telling me to just be me.  Just be myself.  Myself is more than plenty.  And stop trying so dammed hard to be everything.  I’m not good at everything.  LOL.   Yah.

I’ve decided to surrender.  Not submit.  Surrender.  I know I can trust my instinct.  I trust my Muse.  I also need to receive trust from him by taking that trust into my heart….and believing he trusts me as well.

~~~~~

Depression is insidious.  It’s the monster under my bed I manage to keep at bay.  Maybe it’s just a whole slew of expectations for myself.  Medication is out.  Tried them all at one time or another.  They don’t do it for me.  I need to feel. And I need to feel deeply.

I’ve started some different habits.  Some based on the comments on My Inner Masculine.  Yah.  I’ve stopped poo pooing her.  I’ve started calling her out.

We talked about my reluctance to dress…meaning a “dress” or “skirt” (I own plenty believe it or not), instead of ripped jeans and jersey shorts for going out…meaning the grocery store or the bank or?  We talked about a bit of mascara and fixing my hair instead of my usual wild child look.  Yanno, it’s not like I don’t shower or anything….I just don’t put much, if any, effort into dress or makeup.  It shows. That’s changing.

It’s nice to have an objective and honest opinion.

Oh, don’t laugh.  Waterproof mascara is a joy.  It doesn’t melt off my face gardening or hiking or launching rockets or working in the garage.

Taking care of oneself. It feels good. I’m smiling more and laughing a lot.  I am more at ease with it.

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my inner masculine

Anjolie has a post well worth reading…it’s about dancing and the dance…where we feel comfortable leading and being led.  In it she says,

…….I love a man that I can push into – not push around – but who still allows me room to be, me.

As I am maturing into womanhood and becoming more balanced and centered within myself I am less and less bothered in a “lost” way when my man isn’t able to be that for me…and I think this is important.  I need to be able to stand in my own inner-masculine……

Oh dear, this really has me thinking about how grounded I am in my inner masculine and how out of touch I am with my inner feminine.    How comfortable I am in it all.  Ability and a desire to “do”, or “be” more of the “masculine” than the “feminine” when it comes to living life.

And I’m not sure really what this all means except that I am infinitely more comfortable picking up the screwdriver and changing the towel rack to a shelf if need be or patching the hole in the wall and not waiting for someone to do it for me.  Digging the garden where I physically can, not waiting for a man because of some mistaken notion  I shouldn’t have to get my hands dirty.   I am more comfortable sitting around the table with a beer or cuppa joe learning about electricity, transistors, resistors, capacitors, engine compression, bore and stroke, or aerodynamics than spending time in the bathroom negotiating in the world of mascara and blush and lipstick.  Or heels and long flowing dresses.  I get wet hearing the compressor come on in the garage and driving a solid, well built car with plenty of power…..*giggles*

It’s funny, I love to cook and bake.  To quilt/sew.  And yes, to “decorate”.   I can, if need be, clean up….heels and stockings and a garter belt.  A short skirt with a slit up one side and no panties.   Oh la la…. *smile*

My inner masculine is strong and confident.  Willing and able. Bright and shinning. Up front and center. Ready….

But for the life of me…..I can’t seem to put it down.  My inner masculine.  I am more often hard, than soft.  Cutting.  Sharp.  Bold.  Bawdy.  Brazen.  Curious.  Put the tools in my hand and teach me.   My default.

But all these things….the things that we associate with the feminine….at least on an outward plane….dresses, heels, makeup, shopping, decorating, cooking, sewing….are not the measure of the feminine. Not really, even if we make that association.

Where is the goddess in me?  The soft and the feminine?  Is it that she’s had no opportunity to show herself?  No match?  No surrender to the masculine of another?

How do I let her through?  Where does she hide?  What does she hide from?

I am interested in your thoughts about this……

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She didn't come with an instruction booklet

Yanno princess, you sure are beautiful.

She meant to tell him how it warms her to see him take time to let his Daughter know just how special she is, not just to him, but to everyone around her.  Deserving of love and adoration.  Beautiful and unique.  Intelligent to do whatever she dreams.  Just for being, her.  Just for being his Daughter who will grow to adulthood and conduct her life as a Woman.

She doesn’t have an instruction booklet, he’s writing it for her.

She meant to tell him how glad she is to see a Man, act like a Man to his Daughter.

She couldn’t.

At the same time she hears tenderness and love in his voice and sees unfaltering adoration in his eyes; She just can’t remember hearing those words from her father. It niggles at her and widens a small hole.

Oh sure, she has fond memories of him teaching her how:  to use a slide rule, to make solar prints of leaves, to work the camera, to develop film, to view a solar eclipse without burning her eyes, to bait a hook and fish, to tie knots in the rope, to make a fire, to pitch a tent.

You know, “how to” stuff.  Stuff that comes with an instruction booklet.

She doesn’t remember words of adoration for the Daughter who would grow to adulthood and conduct her life as a Woman.

No words of worth for the Daughter by the Father.

No words about the beauty of the Daughter by the Father.

No instruction booklet.

She never heard those words of wisdom about Men, by a Man.

No instruction booklet.

She still digs into the recesses of her mind.

She has for years.

She just can’t remember…

She doesn’t know how to patch the w(hole).

She doesn’t have that particular instruction booklet.

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Reiteration

I guess I have to do this again…only this time it’s not nosy, snooping girlfriends  and ex-girlfriends, it’s family.

Yep this is a public blog.  But you have to search, and search pretty dammed hard with the right combination to pull this one out of your ass.  I can barely find myself here, and I know where to search.  For Fucks Sake.  And anyone wonders why I have a tendency to fucking disappear?

Read at your own risk. I will not be forced to make this blog private because of you. I am not going to create another in an attempt to keep you out of a very private space of my life.  Just think, had I wanted you here I would have invited you here.

I don’t want to hear about what you read here and do not allude to reading here unless you are willing to take the asschewing you deserve for being a snoop and being told to leave.  Either way,  it’s like opening someones publically sent, private mail even when it’s stuffed back in an open envelope and left on the table. Snooping is snooping. And it’s wrong. Begone…

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sick as a dog

since…ummm…Friday evening.  Went to bed and slept all but an hour of the past 48 hours or so…honestly I don’t remember. We had a Sunday?  Say it ain’t so. Missed it completely.

Strep Throat is a bummer.  Haven’t been this sick since I had chicken pox about 15 years ago.

Thank god for antibiotics…which I almost never take, but started yesterday am.

So…I can move about some this morning without freezing and crying in pain…oh my aching joints and head.   It feels like I won’t be needing to peel off yet another soaking wet set of clothes from the fever….I hope.

Staying hydrated is the hardest part.

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Syncronicity

This appeared in my mailbox today from one of my younger cousins. I haven’t really heard from her in years and haven’t seen her for…ummm…probably since my Grandmothers funeral in the late 70’s. Funny how the Universe speaks. I have no idea of the source….

May there be peace within you.

May you trust you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities born of faith in yourself, and others.

May you use the gifts you have received, and pass on the love given to you.

May you be content with yourself just the way you are.

Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul freedom….

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A blessing along the way

I could see his silhouette in the faded red Toyota pickup as I pulled into the rest stop parking. It was nearly empty save for the rigs on the other side of the grasy picnic area. With only one other car a few spots from his, I deliberately selected a space to his passenger side, two lanes away.

Easing myself out of the car, I attempted to stretch the numbness out of my arms, legs and back. Hesitating only long enough to lock the car, I slowly made my way to the restrooms while wondering on the availability of toilet paper as I fished a napkin out of my pocket. Would there be any running water to rinse my mouth and wash my hands? Would it at least be semi-clean this time? With all the budget cutbacks who knows what the joint would look like on the inside, even though it was well manicured outside.

On the way back I passed in front of the truck and saw he was reclined in the seat with a baseball cap pulled over his eyes. It was a deliberate path in an attempt to scope out the stranger and feel more at ease. I unlocked my car and fished for something to eat from the fabric cooler on the passenger seat. Fresh blueberries and Greek yogurt, a paper bowl, plastic spoon, napkin and a bottle of sport drink. As warm as it was, a steaming cup of coffee would have been nice. As I straightened up with precious booty in hand, he caught my forward glance and inclined his head ever so slightly in acknowledgment. His baseball cap was off. Returning the gesture in the same barely perceptible manner, I turned and looked for a place to sit.

Settling on one of the benches under the pavilion in the shade, I carefully stirred the blueberries and yogurt together. Thankfully, it was still cool enough to eat without any fear. It had been over 24 hours in the cooler with no ice. A very good cooler choice at the drugstore before I left Seal Beach on my long trek home. Was that three or four days ago now? I slept a few hours last night. Where? I shook the cobwebs from my head and savored the taste of tart yogurt and sweet berries as I watched him, watching me. The slightly disheveled me. The tired from driving me. The unwashed me. More curious than worried, I wondered exactly when he would make his approach. It wasn’t a matter of, “if”. it was only a matter of, “when”. What did he want from me? I sensed he wouldn’t bother me while I was eating, but he wasn’t going anywhere, either.

Retuning to the car I dug for a smoke and purposefully sat sideways in the drivers seat with the door open. An open invitation. Now is the time. He approached almost out of nowhere, and quietly asked if I had another cigarette.

Sure, I heard myself say as I handed him a smoke and my lighter.

He appeared to be in his late 20’s. Tall and leggy with short cropped red hair, and piercing blue eyes. Sharp. Appraising. On guard beneath his innocuous demeanor. He wore a pointed skull ring on the middle finger of his left had. Alienware. A mark of the “gamer” crowd. Tats with snakes and skulls covered his right arm. He wore a faded logo T-shirt, and jeans and white sneakers of no particular brand. Obviously clean but in need of a shave. A soft voice with a slight southern accent.

He explained how he was stuck at this rest area for a while. Recently laid off after two tours of duty. Had been out over a year now. He was waiting for a friend to bring money for gas. Then he was headed east to see what he could see. Maybe find a job. Maybe travel to Washington to protest the plight of unemployed veterans. He didn’t ask for money, just the one smoke. He didn’t mention going home or family.

When he ran out of of words for me, I wished him well and offered up another cigarette. This time asking if he preferred menthol or regular. I needed to be on my way. Again I headed to the restroom, but didn’t bother locking the car. He wouldn’t take anything, and neither would anyone else. He would see to it. When I came out, he was perched on a table in the shade, his long legs dangling to and fro.

Hesitating a moment after starting the car and putting it into gear, I turned off the ignition and rummaged around in cooler. The last bottle of water, a pound of cold Rainer cherries and a bag of sugared walnuts from a stop in Bakersfield the previous afternoon. I was out of yogurt, sandwiches and sports drink, and debated keeping the figs and the rolled peach bars dusted in sweet coconut. I had another bag of cherries and sugared walnuts. I could stop for more water up the road. That do for the both of us.

As I walked toward him, he quickly let himself down off the table and stood in front of me. A gentleman?

Do you like cherries? I have another bag of cherries and more nuts to eat. You can have these if you want. Here’s some water for you, too.

He gingerly took my offering and set them carefully on the table.

I saw the tear in the corner of his eye as he hugged me tight, singing soft words of grace.

Somewhere along I40 in Arizona, a southern gentleman stranger blessed my soul.

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Slowly

Journal entry 17 June 2009  the long ramble….

Slowly is the name of the game right now.  I am so dammed impatient.

Sleep comes better when I am not up until 1am involved in a discussion-most nights – so much for the no talking after 10:30pm rule, or as in the case last night, fucking with wild abandon.  *G*

Good thing he has somewhat flexible hours. Anytime before 9 is ok.  He hasn’t been to work before 8:30 since I got here.  We agreed it’s just too dammed comfortable in bed together.  We need to work on that. I am the morning person.  He is not. I think I will start getting up earlier and bringing him coffee.  He’s slow to wake.  He likes when I bring him coffee in the morning.

Yesterday was sooo very difficult…I sobbed thru the morning after we got up….he spent as much time with me as he could before running off to work trying to cheer and soothe my frustrations about our discussions and fight the previous evening.  I sobbed thru most of the day, but managed to take care of business…finally a reinstated bank account that actually has some money for the next two months. As well as learning that my two youngest already decided to make good on loans to them from last year after hearing how much I spent for my very bad time in New Mexico.   Money I never expected to see.  Wow, they are something else.   I finished cleaning the 2nd bedroom except for the really heavy stuff.

He’s going tell her we are living together on their date this week.  See what happens.   He may or may not tell her we are not having sex and just sleeping together.  Well,  except that was indeed true earlier in that day-it’s not now.  This is a test to *her* jealously and possessiveness level. What she says and how she really acts/reacts. He reads body language well.  Those are behaviors he absolutely cannot handle.  He has many platonic woman friends.  He wants to keep our friendship “unchanged”.    As I explained….I know all to well what happens…friendship gets put off in the interest of what the woman wants as long as it’s semi-reasonable and doesn’t emasculate the man.   It’s clearly not what he wants to happen to our friendship.  His conflict.

We talked about our separate and joint weekend plans.  We need to get my daughters bed here..the 2nd bedroom is almost clean.   It’s her 40th birthday.  He wants her to remember it warmly.  I like the fact that he is so considerate this way.  That he has so much compassion for others.  That he wants to treat her right.  Why? Because he treats everyone this way.  Including me.   The disappointment of not seeing him sexually anymore…can wait.  I think too….it’s all very convenient to use “dating someone” in an effort to explain waning interest, without going into the nuts and bolts of why we are not interested anymore, and breaking hearts.

We talked about his upcoming date Thursday, how long it will take him to get her into bed…I think on the third date, and he thinks at least 5 dates.  He thinks her slowness to answer his e-mails and phone calls the past few days, means she’s juggling more than one other.  Fine for now he says.  At some point she has to choose.  He wants the opportunity to do some work knowing it’s not permanent but not all about sex.   He wonders if he really can.  If he is ready.  Good.  About time.

HA!  He hopes I’ll win the bet…he gets her into bed in three dates.  I told him then,  I hope he wins; it means I don’t get kicked out of his bed sooner.  *laughing*  I remarked that at least I would know by Friday morning after their talk about me living here if I get kicked out of his bed for good.   He gently and matter of factly told me not to give it another thought.    Likely that won’t occur any time soon if at all.  He doesn’t really expect it anyway.  But I honestly don’t feel he wants that to particularly happen.  We are entirely too comfortable together.   We both know it and freely admit it.   But he throws me the hard line.  How will I react?  My test even tho he flatly denies it.

I also reminded him if a woman will not tolerate us *just* sleeping together, much less being in the same house showering together, sharing private space or being nude around each other…..that Greece was probably off the table too.  He let me know loud and clear not to worry about that either.  We are going to Greece.  The two of us? Or with the current girlfriend?  He laughed.   Yep, just the two of us.  You and me.   Period.   It’s over a year away.  He doesn’t expect *any* of this will be serious enough to last anyway, it’s just a step *into* dating again.  So why the turmoil of the ultra hard line here with me, all the what if’s? Another test?  *rolls eyes*

He’s clear about not forcing anything serious.  But is open and wants more than a fuck buddy and booty calls.  I can’t blame him.  I don’t either. He also needs to “engage” fully. I know that.  He considers every woman a challenge and likes stripping away the layers.  I asked for that when I first got here.   Based on our last conversation in March when he outright asked if I will *ever* give myself to him fully….surrender…At the time, I told him I couldn’t…I was afraid I could not separate…I would want what he could not give.  And too I would again be 3500 miles away.   In that case it would change the face of our relationship where no good could come of it.  If he could live with that I would give him what he wanted.  He said no.

Last week, I softly asked…told….I want *him* to be the one who removes the last remaining layer.  For the experience and the joy in it. Because I trust him with my emotions and my heart.  Yes I need it from *him*. I want it from *him* and only him.  I think that scared him, as much as he wants it from me.  As much as he wants to give it up too.  Because he guards his heart as well.   He doesn’t want anything to be equated to the expectation of commitment in marriage like his last relationship.  He needs me to be absolutely sure of that.  More tests.

While we were preparing supper…he asked what I needed him for over the weekend with the heavy work I can’t do.  He told me he would give me one day if he could have the other for a small party   Asking permission, asking for a acceptance in a non-resentful or demanding from me, by acknowledging I need his help.  Giving me the opportunity to be gracious, accepting, and considerate when I know his needs. He told me he knows it’s her way of *forcing* time with him.   *shrugs from the both of us*  Yanno, I’m not upset I’m not invited.  I didn’t expect to be.  That feels good.  No issues.  He’s here at night when the kids are here.  We get plenty of time together.  We both recognize the selfishness on her part….that she won’t extend an invite for a simple birthday party even tho I’m here on the weekend with him and the kids because the party is on Fathers Day.  I’ll give his daughter the small gift I bought back from Hawaii when she gets here Friday night. I’m not baking a cake.  I don’t do competition. Besides, I think 3 birthday cakes in the past two weeks is plenty for a 7 year old, lol.   I think I’ll have her make blueberry muffins with me Saturday morning for breakfast.  He likes that I have taken to encouraging her cook with me.  She will be a good cook…she’s sharp, attentive and learns fast.  He remarked last weekend, it’s pretty clear how much you enjoy children. Good lord, I raised 3 of my own and helped with at least 8 others in a pretty substantial way. It’s an excuse to be a child with them. *wink*

After supper our talk turned to his ex and her sex, kink, and taboo.  What was she like?  What made the sex so good between them?  Oh, she is a freak, lol.    Super Freak, super freak.  Oh MY!   Then out of the blue, if you could act out any fantasy what would it be? What would he like?  What would both of us like to do together.    *giggles*   Oh really?  Back into exploring with me?   Our kink is almost the same.  But we knew that.   We talked of some of the things we did together over the years, bringing back intense and funny moments.  Both of us laughing and grinning and blushing wildly at the memory and enjoyment of it all.   Hmmmm…that’s a switch from recent days with his push away from anything overtly sexual between us.   He admitted to liking vanilla dating.  I suspect because it takes the pressure off his perceived poor performance issues.  But he does not like vanilla sex that much. It’s what I like about him.  He is also as much as a slut as I am.   Nothing is off the table for discussion…nothing is off the table in fantasy, and only a few things off the table for acting out. *laughs*

His questions..I know this man…designed to draw me out…ease me back in to comfort with him….how horny just the talk makes me.  Stinker.  He knows *all* this  already.   *laughing*  I remained unexpecting  this was leading anywhere but at the same time really wondering if, where, and how he would initiate with me.    We moved to the bedroom for bed-it was now pretty late and he asked if I wanted to watch some of his ex’s favorite kink links.    That of course it didn’t take long for either of us.  Don’t be shy, he says.  I know you are horny and really I don’t care if you masturbate. As if he really wasn’t all that interested in sex.   *roars with laughter*  He let me know *exactly* what he wanted and I let him direct it as he so loves to do.  Sometimes I think he knows me entirely too well.  He reads me easily and fluently.   Dammit.    We do this well together.  Too well.   His rhythm becomes my rhythm; his soft, now husky voice in my ear.  Calling me in *to* him, *out* of myself…I know exactly *how* you want and *why* you want.  I *know* your needs and wants and desires like no other.  I *know how* to give this to you. I know what makes *you* vibrate and how your body sings for me.  Give yourself to *me*.  Taunting me and demanding of me at the same time.  I love how me bites me.  Make me yours, leave your mark on me.  *sighs*  He does.  His eyes narrow to slits as he first surveys and then attacks my tender flesh. He goes for my neck and the soft hollow space in my throat.  I let my head fall back and stretch upward in an offering.  He bites my shoulders, chest, breasts and nipples while I moan and my orgasm climbs.  Again and again and again he sucks and bites.   I like to be marked by him.  Better if it’s hard enough to be left for days.   Greedy isn’t it?  I want to feel that greed for him.    There’s a delicious raw power in the action and in the reminder that stays…

I honestly don’t understand .He’s been plenty tender and…searching me in odd ways….since I got here,  only he’s stuffed it down for his own reason. No problems last night.  None whatsoever.  I’m not sure he entirely understands either; he knows there is a disconnect between heart and mind.   Not the why of it.  He doesn’t get that he simply can’t and doesn’t want to perform where he isn’t emotionally safe and doesn’t really have the affection to match.

He was stunned….clearly pleasantly surprise, but totally confused at his reaction in bed with me.  Baffled.  *grins*  Really?  Between us?  Hmmmm. Rarely ever been an issue over the years.  Sometimes after we’ve been apart for months it’s taken a time or two, in the re-sync.  But not after that. He once described his orgasms with me as a pulsating bright light, flowing  into me, filling me up.  He is the only, and I mean the only man, who I can detect the exact pulse and timing of his orgasm…..it’s so directed and so strong.   I can control it well,  and he lets me do so.  I tell him, I want this now. Fill me up. Utterly lovely and sexy as hell.   After resting a bit he asked me if I had held back just a bit.  Yep.  He asked me ever so softly to never hold back again.  He wants me to let go completely with him.   We never orgasm together.  Close…one after the other…me, him, me again….but never together.    I gave my word but at the same time let him know this time, it needed to be him first.  He beamed with pleasure, the silly boy…as if he was undeserving or something….and lay smiling for a long time.  I take pleasure in watching his peace and satisfaction in it all.  He got up suddenly, and brought me back a warm washcloth.  Something I usually do for him.   He told me it’s been a very long time since he felt that excitement and desire Weeks..no, months.  It threw him off.   *evil grin*  I know he’ll be thinking on this in the days to come.  Yes, he is fully capable. He always has been. At least with me. Trust and emotional intimacy.  Without the expectation translated into demands and obligations.

The upshot, as I mull it over this morning, is that he is taking time to give me what I’ve asked for.  He is listening, considering what and where he is capable and comfortable.  Being sensitive to my need for occasional time and attention above the mundane of daily life.  Full engagement.  Being honest.  Putting trust in that I am not nosy and overly jealous or possessive.  So I don’t feel left out.  Asking me if I want to see his e-mails and the responses between potential dates. Yes or no is acceptable.  Discussion about them.  My observations.   A trusted friend and a woman’s perspective.    Calls to let me know when he’ll be home.   Asks if I need anything additional for supper. He lets know his plans for the upcoming days. If he’s gone overnight….a phone call sometime before noon the next morning to touch base.  Sweet.  It’s the balance he’s talked about.  His way of finding a comfortable balance is different than mine.  Slower.  More considered.  And when he decides….deliberate and committed.

He pulled a bottle of Merlot off the top of the fridge and I gave him a nice wine bottle cover that I bought in Chinatown.   She wants to get laid.  He’s clear he won’t be able to repeat what happened between us last night…I know this to be true.  He takes a good two days after orgasms that strong to recover fully.  Is it too jealous sounding that I am a bit…..ummm….secretly glad he can’t in part because he’s tapped by our sex last night?  He’ll make sure to satisfy her, I know that.   But he won’t experience what he did last night.  He is ok with making her 40th birthday special for her. He’s not spending the night as she would like.  He hates sleeping at others houses.  He wants his own bed each night even if I’m in it.  *laughs*  Some like sleeping alone.  He does. He knows I don’t.

Thursday afternoon is a coffee date with my coffee only buddy, Al.  We were doing this 2x a month for about a year before I moved to Hawaii.  Love his company.  And the flirt. Time to get back into life and stop hiding.

Friday he picks up the kids right after work.  I am going to pick up some marshmallows and have him make a fire outside. We all love to roast marshmallows.

Saturday we are working around the house. Getting furniture out of storage. Moving the big dresser into my room.  I need to clean the bathrooms and do some re-arranging. I get his bathroom because it’s in my room. He is taking the main bath.  He says it’s for convenience.  But……easier to tell another woman I have my own room, and my own bath if necessary without going into too much detail?

Sunday I want to have the kids cook his breakfast. I want to work in the yard in the afternoon.  It will be a good break.   But, I’ve been invited for a beer and a bike ride with my buddy, Joe.  I wasn’t going to go but I may for the afternoon.  I am not going to fuck him as he so badly wants.  I don’t think anyway.  He is a cutie and an upstanding guy.   His wife is cool with it.  She told me so.  *laughs* She wants a three way one of these day.  Gawd…she is a doll. I could use a good fucking somewhere in the mountains.  He knows and approves. They work together.  Just as Joe and I worked together.   Now why the hell is that important?  His approval?

Shit….my days are starting to fill up.  I feel not so….empty and useless….busy is good.

This dance, *our* dance with each other….Letting him initiate is the best decision I’ve made. I need to remember to be patient.  To allow this man to be the man he needs to be, the man he wants to be.  In  the long run, he’s never failed himself or me despite my confusion at times between the thinking and feeling.   I am re-learning trust *with* him not just *in* him.  He sure let go last night.  That’s icing on this already sweet piece of cake. *wink*

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Where does it fit?

Where does my perceived and all encompassing need to hear,  I am so proud of you. You are an outstanding woman, person, friend, sibling, mother, daughter; fit within me?

Or has this always been an integral part of me, that constant search for some kind of tacit acceptance?

Where does this beast reside?  What path does it walk through my heart?  Where does it tread so silently as to not notice on some days,  but with thundering, mind shattering footsteps on other days?

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Waxing and Waning

It’s in waning stage right now. For me, personally.

Where is my self confidence?  Where did it go? How does it fluctuate over the course of our lives?

Saturday, the world is my oyster.  A glint.  A glimmer. Sunday evening, not so much.  At least not with respect to dating again.

It’s been higher, but it’s not something I think about per se. Maybe I should.

I never think about myself as a “gift”.  As a woman or a person. Not to anyone, not for anyone.

As a matter of fact I am always taken aback when anyone does anything *for* me….gifts of generosity, kindness, love, understanding.

When are you going to believe you are a brilliant, polished diamond, he asked as we curled up in bed last night.

I feel like I have so little to offer anyone right now (we were talking of dating or more specifically my reluctance to date again).  I have no job, no focus, no “house” of my own.  Who wants to date a 52 year old unemployed woman?

You have so much to offer.  Put a different spin on it, Rosa. You’re not destitute.  You just moved from Hawaii, you don’t need to work right now. That’s all you need to say.  Have you *ever* felt sexy?  Have you ever felt like the *gift* that you are?  Have you ever *felt* like a polished diamond?

Uhhhh….At times. No I guess not.  Not really, answering each one of his questions. He was looking at me intently as I answered. I could not hold his gaze without lowering my eyes, embarrassed about my admission of perceived unworthiness.

He rolled over and I spooned comfortably against his back, feeling his warmth as he tightly held the hand draped over his side.

Hmmmm….you’ve known me a long time, Muse.  What do you think about my self confidence over the years?

It’s been higher. You are at a low point. But it’s never been as high as *I* think it *should* be.  You are smart, articulate, well written, interesting.

How do you think of yourself?

Dynamic despite my “big” personality *laughing*, interesting,  can always find a way to get things done, problem solver, out of the box thinker, creative……

But not sexy?

Not really. I just don’t think about myself that way.  But sensual, yes.  Sexy is more than clothes. I find myself as sexy in ripped jeans raking the yard, focused on what I like more often than “dressed to kill”. But honestly, Muse.  I’m an average girl in face and form. I don’t ever feel particularly “pretty”.

You are *so* much more than that.  And you have a fine body.  More along the lines of a thirty something without surgery, endless diets and calorie counting, or an obsession with the gym.

You are sweet.

No, I’m honest. *chuckle* I have *no need* to gain “points” with you.  We are going to work on your confidence until you can say, I *am* a polished diamond.  I *am* a gift.  I am *sexy*.  I am *confident* in myself.  Don’t you think you have to carry that belief in yourself to get what you want?  To offer that to another?  To bring out the best in another?  It’s not at all about a pretty face…it’s the gut feeling there is something special *in* you or *about* you.  Something different.  Something a man is drawn to without really understanding the *why* of it.  That confidence, that bit of sexy is classy and appealing to men. They take notice.  At least the good ones do.

I’m quiet and thinking now about all he’s said to me with such soft *passion* and tenderness in his voice as he reached behind me to pull me close as we danced the just-before-sleep dance of stretching and rubbing skin-against-skin before finally drifting off . *sighing*

I really have to resist the temptation to ask *Why?*  Why are you doing this for *me*?

Ahhh……Old stories seeking validation….



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Sparks

I felt a spark Saturday morning driving from the bank back home.

Gazing at the abundant and late snow on Pikes Peak, glorious blue skies marked only by an occasional fluffy cloud , the contrasting dark green of pines on nearby hills; I felt a fine effervescent tingling in my being.

The world is my oyster.

Maybe it’s a sense of the familiar in knowing where I am and how to act.

My reference points are returning.

It was rare when I felt that same sense of belonging in Hawaii. No reference points.  I don’t think I ever really developed them in the same way, except for in a landscape view to navigate around the island.

Hawaii? I lived in Hawaii for almost two years?

A blip in time.  Seems so far away.  It’s only been three weeks. How can that be?  It just doesn’t occupy that much space in me anymore except as a vague memory. Weird. It’s soft and fuzzy around the edges. Faded.  I have a recording of my favorite beaches that I was going to give to my son to loop endlessly and burn to a disk so I could listen to the sound of the sea.

I pulled my little recorder out the other day.  And promptly put it back.  The “need” to hear it escapes me now. I hear the wind through the pines soothing me with a different rhythm.  I hear birdsong and hummingbird chirps.

~~~~~

My stay there prepared me for this adventure. Not a continuation of an old life. Another new chapter.

My lessons on the unconditional loving part of life, lessons learned with ex-roomie-dear-sweet-friend-in-my-heart are serving me well here.  I am more unafraid to be that again without attachment to outcome.  To give trust the place it deserves.

I’m happy today.

Content.

Rooted in something special.

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Baby I'm Amazed

I shouldn’t be.  But I am.

When I just hand myself over to the Universe.

When I trust my gut feel.

No I wasn’t wrong about what I felt *from* him in stark contrast to what he was *saying to* me.

Yesterday morning…

Can you open your bathrobe for me?  I always liked to see your nipples.

*blush*

Soooo….I wasn’t wrong was I?  About my confusion the other day?

As I glanced down and saw his lengthening cock….and then looked at me like he used to…the only man on earth who can make love to me without saying a word.  I couldn’t hold his gaze this time for my blushing.

His hesitation the past two weeks is not wanting anything to change between us.  So he’s put down the physical desire.  Yet I can still feel it leaking out in those few minutes between sleeping and waking…in occasional hungry kisses…sparkling laughter….and tender hugs.  Confusion and disconnect.

I took the time to explain; I was in no way asking him to marry me, I was not going to make demands on his time or expect something of him he simply cannot give *because* of sex.

I also let him know that what I found with my ex-roomie (who he knows) was that it was the quality of the experience I enjoyed.  But my love for him whether we were tumbling off the bed in hot monkey sex or “making love”, tripping around town as “friends” or occasionally being “romantic”, deepened and strengthened to one more unconditional than I’ve ever known.  I know deep in my heart ex-roomie and I will always have a steady deep love for one another no matter where we are, or who we are with.  Sex or no sex. And there were plenty of times each one of us heard or said, yes, not now or no.  No big deal. Nothing personal.

I told him too that I had already decided he was to initiate with me from now on.  Yeah he might get teased a bit but I had done enough poking and prodding about desire.  I am not going to beg for sex.  He’s always known  how I feel.  As a matter of fact he reads me better than anyone I’ve ever known.

The other really important issue for me is this: I told him if he wanted release or a sperm vessel because he was horny….he could save it for Her or get off in the shower.  I wasn’t his girl.  It would devastate me more than anything else.  I want the best experience I can have with someone where love exists.   If there isn’t any affection or care or love in his heart for me….I would rather satisfy myself and not have sex at all.

We agreed that if we had sex right then and there….we would never get the car done.

I wanted to play poker last night. *evil grin*

So exactly what are the stakes, I asked repeatedly.

He laughed and refused to set the game.

I know you, you just want to get my clothes off.

Busted.  *laughing*

I lost.  Well, not really.

It’s going to take some time for us to sync again.

Time is good. We’ll have lots in the coming months.

I can live with that.

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