2010.09.05 07:00 - Around the Clock and Around the World

The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The comments are by Bruce Mowbray. Attending were Eliza, Ewan, Bruce, Archmage, and Yakuzza

Bruce Mowbray: Hello, Eliza. I am sorry to be late.
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Bruce :) No worries, Good Morning to you
Bruce Mowbray: I'd forgotten that I agreed to claim this session - then got distracted by RL thoughts. . . but here we are.
Eliza Madrigal smiles, yes here we are
Eliza Madrigal: I wouldn't have minded taking it this morning if you like. Feels like church on Sunday mornings being here sometimes... when I'm nostalgic
Eliza Madrigal: I should be in a bonnet and gloves ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: :-)
Eliza Madrigal: this outfit would not have gone over well in the church of my childhood... hahahah
Bruce Mowbray: Funny thing about dressing up for church.
Eliza Madrigal: but the teen in me would have enjoyed wearing it to see others' faces :)
Bruce Mowbray: (or dressing 'up' for anything)
Eliza Madrigal: I like to, do you?
Bruce Mowbray: In my RL "church" (Quaker Meeting this afternoon) folks wear only casual clothes -- shorts, t-shirts, etc.
Bruce Mowbray: Nope -- I do not like to dress up.
Eliza Madrigal: Did you 'have to' for work, when you were younger?

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Eliza Madrigal: People don't seem to dress up for UU churches either
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yes -- I was a public school teacher in the days when we had to wear suits.
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey everyone
Bruce Mowbray: Good day, Yaku.
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Ya :)
Eliza Madrigal: Yes, that must be why Bruce
Eliza Madrigal: What did you teach?
Eliza Madrigal: English?
Bruce Mowbray: You got it!
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: wonder how I knew that
Bruce Mowbray: Now, how did you know that?
Eliza Madrigal: maybe because of words like ‘detritus'
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Ha!
Eliza Madrigal: ;-) yes, notice the little things... haha
Eliza Madrigal: It is nice that in teaching you obviously kept affection for your subject
Eliza Madrigal: Do you write as well? (I have my nosy hat on today)
Bruce Mowbray: Nosy hat is OK - and also appropriate dress for the pavilion. . .
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Bruce Mowbray: yes, I do/did a bit of writing.
Bruce Mowbray: Nothing grand or published...
Bruce Mowbray: just poems and short stories, and a few essays (for local newspapers).
Eliza Madrigal: Wonderful :) yes I wasn't asking if you were grand or published... that is a given
Eliza Madrigal: Ah! Nice
Eliza Madrigal: those count :)
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I write for myself, actually -- a way of getting better clarity on thoughts -- sort of like meditation, sometimes.
Eliza Madrigal: So my real question is then... how do you think this developed for you?
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, you answered me :)
Eliza Madrigal: yes I understand that
Eliza Madrigal: Okay, nosy hat off... I'll let you off my hook if you like
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Bruce Mowbray: If I need to "understand" - for example - some difficulties in a relationship with a friend, then I'd probably write about that.
Eliza Madrigal: yes, me too
Bruce Mowbray: It is quite all right -- although I'd love to hear more from Yaku, too.
Eliza Madrigal: In this way, writers are engaging in Being Seen ...
Bruce Mowbray: Mmmm. . . yes, I guess you're right on that.
Bruce Mowbray: I have written a ten-page letter to a prison friend every other week for over 25 years.
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, that's really beautiful Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: I tell him EVERYTHING - as does he tell me about himself.
Eliza Madrigal: everything?
Bruce Mowbray: Mike was my inmate clerk when I taught at the prison in the early '80's -- and he's going to be there for the rest of his life -- so we exchange letters twice a month.
Bruce Mowbray: LONG letters!
Eliza Madrigal: wonderful practice... like exchanging lives sometimes I'd imagine
Bruce Mowbray: These have become my personal Journal -- since I relate to Mike everything that happens in my life -- so it is a sort of history -- since I keep copies for myself.
Eliza Madrigal: a gift to have someone you might feel that open with
Bruce Mowbray: yes, Mike might be my best friend in the world.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Unfortunately, because of crimes he did over thirty years ago, he will never be paroled. . .
Bruce Mowbray: He's still completing the first of five consecutive life sentences. . .
Eliza Madrigal: Oh My
Eliza Madrigal: You must help to keep him connected to sanity
Bruce Mowbray: I doubt that he will ever finish even the FIRST of his 5 life sentences. . . He's in his 60's now.
Bruce Mowbray: I hope I give him some alternative things to keep his mind occupied -- but he's also a great "reality check" for me.
Eliza Madrigal: one heedless moment can change one's entire life
Bruce Mowbray: Whenever I feel sorry for myself - I simply remember what Mike lives with every hour.
Bruce Mowbray: Good morning, Ewan.
Eliza Madrigal: of course it is a tragedy, always... because heedlessness seems to come from circumstances which cause a person to dull perceptions?
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Ewan :)
Ewan Bonham: Hi Folks!
Eliza Madrigal: we were talking about 'writing practice' a little Ewan, and best friends, and sanity :)
Ewan Bonham: A big range...all quite pertinent for me today..
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Ya, here with us?

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Ewan Bonham: I sure am
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: As I recall, Ewan, you recently gave a talk (or a speech?) on assisted living homes. . . or something like that?
Bruce Mowbray: can't quite remember, sorry.
Bruce Mowbray: access to the community for retired folks. . . ?
Ewan Bonham: Oh, it was a healthy lifestyle in the community for the elderly..
Bruce Mowbray: OK -- yes, I remember now. How did that go?
Eliza Madrigal: how interesting... listens
Bruce Mowbray: To Yaku and Eliza -- I've just offered Ewan the suggestion that he claim this session for practice. . . if he wants it. So I think he's doing that now.
Eliza Madrigal: brb, coffee required...
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, wonderful :) Good idea
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Ewan. . . Try right-clicking on the base of the fountain - then selecting "Claim" --
Ewan Bonham: Except clicking on the fountain is not getting me the screen to claim it..
Eliza Madrigal: Cal made an inworld card, btw, let me give everyone a copy then I'll run for coffee and maybe cereal too :)
Eliza Madrigal: These are PC directions. Would be helpful for a MAC user to make one too :)
Eliza Madrigal: "chatlog posting directions"
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Eliza - shouldn't Ewan be able to claim this session "over" my previous claim?
Bruce Mowbray: simply by touching the fountain and selecting "claim"?
Yakuzza Lethecus: back, hi ewan
Ewan Bonham: hi Yak..
Eliza Madrigal: Yes... just click and the menu should pop up
Eliza Madrigal: I'd claimed it when you got here in fact
Ewan Bonham: Sorry, the screen just is not coming up for me.
Bruce Mowbray: On my viewer, it is Right-click, then Touch, then the choices come up, then click on "Claim" --- If that's not happening for you, I don't know what to suggest.
Eliza Madrigal: yes and it shouldn't matter that you aren't wearing a pab tag I think...
Bruce Mowbray: OK -- That worked for me when I claimed the session after Eliza had already claimed it.
Bruce Mowbray: Oh -- yeah -- I think you're supposed to be wearing a "Cultivator" tag -- maybe not - not sure, but I always where mine when I claim a session.
Eliza Madrigal: for some right click, for some left, it seems... depending on the viewer
Eliza Madrigal: but I think it should register one's name, rather than tag... Hm
Ewan Bonham: Just put on the group tag..
Eliza Madrigal: If the menu to claim doesn't come up, something else should, identifying the auto-listener
Eliza Madrigal: make sure you aim at the triangle not flower :)

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Ewan Bonham: Sorry, just not working..
Eliza Madrigal: strange, since it worked the other day for you
Bruce Mowbray: [something we'll eventually need to figure out - for Ewan. It's working fine for Eliza and me this morning. . . ]
Bruce Mowbray: Welcome back, Yaku.
Eliza Madrigal: wow... lots of nice mantras, chants, songs etc. on youtube...
Eliza Madrigal: (listening to music goes with church) ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Eliza was mentioning earlier how coming to the pavilion on Sunday mornings brings back some memories of going to church as a child.
Eliza Madrigal: Ewan, you can try again later I guess... maybe just glitchy this morning :)
Ewan Bonham: OK, I will..
Bruce Mowbray: Hello, If.
If Adzior: hello
Eliza Madrigal: If, Welcome :)
If Adzior: what is here???
Bruce Mowbray: Is this your first visit here, If?
If Adzior: thanks
Eliza Madrigal: well you are :)
If Adzior: yes
Bruce Mowbray: We are a gathering known as "Play as Being" and we meet here four times every day - around the clock and around the world.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: I will give you a notecard....
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, I like that so much Bruce "Around the Clock and Around the World" yes
Ewan Bonham: Yes, nice, Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Our chat logs are published in a wiki - on the web. Would it be OK with you if we published whatever you type into the chat box onto the web?
Bruce Mowbray: Here's a link to the wiki site, If:
If Adzior: thanks
Bruce Mowbray: http://wiki.playasbeing.org/
Eliza Madrigal: often when someone introduces pab I feel like I'm hearing about it for the first time
If Adzior: other day return here
Bruce Mowbray: ok.
Eliza Madrigal: Sure If, please do :)
Bruce Mowbray: OK -- He's gone. Hopefully to return another time.
Bruce Mowbray: Eliza and I were talking about writing, and reality checks, and letting ourselves be seen by friends through our writing.
Bruce Mowbray: And Ewan, you said that somehow was relevant to your life today. . .
Ewan Bonham: Well, when i am with a friend, i want to be authentic..
Ewan Bonham: Doing daily journaling helps me to reflect on myself..
Ewan Bonham: this makes it easier to 'see me' when i am really with someone..
Ewan Bonham: It kinda sharpens my vision.
Eliza Madrigal: For me, writing was an early way to cope ... to say things I wasn't allowed to say...
Eliza Madrigal: so for you also Ewan, it sounds... 'excavation'
Ewan Bonham: Yes, Eliza, makes me more familiar with my layers of perception as I am with folks..
Eliza Madrigal: mmm, lovely
Ewan Bonham: I believe I have gone through much of my life with a 'delayed reaction'..
Ewan Bonham: I respond in my mind to someone perhaps days after the event..
Eliza Madrigal: :) I relate to that... and would really like to hear more...
Ewan Bonham: The journaling helps me to be more sensitive to myself..
Eliza Madrigal: :) maybe we can pick up on the theme again sometime soon...
Eliza Madrigal: thanks for church this morning everyone :)
Bruce Mowbray: yes, would really like to continue this discussion - but there's a guardian meeting about to begin in the Village Hall.

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Ewan Bonham: Yes, I will see you all there..
Archmage Atlantis: Are u not leaving, Yaku?.....the importance of a guardian meeting is unquestioned
Archmage Atlantis: Well I and your av will meditate then
Archmage Atlantis: A dear friend has offered me a tp
Archmage Atlantis: I will take it
Archmage Atlantis: Blessings and Namaste