Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy!

I am almost afraid to let the excitement start to take hold of me. It is still months away. There are plenty of ways that this could fall apart. Even talking about it seems risky -- the merest whisper seems like a really good way to jinx it.

BUT ... I am so excited, and this is so much something good to look forward to after a really long tough year of struggling and slogging and sometimes just working hard to get through to tomorrow for our family...

We have plans to go to THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS (http://www.thunderinthemountains.com/) this summer!!!

For us, that is simply a wonderful, fabulous, amazing treat on so many levels:

• Always we love the chance to attend leather, BDSM events. There is something freeing about being with other BDSM lifestylers in a setting where WE are the majority. For that small space of time, the locale becomes "liberated" territory, and our way of being and thinking becomes the norm. The vanilla world drops away, and for just a little while, we can drop our masks and our sense of being "other" and simply be who we most truly are. For us, who live most of our lives in hiding out of necessity, it is sheer luxury to be able to be so open and so relaxed with others who share our view of life in some degree.
• This kind of event offers the chance to learn and to share and to teach with practitioners of the arts of the life (from ritual cutting, to tieing a rope harness, to swinging a singletail, to writing a will for a poly household). It is one thing to read about what it is we do. It is something altogether different to actually see and touch and listen and talk with real people who really do this. There is simply no substitute for real-time face to face talk with those who know their craft.
• Did I mention playing in the dungeon? Scary, thrilling, exhilarating, challenging... all at once...
• This is an opportunity to reconnect with some in the scene that we only get to see at "events." Thank goodness there are events that bring our still fairly small community together periodically.
• Always there exists the possibility that we'll meet some friends who, until now, we've only known on-line. Wouldn't that be fabulous? Hint, Hint, Hint.
• We will have the time to travel together for a real, extended family vacation. This will be the first time we've done that (for more than a long weekend) ever. Master and I traveled to Thunder two years ago, but T wasn't able to go with us. Having been the single-handed schlepper of His stuff for 10 days on the road that time, I am more than glad that there will be two of us to load and unload the caravan each day. Have I mentioned that Sir does not travel lightly?
• For me, Denver is "old stomping ground territory." A visit there means I might even get to connect with at least one of my grown children, see some of the sights that are dear to my heart, share some old favorite eateries with my dear loves...

Dare I say that my heart is bouncing? Got to heal, got to get registered, got to make plans... Can't wait!!!

Anyone want to meet up / join us there?

swan