50, 60, 70, 80 and counting.....

Whatever your number is, it’s only a numbers game.

I think sometimes, we need to hear things that maybe percieved as direct, even confronting, I know I did a few months ago, and @ the time I was over the "Fibromyalgia" I was diagnosed with at the beginning of 2023 - especially after a year off and a lot of life changes, that have occured since then.

With a lot of time on my hands @ the mo - I recently stumbled on the following ; (in italic below); on a naturist site I follow - it grabbed my immediate attention by the balls so to speak and boy did I relate ...

So I did it & then I realised - that I'm actually doing okay considering where I am in life @ the mo. After all when you can't do the things you love doing with the enthusiam you have had all your life - it is only natural to view yourself in a different light, particularly a view that changes how you follow your own living motto ...

" Slow Down Puppy - but - LiveLoveLife ! "

And I know that over the last year to 18 months - I have been less than accepting of myself and the way my body now acts and even looks, then add in the way I now LiveLoveLife, I'm certainly slowing down - but even so - I knew I had to do something to change my focus so I could carry on with Living, Loving, Life.

So take a moment and do the following as just like myself - you might just be suprised @ yourself ...

Hug yourself; make it a really big hug.

Tossin' you all some love — feeling grateful that I am still Living Loving Life in the place I currently call home ...

My little part of Auckland - I call the Village of Birkenhead - because that what it feels like - welcoming and familiar with people saying hello and getting to know your neighbours is easy & with all the local nature walks - it just feel relaxing as well.

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Some night - take some time & sit yourself down on your own and have a few brewskys or a few glasses of wine......whatever it takes to shake the drudgery of the day off.

Then, take out a camera, stand in front of a full length mirror and strip down buck naked. Take tons of pics - every friggin’ angle imaginable.

Then, take another drink and look at those pics.

Try to be objective.

Sadly; I think you’re gonna find that your most unflattering attribute is actually.............your perception of yourself.

I always tell folks that anything worth chowing down on has to baste in its own juices for a while. My brothers...we are ripe...and we are juicy. Don’t let the din and social static; both gay and straight, diminish or denigrate your soul.

We are not the Real Estate Market my brothers.

It is we, and we alone, that determine our value. Value yourself; you are so deserving of this.