MANLY!
Trip Start
Jan 20, 2008
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20
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Trip End
??? ??, 2010
Sydney,
Australia
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Heath:
**THE NEW AND IMPROVED VERSION!!! Actually i am sorry for converting this blog into my own diary at times. It's difficult to learn how to blog, especially a shared one. I started trying to be consistent, entertaining, etc. but it's not so easy. You tend to start pushing the envelope a bit. We are both trying to grow in our own ways. This blogging thing is a process, so please bare with me. Pun intended! Another sad point about LEARNING to blog, and really not being a very good writer, is that sometimes your point doesn't come across correctly. Because i wrote the previous version, like a diary, without proofing it, i think it read a bit different than i had intended. Some people actually took the previous version as a hail to my new bravado! That is not the point at all. I still have my insecurities well in tact. The point is I'm working on not caring about such silly little;) things.
Heath here:
Manly Beach, not the topic of my manlyness, more my uncomfortableness with my manlyness. I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable, especially Ingrid, because I am trying to experience and minimize MY boundaries of fear & insecurities. I will not stop my drive for continual growth, which includes blogging ALL my adventures for anyone interested. I too have fears of being judged, but that is something I want to completely get over. If it feels right to me, I'm going to experience it. It's difficult to do something like a naked bike ride, but like Ingrid said, I didn't do it to just be wild and crazy. I did it to do something good and to work on my own insecurities. The drive home point of the ride was, quit being a bunch of lazy "buttcrackers", and sit on a bike seat instead of your car seat to drive in to work or wherever. Especially when it's only a mile or less away! Since i was a kid, i've always been insecure about being skinny, concaved chested and on a more personal side, my johnson. Phil told me about a festival he went to, Dreamtime, hippy type festival. Very artistic and beautiful, including a few random nudes. He said the only guys walking around nude were hung like horses! Yes girls, the same fears you have with breast size, men have about weener size. It's pretty sad really. Imagine if we were all big boobed women and big slonged? Sounds like a horribly boring place to me. I thought about what i would have done at the festival and realized I would have been afraid to be naked in that situation. So I decided this is something i should get over. Ingrid had talked about doing running of the nudes which is a protest of running of the bulls in Spain, put on by PETA. When this naked bike ride came up in Byron Bay, I thought, no better time than the present. That being said, I'm not a nudist either, really. I'm not comfortable being naked in public, but i really do feel that people would have a lot less hang ups about themselves and sexuality in general, if we weren't so uncomfortable with nudity. We are way more comfortable with seeing violence than nudity. That's something to be ashamed of.
So Manly is a very casual cool beach in Sydney. It is the only beach we have been to so far that has both sand volleyball and surfing, so it gets a BIG thumbs up here! We actually finally got to play some good two's volleyball for the first time our whole trip. We played one good game in Byron, but then everyone quit. We played for a couple hours last night and though it felt pretty sloppy, I was a slice of heaven!
We are driving tonight back to Byron for a music festival. Some of the lineup: Glove, Ozomatli, OAR, Jason Mraz, John Fogerty, KT Tunstall, Maceo Parker, Black Crowes, Don Mclean, Sinead O Connor, Galactic, John Butler Trio, Keith Urban, Buddy Guy, Wilco, etc. It should be awesome! We are going to try to volunteer. You work 4 or 5 hours then enjoy the festival. Sweet as.
Ciao for now,
H
Comments
Just between you and me...and everybody else.
I think the way both you and Ingrid are blogging is great. As a friend of yours and knowing you guys the way I do I wouldn't expect either of you to hold back in whatever way. The way you express yourselfs and your experiences is unique. I enjoy the inner macinations of your minds just as much and more most of the time than the 'entertaining' aspects of your experiences. I say march on and don't let any preconceived notion of right or wrong stop you from expressing yourself however you want. Sometimes what we write or say in haste or excitement is the purest expression of ourselves.
As per how you are interpreted, we all come from our own place and interpret for our own reasons and understandings. A large part of how we decide to define you or what you say comes from our own mind, not that that can't be persuaded, but I guess what I really want to say is be you, the only you that you can know at this place and time. And if you want to talk about penis's then that's awesome!
P.S. I never got the impression that it was about bravado, more about celebration. But then I am a guy. ;) P.S.S. I just watched a show on PBS that said humans had the largest genitals of all mammals(animals?) ratio wise. So we got that going for us! woot!