[at-l] Clarification to nude hiking post

[quoleldil@yahoo.com (Quoleldil)]

 I have no doubt my two girls preferred running naked in the wilderness to diapered ... 
before they aged 3 or 4 they clearly preferred it ...
I still prefer it but have found precious few spots where I felt no one would suddenly appear and become offended ...
My pack rides wonderfully gently on my hips and back sans clothing which I've found I must select with care to avoid painful abraisions on my hips, nipples, and shoulders ... it's a Dana K-2 short-bed ... frame ...
Here is a good reason to avoid the shelters and enjoy a short bushwack off trail, up and over a ridge -- where I've *never* been interrupted by a stranger> I think kids must feel this way before society imposes
> it's hangups on them - yesterday we got a little bit of
> rain and Cassy stripped her clothes off and ran outside
> and started dancing around in the rain :)

Yes, the little savage obviously hasn't had her spirit broken and been put
in her little box yet. Mine either. Children have an instinctual
relationship with the world around them, and I'm learning new things from my
daughter all the time. At the Nature Center she ran out from under the
shelter and ran around in the rain. My wife and I both wound up dancing
(clothed!) in the rain with her. All the adults thought we were crazy, but
all the kids looked jealous.

Peter Matthiessen wrote, “Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by
ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being
becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years
later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been
withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a
moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that
day…we become seekers.”




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