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The Naked Truth about the Huastecs
There’s a sprawling region along Mexico’s northern Gulf Coast called La Huasteca, comprising parts of seven states – Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo and small sections of Querétaro and Guanajuato. It’s a lush, beautiful area of tropical lowlands, with raging rivers, plunging waterfalls, and massive cave systems. Ecotourism has been growing in the…
Naturist Advocacy Out Front: Clothes Free Life
This is an appreciation post for a naturist website that has been advocating for some thirteen years now. I started my blog and Twitter account in 2011, and in the time since, I’ve seen a lot of terrific growth in online naturism portals, platforms, and podcasts. Clothes Free Life has held steady over the years…
Normalizing Nudity on Netflix: The New Latin American Classics
Over the past five weeks, Netflix has brought to the screen two outstanding versions of well-known Latin American novels: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. The former is a film, while the latter is a series with the first season of eight episodes now available. Both…
An English Nudist’s Tropical Legacy
Brazilian naturist pioneer Jorge Bandeira is an admirable activist. In addition to all his work for naturism in Brazil, and all his work as a playwright, actor, producer, theater critic and professor, he also owns and manages a second-hand book and record store in Manaus! I’m privileged to count him as a good friend, and…
Talking about Naturist Fiction
It’s always a pleasure to have a conversation about naturism and naturist fiction. I recently had the opportunity to do just that with Frank Stone, host of the podcast Naked, Nudists and Naturists. Frank is a terrific interviewer who does a solid show, and he’s divided the interview into two parts. The first part came…
Normalizing Nudity to Fight Crime
This is a difficult post to write. It’s about extortion, suicide, and grief. I’m compelled to write it, however, because it’s also about nudity, nude photos, and a perhaps unexpected way for us naturists, nudists and our allies to bring about positive change. Last month, national headlines here in the US declared that a South…
Avocados and the Nude World
It’s the time of year for Super Bowl ads, and there’s a fun one that has a great nude-friendly message. Avocados From Mexico produced an Adam and Eve spoof, “Make It Better,” that reimagines the famous scene in the Garden of Eden and leads to… well, a whole nude world. Eve has bitten into a…
Embodiment and Imagery
As 2022 comes to an end, I reflect back on the Green Man, the ancient European archetypal figure who began to appear in my thoughts and writings last year, and to whom I dedicated a series of posts this past summer. The Green Man can be seen as an embodiment of the male archetypes. He…
The Archetypes in the Green Man
This is the eighth and final mystery reading in the Green Man series – brief texts that illuminate aspects of masculinity through nature while exploring the major masculine archetypes. A central truth about the archetypes is that they all reside within each one of us. You may feel more drawn toward one than the others,…
The Dream of Love and Freedom
This is the seventh mystery reading in the Green Man series – brief texts that illuminate aspects of masculinity through nature while exploring the major masculine archetypes. It’s a different kind of mystery reading, because it’s the narration of a dream: In the dream, the old man spoke to me of love, and of freedom.…
A Mystery Reading for The King Archetype
This is the sixth mystery reading in the Green Man series – brief texts that illuminate aspects of masculinity through nature while exploring the major masculine archetypes. Sun and Lion A poetic name for the sun in Spanish is “El Astro Rey”: The King of the Stars. The sun is indeed our ultimate king, whose…
A Mystery Reading for The Wizard Archetype
This is the fifth mystery reading in the Green Man series – brief texts that illuminate aspects of masculinity through nature while exploring the major masculine archetypes. Stag and Serpent The stag and the serpent don’t grow without shedding. Whether they shed antlers or skin, these animals are masters of transformation, striding and slithering through…
A Mystery Reading for The Father Archetype
This is the fourth mystery reading in the Green Man series – brief texts that illuminate aspects of masculinity through nature while exploring the major masculine archetypes. Oak and Eagle The oak, one of the most common trees in the temperate climes of the world, is also one of the sturdiest and tallest. Because of…
A Mystery Reading for The Lover Archetype
This is the third mystery reading in the Green Man series – brief texts that illuminate aspects of masculinity through nature while exploring the major masculine archetypes. Chili Pepper and Avocado “Keep shaking the chili like that and you’ll send the seeds flying everywhere.” The Native peoples of the Americas made jokes in their languages…
A Mystery Reading for The Warrior Archetype
This is the second mystery reading in the Green Man series – brief texts that illuminate aspects of masculinity through nature while exploring the major masculine archetypes. Lightning and Wind Humankind’s first experience with glass was probably the discovery of the filament-like unique shapes that result when lightning strikes the beach. These shapes, half buried…
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