Yeah Darlin' go make it happen

As Steppenwolf once said so well.

It's funny position to be in at the moment. In the one side of my life, I seem to spend a whole lot of time trying to be a backstop, doing stuff like this. Take last night at a restaurant, with friends, Chrissie and Kiethy Baby, Baby Keithy, questions thrown at me included, when are you going to Tarifa again ? are you still thinking of moving house ? what have you and Thumper got planned for late August, because we want to have a party?

Almost schizophrenically, I spent most of yesterday morning and afternoon with the Pipmeister, making love, eating food and this too. Crucially, however, life with Pip is containing increasing amounts of what I'm beginning to call future statements.

One of the things I know stalled our initial relationship was the lack of these. The idea that one should NOT, under any circumstances set up false expectations was always in my mind from day one when I was in the position of (what we social workers call) cognitive dissonance.

Now, our brief, partial and limited time together is suffused positively with these. Examples include

The use of Saturdays

The use of Sundays

What to do in the week

Places to go, see, smell, touch, taste, hear

Things we'll do together

Things we'll do apart

What to eat

What to drink

What to buy

What to plan

How to do this, How to do that.

Endless stuff that now feels like we have a proper future together. Something to believe in. Something to hold on to and, as Steppenwolf says

Get your motor runnin'

Head out on the highway

Lookin' for adventure

And whatever comes our way

Yeah Darlin' go make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of your guns at once

And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning

Heavy metal thunder

Racin' with the wind

And the feelin' that I'm under

Yeah Darlin' go make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of your guns at once

And explode into space

Like a true nature's child

We were born, born to be wild

We can climb so high

I never wanna die

Born to be wild Born to be wild

JVIP