2011.02.03 19:00 – My Mind Unrolls a Slender Thread

The Guardian for this meeting was Paradise Tennant. The comments are by Paradise, Ewan, Lucinda, Stevenaia,Cal, Sophia, Druth, o000o.

Paradise Tennant: hiya ewan how are you :)
Ewan Bonham: I am well para...and you?
Paradise Tennant: very well thanks :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles just sitting quiet with a glass of wine and a winter scene through the window :)
Ewan Bonham: Oh, where do you live?
Paradise Tennant: Toronto :)
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: and you :)
Ewan Bonham: Oh, well there you DO have winter..:)
Ewan Bonham: I am where it is spring...in SW Florida..
Paradise Tennant: yes minus 25 this week
Paradise Tennant: ahh you are lucky !
Ewan Bonham: +y70
Paradise Tennant: smiles sighs .. Every time I walk outside have to put the dog's sweater on .his jacket and four boots normally done under the dining room table where he hides :)
Ewan Bonham: He’s a smart dog...he has trained you well..:)
Paradise Tennant: yes I am well trained :)
Ewan Bonham: It looks like there are not other folks here..
Paradise Tennant: maybe a quiet night
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Ewan Hi Paradise :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles hiya O :)
Ewan Bonham: Hi o00000o..
Paradise Tennant: how are you 0 :)
Paradise Tennant: hiya sophia :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Paradise, Ewan and Samuo :))
oO0Oo Resident: I'm OK thanks Para
Ewan Bonham: Hi Sharon..:)
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Sophia
SophiaSharon Larnia: wow Paradise, lovely creation you’re wearing!
SophiaSharon Larnia zooms in for a closer look
Paradise Tennant: funny sl must be acting up tonight for a long time I could only see your title :)
Paradise Tennant: yes it is a vita :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Druth :)
druth Vlodovic: hi guys
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Druth :)
Paradise Tennant: hiya druth :))
SophiaSharon Larnia: little bunny :)
oO0Oo Resident: Oh Yes! Cheerful year of the Metal Rabbit all
Paradise Tennant: smiles great av :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
Paradise Tennant: smiles what shall we explore tonight or will it be poetic .. ruminations :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Stevenaia :0
oO0Oo Resident: We could just pet the bunny
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: hello'
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Stevenaia
Paradise Tennant: smiles hiya stevenaia :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Ewan Bonham: Hi Steve...:)
Paradise Tennant: looks over at druth .. rapine loveliness :)
oO0Oo Resident: Awww! Yay!
oO0Oo Resident: SL moment of the life of 0
Paradise Tennant: smiles a very big smile !
SophiaSharon Larnia: the bunny disappeared for me !
stevenaia Michinaga: where is druth?
stevenaia Michinaga: on sam's lap
SophiaSharon Larnia: oooh :D
Paradise Tennant: grins
oO0Oo Resident: I feel like Andie McDowell in Groundhog Day! Sooo Cute!
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe
oO0Oo Resident composes and strokes Druth behind the ears
SophiaSharon Larnia: I did wonder if I was going to repeat yesterday, much to m relief, I woke up today and it was, today :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: joking
oO0Oo Resident: No Sonny and Cher ?
oO0Oo Resident: It's a good movie for SL themes
SophiaSharon Larnia: I think it would be kind of cool to repeat the same day over
Paradise Tennant: actually it is a great movie ..I have not seen it in a long time but it was a powerful idea
SophiaSharon Larnia: at the end, he emerges with all of these skills
SophiaSharon Larnia: having not aged a day
Paradise Tennant: yes and a better person
SophiaSharon Larnia: ok one day
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes :)
stevenaia Michinaga: I've heard sermons using the movie as a theme
Paradise Tennant: yes
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: interesting to see how the little shifts you make in your behavior .. ripple out ...but do not need to be in the movie to see that :) find it very easy to track if I focus..
SophiaSharon Larnia: nods
stevenaia Michinaga: can you give an example of your own?
Paradise Tennant: well easy to see in personal relationships
Paradise Tennant: if you are extra patient .. or extra impatient .. almost every action seems to have a reaction ..
stevenaia Michinaga: thinking, crankiness
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles at extra patient :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes that is a good one
Paradise Tennant: usually find it feeds itself
Paradise Tennant: creating little ripples of crankiness
Paradise Tennant: but you know also can see it sometimes in how you perceive the inanimate world
Paradise Tennant: maybe the world does not change but how we see it does
Paradise Tennant: Saturday mornings always seem more .. shiny :)
Paradise Tennant: Sundays too :)
oO0Oo Resident: I sometimes feel that my ripples from cranky moods undo so much of the gentle fabric of less cranky moods, but that is just pain of pain happening
stevenaia Michinaga: but in reality, it always is that way
stevenaia Michinaga: shinny
Paradise Tennant: yes !
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it’s amazing how quickly I see my crankiness and want to "undo" it because I see the results
Paradise Tennant: nods
oO0Oo Resident: actually, Wol recommended to me to watch Groundhog day again recently, and I am so grateful I did.
Paradise Tennant: think it would be a great idea if you could just give take back certificates to your friends and loved ones ..
oO0Oo Resident: It never grows old for me
Paradise Tennant: hmm going to rent it again :)
oO0Oo Resident: certificates Para?
stevenaia Michinaga: I was on TV last weekend, and I saw it
Paradise Tennant: present a coupon and they let you take back a moment you would wish away ..
oO0Oo Resident: yes... that would be nice
oO0Oo Resident: and then also
oO0Oo Resident: if we let go of things, and allow things to dissolve, then it has a similar effect
oO0Oo Resident: some of the most touching moments of my life
Paradise Tennant: are letting go moments ?
oO0Oo Resident: the meeting of my lack of skillfulness, by someone so thoroughly able and willing to see it as an illusion, and smile at me instead of some other expected reaction
Paradise Tennant: smiles a big smiles a fog see er :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Luci
--BELL--
oO0Oo Resident: I have to tell you, how psychologically comforting it is to have this bunny here :)
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
Paradise Tennant: the metaphor of us all being perfection .. or mirror completely untarnished just with a wee bit of fog..
Paradise Tennant: smiles nice to have closeness .. the physical comfort of presence
Paradise Tennant: hiya luci
Paradise Tennant: sorry bell!
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Lucinda :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Lucinda :)
Lucinda Lavender: hi steve,paradise,samuo,sophiasharon ewan:)
Lucinda Lavender: and druth
Paradise Tennant: we are mellow tonight luci talking of the movie ground hog day .. connectedness, the ripples in life and wonder of a bunny
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
oO0Oo Resident: Finding joy... groundhog day
oO0Oo Resident: perfecting joy
stevenaia Michinaga: brb
oO0Oo Resident: in helping and serving others
Lucinda Lavender: sounds mellow as you say...serving can happen in so many ways
oO0Oo Resident: agreed
oO0Oo Resident: getting the wisdom and skillful means to match
oO0Oo Resident: a path
Paradise Tennant: every day a step :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: night all :) have to go *sweet dreams*
Paradise Tennant: you too sophia thank you for the conversation :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: *waves*
Lucinda Lavender: bye ssl
oO0Oo Resident: bye SSL :)
Paradise Tennant: have you been dreaming luci :)
Lucinda Lavender: :) yes this morning..something about Calvino...
Lucinda Lavender: doing some kind of work together amid people.
Lucinda Lavender: some kind of service probably
Paradise Tennant: smiles
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Lucinda Lavender: could not hold on to the images...
Paradise Tennant: sad when they shimmer and disappear just .. kind of wink out
oO0Oo Resident: ripples Para?
Paradise Tennant: dreams
Lucinda Lavender: interesting randomness here but the record player is joyously playing George Harrison/Billy Preston singing...that's the way god planned it...
Paradise Tennant: the images they are there and then they just dissolve
Paradise Tennant: lol
oO0Oo Resident: perhaps they ripple rather than wink out
Paradise Tennant: yep nodding
Lucinda Lavender: soulful...
Paradise Tennant: yes maybe the float away to dream with someone else
oO0Oo Resident feels cool spot where bunny was
oO0Oo Resident: ;)
Lucinda Lavender: sometimes people we know hold a place for a kind of energy that the dream is leaning toward and gathering energy from...
Lucinda Lavender: so the face appears and then a bit more story unfolds
Paradise Tennant: yes our connections have a resonance
oO0Oo Resident: nicely put Lucinda, and it feels so right
Ewan Bonham: And the mind is now prepared for the movement of the dream..
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: do you smell scents in your dreams luci :)
Lucinda Lavender: sometimes as it was for me an undefined time followed...no scents that I can remember...have others had this scent experience?
Ewan Bonham: I do smell the scent of nature and the ocean in general...in some dreams..
Paradise Tennant: yes I often smell things .. usually really nice things sea air .. blueberry scones which I sadly never get to eat
Paradise Tennant: smiles at ewan
Paradise Tennant: would love to be able to dream lucidly
stevenaia Michinaga: I must be off, see you tomorrow
oO0Oo Resident: Stevenaia :)
Lucinda Lavender: the gradualness of a dream unfolding...usually with a mood of wonderment
Paradise Tennant: good nite stevenaia thank you :) namaste
Ewan Bonham: Bye Steve..
stevenaia Michinaga: night
Lucinda Lavender: yes note steve...and thanks for helping here tomorrow for me
oO0Oo Resident: fluffy peacock sunburst
Lucinda Lavender: nite
Paradise Tennant: wonder .. is a lovely commodity :)
oO0Oo Resident: Cal :
oO0Oo Resident: )
Calvino Rabeni: I'll buy some!
Lucinda Lavender: ...I wonder why ...
Lucinda Lavender: hi cal
Ewan Bonham: Hi Cal..
Lucinda Lavender: you were in my dream this morning.
Calvino Rabeni: Hi everyone :)
Paradise Tennant: hiya cal :))
Paradise Tennant: we are talking of dreams
Lucinda Lavender: and lucidity in the dreams...
Lucinda Lavender: I do not remember what was happening in the dream this morning but we were working somewhere...
Lucinda Lavender: helping in some way
Paradise Tennant: sounds right to me :)
Paradise Tennant: very real :)
oO0Oo Resident: yes
oO0Oo Resident: already happening
Lucinda Lavender: perhaps you wore an amber jacket
Paradise Tennant: nods :) and smiles at luci
Calvino Rabeni: I like working dreams
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Paradise Tennant: color stays with you luci you are sensitive to it at an entirely different level :)
Lucinda Lavender: creating a field for humility perhaps
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Ewan Bonham: And sometimes feel texture in the dreams..
oO0Oo Resident: amber...hmmm ... a field of wheat, a richness
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: thinking about work jackets...yes Ewan...texture is there...for you also?
Ewan Bonham: I sometimes feel textures in a dream...
Lucinda Lavender: fine vs rough?
Ewan Bonham: Corresponds to certain emotions..:)
Paradise Tennant: feel temperature in dreams sometimes
Paradise Tennant: cold wind .. hot
Lucinda Lavender: hmmm...this dream of the morning also had the moon at the same degree as when I was born...
Lucinda Lavender: another thing I will take note of...
oO0Oo Resident: New lunar year as well
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Paradise Tennant: smiles you are in sync with the planets luci :)
Ewan Bonham: Thank you folks...enjoyed the discussion and reflections...:)
Paradise Tennant: good nite ewan thank you :)
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening
Lucinda Lavender: nice to see you Ewan:)
Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams full of good smells and textures :)
oO0Oo Resident: Ewan :) (: nawE
Lucinda Lavender: wow...mirror letters!
oO0Oo Resident: almost
Lucinda Lavender: a kind of matching:)
oO0Oo Resident: enjoying the reflections
oO0Oo Resident: I visited the dome and saw some of the works on display, and was feeling wonder, and very touched somehow
oO0Oo Resident: the architecture reflecting
Paradise Tennant: yes ... enjoy the company the presence :) here
oO0Oo Resident: reflecting*
oO0Oo Resident: r*
Lucinda Lavender: I looked for a little bit and enjoyed it too..
Lucinda Lavender: touched by ..the exploration people can do
Calvino Rabeni: I need to head "out of world" too ... good seeing you three
Calvino Rabeni: bye for now
Paradise Tennant: yes .. like really looking around on the journey
Paradise Tennant: good nite cal :) sweet dreams :)
oO0Oo Resident: Cal :) tc
Lucinda Lavender: bye Cal...dream well...
Calvino Rabeni: thanks :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. shall we wind down with a poem or is it past the hour of imagination :)
--BELL--
oO0Oo Resident: that such a nice poem para
Lucinda Lavender: what, where, who, why...my mind unrolls a slender thread...
Lucinda Lavender: anyone?
oO0Oo Resident: will it grow, or will it fall like dust in sunlit beams
Paradise Tennant: of imagination ... traveling down the lines of time .. of place .. of hearts .. yet to beat
Lucinda Lavender: creating perhaps a story...or just a mood...
Lucinda Lavender: that floats like mist upon the pool...
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: like quarter hour markers ..we sit quiet ..waiting for the chime to strike .. the dream to begin
oO0Oo Resident smiles and retreats to be cranky for a bit
oO0Oo Resident: :)
oO0Oo Resident: ty
Paradise Tennant: hands you a big pile of certificates :)
Paradise Tennant: take away certificates :)
Lucinda Lavender: :) good night Samuo:)
Paradise Tennant: good nite O
Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams :)
Paradise Tennant: of friendly bunnies and .. wise ground hogs :)
Paradise Tennant: shall we call it a nite luci or is there still creative juices flowing :)
Paradise Tennant: this was a good one I thought wonderful start to it :)
Lucinda Lavender: ready to go toward resting...
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Paradise Tennant: ok then thank you :) for the company for the conversation and for the dreams :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes:)
Lucinda Lavender: thank you also:)
Lucinda Lavender: sweet dreams to you Paradise:)

My Mind Unrolls a Slender Thread

what, where, who, why...my mind unrolls a slender thread...

will it grow, or will it fall like dust in sunlit beams

of imagination ... traveling down the lines of time .. of places .. of hearts .. yet to beat

creating perhaps a story...or just a mood

that floats like mist upon the pool...

like quarter hour markers ..we sit quiet ..waiting for the chime to strike .. the dream to begin