Blocked

BLOCKED by Devastis

I have posts in draft. I have words in my head. I have thoughts and musings and plans. But they’re not making it onto the screen. They’re not making it into posts.

I miss writing regularly – and yet getting those words down is hard.

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Ancestors

Because I’m a curious person, I get to wondering about how sexual the previous generations of my family were.

(This isn’t as weird as it sounds. My parents are dead. All grandparents bar one are dead. And the greats? Long gone.)

Obviously they were sexual enough to reproduce, otherwise I wouldn’t be here. That goes for the ancestors of most everyone on the planet. But were they happy? Did they smile, or ‘think of England‘? Did they have relations because it was part of marriage and  expected of them, or necessary to survive, or did they take pleasure – and give pleasure – and feel joy in coming together?

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