2011.03.27 19:00 - Gently Down The Stream

The Guardian for this meeting was Calvino Rabeni. The comments are by Calvino Rabeni.
We find a memory emerging from deep time and wear a number of different hats.  In fact, we find ourselves surrounded by them, all forms and colors and styles.

Calvino Rabeni: Hello Katherine :)
Calvino Rabeni: There's also an information box over near the circle that gives a note card
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening, Arch !
Archmage Atlantis: What's shaking *g*
Calvino Rabeni: Hmm, the earth hasn't moved around here
Calvino Rabeni: Katherine, we advise new vistors, the chat sessions here are posted on our wiki at http://wiki.playasbeing.org/
Archmage Atlantis: Lucky you......it seems to be moving tecxtnic plates most palxces :)
Katherine Merchiston: Thank you, Calvino.
Calvino Rabeni: Are you comfortable with that - if not, I can edit out your chat
Katherine Merchiston: yes, I'm fine with that.
Calvino Rabeni: Thanks :)
Archmage Atlantis: Bon jour, Katherine
Katherine Merchiston: Bon jour, Arch
Calvino Rabeni: Lucinda .. hi, for some reason it feels like a long time
Archmage Atlantis: Dang Lucinda....all that glitz.....thought you were Stenenaia
Lucinda Lavender: yes...that is interesting...must be a full time
Lucinda Lavender: we shop in the same place:)
Lucinda Lavender: HI everyone...
Archmage Atlantis: okie dokie "grin"
Calvino Rabeni: How's the yoga class going?
Lucinda Lavender: ah...yoga was cancelled today...perhaps the visiting buddhist monk or such has changed Yoon's scedule
Archmage Atlantis: Well, I've learned how to wear a hat and shuffle
Lucinda Lavender: schedule
Archmage Atlantis: Oops, yoga, not yogi
Lucinda Lavender: Someone special will come to speak
Archmage Atlantis: bear with me
Lucinda Lavender: will do Arch
Calvino Rabeni: You've got a very broad area of wisdom, Arch
Calvino Rabeni: in other words, sometimes a wise acre
Calvino Rabeni: (sorry bear with me on that too:) )
Archmage Atlantis: conceed
Archmage Atlantis: ftm
Calvino Rabeni: I get berra and the bear mixed up
Lucinda Lavender: I went to a different yoga place yesterday with a friend and the teacher was very playful and made jokes and sang to us...very fun...
Lucinda Lavender: plus her hair was a little pink:)
Calvino Rabeni: Hmm, that sounds .. maybe I'd like to see that :)
Archmage Atlantis: was she playing as a being, Luce?
Lucinda Lavender: yep:)
Archmage Atlantis: :)
Archmage Atlantis: I feel lighthearted tonight
Archmage Atlantis: It's nice
Archmage Atlantis: Not used to it
Lucinda Lavender: nice was the word I was going to say
Lucinda Lavender: for you does sunlight make a difference?
Calvino Rabeni: well I went to a hot-yoga studio .. it was a little much .. at first I couldn't hear words spoken at such a rapid rate, almost like an auctioneer inside a sauna
Lucinda Lavender: wow Cal...
Calvino Rabeni: Yes Cinda, it makes it harder to sleep in .. because of the rays coming in the window in the morning
--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: but, I can change my schedule a bit and go to be earlier
Archmage Atlantis: Yes, for me it does......but I feel as if I have cast away decades of anger against the universe
Calvino Rabeni: well actually, I like that there's so many different styles of yoga and teacher now,
Lucinda Lavender: true...and the neighbors rooster makes himself known.
Lucinda Lavender: wow Arch...
Archmage Atlantis: Screen went black, brb
Lucinda Lavender: Cal do you know much about Ginko Trees
Calvino Rabeni: WB Arch
Lucinda Lavender: hi again Arch:)
Calvino Rabeni: No Cinda, only that they are a very old species and have interesting shaped leaves
Lucinda Lavender: arch I am happy for you.
Calvino Rabeni: I have a couple on an art collage
Calvino Rabeni: Yes that was a very striking statement
Lucinda Lavender: there was a dream with the ginko in it...this tree was growing in such a way as to interfere with a grid in Japan...wo a group entity was working on what to do in the dream this was...
Lucinda Lavender: so the plural entity it was called was working on deciding what to do...
Archmage Atlantis: Lucy, dream circle?
Lucinda Lavender: chopping it up in squares seemed to block and taking or mostly out would stop a life force...yes Arch
Lucinda Lavender: lessen the life force by taking too much
Archmage Atlantis: In my dreams...we absorb it
Lucinda Lavender: they did not want to do that in case it came bake too powerfully
Calvino Rabeni: Hi Paradise !
Archmage Atlantis: That is fear
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Para
Lucinda Lavender: Happy to see you...
Paradise Tennant: hiya lucinda , arch ..cal gtsy :)
Archmage Atlantis: How must a mother feel with a new life growing inside.......that is what it seems to me
Archmage Atlantis: Hi, Paradise
Lucinda Lavender: trimming trees does enourage growth
Lucinda Lavender: discussing the image in a dream..
Lucinda Lavender: not mine
Lucinda Lavender: Katherine left?
Calvino Rabeni: Yes it looks that way, perhaps she was here for a light taste
Lucinda Lavender: bye Katherine...
Archmage Atlantis: An intensity for a first time
Calvino Rabeni: True
Paradise Tennant: smiles are we talking of dreams :)
Lucinda Lavender: just a bit yes
Archmage Atlantis: es, I believe we are Para
Lucinda Lavender: wondered what people know about Ginko Trees
Archmage Atlantis: Dreams of the world as it is, how it might be
Lucinda Lavender: well it was a dream from January...set in Japan.
Archmage Atlantis: Gingko trees are anceient
Paradise Tennant: http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/thetree.htm
Calvino Rabeni: The ginko is a very unusual tree, regarded as a living fossil, the only remaining member of an ancient species
Archmage Atlantis: They were here before many conifers
Calvino Rabeni: they don't flower, which is unusual for trees
Calvino Rabeni: yes they are ancient
Archmage Atlantis: Yes, I know
--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: interesting that something that is a living fossil ..is good for memory .. there is elegance there
Archmage Atlantis: They are attractive trees also
Archmage Atlantis: And the diseases have evolved past them, so they are relatively without plant disease
Lucinda Lavender: thanks for this info...
Calvino Rabeni: Here's a fossil leaf image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Ginkgo_biloba_MacAbee_BC.jpg
Calvino Rabeni: And a living one http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Ginkgo_Biloba_Leaves_-_Black_Background.jpg/400px-Ginkgo_Biloba_Leaves_-_Black_Background.jpg
Lucinda Lavender: beautiful
Archmage Atlantis: These are the 2 images that seem closest to how I see them
Archmage Atlantis: ginkgo_tree1400.jpg
Archmage Atlantis: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http:...
Calvino Rabeni: Chinese people eat it in some recipes ... it is marketed as a memory enhancer, but the results disputed ... the leaves have something in them similar to poison ivy, but in very low concentration
Calvino Rabeni: I imagine the wind plays the leaves in an interesting way
Archmage Atlantis: I've only seen 2 living ones.....when I was in the NE US
Paradise Tennant: did you dream of ginko trees Luci ?
Lucinda Lavender: hmmm interesting...no it was in someone elses dream...but it seemed to be some sort of problem for a grid...and that made me wonder more about Ginko as a tree...
Lucinda Lavender: dreams lately anyone?
Archmage Atlantis: Camellias, Magnolias, Rhododendron, Azaleas......they mark the hills of China.....only one or two species live here in the East US
Calvino Rabeni is drinking an infusion of camelia
Paradise Tennant: I dreamt of standing in a hat store .. surrounded by hats .. all different kinds... just the edge of dream really .. wandering around looking at hats :)
Paradise Tennant: is drinking echinea tea :)
Lucinda Lavender: but I was just learning from a vieo on Appachia that when there was once a Pangea..the plants were quite diverse and then as the plates moved ...some show up in Appaachia and some China...
Archmage Atlantis: Funny Cal, Thea sinesis is Camellia sinesis
Calvino Rabeni: I thought the interesting elements were the grid and the group entity, and the symbol of memory
Lucinda Lavender: ah! yes!
Lucinda Lavender: yes a plural entity was in the dream...interesing idea
Calvino Rabeni: so perhaps the group entity is receiving some ancient memory trace, which threatens the current technology grid, unless it is slowly integrated
Archmage Atlantis: Once Carolina parakeets were all over the east US.......then ladies wanted them for hats
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Archmage Atlantis: Now they are extinct
Lucinda Lavender: What do you remember about the Hats Paradise?
Paradise Tennant: hmmm just absorbing the colours .. some were flowered .. some straw .. all manner of hats .. smiles
Archmage Atlantis: Men will do all they can to obtain things that please ladies
Paradise Tennant: so seldom remember dreams .. it was .. nice just to wake up with any kind of picture ..
--BELL--

Bleu Oleander: hi all :)
Lucinda Lavender: HI bleu:)
Calvino Rabeni: good evenng Bleu :)\
Paradise Tennant: hiya stev :)) hiya bleu :))
stevenaia Michinaga: hello :)
Calvino Rabeni waves to Steve
Paradise Tennant: hiya sophia :))
stevenaia Michinaga: smles
Lucinda Lavender: Bleu...I dove in to the logs and found the log from a year previous...
Bleu Oleander: hey Sharon
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi everyone :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi SSL
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Sharon, Steve
Bleu Oleander: nice Luci
Lucinda Lavender: I interestingly found it called Dreaming Together and I was speaking with Pema about dreaming...
Bleu Oleander: sounds like a good one for your art of being project Luci
Lucinda Lavender: I used that as an impetus to take a picture that I would like to show you later...
Bleu Oleander: sure
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. bleu we were talking one night of doing an art as being project that focused on dreaming
Paradise Tennant: how are dreams .. relate intereact with being ..
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Bleu Oleander: oh nice idea Paradise!
Lucinda Lavender: I think so too!
Paradise Tennant: smiles I think it would be interesting :)
Bleu Oleander: maybe the next art of being project?
stevenaia Michinaga: Dream of Being
Bleu Oleander: "Being Dreaming"
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe
Bleu Oleander: haha
Lucinda Lavender: maybe a midsummernightdreaming being
Paradise Tennant: smiles and it is off and running :))
Bleu Oleander: there ya go
Paradise Tennant: ideas take flight :)
Archmage Atlantis: I like "being dreaming"
Paradise Tennant: or dreaming being :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: i thought maybe being is dreaming already, would that be being dreaming its dreaming
stevenaia Michinaga: a group dream of sorts
Paradise Tennant: smiles at sophia was thinking the same thing
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Archmage Atlantis: Yes, SSL.....midsummer's night
Lucinda Lavender: shortest night of the year...
Archmage Atlantis: fairies
Bleu Oleander: has lots of "minds eye" pictures for that Sharon
SophiaSharon Larnia: bonfires
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles at Bleu and everybody lol
Lucinda Lavender: toasting...
SophiaSharon Larnia: cheers
Archmage Atlantis: My peeps
SophiaSharon Larnia: jeepers kreppers
Archmage Atlantis: SSl, u cannot honestly expect me to do the the next line
SophiaSharon Larnia: giggles, i didnt
SophiaSharon Larnia: just in a joking mood
Paradise Tennant: if we were to do an art of being project on dreaming .. a dream wheel would be cool :) smiles at lucinda
Paradise Tennant: even if it is just a big texture :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: oh yes, how is that going Lucinda?
Paradise Tennant: which easy
Lucinda Lavender: yes thanks to Samuo and Sophia I have one in my inventory...
Bleu Oleander: great Luci
SophiaSharon Larnia: i just made a platform, thats all
Lucinda Lavender: it will need more work
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Archmage Atlantis: Spin the wheel, win a kupie doll
Lucinda Lavender: I could make the basic color wheel to begin with
--BELL--

Archmage Atlantis: Waltzing Matilda.....on the stream. oink
Lucinda Lavender: sounds like a poem...
Lucinda Lavender: or makes me think of poems..
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: Cal have you run into any special poems lately?
Calvino Rabeni: Not recently, Cinda
Calvino Rabeni: But I'm going to look around for next weekend's party
Lucinda Lavender: great
Calvino Rabeni: or maybe see if I can get my muse to do anything
Archmage Atlantis: Everyone here can compose a good to great poe
Archmage Atlantis: m
Archmage Atlantis: mmmm
Calvino Rabeni: Yes thanks, Arch
Archmage Atlantis: A poem is the words that capture a moment
stevenaia Michinaga: yawning my way quietly off to bed
Calvino Rabeni: Nice definition
stevenaia Michinaga: (my moment)
Bleu Oleander: nite steve
Lucinda Lavender: sweet dreams then...
SophiaSharon Larnia: nite Stevenaia, sweet beingdreams
Paradise Tennant: nite nite stev :)
Archmage Atlantis: Nitey nite Steven
Calvino Rabeni: Play as Being nightcap
Calvino Rabeni: or a bedtime story :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
Bleu Oleander: nite all :)
Lucinda Lavender: I am going to go watch the next installment of the program on Appalachia while I have it here to watch...see you all soon...take care. Maybe a bedtime story would be fun to make...
SophiaSharon Larnia: good night Bleu :))
Calvino Rabeni: Good night
Lucinda Lavender: nite Beu...
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Luci :))
Archmage Atlantis: We sit alone together we are each and all such shall be as always and we will know life is all
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
Paradise Tennant: nite nite bleu luci :)
Lucinda Lavender: Appalachia is a really old place...I am thinking.
Calvino Rabeni: Yes true, old mountains
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Archmage Atlantis: Blessing and Namaste
SophiaSharon Larnia: :))
Lucinda Lavender: namaste...
Paradise Tennant: going to go to bed too .. :) namaste :)
Calvino Rabeni: _/!\_
SophiaSharon Larnia: namaste Paradise
SophiaSharon Larnia: off to bed too, bye for now :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Cal :)
Calvino Rabeni: Bye Paradise :)
Paradise Tennant: thank you cal .. sophia :) :)