Out of sight does not mean out of mind or out of heart.
Every now and then I enjoy writing what I call ravings. Ravings are thoughts or emotions which lodge into my mind and just get stuck there. They start to spin a web and sometimes they start to form something coherent that I can write down. Every now and then it becomes something that actually makes sense. Usually it doesn't but I cannot do otherwise then see where the thought or emotion takes me. But when it does I do enjoy sharing these with those I think it concerns or who may enjoy it. I must warn you that I write these in one sitting and uninterrupted and do not edit. Sometimes the chaos of my mind gets the better hand or emotion takes over from logic. I gave thought to what makes me Tuchuk. I can only recommend to stop and consider for a moment what makes you Tuchuk. For my fellow Tuchuks the following raving.
Being Tuchuk
As the times change and the year brings new tidings it is often a time for reflection. We look back to what we know, what we have learned, what we may have forgotten in time. I've looked back to see what is there to better understand what I am and what I am not. I know I am Tuchuk. Why I am Tuchuk is a harder question to answer. What makes one to be Tuchuk?
When we breach the surface of this question we see the plains of turia and the bosk passing by. The sweet smells coming from the camp fires and the lively kajira darting past. I feel at home. Does this make me Tuchuk? I don't think so. I doubt being Tuchuk has to do anything with being gorean at all.
Some might say it has something to do with being a good Master and having lots of pretty young kajira running around behind them. This sounds to me more like the thoughts of a Man who's brain is lodged some where between his loins and the furs. Sure the sensutious girls are fun, but it does not make one Tuchuk to enjoy them.
So what is Tuchuk? A way of life? Maybe. We live different lives. We have our daily grind at work, or in the household and then we turn to the world of Gor in which we personify a different being. Yet in both worlds we live as a Tuchuk. In this sense it is a way of life. Yet this does not explain what being Tuchuk is.
I've come to a single conclusion. Being Tuchuk resides in the heart. Being Tuchuk is the sense of family. You gain strength from your family, you build on one another. You live together breathing and moving as one. Many hearts, a single heartbeat. Tuchuk means you are never alone. In both worlds you take this trait with you which makes you Tuchuk no matter where you are.
I am Gryphon. I am Tuchuk. I always will be Tuchuk.
HAI TUCHUK HAI FAMILY
p.s. Best of wishes to all my F/family for the year which we have just ushered in.
