They were kissing... #16-22

#16

KISS A GUY AND DO THE HEEL LIFT

Kiss (verb)
kissed, kissing, kisses
1. To touch or caress with the lips as an expression of affection, greeting, respect, or amorousness.
2. To touch lightly or gently: flowers that were kissed by dew.
3. To strike lightly; brush against: barely kissed the other car with the bumper.

1. To engage in mutual touching or caressing with the lips.
2. To come into light contact.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom

- e.e. cummings

Seriously, I do not know one girl who has NOT wished to be kissed like this. A toe-curling, heel-lift-inducing kiss... It is amazing how much writers, poets and musicians have written about kissing...it's because they are magical and tell a person exactly how you feel about them with only a small part of your bodies touching, that's special, right? 

And pictures of people kissing...in train stations, on buses, benches, bridges, balconies and bathrooms, at the beach, the breakfast table and bonfires, in bars, cars, cafes, magical sunlight, libraries, alleys and parks, in the snow, kitchens, phone booths and laundromats, on motorcycles, ledges and kitchen counters, on rooftops, piers, ferries and ferris wheels, at carnivals and natural history museums, under umbrellas and under starry skies...

Instead of saying it with a picture, the more romantic among us put it down on paper...

"They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You'd miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along." 

-Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

...and my favourite...
Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world’s greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding. 
-Saul Williams

So here is to heel-lift-inducing kisses, kisses on top of cars, kisses that touch your soul and kisses during riots.

#17

HAVE A CAPPUCCINO AT A STREET CAFé IN ITALY

I am not even a big coffee drinker, but Italy is my top European destination that I really want to visit. Or maybe any European street café will do.

#18

GO BLOND FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS

I don't want to say it too loudly...shhh...but I am actually blond :), but found that brunettes have way more fun. I am also a fan of the recent ombre hair, darker on top, lighter at the bottom. See, the best of both worlds I think?

#19

TAKE A SHOWER IN AN OUTDOOR SHOWER

Au naturel in nature.

#20

ASK SOMEONE I JUST MET TO GO ON A DATE

My innate shyness might make this a bit problematic, but I'm willing to courage up and do it.

#21

BE SERENADED

It's the musician thing, ok, so no judgement. It doesn't even have to be any good, just sweet, funny and a bit awkward. Think Ashton Kutcher's character serenading Amanda Peet's character in A lot like Love. He sings I'll be there for you and it is quite simply adorable. Have a look over here.

And let's be honest here, who has not wanted someone to sing something to you, something special that makes that person think of only you? My favourite, bibbity boppity boo, wants to be serenaded with the song Shameless by Garth Brooks. Here are some of the lyrics, which totally explains her selection...*sigh*...

Shameless

I'm shameless when it comes to loving you...

You see in all my life...I've never found

what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew...

but I can't walk away from you.

-Garth Brooks

#22

GROW A HERB GARDEN

Just like the plants so longingly need the sunshine that they crane

their little necks to the window and just like the window needs

handprints and smudges and the residue of lips kissing goodbye

and just like those lips need to form themselves in funny shapes

to mouth out words and those words need wings to find themselves

to ears and those ears need Q-Tips to clean them for hearing and those

Q-Tips need the cotton and that cotton needs strong hands to free

it from its branches and just like those hands need to be held,

cut and bleeding as they might be, I need you.

-Tyler Knott Gregson (excerpt from Just Like)

Ok, to be totally honest, I pretty much just need a rosemary garden. LOVE rosemary. The fact that I kill any plant just by pure neglect and apathy, and sometimes just by proximity...might prove to be challenging.

Keep you posted.
Rachel
xoxo