by Emma Atkinson and Rachel Drake
Hello lovely readers! Are you wondering what’s up with the world these days? We’re with you. We’re reminded that life is always changing. Just when we think we’ve got something figured out, like masks or vaccines, life seems to toss us something new.
We’re reminded of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke titled “Moving Forward”, translated by Robert Bly:
“The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. It seems that things are more like me now, that I can see farther into paintings. I feel closer to what language can’t reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven, out of the oak, in the ponds broken off from the sky my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes.”
Of course poems are inherently mysterious and open to our own personal interpretations. That image of standing on fishes resonates with us, as we hope it does with you. It seems to capture a sense of life taking us this way and that, as fish dart here and there when currents and circumstances change.
Until we can embrace you for real, up close and personal, we offer you virtual hugs. And virtual floggings, bondage, spanks, whips - whatever your kinky heart consents to.
Homework: please share your thoughts on consent with us as we reimagine the next iteration of your favorite corner: Consent Corner. You can send questions, lavish praise, and tokens of appreciation to: info@thecspc.org. You know you want to!
“Be excellent to each other” - Bill and Ted
“Be sexcellent to each other” - Emma and Rachel