Skyclad Spirit
@skycladspirit
Random thoughts on naturism and our right to be ourselves. Hopefully these posts will contribute a little to normalising nudity everywhere. Stay free, Liam Beattie. 🍻
Henry Ford: Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Richelle E Goodrich: Liberty, once tasted, is an incurable addiction.
Chris Martin: You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana: Nothing is sweeter than being unapologetically you.
Ashly Lorenzana: The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.
John Eliot: As soon as anyone starts telling you to be 'realistic', cross that person off your invitation list.
JRR Tolkien: We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
Oliver Sacks: We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.
Andrew Welch: There aren’t the hang-ups there used to be about being nude with others. There’s a liberating feeling when you’re naked in the fresh air or skinny-dipping or jumping in a hot tub. People are realising that’s lovely and exhilarating.
Emmeline Pankhurst: A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.
Ken Breniman: We are not meant to fit into molds designed by others. We are meant to thrive as the unique and unrepeatable beings we are.
Cameron Richardson: I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
Colin Fletcher: By walking naked, you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint, an uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity.
Maya Tiwari: A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of their tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good, because what happens is the heart is open, it's free, it's non-judgemental.
Johnny Depp: We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
Tom Robbins: Our similarities bring us to a common ground. Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Don’t wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt.
Heather Radke: Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it.
Kurt Vonnegut: Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies: 'God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.'
Philip Carr-Gomm: It is as if your clothes take on the weight of your worries and concerns. They come to embody your defences against the world, and if you can feel confident enough and safe enough, then taking them off evokes a powerful sense of liberation, of joy and freedom.
Apparently it's that time of year again, so very best wishes to everyone who reads these things. Stay well, enjoy your festivities, and if at all possible, could we manage a spot of peace and goodwill towards all? Worth a try, surely. 🎄
Solstice greetings (Yule or Litha) to all celebrating the cycles of this stubbornly magical world.
Anthony Rolls: Eccentricity of behaviour is to be looked for when the intellect is lively and original, and above all when it is explosive and creative.
Donald Dimock: As one slips out of his stifling clothes And steps carefully into the water, One returns to pristine pleasure; A right, and rite, of humankind.