i'm still looking forward to today!

welp, some houseguests extended their stay, so the amount of nakedness may have to decline.

but ... 

now i get to look forward to it for a whole nother week! win/win!

plus, we'll find some way to make up for it today, i'm sure.

: )

i'm looking forward to tomorrow ...

we have plans.

there will be nakedness and full-body contact. maybe with a favorite song or two during.

msg has a lot to do, though, so the early part of the day may rank higher than the rest of it. 

even while he's off doing his thing, though, I expect the rest of us will cuddle and glow together.

it's nice to have bright spots in your future ... near ones, far ones, small ones, large ones.

when you know the days down the road are going to shine, it can get you through a lot of so-so stuff and cloudy greys.

xoxo,

claire

thankfully ...

wow, i thought blogging on thanksgiving was totally my jam, and that i've blogged on most thanksgivings since i started this whole thing 12 years ago ... but i looked back over my post list, and there were only like, four thanksgiving posts.

what the heck?

i have so much more than four posts worth of stuff to be thankful in my life, and that's been true every single year i can remember.

i'm going to say, my excuse must be that instead of blogging on those past thanksgivings, i must have been doing so many things worth being thankful about, i didn't have time to sit down at the computer and write.

(sure, maybe i was just bloating myself with too much turkey and cranberry sauce. realistically, i have to admit that's a possibility. but if i did, i must have forgotten about it in a post-gorging tryptophan coma.*)

anyway, the good news is, i'm extra-specially thankful this thanksgiving. last year, our lives were one ariel richer than they were before, and this year they're a whole harriet better than last year. there are good star trek and star wars shows on tv, and the numbers on my blog archive tell me 2020 has been my most productive year for blogging ever.

it's an absolutely awesome time to be alive, and i'm thankful for that every day.

also ... thank you for reading this! 

you're awesome and worth being thankful for too.

xoxo,
claire

*dang it. i just had to go and google tryptophan and make sure i was spelling it right, and scientific american tells me it's not the turkey that makes you sleepy, it's the dessert. i swear, though, i never have more than one piece of pie after thanksgiving dinner. i mean, one piece of each pie. but we usually don't have more than one pumpkin pie and one apple pie and maybe one cherry pie in our spread. so i'm sticking with turkey as the scapegoat.

tremble

when i touch you
and a quiver 
runs down 
your body 
like a 
bright 
mountain 
stream, you
know i can't
help but feel i am


                 godlike


so tremble for me
and grant my
hands and
my skin
their
pure
and most
purposeful
of all qualities:
that they are divine

plus, a quick trip to the park!

aers doesn't get outdoors much (tbh, she doesn't wear clothes very often...) so after we were done taking pics in the house, we scooted out to the park and enjoyed some fresh air and green grass.

it was nice!

dang, this outfit looks good on our girl!

i have an old top i haven't worn in ages, and aers asked why not, and i said because it didn't fit me very well. so she asked if she could try it, and of course it went ten times better on her than on me!

bare shoulders and blissful eyes

we were lying in bed the other morning, and he said, "this is one of my favorite ways to be with you." and i knew what he meant but i still said, "oh, i'm sure!" and wiggled my hips in a way that emphasized we were, you know, hooked up down there. he kind of rolled his eyes and so i patted his cheek and smiled and said, "i'm just playing. it's one of mine too, you know."

and what we both meant was, knowing the full body feel of your beloved while seeing just enough of them, bare shoulders, face, eyes, to really and totally get how naked and wonderfully exposed you are together, nothing hidden, bodies joined in a quiet, pure connection, the whole world turned into an understanding embrace.

if we'd had all day, we could have stayed that way for hours. but there were things that had to get done, so we both knew it could only last so long.

of course, once you're in that position, feeling that way with each other, there's almost no way to work up the willpower you need to leave each other's arms and go do something else.

you're kind of forced to bang each other's brains out first.

which, we did.

xoxo,

claire