When I arrived at the tea house, Maxine already had sat down inside.
Pema Pera: Morning, Maxine!
IM: Maxine Walden: having trouble with my texting it seems so IM you
Pema Pera: Do you have the communicate window open?
IM: Maxine Walden: lets see now it seems to be working ok, the texting
Pema Pera: no, you are still in IM mode
Maxine Walden: is this better?
Pema Pera: yes!
Pema Pera: now you’re visible
Maxine Walden: it says local chat..oh good, seems I am getting my words a bit scrambled this morning, the letters turned around
Maxine Walden: but I was just appreciating the window prior so it is puzzling
Pema Pera: well, as long as it works :>).
Pema Pera: I know there is a lot to get used to in SL
Maxine Walden: yes, things seem to be working better…maybe at the threshold, such as the window or another SL session there is a bit of turbulence
Pema Pera: yes
Maxine was quicker than I in spotting Caledonia having just entered.
Maxine Walden: oh, Cal is coming, hi, Cal
Caledonia Heron: hey there :)
Caledonia Heron: how’s it going over here today? :)
Pema Pera: Hi Cal!
Pema Pera: we just sat down, Cal
Caledonia Heron: heya :)
Pema Pera: Thanks for joining us!
Caledonia Heron: my pleasure
Maxine Walden: yes, nice to see you
Caledonia Heron: yes, you too Maxine
Caledonia Heron: sorry to interrupt
Caledonia Heron: the flow
Pema Pera: We just talked about learning to move around in SL
Pema Pera: Maxine has mostly popped in and out of this tea house
Caledonia Heron: ah…still learning, lol, not very good at flying in tight spaces
Maxine Walden: and perhaps about the turbulence in learning
Pema Pera: We really should take her on a tour, one of these days
Caledonia Heron: sure, I know some places
Pema Pera: Caledonia has her own place near the sea, Maxine
Pema Pera: near an area with beautiful mathematical art
Maxine Walden: how nice that must be
Pema Pera: The time may come that you would want your own little place as well!
Maxine Walden: perhaps, I am still finding SL a vehicle for new experience, and maybe that is where I am right now
Pema Pera: oh, there is no rush at all!
Pema Pera: Did you get a book, to read up on SL, by any chance?
Maxine Walden: you had mentioned a book, Pema , and it is ‘on my list’ but with so many RL things tugging for attention I have not gotten that book yet
Pema Pera: yeah, I know . . . . of course
At that moment Cal evaporated, but returned soon afterward.
Pema Pera: wb, Cal!
Caledonia Heron: crashed, sorry
Pema Pera: figured that, yeah
Pema Pera: SL still seems unstable
Maxine Walden: holding the other in mind over the crash is interesting…rather expecting them to be back soon, but then not so sure just what will happen
Pema Pera: yup!
Pema Pera: that’s part of the SL experience
Pema Pera: it’s nice how you analyze those aspects, Maxine
Pema Pera: and put them into words!
Pema Pera: indeed that is part of the flow here
Pema Pera: you never know . . .
Even though it was early in the morning, SL time, visitors kept streaming in.
Pema Pera: Hi Storm!
Storm Nordwind: Hi everyone
Maxine Walden: I have found the SL experience, oh, thanks, have found the SL experience to linger in mind even when I am back in RL, and am just observing the perhaps fluid boundaries
Maxine Walden: oh, hi Storm
Caledonia Heron: hey Storm :)
Pema Pera: a sign you’re getting into SL, Max, and it’s getting under your skin :.)
And then Storm went poof
Pema Pera: Storm disappeared too.
Pema Pera: We may soon all be gone ;>)
Maxine Walden: another white hole experience?
Pema Pera: haha
Caledonia Heron: :)
Pema Pera: who knows!
Maxine Walden: yes, we really don’t know what the next moment will bring and so it takes a bit of courage to just
Maxine Walden: live in this moment
Maxine Walden: to really live it in and take the unknown aspect of te next moment in stride…
Maxine Walden: maybe some of the turbulence I was thinking about
Pema Pera: wb Storm!
Storm Nordwind nods
Maxine Walden: May I ask what ‘wb’ means?
Pema Pera: welcome back
Maxine Walden: oh, yes, thanks
Pema Pera: yw = you’re welcome
Caledonia Heron: shorthand :)
Pema Pera: tc = take care
Pema Pera: brb = be right back
Maxine Walden: oh, good, now I get some of the shorthand…
Caledonia Heron: yes, many ways to shortcut text
Pema Pera: google is a good way to lift the confusion — I often use it for a new acronym ;>)
Maxine Walden: does google have a listing?
Pema Pera: you just type “wb” say
Pema Pera: oops, that wasn’t too helpful
Pema Pera: Better use wikipedia
Pema Pera: it says: Internet slang for “Welcome Back”.
Pema Pera: as one of the disambiguations
Maxine Walden: thanks
Caledonia Heron: you can google texting phrases or something similar and get a list
Pema Pera: ah, Cal, that’s the systematic approach — to get a list!!!
Caledonia Heron: gr8 :)
Storm Nordwind groans
Pema Pera: haha, great indeed . . . .
Caledonia Heron: might as well go whole hog
Pema Pera: sure!
Since Caledonia hadn’t been here for a while, untill yesterday, I was curious how things were going with her.
Pema Pera: How has life been, Cal?
Pema Pera: besides busy
Caledonia Heron: good :)
Pema Pera: any chance to play a little with the 9-sec idea, or just the “playing as Being” notion?
Pema Pera: if I may ask?
Caledonia Heron: yes, but I don’t seem to go at your suggested intervals….I am popping up randomly I’m afraid as my experience suggests to me
Pema Pera: fine! my suggestions were just that — suggestions!
Pema Pera: How was the popping up?
Caledonia Heron: I figured - going for trying to notice my states observations on a more regular basis…to be more conscious regularly
Caledonia Heron: sorry - huge lag
Pema Pera: yeah, SL seems to be as sleepy as those of us here at the West Coast . . . ;>)
Pema Pera: would you mind saying a bit more, Cal?
Maxine Walden: I am finding a randomness creeping in at times as well, sort of like RL has grabbed attention and would no let it go at times
Maxine Walden: yes, please say more Cal
Pema Pera: btw (by the way), Max, you should feel totally free to interject your sentences — part of texting etiquette is that it is perfectly fine to jumble sentences!
Caledonia Heron: ok, well I noticed a couple of days ago that I was given some information about something for which I had unbeknownst me I had given up on
Caledonia Heron: and the resulting lightness was a revelation
Maxine Walden: thanks, Pema, you are a mind reader…
Caledonia Heron: in the way you take a fresh breath and say …okidokie, that’s good
Maxine Walden: lightness?
Caledonia Heron: lifting, lightness, unanchored from previous belief
Maxine Walden: what a wonderful experience
Caledonia Heron: yes, while driving in my car of all places
Caledonia Heron: sorry for lag - man, it’s bad
Pema Pera: we can follow you fine, Cal!
Caledonia Heron: anyway, just something I noticed
Pema Pera: part of play is to be unanchored, yes
Caledonia Heron: so that’s how the 9sec game shows up for me - when it wants!!
Caledonia Heron: but more regularly and that suits my style so gee, no wonder that’s how it works for me
Caledonia Heron: lol
Maxine Walden: I wonder if there was significance in your attention being called to another task, driving, which freed up some space for the new idea to creep in
Types Sideways: hi everyone
Caledonia Heron: no idea - I was riding shotgun
Caledonia Heron: looking at flowers
The door opened once more, and Types strode in, looking very stately again, with white long flowing hair, but this time more like an American Indian, plus half transparent large gossamer wings on his back to complete the somewhat curious mixture. He took one of the two remaining seats in the corner of the wooden plateau in the center of the tea house.
Types Sideways: is this a private meeting?
Storm Nordwind: Hi Types
Pema Pera: hi Types!
Types Sideways: hi
Maxine Walden: hello, Types
Pema Pera: no, Types!
Caledonia Heron: hey Types
Pema Pera: you’re always welcome
Types Sideways: ty
Caledonia Heron: your name reminds me of someone named Trimming Hedges :)
Types Sideways: me?
Types Sideways: lol
Types Sideways: hope your turning on the rain Storm
Pema Pera: we may not be able to see rain very well with the rather massive lag we seem to have today . . . .
Types Sideways: seems normal to me
Pema Pera: on another topic . . . .
Pema Pera: I’ve been wondering whether/when to say more about “Being”, the other part of the title that I choose for what we’re doing here, “playing as Being” . . . .
Storm Nordwind: It will not rain inside here!
Caledonia Heron: maybe that makes lag?
Pema Pera: I was trying to look outside
Maxine Walden: please say more about Being, Pema
Pema Pera: well, we are playing, and we’ve had a lot of fun playing
Types Sideways: nothing to say about being
Pema Pera: far more, frankly, then I thought I could have hoped
Pema Pera: haha, Types always goes directly for the jugular
Pema Pera: but the question is whether to play just randomly or try to give it a bit of a direction
Types Sideways: ah
Pema Pera: Maxine, I’m curious, what are your associations with “Being”?
Pema Pera: if I may ask?
Caledonia Heron: direction would be fine - I have no idea what I’m doing
Pema Pera: (and I agree with Types, there really is nothing that can be said directly about Being!)
Pema Pera: haha, Cal, lol
Pema Pera: happy to do so
Caledonia Heron: lol
Pema Pera: Sounded to me as if I heard your voice through the text ;-)
Caledonia Heron: magic
While Maxine responded to my invitation to say more about Being, a delightful tumble of sentences formed a spray of reactions from the fountain of the tea room atmosphere.
Maxine Walden: Let me see, for me at the moment, at this moment I think of Being as daring to just allow this moment and then the next and the next
Pema Pera: The problem with talking about Being is that whatever I say about it is wrong, so I have to choose which wrong thing to say ;-)
Storm Nordwind: That is brilliant Maxine
Caledonia Heron: LOL Pema
Caledonia Heron: backwards day
Pema Pera: yes, Maxine, that’s a wonderful wrong thing to start with!
Types Sideways: and who is waiting for the next and next?
Maxine Walden: moment …to just be open to experience these moments without controlling them…
Pema Pera: right of course in what it is, as a good suggestion, even though not a definition of Being or a description of Being
Caledonia Heron: how can you wait AND be? :)
Storm Nordwind sees Types going for the jugular again!
Maxine Walden: please tell me what was the brilliant wrong thing to say?
Types Sideways: just a question
Caledonia Heron: and another :)
Pema Pera: haha, well, Maxine, what do you think, who is waiting?
Pema Pera: and if I may, meanwhile, Cal, how can you not Be?
Caledonia Heron: Be-ats me :)
Pema Pera: hahaha
Pema Pera: the Be-ats generation
Caledonia Heron: beets me
Storm Nordwind raises his eyes and groans
Pema Pera: oh oh
Caledonia Heron: the underground generation
Pema Pera: beeting around the bush
Caledonia Heron: Be-at feet
Pema Pera: Be-at Inn?
Pema Pera: Be-at Bar?
Storm Nordwind: Be-atitude
Pema Pera: ha!
Pema Pera: Be-at-IT Bar?
Pema Pera: Is Maxine waiting ;-)
Caledonia Heron does MIchael Jackson dance
Pema Pera: haha
Types Sideways: dancing happens, but does Micheal do it?
Maxine was clearly puzzled being surrounded by texting jaggernauts, probably a relatively new cultural experience for her.
Maxine Walden: Think I said something concrete and triggered something…
Pema Pera: you said ” I think of Being as daring to just allow this moment andthen the next and the next”
Pema Pera: and Storm said “brilliant”
Pema Pera: and I second that!
Pema Pera: totally right, Maxine!
Caledonia Heron: or wrong :)
Pema Pera: I also then said that anything we can say, no matter how right, does not capture Being — or wanted to say that
Caledonia Heron: if it’s backwards being :)
Pema Pera: gnieb
Caledonia Heron: ?
Pema Pera: backwards being
Pema Pera: sorry
Maxine Walden: but somehow, maybe I am being defensive, somehow I feel the party moved down the street,
Caledonia Heron: we were just being, not talking about being :)
Maxine Walden: I see,
Pema Pera: we were playing . . . .
Caledonia Heron: I think, yes, playing
Maxine Walden: playing at being?
Pema Pera: . . . and part of the texting culture, which some of us are more familiar with than others . . .
Caledonia Heron: being at play
Pema Pera: . . . is to mix quick jokes and sillinesses with very serious utterances
Pema Pera: what you said, Maxine made total sense
Types Sideways: :)
Pema Pera: and Storm was totally serious in saying so
Maxine Walden: may I ask why?
Caledonia Heron: why play?
Pema Pera: about each next moment?
Pema Pera: why it made total sense?
Pema Pera: or why we reacted as we did?
Maxine Walden: why mix the seriousness with the silliness?
I was really glad that Maxine asked so directly, because otherwise her puzzlement might not have been noticed by everyone which might have made it more difficult to respond in/as a group.
Pema Pera: various reasons
Maxine Walden: guess I may just come from another inner culture
Pema Pera: one being the culture we landed in, but more importantly, to keep many meanings and aspects and associations open — not to pin ourselves down into definitions and categories
Types Sideways: yes
Caledonia Heron: it’s a way we be in the moment with each other, trading lines, riffing off each other, it’s alive
Maxine Walden: because I feel a kind of reverence at the edge of Being, but that may not be everyone’s experience
Caledonia Heron: not analyzed
Pema Pera: we are trying to capture what is beyond words — and frankly, that is a hilarious thing to do! And yet at the same time about the most laudable thing to do — so there you have it: totally ridiculous and totally serious
Storm Nordwind: I can share that feeling Maxine
Caledonia Heron: agreed Maxine, different styles
Types Sideways: things defined are unclear, things undefined are clear
Caledonia Heron: it’s big enough to hold it all
Pema Pera: there are many attitudes, Maxine, and I wouldn’t want to make fun of any of them — only of my own ineptitude of putting my own attitude into words
Caledonia Heron: I don’t feel like I have to tiptoe around it, I want to swim in it
Pema Pera: Perhaps a good image is that I feel toward Being like a child to its mother — not afraid to make fun knowing very well that that wouldn’t threaten my relationship with her in any way
Storm Nordwind: It’s possible to do both
Pema Pera: yes!
Caledonia Heron: exactly, unconditional;
Types Sideways: or neither
Caledonia Heron: so ok, to be serious and not
Pema Pera: Have you met Tara yet, Maxine? If you think some of us here in this room are irreverent . . . .
Types Sideways: sounded like a judgment there
Maxine Walden: I will have to go in a couple of minutes…yes, maybe I was detecting the delight in the irreverent, which then I need
Caledonia Heron: maybe join us next time - it’s FUN
Pema Pera: It’s like being able to speak different languages, being able to switch, delighting in the special expressions that are available in each one
Caledonia Heron: agile minds playing with being in the moment
Types Sideways: or not
Maxine Walden: to hold respectfully and lightly along side of my experience of the reverent…room for both and all
Caledonia Heron: or not
Pema Pera: hahahahahaha
Pema Pera: lol really
Pema Pera: u c?
Caledonia Heron: fun does not equal disrespect imo
Types Sideways: respect is the space for all
Caledonia Heron: yes, in fact fun might represent a healthy respect - thinking that it will be ok
Caledonia Heron: or not
Pema Pera: Socrates had some of his best dialogues in a drinking place
Caledonia Heron: ha ha
Caledonia Heron: I love the double back
Caledonia Heron raises grog
I really felt proud of my friends putting up a good show of texting skill giving Maxine a flavor of the free flow that it allows. And while I was not sure to what extent Maxine could get a taste for it at that moment, I was pretty sure that she would quickly get the hang of it. I realized that she had mostly come in the morning, with few others present, and thus had missed much of the more rowdy behavior that seems to occur at later times in SL . . .
Maxine Walden: I need to go; interesting discussion this morning for me, including a little tension, which I will just need metabolize. Appreciate everyone’s openness, will see how that impacts my next moment…
Types Sideways: bye
Pema Pera: The main reason I contacted Cal and we befriended here in SL is that her silly yet penetrating wit stood out among a crowd while we were visiting the space station, a while ago
Maxine Walden: bye for now…
Pema Pera: bye Maxine,
Storm Nordwind: Blessings Maxine
Pema Pera: thanks for being such a good sport!
Caledonia Heron: ok, sorry re tension - none meant
Pema Pera: we’ll follow this up
Caledonia Heron: go with the flow grasshopper :)
Maxine Walden: oh, thanks for your candor, no tension is not a bad thing, but adds to the complexity of experience…a good thing
As I often do, I checked once again with Maxine for permission to write her words in this blog (I ask everyone at first, when they make their first appearance here, though I generally don’t include that exchange in the logs I quote here).
Pema Pera: no reason to write this up in the blog if you don’t like me to do so!
Pema Pera: also retroactively
Caledonia Heron: had no idea there was tension at all
Pema Pera: I can also take something out
Pema Pera: no reason for completeness there
Caledonia Heron: in fact the discussion to omit makes me wonder what the heck we’re talking about that’s so funky
Maxine Walden: Pema, it is fine to write it. I am OK with it…please do not feel bad about my tension…that is my experience and I am very OK with it being ‘out there’…got to go, for real this time…bye
Pema Pera: thanks, Maxine!!
Caledonia Heron: bye :)
Storm Nordwind bows to Maxine
Pema Pera: c u !
After Maxine left, there was clearly a bit of puzzlement still hanging in the air.
Types Sideways: what tension?
Caledonia Heron: OK, well apparently I’ve rocked the boat or something
Pema Pera: May I describe how Maxine felt
Pema Pera: as I see it?
Types Sideways: bewildered
Types Sideways: sure
Caledonia Heron: no idea …no tension here - I thought it was a cool exchange
Pema Pera: Okay let me try
Pema Pera: Here I am, having found a beautiful little treasure
Pema Pera: being awed my it
Pema Pera: cupping it in my hands
Pema Pera: it could be a little bird
Pema Pera: bringing it back home
Pema Pera: only to see my older brother laughing at me and making fun and me feeling shy and shocked and not appreciated — wishing I had not come home —- of course, I am exaggerating, just to make the point!
Storm Nordwind: it is well put
Storm Nordwind: Not everyone has the confidence in all things some of us have
Pema Pera: and we all learn from each other!
Pema Pera: to become more all round in our reactions and appreciations
Pema Pera: Storm, this may be a good moment to reflect on your interactions with Tara, I think
Storm Nordwind: I am not the reflecting sort. I am the doing sort :)
Types Sideways: Im glad you helped the bird stay in her hands
Storm Nordwind: To reflect diminishes my experience of Now
Pema Pera: Thanks, Types; it helped that I feel I have been in that situations many times in my life myself . . . . . so I know the feeling very very well . . . .
Pema Pera: well, Storm, may I make another attempt?
Pema Pera: then?
Pema Pera: summarizing myself?
Storm Nordwind: You are always more than welcome
This was the perfect opportunity for me to fill in some of what I had left out in this blog over the last week and a bit. It felt more honest and open to add those parts no, retroactively, to honor both Maxine and Tara and all who were involved in these sometimes somewhat puzzling exchanges.
Pema Pera: A week or so ago, Tara met Storm, here in the tea house
Pema Pera: It was not exactly Bambi met Gozilla
Pema Pera: I mean the other way around
Pema Pera: but there was a bit of that, hahaha
Pema Pera: and Storm said a few things that ticked Tara the wrong way
Pema Pera: then Tara bolted and disappeared in a poof
Pema Pera: but then later, was it only yesterday? amazing
Pema Pera: Tara and Storm met again
Pema Pera: Tara apologized, Storm made it abundantly clear that there were no hard feelings,
Pema Pera: and somehow Storm and Tara got into this energetic exchange
Pema Pera: and I was totally amazed
Pema Pera: since I could see a part of myself being judgmental
Pema Pera: discarding this part
Pema Pera: or not accepting that part
Pema Pera: but when I just listened
Pema Pera: (most of it is on the blog of yesterday afternoon, trip to Itsari)
Pema Pera: more and more
Pema Pera: I just felt a sense of respect
Pema Pera: for Tara
Pema Pera: for Storm
Pema Pera: for each of us, the way we express ourselves
Pema Pera: it was amazing how peaceful that felt
Pema Pera: Well, Storm . . . . does that come (a bit) close to what you felt happened?
Storm Nordwind: It tells me quite a bit about you ;))
Pema Pera: haha
Storm Nordwind: In fact you came close to seeing an expression of how a healer’s mind works
Storm Nordwind: The potential for the exchange was always there
Storm Nordwind: And it was wonderful
Storm Nordwind: A barrier was lifted and it flowed
Pema Pera: yes!
Pema Pera: no canals, only a big wild river
We then came back to this morning’s situation.
Types Sideways: and the tension today?
Pema Pera: similar
Storm Nordwind: No not similar
Pema Pera: still moving toward flowing further together
Caledonia Heron: what tension?
Pema Pera: not there yet
Pema Pera: and of course also dissimilar in many ways — both, right Storm
Storm Nordwind: I got the feeling that maxine felt that she was being forcibly educated. And at that time she felt she wanted to explore and develop what she had already discovered rather than make another very different step
Caledonia Heron: hmmm, ok
Pema Pera: yes, and the tension, Cal, was the tension that Maxine felt — and some of us who have gotten to know Maxine well, also felt indirectly through her
Caledonia Heron: ok
Pema Pera: no reason that you should have guessed that
Pema Pera: we get to know each other step by step
Pema Pera: meeting by meeting
Pema Pera: and when I meant “similar”
Pema Pera: in response to Types
Pema Pera: I meant that the flowing together process
Pema Pera: what Storm called healing
Pema Pera: is similar in the sense that wat seemed not to be able to flow together
Pema Pera: really can
Pema Pera: or dance together
Pema Pera: whatever image
Types Sideways: Types created the tension
Pema Pera: and what Storm said,
Pema Pera: dissimilar
Pema Pera: or I think he implied that
Pema Pera: may point to the uniqueness of all of us
Caledonia Heron: lol, I was wondering if it was me Types :)
Pema Pera: and even more the uniqueness of each combination of us!
Types Sideways: my directness
Pema Pera: Types and Cal, you’re sometimes exchangeable in your delightful directness!
Pema Pera: fair enough, Storm?
Storm Nordwind: indeed
We continued, and I really had to laugh out loud after a while, when I was tripped up by Types’ reference to a song, first responding seriously to his first line. It is so much fun, this switching, this turning on a dime, between silly and deep!
Caledonia Heron: hmmm, just call em like I see em
Pema Pera: not everyone can return that compliment . . . .
Pema Pera: but that’s okay!
Pema Pera: That’s why we’re talking about it
Pema Pera: Have you met Tara, yet, Cal?
Types Sideways: very interesting discussion
Caledonia Heron: funny, I did not read a compliment read a declarative
Caledonia Heron: yes, I know Tara
Pema Pera: switching to more joking terms, Caledonia ;>)
Pema Pera: but serious too
Caledonia Heron: oki
Pema Pera: for you it is really a compliment
Pema Pera: to be straight
Pema Pera: telling as you see it
Pema Pera: giving people your most honest opinion
Pema Pera: as a sign of respect
Pema Pera: but it is not what leaves your mouth but what enters their ears what counts
Pema Pera: and we are all so different in our backgrounds
Storm Nordwind while listening to the discussion, would also like to hear the gentle morning rainfall
Pema Pera: not always easy to know what comes across how
Caledonia Heron: two ears, one mouth….
Storm Nordwind: rain on
Caledonia Heron: the beauty and fallability of text
Types Sideways: but I have to be me, what else can I be?
Types Sideways: singing
Caledonia Heron: no kidding Types
Pema Pera: any interaction between two or more people is a give and take .. . .
Pema Pera: haha, Types, only now saw your second line, haha
Pema Pera: yes
Storm returned to the wonderful image of healing that he had introduced earlier.
Storm Nordwind: There is the possibility - and this is what I meant by the healer’s mind - of transferring yourself to within another, and seeing and feeling as they see
Pema Pera: yes!
Caledonia Heron: empathy, yes?
Storm Nordwind: What people often mean by empathy is not really what I meant, but the effects can be be similar, so it will do as a word
Pema Pera: perhaps more than empathy
Pema Pera: Empathy seems to imply still a distance
Storm Nordwind: yes
Pema Pera: Here I stand and I am trying to resonate with you
Pema Pera: What Storm meant, I think, is taking on the role of the other, really stepping into the shoes of the other, as far as possible
Storm Nordwind: Resonance is a start
Types Sideways: Storm is a strong name
Caledonia Heron: ah, the Vulcan mind meld :)
Storm Nordwind: If you like Cal!
Storm Nordwind: It can and does happen
Caledonia Heron: good grief, it’s a joke
Storm Nordwind: Oh no, no joke. It’s real
Pema Pera: but as so often, you had a great point, Cal, in that joke!
Pema Pera: yes, I second Storm
Caledonia Heron: understood Storm, thanks
Pema Pera: u c mind meld with Storm and me 2
Types Sideways: and the no me
Caledonia Heron: yes, that was the point Pema, words can be used and rearranged and reparsed to make the same meaning
Pema Pera: I have very big ears and they are pretty pointed, in RL
Storm Nordwind smiles
Pema Pera: mind evap for Types
Caledonia Heron: so another way to get at the same thing….merely a cultural reference as a touchpoint
Pema Pera: yeah, powerful shorthands!!!
Caledonia Heron: it is a way to align thoughts while not getting all “how do you feel about that”
Pema Pera: we grok, Cal
Meanwhile, the sound of chuckles occasionally punctuated our typing.
Pema Pera: haha
Pema Pera: I heard that!
Caledonia Heron: grok back atcha :)
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Pema Pera: we should do a squizzle dance, Cal
Types Sideways: ?
Pema Pera: u explain Cal
Storm Nordwind: rain thunder on
Types Sideways: wonderful
Pema Pera: wow, Storm!
Caledonia Heron: ACK!
Pema Pera: powerful indeed!
Types Sideways: well, I cant let this rain go to waste
Caledonia Heron: Squizzle Lore is deep and complex
Types Sideways: bye
Pema Pera: thanks, Types for dropping by!
Caledonia Heron: bye :)
Storm Nordwind: ripples on
Pema Pera: don’t get your wings toooo wet!
Caledonia Heron: ok, well, this was certainly confusing
Pema Pera: and clarifying
Pema Pera: I learned a lot . . . again . . . .
Pema Pera: Thanks, Cal!
Caledonia Heron: sure, see y’all
Pema Pera: I very much appreciated our exchange, all of it
Storm Nordwind: Great to be here as always
Pema Pera: c u Cal!
Pema Pera: watch out for the thunder out there!
Storm Nordwind: I will go and study
It was clear that given the late time, further explanations about squizzledom would have to await another occasion . . .
Storm and I lingered for just another minute or two.
Pema Pera: candor and thunder . . . .
Pema Pera: what a morning!
Storm Nordwind: or afternoon :)
Pema Pera: hahaha
Pema Pera: yes
Pema Pera: keep forgetting
Pema Pera: but in SL time it’s morning, Storm, that’s the law here!
Pema Pera: time for coffee
Storm Nordwind: If that is the law you choose to obey, so be it - for you!
Pema Pera: haha
Pema Pera: well, we can be timeless
Pema Pera: and if we’re not careful, sleepless
Storm Nordwind: now let’s not get started on THAT discussion!
Pema Pera: I hope you got some sleep after you stayed up so late with us last night?
Pema Pera: what was it, 4 am?
Storm Nordwind: 7 hours
Pema Pera: ah
Pema Pera: I got 4 . . . . .
Pema Pera: finished my blog backlog
Storm Nordwind: I saw
Pema Pera: thanks
Storm Nordwind: And I added more for today
Pema Pera: I’ll look at it!
Storm Nordwind shrugs
Pema Pera: can’t allow myself to fall behind
Pema Pera: will never catch up . . . .
Pema Pera: well, I’ll let you go!
Pema Pera: _/!\_
Storm Nordwind: Types is enjoying the rain and thunder. Perpahs I’ll leave it on for a while
Pema Pera: sure, why not!
Storm Nordwind: Namaste
Pema Pera: Namaste
