clothes optional with mirrors

Summer is officially in session, but you wouldn't know that up here in the clouds. I finished work mid June and the intervening days have been jam packed. I have had business meetings, conference calls, dinners, a movie, visits from my daughter and an old long-lost now retrived friend, and several Encounters of the Close Kind in all venues. Since then I have also had a lot of calls with girlfriends, a sister in law with California women in tow, my daughter and her friends up to visit, and visits from a best friend and her mom. Girl time, women time. One of our conversations revolved around dress. Whatto where, when to wear it, and how to wear it. City clothes, camping clothes, walking around the town clothes, and just how dressed up to be. Eugene is particularly casual, and after the country fair, the dress is even more un-scale. I am packing to leave in 3 days for a high class city, Toronto, and so have washed everything, and figuring out how to upclass myself. So, this may be why I am sitting here not wearing any clothes, it is too much trouble right now. I am washing everything, and with the execption of carrying my basket outside to my condo laundry, I am figuring what the hell, who is going to see me? Or, if the did it certainly would not be in the context of doing laundry, and that dear readers is another topic. I am at the top of a hill, windows face a hill and although at night unless I pull the drapes you can see right in, I really don't care. This is a hidden advantage of living alone, or being alone some time:" Clothes are NOT NEEDED." No tight bra, no panty lines, no why don't I lose some weight pants, no wrinkles, spots, ironing, plackets, pleats, buttons or buttonholes, belts....nothing. What to wear? only when cooking, frying bacon in the nude is not recommended. Martha Graham said one time that she would not choreograph nude dancing, like the musical Hair because, ".. parts of the human anatomy do not stop moving when I desire them to." I get that. But I am not choreographing myself, I just am enjoying not getting dressed. Of course, in a partnership clothing optional is also nice, but when children are around, or they might burst into the house as young adults, one needs must wear clothes. So it is with a certain amount of enjoying "being bad" that I am finding I just don't bother often. And, when using tanning lotion which must dry before wearing clothing, it just makes sense. And, it means getting used to seeing yourslef, a revelation...a good idea. I have full on mirrors on my closets, and while somewhat startling, I think that this feedback I have been getting is sinking in, and I no longer avert my eyes at myself...another revelation. Mirror mirror on the wall, I even have some which face the wall; traditional Turkish ones which are wedding mirrors, and meant to face the wall until used to avoid vanity. It makes sense in a former veiled culture if you are un veiled, then the mirrors are put away. Not for Translylvania where no image in a mirror is vampyric, or for cheap movies when they are on the ceiling, but for here, mirrors bounce light, open space, and give me my own reflecting pond. Narcissus like, I look, and check, and appreciate, so it is worth it.