QUESTION:

What's your pleasure?

I don't mean a list of little pleasures you encounter daily... like the perfect coffee or holding the book you've been looking for or digging in to your favourite meal or hugging your child/parent/beloved. I mean that state where you are blissfully content. Everything sated.

Sex sure. However much time it occupies.

But beyond it?

What hedonistic scene best captures you in a state of pleasure?

I'll paint you mine:

A table outdoors, somewhere warm. Food and drink and conversation of the searching/philosophical kind.

Zesty verbal exchanges. Sexual undercurrents. Personalities ebbing and flowing. Words shared and words created. Passions exposed- be they emotional or intellectual.

This scene is very real to me because... it satisfies. It sates my hunger for answers and my thirst for knowledge. It holds all the elements of intrigue, interest, and of course, differing personalities and one... providing a physical gateway; a 'love interest'.

A microcosm of all that I hold dear and all I ache for.

That's my pleasure.

Yours?