Seeing Timidia In a New Way

"I go to Burning Man every year," Timidia told us.
My husband and I nearly spit out our coffee.
She was an accountant, unassuming, dumpy.
She wore shirts with plastic pen protectors.

Timidia attended Burning Man!
What?
In those clothes? I asked her.
She shook her head, no.  "In no clothes at all"

I now picture her in a whole new way.
Wishing that she weighed a teensy bit less.
I go too, her Bohemian husband said.
He has hair down to his hoo-hah. No surprise here.
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Hawkins Avatar
August 5, 2022 at 8:42 PM
Timidia wasn't so timid after all. Her Bohemian husband seems to be a bit more modest Good one, Caren. Take care. Shirley
Krutsinger Avatar
August 6, 2022 at 7:25 PM
Thank you Shirley
Hankins Avatar
August 5, 2022 at 6:42 PM
I really need to check out this "burning man" thing. I hear lots about it. Really, they go naked??? Well, in that case, I reckon I'm too old!
Krutsinger Avatar
August 6, 2022 at 7:25 PM
Yes they do, and the older the naked ones, the better!
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