The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender. Attending were Paradise Tennant, stevenaia,Aphrodite,SophiaSharon,Ewan, Calvino.

This session starts with sharing how friday nights can be

Lucinda Lavender: happy to be home!
Paradise Tennant: ahh she stays with you ?
Lucinda Lavender: no...was since thanks giving in hospital and rehab after a fall
Lucinda Lavender: finally home
Paradise Tennant: boy I bet she is happy to be free
Paradise Tennant: always such a horrible feeling .. hospitals
Lucinda Lavender: I know it! does not have to wait a long time for people to help her...and will have real food
Paradise Tennant: yum to real food
Lucinda Lavender: yes...a really careful cook and so really aware when things are odd
Lucinda Lavender: dry etc
Paradise Tennant: blue and I are eating a late dinner .. cheese cut up in little bits for him and chili and french bread for me .. sigh friday nights are so wonderful
Lucinda Lavender: some places do not know how to make gluten free menu taste good...
Paradise Tennant: nice to have mom in law who is a good cook
Lucinda Lavender: that sounds nice! chili is a favorite...we had Pad TI Ew and green curry with tofu
Lucinda Lavender: quick trip to restaurant:)
Lucinda Lavender: likes cheese...hmmm
Paradise Tennant: lol that is my fav .. love pad thai ..love green curry too :)
Lucinda Lavender: how can one not??
Lucinda Lavender: warmed us right up...
Paradise Tennant: impossible to imagine
Lucinda Lavender: how many inches of snow do you have?
Lucinda Lavender: steve yesterday said 15!
Paradise Tennant: we have lots of snow on the ground but we did not get hit with the storm
Paradise Tennant: so clear streets here
Lucinda Lavender: oh wonderful...
Paradise Tennant: yikes so much shoveling

--BELL-- 

Paradise Tennant: hiya steve we are commenting on your snow :)
Lucinda Lavender: hope you are doing well steve with that snow...
stevenaia Michinaga: lots here, more coming
stevenaia Michinaga: not sure I would call it my snow
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Paradise Tennant: yes snow is communal :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, in so many ways
Lucinda Lavender: :) brings people together I suppose sometimes
stevenaia Michinaga: we have men with toys who clean the streets alleys and cars with snowblower, just because they can
Lucinda Lavender: :)...
Paradise Tennant: smiles men with tools ..do you not just love that :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
stevenaia Michinaga: my poor little electric snow shovel just doesn't compare
Lucinda Lavender: does it heat up?
Lucinda Lavender: electric is new idea to me
stevenaia Michinaga: no it really doesn't "throw" snow
Paradise Tennant: wow a shovel that heats up .. it is a new idea to me too
stevenaia Michinaga: but it can be moved and lifte easilly
stevenaia Michinaga: not meant for deep snow
Lucinda Lavender: snow does get heavy in drifts doesn't it
stevenaia Michinaga: only when wet
Lucinda Lavender: what shall we do during the next pause...any ideas?
Paradise Tennant: yes snow has so many forms
stevenaia Michinaga: but then you can make snowpeople
Lucinda Lavender: true!
stevenaia Michinaga: a foot or two of snow usually brings out the whole neighborhood
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: a snow party
stevenaia Michinaga: and never to early either, everyone sleeps in
Lucinda Lavender: on our last snow day I asked our children what they liked best about a snow day...
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: listens and smiles
Lucinda Lavender: hot chocolate was high on the list
Lucinda Lavender: sleeping in is great too:)
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Aphrodie
Lucinda Lavender: hi Aphrodite:)
Lucinda Lavender: nice dress:)
Lucinda Lavender: I am right behind you:)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello. Thank you. Just bought it!
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: With my first L$!
Paradise Tennant: hiya aph you look lovely
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I finally broke down and bought some
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks Luci
Lucinda Lavender: HI Sharon:)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Aphrodite, Lucinda, Paradise and Stevenaia :)
Paradise Tennant: hiya sophia
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello SSL
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: finally broke down and did what, Aph, buy lindens ?
 Aphrodite Macbain: Yes. So I could actually buy a dress!
Lucinda Lavender: lovely color
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D i think i lasted 2 month haha, yes i like it!
Paradise Tennant: smiles well kind of fun .. a little bit addictive :) but much less expensive that being acquistive in rl :)
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: hello SSL
stevenaia Michinaga: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: A little chilly for a winter's day but I like the colour too-pistachio
SophiaSharon Larnia: well, true, a night out in rl, just for drinks, is over 40 dollars easy!
SophiaSharon Larnia: including snacks
Paradise Tennant: that goes a very long way here
SophiaSharon Larnia: im too close to the city i guess
SophiaSharon Larnia: oh my sorry!
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Lucinda Lavender: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: i didnt even see the bell that time at all
Aphrodite Macbain: It's nice to be able to pay $2.50 for a dress!
Paradise Tennant: smiles sorry bell
Aphrodite Macbain: I've just returned from Vancouver Island, took me 5 hrs by car,bus,ferry and bus.
Lucinda Lavender: wow...that is the usual amount of time?
SophiaSharon Larnia: wow, you must be exhausted :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Ewan
Aphrodite Macbain: Not sure whether it was worth it. 10 hrs travelling, 2.5 days visiting
Ewan Bonham: Hi Folks!
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Ewan
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya Ewan
Lucinda Lavender: Hello Ewan:)
Paradise Tennant: hiya ewan
Aphrodite Macbain wonders how to lower the height of the fountain?(  Missed this question-)
Lucinda Lavender: we are just talking of travel and snow and such...
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: small things of life :)
Aphrodite Macbain: that occupy a lot of time
Ewan Bonham: Lol....its all in the mind anyway..:)
Lucinda Lavender: waiting...
Lucinda Lavender: waiting for snow to melt or for buses
 Aphrodite Macbain: buses to melt?
Lucinda Lavender: no sorry:)buses to arrive
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes I often start my day with a quiet moment .. to focus my mind on creating ..something worthwhile with the day
Aphrodite Macbain: and turn ito pumpkins
Ewan Bonham: Para...yes...it sets my mind to be open to the day..:)
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry - non sequitor
SophiaSharon Larnia: i read that as mind turns to pumpkins and had to reread :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I do that as I drink my coffee
Lucinda Lavender: thought just this morning about sitting quietly before getting out of bed
Aphrodite Macbain: the buses tun into pumpkins, my mind turns to mush
SophiaSharon Larnia: :P
Lucinda Lavender: going from horizontal to vertical can be kind of strange
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes- diagonal can be useful as a transition
SophiaSharon Larnia: I have been noticing how springing out of bed from anxiety of things i need to do sets the tone for the rest of the day
Aphrodite Macbain: I slowly wake up with 2 cats on my lap
Paradise Tennant: yes am always slow to come to consciousness ..two cups of coffee before I arise to face the day
Lucinda Lavender: nice to have the cats:)(we start to talk of cats and in RL my cats start racing around:))
Lucinda Lavender: me two as well
Ewan Bonham: For me , it is my dog..:)
Lucinda Lavender: my cats just knocked over a lamp...but only broke the light bulb...
Aphrodite Macbain: there is something about getting out of the wrong side of the bed. Having 2 cats and a cup of coffee helps me to decide which side to eventually get out of
SophiaSharon Larnia: oh nooos
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: that''s a relief- easier to replace a light bulb
stevenaia Michinaga: mmm coffee and cats in bed, my favorite
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Pomona:)
Aphrodite Macbain: they both sit and stare at me as I sip
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes a dog is nice too :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: Hi Pomona
Paradise Tennant: hiya pomona
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes- I'd have one if didn't live in an apartment
stevenaia Michinaga: now if they only could make and bring you the coffee
Pomona Writer greets you with a respectful bow
Paradise Tennant: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello Pomona, we havn't met!
Pomona Writer: I must go, but thank you for your greetings, and I will come back at another time.
Ewan Bonham: greetings Pamona
Aphrodite Macbain: met
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Pomona
Lucinda Lavender: welcome...have you been here before?...I can send you a notecard
SophiaSharon Larnia: sorry you can't stay
Aphrodite Macbain: Come back soon!
Pomona Writer: I got a notecard, I found the website.
Pomona Writer: I will come back ..
Pomona Writer: thanks
Pomona Writer bows in farewell
Aphrodite Macbain: If you click on that box i will tell you more about us
Lucinda Lavender: oops too slow
Aphrodite Macbain: oh well
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Ewan Bonham: Say, I noticed the fish are gone from the fountain..:)
Lucinda Lavender: ah so true...
stevenaia Michinaga: and the lillies
Aphrodite Macbain: Aww- too bad, and the water lillies
stevenaia Michinaga: oops there they are
Aphrodite Macbain: snap!
Aphrodite Macbain: hmmm thy seem to be returning
Ewan Bonham: Yes...lol
--BELL--
SophiaSharon Larnia: sorry i removed them because i thought maybe the pavilion was getting too much stuff in it
SophiaSharon Larnia: laughs
Ewan Bonham: Well... there is 'stuff' and there is stuff..:)
Paradise Tennant: they are lovely :) though .. nice to watch them swim :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :) it reminds me a favorite room here in a lot of ways
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Lucinda Lavender: is it a room you made?
Ewan Bonham: It is a welcoming place of peace..:)
SophiaSharon Larnia: me a bunch of other lovely people
Lucinda Lavender: I am thinking about the first bunch of times I came here...and how that felt compared to now
Aphrodite Macbain: How has it changd?
Ewan Bonham: For me, i felt at first enjoyable but strange..:)
Lucinda Lavender: curious what others remember about how early days felt...
stevenaia Michinaga: nice that you can remember
Ewan Bonham: Hard to get into the rhythm..:)
Ewan Bonham: But now...when I return, it is like I haven't left...:)
Lucinda Lavender: challenging rhythmically...yes
Lucinda Lavender: I felt an excitement
Aphrodite Macbain: Each one is different even though the players are often the samee
Lucinda Lavender: now feel and eveness...sometimes at a loss for words
Aphrodite Macbain: Some subject is introduced that gavanizes the discussion or fractures it
Lucinda Lavender: nodding
Aphrodite Macbain: Recenty I've enjoyed the poetry circles
Paradise Tennant: yes they are fun :)
Aphrodite Macbain: where everyone is so creative
SophiaSharon Larnia: they started already?
Ewan Bonham: The next one is this Sunday evening?
Aphrodite Macbain: Brings out the best
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes. It shold be fun. Calvino is facilitating it
Lucinda Lavender: the others have been more impromptu...
Lucinda Lavender: no announcement ahead
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes - ike th last one
stevenaia Michinaga: some were remarkable
Paradise Tennant: shall we do a go round now ?
stevenaia Michinaga: and unexpected
Aphrodite Macbain: It kind of aligns with the way we speak anyway
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Lucinda Lavender: always love it yes...
stevenaia Michinaga: no, but I always say that
Ewan Bonham: Sure..
Aphrodite Macbain: In short pithy sentences
Paradise Tennant: who would like to start ? :)
Ewan Bonham: I will..
Aphrodite Macbain: you Paradise?
Lucinda Lavender: yay
Aphrodite Macbain: OK great Ewan
Paradise Tennant: smiles and listens
stevenaia Michinaga: counterclockwise :)

And so it begins...

Ewan Bonham: Fish appear again...feeling the fresh air in my lungs..:)
 SophiaSharon Larnia:opening doors and walking through
Aphrodite Macbain: fresh water through their gills opening and closing
Lucinda Lavender: as they move about in blue water...
--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: newness in direction, newness in appearance..
Paradise Tennant: their scales flash silver and gold .. in the cold dawn light .. a shimmering dance
Ewan Bonham: Feeling as I could swim...and speak to the fish about fins and things.
SophiaSharon Larnia: being as delight, sharing what they see
Aphrodite Macbain: waving my hands, like fins, clapping and splashing, holding on to the drops
Aphrodite Macbain: as they fall
Aphrodite Macbain: and missing
 Lucinda Lavender: Human faces are perched over the rim, staring, blinking, wondering, thinking.
stevenaia Michinaga: ..
stevenaia Michinaga: like fish looking out, we look in ward

SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Calvino
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening Beat Poets of Being
Paradise Tennant: to see them looking outward .. blurred vision .. a pond .. a world a we :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles hiya cal
Paradise Tennant: we are poeming
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe an active verb. that
stevenaia Michinaga: I think you tied that one up, Paradise
Lucinda Lavender: perhaps that is a wrap...
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: muddling the interface, the threshold between us-air and water coming together like a kiss. Hi Cal
Lucinda Lavender: I will form it as a unit in the log
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Paradise Tennant: smiles shall we try another :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Now that its nearthe top of the hour, I should go and unpack
Lucinda Lavender: yes yes!
Lucinda Lavender: Cal start?
Calvino Rabeni: And now a commercial message :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :) I have to go too :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: but maybe I'll  stay..
SophiaSharon Larnia: happy unpacking Aph
SophiaSharon Larnia: :) bye for now everyone
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Aphro
Calvino Rabeni: In 2 days time we are having a special poetry session in this very spot
Lucinda Lavender: and laundry
Calvino Rabeni: http://wiki.playasbeing.org/Classes_and_Sessions/Theme_Sessions/Poetry_as_Practice
Paradise Tennant: smiles at sophia wishing her sweet dreams
SophiaSharon Larnia: you too!!!!
Ewan Bonham: Yes, night all...this was fun!
Lucinda Lavender: bye soph
Paradise Tennant: smiles at cal . looking forward to it
Calvino Rabeni waves to the leaver(s)
Paradise Tennant: nite nite ewan :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, time for em to go too
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye everyone
Paradise Tennant: nite nite steve
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye!
stevenaia Michinaga: thx
Lucinda Lavender: in the last poem when steve said ward all by itself I wanted to say...ward...I am worried about the Beave
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: the fliers have flown
--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: Present       (I think I started without knowing...just as Cal crashes and then returns...)

Paradise Tennant: hovering in a wing's beat to still this moment
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: did we start ?
Paradise Tennant: was not sure
Paradise Tennant: :)
Lucinda Lavender: think we have:)
Lucinda Lavender: cal?
Calvino Rabeni: errrr :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles a crash
Lucinda Lavender: in their absence a silence falls into their space
Paradise Tennant: then with a swirl of mist .. life reforms .. clarifies .. comes into focus :)

Calvino Rabeni: Things appear without their surfaces
Lucinda Lavender: flat and gray and bigger than life...   

Calvino Rabeni: Paint me with a cheerful patina of pixels

Paradise Tennant: or morphed as life before .. now still faint in the line of a smile :)

Calvino Rabeni: Overlapping restlesss windows segment communiques capriciously
Lucinda Lavender: while I am just breathing here...
Paradise Tennant: a cascade of words ..openings to worlds beyond ... minds beyond and yet within ..
--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: A subway station of shifting layers, words glowing brightly in fragmented clusters
Paradise Tennant: a dull roar in the tunnel .. a steady buildng of sound vibration .. rattling ... through my mind

Calvino Rabeni: The fly's eye flies to surfaces ...
Calvino Rabeni: while I am still breathing here and still
Lucinda Lavender: as a rock.
Paradise Tennant: that 's a nice ending :)
Lucinda Lavender: nodding
Paradise Tennant: one more :)
Lucinda Lavender: can't wait to see it formed
Paradise Tennant: like candy
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Paradise Tennant: cal would you like to start
Calvino Rabeni: Yes (goes prospecting)
Lucinda Lavender: scritch scratch
Paradise Tennant: lol
Calvino Rabeni:When people go for a walk in their neighborhood
Paradise Tennant: dogs gamboling .. barking ..their breathe a silver mist in the air
Lucinda Lavender: in the ditch a pile of old letters is swimming..yet readable by human eye.
Calvino Rabeni: Streams thread their way mysteriously between the private spaces
Paradise Tennant: the ink runs .. rivulets like tears of joy of sorrow
Lucinda Lavender: time told...of wars endured and gardens built.
--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: Imagination and work created a garden
Calvino Rabeni: from what could have been a trash-lined pit
Calvino Rabeni: and now gives rest to the walker's eye
Calvino Rabeni: with benches and trimmed ivy
Paradise Tennant: words painting pictures held in the minds of writers long gone now fading to benches
Paradise Tennant: inviting .. us to sit .. and stay awhile in the garden of creation

Calvino Rabeni: It could be the talk of the neighborhood, that
Calvino Rabeni: over here the lights are always on... and always blinking
Calvino Rabeni: as if some internal power keeps surging
Lucinda Lavender: or some alien landing pad has been constructed:)
Paradise Tennant: drapes thrown open for all to see .. our strangeness

Calvino Rabeni: scents of cooking hint at human warmth
Lucinda Lavender: or timers broken....
Calvino Rabeni: the flickering blue light of a television screen
Calvino Rabeni: implies the presence of snack foods as well
Paradise Tennant: cast shadows on our other worldliness .. bobbing antennae dance against the wall
Calvino Rabeni: the dinner call goes out!
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: enjoy cal :)
Lucinda Lavender: :)yes:)
Calvino Rabeni: Hasta la vista ... I'll be back :)
Calvino Rabeni: Dream mighty
Paradise Tennant: smiles will try :)
Paradise Tennant: that was fun
Lucinda Lavender: sure was
Lucinda Lavender: like going exploring together...
Paradise Tennant: is that a tail .. a claw .. as set of wings .. that brush against this mundane fabric of subdivision sameness :)
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: yes just like going exploring together
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: or ziplining even
Paradise Tennant: smiles all hooked up
Lucinda Lavender: yes all hooked up
Lucinda Lavender: feel I hear certain rhythm in my head and words come to it
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: me too
Paradise Tennant: and somehow you know when it is right and when it need tinkering
Lucinda Lavender: I really did find a bunch of letters in the ditch...
Paradise Tennant: did you read them
Lucinda Lavender: from WW2
Paradise Tennant: wow
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Paradise Tennant: listens
Lucinda Lavender: someone in England writing to someone over here on d day
Lucinda Lavender: and wondering how all would go
Lucinda Lavender: only one was readable
Paradise Tennant: sad to see it just tossed carelessly aside
Lucinda Lavender: somehow I thought it must have fallen out the back of a truck...
Lucinda Lavender: or something...on the way to the dump...
Paradise Tennant: i find it painful sometimes at antique markets to see all the old pictures with eyes looking out .. feel like they know .. no one is alive to care anymore
Lucinda Lavender: getting tired here...
Paradise Tennant: smile me too
Paradise Tennant: time to walk the dog
Paradise Tennant: thank you lucinda
Paradise Tennant: nite nite
Lucinda Lavender: yes...know what you mean about the people of times past
Lucinda Lavender: thank you...
Paradise Tennant: smiles was fun :) as always