#137.21 - Whoa!

That is a lotta weeks of not writing. I'm back again.

These are how the weeks went.

Week 1 - Happy but tired

Week 2 - Still happy but more tired

Week 3 - More tired and almost incapable of moving

Week 4 - Dead

Week 5 - Why am I still alive

Week 6 - OK, I'm fine now. Back to happy and tired but doing loads more than I was doing at week one.

The big take away is - human beings are hard work. I certainly find them hard work. Life is good but also life is mental. I am so tired. There is so much to be done.

Here we go this week's blackboard drawings - well one of them... the other ones were the Shiva Lingam. I always do the gods and goddesses first because it places the whole thing into context. There is none of the sniggering and laughing and embarrassment. This is life. This is who we are. This is what we do and people loved and worshiped these forces forever. 

This is probably the most important lesson we can learn - to see all things with reverence. And so it is funny when people talk about sexual organs here. It is either very scientific or it is through the lens of promiscuity and smut. Or moralising and judgement. The forces of life must be contained and nothing will stop them. Life will escape, life must escape.

We don't tell the kids that of course. But during the course of the blackboard drawings I was able to discuss fertilisation, the development of the fetus, pregnancy, birth, STDs, abortion, birth control, protection - just everything. To be able to talk about something as we draw it is just off the scale important and amazing. Especially that which is so ineffable. The powers inside us are tremendous. The forces which rage are consequential. Of all the things which we can do, sex is the things which has the most consequence.

But also the most fun. And I did say that. Sex is very nice, but of course giving birth and looking after the child after that is really hard. It is very difficult. Extremely exhausting. And the worse part of it is that you have no idea what they want when they cry. 

At first.

I don't know how people teach sex and the reproductive system without resorting to contextualising it in mythology. Without giving it its long and distinguished and shining path. It seems remiss to just dive in there, cold. From the light of day to this world of so many discoveries, especially for a young teenager just starting out on this journey.

Ok we are now up to date with the blackboard drawings.

Apart from the penis and the lingam.

But the thing is sex is a beautiful thing which is delightful if done right. If done wrong it is a nightmare - painful, awful, something which is done mechanically.

Anyhoo.... I have not had any booze now for more than 3 months. Just over three months. It feels fantastic. I do think that it is the best thing in amongst many good things I have done lately.