I felt that I was floating on an idea of being nourished by woman's breasts. Everywhere I looked, I could see them. This was my first day back to the beach after a long winter and chilly spring. Now that the weather had become warmer, I drove down to the ocean to see the beauty of humanity. Being cooped-up in the offices of my high-rise career only gave to me the same seasonal anxiety every year to be able to feel the warm summer breezes on my skin and to see so much beauty unveiled instead of hidden by styles and colors and wrinkles -- and the otherwise intrusive masks of our natural beauty.
Now that I had arrived, I felt a sigh of relief oozing from my system like steam coming from a locomotive boiler. I knew that the pleasure that I would have at the beach, that day, would depend upon how well I was able to isolate myself from the world of work schedules, paying house payments, and the daily stress of pushing sales and production lines. Now it was my turn to be nourished. Perhaps this summertime seasonal sojourning at the beach could give to me enough reality to last through another season of freezing rain and gloomy plodding through impersonal and demanding challenges of a perpetually competitive market. But there were no negative ions, here. This was a far more healthy environment, giving the effect of feeling healthy and positive with no worries tugging at my sleeve. Oh. I didn't have a sleeve. As my arms swung freely in the mid-morning light, I felt like I could see myself clearly. How could I feel stuffy when walking through the breezes of the earth's great and natural wilderness? How preposterous!
There were Alice, Susie, and Thomasina from the office. They had arrived ahead of me and already had a spot staked out not too far from the surf line. Susie had her top off and the other two were just removing theirs when I walked up to them. Not wasting any time, I laid down on Susie's towel next to her. "Hi! You beat me to it!"
"Oh, hi, Tom. You are looking biff and buff, today, in your new suit of clothes!" she said. "I couldn't help to notice that all of your buttons are missing! Wait. Are those your original buttons?"