2009.01.29 07:00 - No Kidding?

Talking with an old friend Adams , a newer one Susi, and a born today av jackisback ... CH

Caledonia Heron: hi susi ...
jackisback Darkfold: hello how are you guys
Caledonia Heron: hi Jack :)
Caledonia Heron: good, and you?
jackisback Darkfold: I am great just exploring this is my first time on here
Caledonia Heron: ah, I see that, you were born today :)
jackisback Darkfold: i guess its my virtual b day lol
Caledonia Heron: yes :)
Caledonia Heron: you look remarkable put together for a brand new av :)
Caledonia Heron: *remarkabley
jackisback Darkfold: thank you very much but it was a pre made
Caledonia Heron: hmmm, the default avs look better these days :)
Susi Alcott: Hi Caledonia
Caledonia Heron: we are having a discussion group called play as being
Caledonia Heron: you are welcome to join if you like
Caledonia Heron: hey Susi :)
jackisback Darkfold: thank you for inviting me
Susi Alcott: hi jackisback
jackisback Darkfold: hi susi
Susi Alcott: sry I was busy
Caledonia Heron: you can find info at
http://playasbeing.wik.is
 .... we record our sessions, if you'd like to stay, is that ok with you?
Caledonia Heron: it's ok Susi :)
jackisback Darkfold: so play as being what is that suposed to mean
jackisback Darkfold: thats fine
Susi Alcott: mostly it's very free discussions
jackisback Darkfold: ahh thats great
Caledonia Heron: lol, I'm wondering if you're an alt Jack :)
Susi Alcott: that's how I've experienced
jackisback Darkfold: nothing heavy then
Susi Alcott: and sure; freedom to stay in silence too
jackisback Darkfold: an alt jack?
Susi Alcott: even if anybody asks anything :)))))
Caledonia Heron: play as being is centered around a practice where every 15 min we stop, drop and see for 9 sec or more
Caledonia Heron: a type of meditation where we exchange frequency for duration :)
jackisback Darkfold: this water fountin is very relaxing
jackisback Darkfold: i see
Susi Alcott: cannot help smiling _/!\_
jackisback Darkfold: do you have a regular meeting time
Caledonia Heron: yes, there are meetings here at iam, 7am, 1pm and 7pm ... on the 1 and 7... 24/7 ... all time SLT
Caledonia Heron: glad you are smiling Susi :)
Susi Alcott: sry...need to be again afk for a moment
Susi Alcott: brb
jackisback Darkfold: so were you talkin about anything before i got here
Caledonia Heron: we were just getting started :)
jackisback Darkfold: Well I need to go make some coffee so it will be ready when I wake up
Caledonia Heron: ok, nice to meet you :) come back as you like
jackisback Darkfold: Thank you folks for being so freindly
Caledonia Heron: we're a friendly group :)

  

Susi Alcott: back
Caledonia Heron: :)
Caledonia Heron: hey Adams :)
Adams Rubble: Hello Cal and Susi :)
Susi Alcott: hi Adams
Caledonia Heron: how are you? another cute 'do :)
Adams Rubble: thanks. I am OK. How about you?
Caledonia Heron: I'm good. :)
Adams Rubble: We are in the last stages of readying the exhibition
Caledonia Heron: We just had a new person stop by so we're just getting started :)
Adams Rubble: ah
Caledonia Heron: ah, do you have an lm?
Adams Rubble: It will open at the Hall of Appearance on February 6
Caledonia Heron: lol, that means I have an lm :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Caledonia Heron: trying to remember the title ... art and the sacred? Am I close?
Adams Rubble: Sacred Art in a Virtual World
Adams Rubble: pretty close :)
Caledonia Heron: mmm, sort of :)
Adams Rubble: We just had an artist come through and criticize what we were doing as detracting from the building
Caledonia Heron: ha!
Adams Rubble: It was something that had not occurred to me at all
Adams Rubble: So we have made some big changes in our rpesentation
Adams Rubble: set us back two days
Caledonia Heron: I guess you were in agreement with that comment?
Adams Rubble: I have great respect for the person who made it
Adams Rubble: I am learning as I go on :)
Adams Rubble doesn;t want to ruin Storm's building :)
Adams Rubble: hehe
Caledonia Heron: I don't think that's possible
Adams Rubble: Storm has been very understanding as we go along :)
Adams Rubble: actually I knocked out a series of walls and replaced it will numerous copies of an 18c engraving
Adams Rubble: Storm had to come and fix it
Adams Rubble: and lock it down so I couldn't do it again :)
Caledonia Heron: goodness :)
Caledonia Heron: (now I'm really curious) :)
Adams Rubble: :)

  

Adams Rubble: Storm made two other Halls of Appearance...two in the sky
Caledonia Heron: stacked one above the other?
Adams Rubble working on stiorring curiosity :)
Adams Rubble: Yes but way up
Caledonia Heron: lol
Adams Rubble: one is in the clouds and the clouds drift by in the interior rooms
Adams Rubble: People will tp between the levels
Caledonia Heron: cool ... I like it
Caledonia Heron: who said floors of the same building had to be sandwiched together? :)
Adams Rubble: right!
Caledonia Heron: which level is your exhibit on?
Adams Rubble: all 3
Caledonia Heron: wowza
Adams Rubble: That was more advice from the artists. We were cramming it all in one
Adams Rubble: Then 2
Adams Rubble: now all 3
Caledonia Heron: ah, need some space to takeit all in
Adams Rubble: Paying attention to the building which is full of textures
Adams Rubble: not to clash with the textures
Caledonia Heron: yeah, it's making more sense to me now
Adams Rubble: we'll see how we do in the end. there is much to be done yet
Caledonia Heron: I'm sure it will be great!
Adams Rubble: well, we'll settle for not a distaster :)
Adams Rubble: disaster
Caledonia Heron: Lol, come on .... raise the bar! :)
Adams Rubble: distaster too
Caledonia Heron: :) ... I'm sure it will taste fine too
Adams Rubble: :)

  

Adams Rubble: I haven't done much PaBing this week
Adams Rubble wondering if Susi is OK...seems to have a board through his chest
Caledonia Heron: I can tell you've been engaged in your project:)
Adams Rubble: Yes, I am grateful for the opportunity to do something like this
Caledonia Heron: I think Susi is ok :)
Drake Goldschein is Online
Caledonia Heron: The pab is ... not sure, I guess taking different forms sometimes ... it certainly isn't the same as when I started
Caledonia Heron: is that true for you?
Adams Rubble: Nor even from one I did :)
Adams Rubble: Yes, there are so many of us going in different directions
Caledonia Heron: I agree
Adams Rubble: It is good to try to get back in touch with what we seemed to feel was the essence for each of us
Caledonia Heron: yes ... I think that essence is still there
Caledonia Heron: we have tried different variations, started other complex threads, with a constantly shifting group of people
Susi Alcott: sry got some IM's
Adams Rubble: yes..and it is hard to get to know all the new people and for them to know us
Caledonia Heron: there is of course a core group of people who those who have stayed around a long time can connect with
Susi Alcott: rolling back the lines
Adams Rubble: and we all have grown during that time too
Caledonia Heron: yes, I probably know 1/4 to 1/3 of the people
Caledonia Heron: so when having a discussion with say, newish people and pioneers, it's a challenge to strike a balance
Adams Rubble: yes
Susi Alcott: done
Caledonia Heron: and still have it be personally meaningful

  

Caledonia Heron: I sometimes would rather just talk with people I've had the most discussions with
Adams Rubble: yes, we have shared things over the months and it we don't know whether to go over that ground again
Adams Rubble: but it is fun to see enthusiasm in new people :)
Caledonia Heron: not people I agree with but people that I have an inkling of where they're coming from
Adams Rubble: hehe. yes :)
Caledonia Heron: exactly Adams, don't know what to go over again
Caledonia Heron: yes! love the nethusiasm
Caledonia Heron: *enthusiasm
Adams Rubble: We are coining new words today :)
Caledonia Heron: lol, yes admas :)
Adams Rubble: newnthusiasm
Adams Rubble: admas?
Adams Rubble: :)
Caledonia Heron: coining new word :)
Susi Alcott: _/!\_

  

Caledonia Heron: anyway, ... I guess sharing is sharing, so maybe it's a non-issue ... still feels like something though :)
Adams Rubble just thinking it is harder to offend those with whom we have shared so much over the months
Adams Rubble: the conversation is easier
Caledonia Heron: to be sure
Caledonia Heron: and there's less backtracking
Caledonia Heron: re-synching
Adams Rubble: When I say something stupid, people are less likely to take it as what I think. hehe
Caledonia Heron: maybe that's a potential morph ... to meet with different kinds of discussion groups ... probably antithetical to the pab premise
Adams Rubble: It's probably important for us to raise these issues for discussion. It is on many of our minds
Caledonia Heron: I don't find you to make stupid comments Adams :)
Adams Rubble makes many :)
Caledonia Heron: you are humble, it's one of your endearing qualities :)
Caledonia Heron: this is on other people's minds also?
Adams Rubble: Yes, many people talk about it especially away from PaB
Adams Rubble: comments here and there
Caledonia Heron: hmmm, interesting
Caledonia Heron: It's been on my mind for a while but have not shared it until now
Caledonia Heron: lol, I should get out more :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Caledonia Heron: this continuity of shared experience is one of the reasons I liked the original Sun guardian meeting
Adams Rubble: yes
Caledonia Heron: however a lot of housekeeping helped it cave-in maybe
Adams Rubble: :)

  

Adams Rubble: I used to feel more continuity when I could go to three sessions a day too :)
Adams Rubble: now its three times a week or less
Caledonia Heron: yeah, for sure ... a luxury of time I wish I could generate
Adams Rubble: only for short bursts
Susi Alcott: _/!\_
Caledonia Heron: yes, short bursts of sharing but the pab is there, working, happening even when not at repeated discussions, for me anyway :)
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble hasn't been reading the last couple of weeks either
Caledonia Heron: I'm not sure where we are on it as a group anymore, from what I can see we have gone our individual ways .... maybe that is a function of the short burst thing

  

Susi Alcott: maybe I can then repeat what was the topic here just few whiles ago
Caledonia Heron: sure Susi
Adams Rubble: yes Susi :)
Susi Alcott: that was how Pema is missed
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: he was a link to us all
Susi Alcott: that can be with Adams too
Caledonia Heron: does he come around? I don't know
Caledonia Heron: I know he is very busy professionally :)
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: and with Kira
Caledonia Heron: yes, Kira for sure
Caledonia Heron: I think this group is self-sustaining without dependence on any one person, however I agree that Pema is likely a common link between us all :)
Adams Rubble: yes, I agree
Susi Alcott: _/!\_
Adams Rubble: But we have devloped links with each other too over the months
Caledonia Heron: yes! that is in part how we have become self-sustaining :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: But it has hurt a bit too as some of our friends have dropped away
Caledonia Heron: since people are discussing these issues apart and away from pab I wonder if it's warranted to meet at large to discuss ???
Caledonia Heron: yes, people are dropping away
Adams Rubble has talked about this with Pema a bit
Caledonia Heron: and?
Susi Alcott: usually that is natural what comes to free groups
Caledonia Heron: agreed Susi :)
Adams Rubble: We just talked liked we are doing here
Adams Rubble: and yes Susi
Caledonia Heron: mmm, k

  

Adams Rubble: It is good to bring this up in a session where it can get more general consideration
Caledonia Heron: I appreciate your comments Adams and knowing I'm not the Lone Ranger on this
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble glad she is not the Tonto in this
Caledonia Heron: lol, we are neither :)
Adams Rubble: or silver
Adams Rubble: Silver
Adams Rubble: Neeeeighhh!
Caledonia Heron: Frau Blucher!!!!
Adams Rubble: who?
Caledonia Heron: lol
Caledonia Heron: it's a running joke in the movie Young Frankenstein
Caledonia Heron: whenever the horses whinney, somehow they work in creepy Frau Blucher reference (a character who lives at the castle)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble goes back to chewing on oats
Caledonia Heron: chomp chomp

  

Caledonia Heron: I'm gonna scoot along ...
Caledonia Heron: thanks for the discussion
Susi Alcott: _/!\_
Caledonia Heron: a little light on the capital P A B ... yet good :)
Susi Alcott: thank you Cal
Caledonia Heron: see you soon Susi :)
Adams Rubble: sorry interruption
Adams Rubble: bye Cal :)
Caledonia Heron: bye Adams :)
Susi Alcott: _/!\_
Adams Rubble: I better run too :)
Adams Rubble: bye Susi :)
Susi Alcott: _/!\_