Monday, February 08, 2010

Catharsis

You know, I think blogging is how I deal with Mondays. I can think about the last few days and recap them, exploring as I go, and keep Monday at arm's length for a little longer. So, here I sit. Another Monday morning in my office. In front of me is a hot cup of chai (which I've already spilled once) and a wheat-flour blueberry muffin (so yummy!), from my new favorite hot beverage stop. They make hot chocolate with real melted chocolate bars and cream. You get one free on Saturdays if you show up in your jammies. Does it get better?

I think the wheat-flour blueberry muffin on Monday makes me feel better about the hot chocolate on Saturday. Welcome to my mental gymnastics.

But I digress....

Ranger and I had another glorious Friday together. It started in the afternoon. I'm restricted to working at my desk for six hours a day for another month (due to my recovery), so I'm off early in the afternoons. With nothing else to do on Friday, we started date night very early.

Ranger handed me my warm fleece pajama shorts and a t-shirt as I arrived at his place. Then, he sat me down at his laptop.

"We have pictures to look at," he said. "Fifty-two of them, to be exact."

"Fifty-two?" I asked, surprised. "When did you take that many?"

He chuckled. "A lot when you weren't looking," he said.

We spent time on each picture. I mentally flinched when each one came up. My eye is drawn to what I'd change about me. To the things I try to hide, and that hurt me when I see I didn't really hide them.

Ranger seemed to know that was happening. He'd start commenting immediately and reach in to point at the screen. "Oh, sweetie," he'd soothe. "Look how gorgeous you are in that!"

"Look how this lace lays so perfect on your skin."

"Look at the line from here to your waist. What a curve!"

"Look at that cute ass. I like how the laces from the back fall over you."

"Look at your thighs in those stockings."

Ranger is a thigh and ass man. Actually, he never been an ass man before me. Or so he says.

Yes, I could see what he saw. And it was doing battle with what I saw. I started to cry.

"I'm sorry," I said, looking at him through tears. "I'm trying so hard to let what you see replace what I see. But it's not happening immediately."

"I know," he said. "It'll take some time and maybe showing you these things again and again. But you just have to believe how beautiful you are to me."

"Please don't be discouraged or disappointed with me," I said. The last thing I want is to frustrate him or make him feel like I'm rejecting what he's trying to do for me.

"Never," he said. He kissed at my tears, then lay with me on the bed. Softly, he told me he knew what part of me I most disliked. And he was right. I despise my tummy. And talking about it makes me cry. But he has a very unique patience and understanding with my tears and my insecurities, like no one has ever had with me before.

He caressed me and told me what he loved. He told me why he didn't see the things that I thought of as my flaws. Suddenly, he stopped.

"Don't move," he said. "This is something I've wanted you to see, but you can't. And the light is just perfect now."

He grabbed the camera, talking softly the whole time. As if the sound of his voice would chase away the image he wanted to capture. "You have this cute peach fuzz at the small of your back," he said. "And the way the light is hitting yur backside right now just brings it out. You just have to see it."

The result is below. Pardon me posting a photo of my own ass, but I think it's a little more "artful" than just that. I couldn't believe it was an image of part of my body.. And for me, it's a very bold and telling step for me to be able to post this.


5 comments:

Little T said...

I see what Ranger sees...in the tiniest little bit of your eyes that you let show in your main pic. I definitely see it with a full ass shot! Baby steps will get you there;-) Think of daughter and the positive self-image that you hope for her to have everytime you get down. You are the example so show her that you love yourself and your body!

Ronjazz said...

OH. MY. GOD. Those are endlessly gorgeous curves. I want them...and you know what I mean, honey. Oh, my....

HNT stands for Half-Nekkid Thursday. This is the perfect kind of pic to use.

Oh...and TTHHHWWAAAAACCCKKK!!!

:)

e jerry said...

Gurl, own your booty!

You got the "I-make-healthy-babies and all-you-skinny-bitches-can-suck-it" booty!

If you were a guy, I'd be all UP in that bootay!

When I was still sort-of dating (all of six years ago), I used to take lots of pictures of He Who Shall Not Be Named when he was lying around naked or in my bathrobe in my apartment, or his apartment (we lived next door to each other for a year). Some of my best work is photos of him when he wasn't looking.

Glitterstim said...

T -- you're so right about Daughter. There's so much about how Ranger and I are together, and how I'm changing as a woman, that I want her to see as an example of the love she wants to have and the love of herself she also deserves.

Ron -- Haha! Thank you! ::blush::

Jerry -- I love your description of this booty of mine! Yep, skinny bitches can just suck it. I'm beginning to think that those kind of intimate photographs are the best kind, too.

:o) BJ

~ellen~ said...

Good for you! That's awesome.