Brain Wide Shut?

[Homburg]

I understand what you are saying. I bruise very easily btw.

You are fair-skinned, if I remember correctly, right?

"v", with her lovely pale skin, is wildly bruise resistant. "w", for all of her stunning golden tan colouration, bruised by breathing on her too heavily.

 

[FurryFury]

I used to be olive skinned but yes, now I'm pretty damned white.

*sigh*

 

[Homburg]

Aside from my arms and face, I'm pale (for me anyway) too. I just haven't gotten enough sun recently. No time to do anything like sunbathing or tanning, and the only times I'm outside sans shirt for any period of time is trail-riding. And my favourite trails are all heavily wooded, so no sun there. *shrug*

 

[FurryFury]

I've been trying to get some sun on my body this summer during things like waiting for the kids.

When I was little I always got brown and never burned.

I like having olive skin.

Now I'm so pale and I hate it.

My grandfather if he were alive would love it. To him it was a sign you didn't have to work in the fields and of refinement. Every night he put skin cream on hoping to fade and soften his own skin. It smelled slightly of lemons.

*smiles fondly remembering*

 

[cataleptik]

I hate paying bills so I always buy a calendar that has some bit of inspiration in it for my bill paying days. On my calendar today is the following thought:

"Enlightenment is not only the end of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking, what an astonishing liberation this is."

That really struck me and got me to thinking.

How many of us seek, as I often do, to shut our over active brains down and just experience pure sensation?

The idea of that is so appealing to me. Though I find it rather hard to achieve. Life is so busy and I'm always in charge of so many things. My mind is nearly always going off in a hundred directions at once.

So is anyone else out there trying to shut down that pesky brain when they play?

to me the brain without the emotions is the tool of boredom.
but --

 

[Homburg]

My grandfather if he were alive would love it. To him it was a sign you didn't have to work in the fields and of refinement. Every night he put skin cream on hoping to fade and soften his own skin. It smelled slightly of lemons.

*smiles fondly remembering*

Heh, my granddad on my dad's side was almost pure Scots, and flat couldn't tan. He had a permanent Farmer's Sunburn instead. He was crass old bastard though that pale people needed to get out and work

Luckily I took enough after my Japanese grandmother that I don't burn. And I tan without real effort. I've just made zero effort this year =P

 

[FurryFury]

to me the brain without the emotions is the tool of boredom.
but --

When is one without emotions?

When is one bored?

I have far too much to do to ever be bored.

My kids sometimes come to me saying they are bored. I explain to them what a gift they have at times like that.

*chuckles*

If that doesn't work I tell them to go clean their rooms. Damned if they don't get creative then!

 

[FurryFury]

Heh, my granddad on my dad's side was almost pure Scots, and flat couldn't tan. He had a permanent Farmer's Sunburn instead. He was crass old bastard though that pale people needed to get out and work

Luckily I took enough after my Japanese grandmother that I don't burn. And I tan without real effort. I've just made zero effort this year =P

My granddad had some Scots in him too.

I'd forgotten that.

*smiles*