Sunday's "Heal Estate" had a wonderful article: "8 Tips to Feng Shui Your Self".  I LOVE THIS!!  I have printed it out to save.  Among the very apt list of suggestions were #3 --- "Surround yourself with things you love:  How is your underwear?"  I hope that readers of my SoozPrayers understood that this relates to my love of clothing/comfort!!  I am constantly purging my closet --- donating, re-purposing, or sending down the river of life (friends, sisters, nieces, book club).  Plus I love the title of this article.  Go Feng Shui yourself!!

I also loved the illustration in the "Blissness":  "Crying is OK here".  I love the permission expressed in that.  Everyone should have a safe place that crying should be OK.  A long time ago, before I married my beloved, he and I had danced back and forth and in and out of each other's lives for a long time.  On one of those occasions, my beloved sweet mom sent me a note with a poem ---- I wish I had it at my fingertips --- just giving me permission to cry.  I'll never forget how comforting that was! 

 Finally, the Creative Quickie, "Loving What Is" is so perfect.  It is very timely for me as my ten family members arrive beginning today for our 3-day family reunion.  "Loving What is" is a perfect way to be with family: I can never expect a cat to bark. 

Lots of love to all the Artella Angels today.

sw

 Hi Sooz -

 I, too, was quite struck by this question, focusing my attention on what's at the bottom (ahem) of things, at the foundation, the root, the scaffolding of life.  And I must admit I suffered a moment of constriction, binding, and er, scratchiness in contemplating this issue.  There are some frays and tears in the fabric of my soul, an unsightly bunching at life's dilemmas, a loss of elasticity. 

 KateSinging, committed to change from the bottom up

PS - Sooz, have a wonderful reunion!

The fabric of my soul is slippery, sometimes soft and comfortable but with plenty of open space to breathe deeply and enjoy life's little nuances *grins*

Any enjoyment of my underwear has typically been tempered by caring more about what the hospital staff might think about them, should I end up in an accident... and in the past, I've sometimes attached so many safety pins, belts, and suspenders that it was simpler to just stay home with the blinds closed. (wink)

Hello, all.  I am loving everyone's review of --- and poetic responses to their assessment of --- their underwear...!!

gratefully, with smiles

soozwillamuse

That question makes me so sad!  I'm going to admit to something that may be the strangest thing you have ever heard.  Well, I guess that should be "read."  I scanned my favorite pair of underwear.  Now quit laughing!  When my favorite pair of boxer shorts finally reached the point of no return, which in this case meant they had so many holes I might as well not be wearing underwear, I could hardly bare to throw them away.  Of course, once I did, I was bare, but that's probably TMI!   The undershorts had a wonderful and colorful "pineapple" pattern.  For you purple lovers out there, the background color was antique purple, and the pineapples were golden.  I felt so tropical whenever I put them on.   No, not fruity.  I said tropical.  I could even imagine doing the hula in them!  Well, that might be getting a little fruity.  Anyway, I got the bright idea that if I scanned the remaining good spot of underwear, I could save them for posterior, I mean, posterity.  Maybe I could use the picture as a background to a glorious, tropical collage.  No one would ever guess the background was once upon time holding my little tush!

Okay, are you wondering now why I am so sad?  The only copy of that picture was on my hard drive that died a couple of months ago!  I not only don't have my favorite pair of underwear, but I also don't have my scanned image of them.  Why does life have to be so unbareable?!  I know.  I'm going to protest!  I will not wear any underwear for the rest of the month to protest the unfairness of life.  That should teach life a lesson!  

Very cleverly written, Mr. Billizetti, and much appreciated.  If I knew where I could find a pair of purple boxer shorts with golden pineapples on them, I would certainly send them your way, so that you could be happy once again. 

 soozwillamuse

 I don't know:  maybe it's just me, but there's something a little glamorous about ratty underwear.

Yes, I know all the feng shui experts are telling us to update our undertogs, but there can be an unbridled quality about underwear that is coming apart. It is like Cathy and Heathcliff roaming the moors without their coats on and the wild weather pelting them, and them feeling delirious and ravenous and mixed up about each other.

Or, it's like putting a diamond ring in a lunch bag:  a marvelous understatement.

My favorite green pair sport a gash on the left hip, more fang's way than feng shui.  And yet, we are loyal to each other, and I think we'll keep company a while longer.

Billiezetti, I had brilliant luck with WebUndies.com, where I was able to buy for a friend his heart's desire: Captain Morgan boxers!  Perhaps you might find your carnivalesque dream shorts there?  Good luck with the quest.  As you know, tis better to have loved and lost...

KateSinging

 What a delightful bunch of posts, my friends!

Bill, I nearly wept over your tragic situation... and Kate, your words could be set to music... Sooz, Java, such fun!

I loved the Heal Estate that spawned this forum -- and what a wonderful birth here! cb 

I'm with Sooz, Bill. I will now be on the lookout for a replacement pair of purple *yummy* with pineapple underwear...mostly because it will keep you from being unhappy but mostly because the image of your protest is way TMI.

Isn't it amazing what a bunch of creative people can do with even the weirdest topic?

Ha!  Just when you thought that the buzz 'bout briefs was over, along comes another smart (crack)! 

Too Many Choices, Too Little Time

Fruit of the Loom
Hanes Jockey
JC Penney
Calvin Klein
Tommy Hilfiger

oh my gosh, here comes more choices.... 

White Briefs
Fashion/colored Briefs 
Boxers 
Boxer-briefs 
Low-rise/High-rise (no, not apartments!)
Thongs/G-strings
Granny panties
The Classic - woolen long johns

Guys only:  fly or no-fly?
For the ladies:  How do you really feel about boxers?

and the survey says....

No, I didn't come up with these survey answers - LuvCube.com did.  Now that you have all the facts (and much more than you really wanted to know), you'll be able to make one simple decision:  What underwear do I like?

~ chameleon

 OK, Chameleon, I know you intended us to ask this question of ourselves, but instantly I imagined the underthings of a Chameleon:

Purple satin when making art

Blue wool when dispensing tea and advice

Luminous green spider thread when in a meditative trance

Peach and furred for worshipping the universe

Red-hot silk with pounding leather hearts for romance

How 'bout them apples?

KS

 (Pardon me!  There's something too delicious about this topic... I can't help myself)

{KateBlushing}

This is soooooooooo funny, KateBlushing!  Aren't we just plain naughty girls for even discussing this XXX topic?!!  Shh, don't tell anyone, Kate, but I would definitely go with the purple satin pair.  Puh-leese, everyone, I honestly did mean what underwear do YOU like....not me.  I would post a pic of purple undies here but I might have some of my points taken away.

Laughingly,
chameleon