Audacia, Dark Odyssey, and Tulsa

Just a quick promo: Audacia Ray’s Live Girl Review this week (Episode 3) discusses Tristan Taormino’s book, Opening Up (which I’m quoted in); she also talks about Jenny Block’s “Open” as well, and has fast tips for a three way.  It’s downloading to my player even as we speak!  I have her book, Naked on the Internet, in my reading list, too…

I’m packing tonight to leave for Dark Odyssey in the morning; I’ll be picking up my friend Lee Harrington and heading north into the wilds of Maryland for four days of teaching, learning, relaxing, spending time listening to some of the most amazing people I’ve ever known…and hopefully playing a little, too.  Last weekend’s event was an amazing chance for me to be in a place that was totally unfamiliar with a smaller group of people; I learned that I’ve gotten better about taking care of myself and respecting my needs, even if they diverge from the social flow of the event.  Dark Odyssey is usually a weekend of finding my core as a queer, kinky, polyamorous, spiritually aware woman in a community of family and friends and lovers.  I have planned at least one “first” for this weekend; I want to suspend one of my lovers with rope from one of the trees at camp, and it will (if it works!) be my first full suspension as a top.  I also will be getting my arm marked again by my friend Bobby, who I share a love of cigars, handsome men, and heart-centered intelligent conversation.  Beyond that, the weekend is wide open to allow me to embrace the moments as they come, without plans or expectations.  This is the only way that going to an event really works for me, and I have only come to that point by finding many other ways that decidedly didn’t work for me first.

Finally, I got the sad news that the event sponsored by Tulsa Dungeon Society, scheduled for September 19-21, is being postponed until next year due to loss of venue. As soon as I hear, I will let you know when it’s being rescheduled to.  I had planned to be there to teach, along with Ms. Cynthia Wright & Allena Gobasch, and hopefully all three of us will be able to attend on the new date!