2011.04.04 19:00 - In Pictures: Bouncy Fro and Equanimity

The Guardian for this meeting was SophiaSharon Larnia. The comments are by SophiaSharon Larnia. This session was attended by: Samuo, Aphrodite, Bleu and Storm. Topics during this session included the inclination to not be in RL pictures, and what that might mean for different people, dancing the Thrilller with a big bouncy fro, and Equanimity - re: the 51st hexagram of the I Ching. And no, I didn't post a picture of Storm in an afro hairdo!

SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Samuo :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)

--BELL--

SophiaSharon Larnia: nice to see you! how are you?
oO0Oo Resident: :))
SophiaSharon Larnia: missed you on Saturday
oO0Oo Resident: mmm I couldn't get on sadly. Missed being able to participate very much.
SophiaSharon Larnia: it was a lot of fun, I was in sl longer in one day than ages
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
oO0Oo Resident: The weekend was a marvelous celebration on so many levels.
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: wondering if everything's been cleaned up already :p
SophiaSharon Larnia: I didnt bring a topic here today
oO0Oo Resident smiles.. we can .. hmmm.. be with that :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: but have been thinking off and on today how much my life is enriched by these sessions, just by listening, most of the time
oO0Oo Resident: I hear ya ;)
SophiaSharon Larnia: and how my habit to stay out of rl pictures seems to have followed me in sl haha
oO0Oo Resident: interesting
oO0Oo Resident: The desires to not be in pictures can stem from different motivations in my experience
SophiaSharon Larnia: my aunt is the picture taker of the family, she says its so she isnt in them
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Aphrodite :)
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Aph :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: ooo nice outfit :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello to you two!
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Observerm :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Observerm :)
observerm Resident: hello
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Bleu
Aphrodite Macbain: It's my michael jaCKSON HAIR
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Bleu
SophiaSharon Larnia: I love it!! Aph
oO0Oo Resident: The picture... the frame
Bleu Oleander: hey all
Aphrodite Macbain: nOT SURE IF pING LIKES IT
SophiaSharon Larnia: I want to bounce it with my hand lol it looks so soft and poofy
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry 4 the caps
Aphrodite Macbain: hard to wear a hat
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
Aphrodite Macbain: Bleu and I can dance a mean thriller dance


SophiaSharon Larnia: yay!
Aphrodite Macbain: on
Bleu Oleander: thrilling to watch :)
Aphrodite Macbain: off
oO0Oo Resident: lol Aph!
Aphrodite Macbain: on
SophiaSharon Larnia: i think i have one too :)
Aphrodite Macbain: stop
Aphrodite Macbain: stop
Aphrodite Macbain: off
oO0Oo Resident: on
SophiaSharon Larnia: yay thank you!! I need this :DDDD
Aphrodite Macbain: we're GOOD!
Aphrodite Macbain: off
SophiaSharon Larnia: dropping is easy while doing thriller!!!
Bleu Oleander: haha
SophiaSharon Larnia: giggles
Aphrodite Macbain: want to dance some more?
oO0Oo Resident: for the record: 4 Guardians dancing to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', with soundtrack and AO moves
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes please :)
oO0Oo Resident: on
Aphrodite Macbain: girls just wanna have fun
SophiaSharon Larnia: we are awesome!!

--BELL--

oO0Oo Resident: egobox is the best box in SL!
Aphrodite Macbain: stop
oO0Oo Resident: off
SophiaSharon Larnia: dances through bells :)
Aphrodite Macbain: whew
oO0Oo Resident: kk group hug
oO0Oo Resident: ll
Aphrodite Macbain: how do we do that?
oO0Oo Resident: ?
Aphrodite Macbain: group hug
Bleu Oleander: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: ((hug))
Bleu Oleander: hehe
oO0Oo Resident: we use our imaginations..
SophiaSharon Larnia: oh great picture Aph! better than mine
Aphrodite Macbain: (((((Hug)))))
oO0Oo Resident: (((Bleu,SSL,Aph,0)))
Aphrodite Macbain: great subject matter
Bleu Oleander: nice 0
SophiaSharon Larnia: thrillling
Aphrodite Macbain: are we talking through a bell?
SophiaSharon Larnia: not anymore :)

oO0Oo Resident: Sophia and I were just talking about the inclination to not be in RL pictures, and what that might mean for different people
SophiaSharon Larnia: sometimes its modesty, sometimes its just not liking how you (I) look
oO0Oo Resident: ty for the dance pic Aph! :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: sometimes its a deep need to be private, like pictures reveal too much
oO0Oo Resident nods
SophiaSharon Larnia: the amish and mennonites here in PA prefer not to be photographed, because it shows pride
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder whether they reveal nothing and distort who we really are
SophiaSharon Larnia: right Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: we judge too much by appearances
Bleu Oleander: that's true
Aphrodite Macbain: I mean, what judgements would a stranger make of this fro?
Aphrodite Macbain: I am wearing
SophiaSharon Larnia: loves the fro
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: or that I have on a sari
Bleu Oleander: great fro
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe it's good to not only drop what we have but rearrange what we have
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
Aphrodite Macbain: shake it up
Bleu Oleander: there ya go
Aphrodite Macbain: be ambiguous
SophiaSharon Larnia: im pretty ambiguous as it is

oO0Oo Resident: Maybe after dropping.. the rearrangement happens automatically.. naturally
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Bleu Oleander: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: yes sam
SophiaSharon Larnia: rearranging whats left?
Aphrodite Macbain: into a new pattern
Aphrodite Macbain: ?
Aphrodite Macbain: that may be equally misleading?
SophiaSharon Larnia: nod your head some more, i like the bouncy fro :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: laughs
SophiaSharon Larnia: hahahhaha
Aphrodite Macbain: ^VV^VV^HowlzZzZ^VV^VV^
SophiaSharon Larnia: wowowoow
SophiaSharon Larnia: thank you!! giggles
Aphrodite Macbain: from the heart!
Bleu Oleander ⊱ smiles ⊰
Aphrodite Macbain agres wholeheartedly
Aphrodite Macbain agres wholeheartedly
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm trying to be agreeable
SophiaSharon Larnia: agrees heartwholedly
oO0Oo Resident: whole bodily too lol
Aphrodite Macbain agres wholeheartedly
Aphrodite Macbain: yayyy
SophiaSharon Larnia: now thriller LOL
Aphrodite Macbain agres wholeheartedly
oO0Oo Resident: on
SophiaSharon Larnia: off
SophiaSharon Larnia: whoops
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
oO0Oo Resident: on
SophiaSharon Larnia: on
Bleu Oleander: too funny
SophiaSharon Larnia: off
SophiaSharon Larnia: on
oO0Oo Resident: the jackson 4?
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D we need more peeps
SophiaSharon Larnia: ha!
oO0Oo Resident wills Paradise to come
oO0Oo Resident: off
SophiaSharon Larnia: bounce the bouncy fro
SophiaSharon Larnia: :))
oO0Oo Resident: on
oO0Oo Resident: off
SophiaSharon Larnia: hahahhaa
oO0Oo Resident: hehe
Aphrodite Macbain: on
SophiaSharon Larnia: :DDD
oO0Oo Resident: hehehehe
SophiaSharon Larnia: yay, a sad day dripped yippppeeee
SophiaSharon Larnia: dropped*
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry Bleu - must have hurt your head
Bleu Oleander: :))
Aphrodite Macbain: yayyyy SophiaSharon!
Bleu Oleander: plenty of buffer
SophiaSharon Larnia: :P
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
oO0Oo Resident: lol

--BELL--

oO0Oo Resident thinks deeply about existence while dancing
oO0Oo Resident: offf
oO0Oo Resident: off
Aphrodite Macbain can't think at all
SophiaSharon Larnia: i used to worry about that
SophiaSharon Larnia: when the words first left me :)
Aphrodite Macbain: dont fall 0
Aphrodite Macbain: four black dots in a row
Bleu Oleander: a classic!
SophiaSharon Larnia: someone coming here would think this is some kind of cult!
Bleu Oleander: that would be a compliment
SophiaSharon Larnia: the dancing fro cult
oO0Oo Resident looks left... looks right.. "My kind of cult"
Bleu Oleander: has to go on the wiki
oO0Oo Resident: My kind cult
SophiaSharon Larnia: dance dropping yay

oO0Oo Resident: kind cult
oO0Oo Resident: kind
oO0Oo Resident: kin
oO0Oo Resident: ki
oO0Oo Resident: k
SophiaSharon Larnia: .
Bleu Oleander: !

Aphrodite Macbain: OK
SophiaSharon Larnia: (( ))
Bleu Oleander: nice pic!
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes thank you!
Aphrodite Macbain: I can see an art work could evolve out of this
Bleu Oleander: definitely
Aphrodite Macbain: watch the bouncing black dot
SophiaSharon Larnia: id love to be part of a performance piece sometime
Aphrodite Macbain: hi storm
Aphrodite Macbain: welcome. perhaps we could do a dance for you
SophiaSharon Larnia: you missed Edens performance Samuo, it was sooo soo wonderful
Bleu Oleander: hi Storm :)
Aphrodite Macbain: on
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Storm
Aphrodite Macbain: on
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Storm
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D welcome
Storm Nordwind: Hi!
Storm Nordwind: Can you do Beat It instead? ;)
Aphrodite Macbain: our little performance we have been preparing
Aphrodite Macbain: off
SophiaSharon Larnia: yay!
SophiaSharon Larnia: I dont have beat it :)
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry that's all we have!
SophiaSharon Larnia: giggles
Storm Nordwind is impressed
Aphrodite Macbain: Nice to have an appreciative audience
Bleu Oleander: appears the celebration isn't quite over :))
Storm Nordwind chuckles
SophiaSharon Larnia: I hope it never stops
oO0Oo Resident: the bell curve
SophiaSharon Larnia: ha
Aphrodite Macbain: try it on storm
Storm Nordwind: Hmmm...
Storm Nordwind: promise not to take any blackmail pics!
Bleu Oleander ⊱ smiles ⊰
Aphrodite Macbain: don't worry no one will recognize you!
Storm Nordwind: Hmm

SophiaSharon Larnia: we were talking earlier about peoples inclination to not be photographed and what that means for them, and started dancing to thriller, storm
Aphrodite Macbain: hThat's a better one Storm
oO0Oo Resident: like ya do
SophiaSharon Larnia: :P
Storm Nordwind: My mother hated to be photographed. I don't really mind
Bleu Oleander: lovely
Aphrodite Macbain: MUCH better
SophiaSharon Larnia: i dont like it, to say hate may be too strong a word for me
Aphrodite Macbain: I come from a family of shutter bugs, I had no choice
SophiaSharon Larnia: haha me too
Bleu Oleander: me three
SophiaSharon Larnia: like the brown Storm :)
Aphrodite Macbain: every year of my life has been photographed- and that's a lot of pix
SophiaSharon Larnia: wow
SophiaSharon Larnia: nice
Aphrodite Macbain: everything tidied away storm?
SophiaSharon Larnia: for some reason i always get in the shots where im eating something
SophiaSharon Larnia: haha
Bleu Oleander: hehe :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I hate that!
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes, all arrrrfff
Storm Nordwind: Everything I think is tidied. All the clues are packed away safely
Aphrodite Macbain: for another day?
Storm Nordwind: something like that
Aphrodite Macbain: and a beard...
Storm Nordwind is trying the skins he bought five years ago
SophiaSharon Larnia: haha
Bleu Oleander: fun
Aphrodite Macbain: what's the next one?
oO0Oo Resident: a change in the weather
Aphrodite Macbain: lol 0
oO0Oo Resident: the direction of the wind changes
SophiaSharon Larnia: suddenly sometimes
SophiaSharon Larnia: i felt pretty blah before coming here tonight

oO0Oo Resident: without warning sadness disappeared 
Aphrodite Macbain: with a crash of lightening          (more like a crash of Aphrodite, thank you!! <3)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hahaha
Aphrodite Macbain: and a blaze of colour
SophiaSharon Larnia: and bouncy fro-ness

Aphrodite Macbain: nothing like a good dance with a fro
SophiaSharon Larnia: :P
oO0Oo Resident: fro licking with friends
Bleu Oleander: that's what I always say
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
Aphrodite Macbain pulls the hair out from between her teeth
Bleu Oleander: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: oh thats annoying )
Aphrodite Macbain: I hate that

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: mist arising from the storm
 

Storm Nordwind: Shock comes-oh, oh! Laughing words -ha, ha! The shock terrifies for a hundred miles, And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.

SophiaSharon Larnia: thinking during the 90 sec: whats underneath is contentment
Aphrodite Macbain: where is that from Storm?
Storm Nordwind: The I Ching
SophiaSharon Larnia: wow nice Storm
Storm Nordwind: the 51st hexagram
SophiaSharon Larnia: hmm
Storm Nordwind: "The Arousing"
Aphrodite Macbain: oh
SophiaSharon Larnia: The shock terrifies for a hundred miles, And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice. Because he is strong?
Storm Nordwind: No. Because he has equanimity
SophiaSharon Larnia: can not be shaken?
SophiaSharon Larnia: ok
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes
Storm Nordwind: Because there is no separation between him, and the chalice and the shock
Aphrodite Macbain: who is "he"?
oO0Oo Resident: just don't photograph me with the spoon in my mouth ;)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
oO0Oo Resident: I will lose my composure
Storm Nordwind: You would need to know something of the I Ching to understand who "he" could be. Pila runs workshops still I believe
SophiaSharon Larnia: he does
Aphrodite Macbain: there are worse things to loose Sam
oO0Oo Resident: composure: the anima/soul that is captured by a photograph?
Aphrodite Macbain: according to Sam?
oO0Oo Resident: our composition stolen
SophiaSharon Larnia: if thats the case, theres a lot of soul capturing going on
oO0Oo Resident: our identity
oO0Oo Resident: oui
Aphrodite Macbain: right SS
Aphrodite Macbain: I think our soul is more elusive than that
SophiaSharon Larnia: some of the earliest art work was a kind of photograph
Aphrodite Macbain: how do you mean?
SophiaSharon Larnia: painting what was seen
SophiaSharon Larnia: from an inner vision
SophiaSharon Larnia: capturing it
SophiaSharon Larnia: i think its more illusive too
SophiaSharon Larnia: elusive* oops
SophiaSharon Larnia: equanamity :) so easy to say
Aphrodite Macbain: no one can take it cause no one can own it

oO0Oo Resident: What we hold dear, in who we think we are, if captured by powers of recording... and losing, in a way, our sense of central control over that...

Aphrodite Macbain: I often wonder where this sould I am supposed to have is stored
Aphrodite Macbain: soul
Storm Nordwind: Some people don't like it if you have equanamity. It means they can't manipulate you.
Aphrodite Macbain: they can't unbalance you, yes
Aphrodite Macbain: Tai Chi teaches me that
oO0Oo Resident: they cannot use you as a reference point to solidify their views
Storm Nordwind: They can't touch you to unbalance you. They just slide off
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
SophiaSharon Larnia: the world

Aphrodite Macbain: How I would love to be in that state of equanimity. Not because I am immune to others but so that I can be open to them

SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Storm Nordwind: It is a supremely easy thing to have - or rather to be. Effortless. We can make it so hard.
Aphrodite Macbain: yes?
SophiaSharon Larnia: makes excuses
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Aphrodite Macbain: to not be controlled by our emotions?
Aphrodite Macbain: to be free of them?
Storm Nordwind: To be free in one way but not another
Aphrodite Macbain: ?

--BELL--

Storm Nordwind: Free as in not controlled by them, not identifying with them, watching them come and go
Aphrodite Macbain: yes check
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: But that's not easy Storm, to simply watch
Storm Nordwind: It isn't?
Aphrodite Macbain: Not for me
Storm Nordwind: What makes it hard for you?
Aphrodite Macbain: anyway
Aphrodite Macbain: habit I suppose
Aphrodite Macbain: perhaps my ego
Aphrodite Macbain: fear
Bleu Oleander: fro on too tight :)
Aphrodite Macbain: of what will happen if i do
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
oO0Oo Resident: hehe Bleu, and nice insight Aph
Aphrodite Macbain takes a deep breath
SophiaSharon Larnia: in a way it does feel like a disconnect, even tho i feel instinctively that isnt so

Storm Nordwind: Happiness. Peace. Excitement. Insight. Awareness. All things I've found that doesn't deserve the fear they get :)

Aphrodite Macbain: take it off and stick a beach ball in it Bleu
Bleu Oleander: hehe
SophiaSharon Larnia: :) Storm
SophiaSharon Larnia: off to bed for me, thinking of equanamity :) and that my new do will make a good pillow :)

Aphrodite Macbain: It's not those good things that are frightening Storm its the sadness, anger, resentment, jealousy etc etc that are frightening to just "be" with

SophiaSharon Larnia: nods at Aph
Storm Nordwind: Bye then Sharon!
Bleu Oleander: or a comfy chair Sharon
oO0Oo Resident: Night SSL... :)))
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! sharon, sleep well and tight
Bleu Oleander: nite Sharon
SophiaSharon Larnia: :) yes Bleu, sorry to leave at this moment tho
oO0Oo Resident: You will still be with us :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: important stuff here

Storm Nordwind: Sounds like sadness, anger, resentment, jealousy etc are things worth doing without!

SophiaSharon Larnia: :)))) thank you
Bleu Oleander: should go too to walk the pups :)
Aphrodite Macbain: exactly
SophiaSharon Larnia: waves
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye!
Storm Nordwind: They're depending on you Sharon!
Bleu Oleander: nite all .... fun froing with you all
oO0Oo Resident: :) Beu
Storm Nordwind: Nite Bleu!
Aphrodite Macbain: to-ing and fro-ing
Bleu Oleander: bye :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! bleu
oO0Oo Resident: Bleu lol
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks for this - Storm, Samuo.
Storm Nordwind smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: Now I'm going to do something mundane and make dinner
Storm Nordwind: haha! Good :)
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Storm Nordwind: Make it a thoroughly absorbing meditation :)
Aphrodite Macbain: on
oO0Oo Resident: hehe
Aphrodite Macbain: stop
oO0Oo Resident: off
Aphrodite Macbain: Nite!
Storm Nordwind waves
oO0Oo Resident: enjoy your meal Aph
Storm Nordwind will go too and write emails!
Storm Nordwind: Namaste
oO0Oo Resident: bye Storm
oO0Oo Resident: A ki P ki R so L so 4 _/!\_