2011.04.18 07:00 - Being hugged

The Guardian for this meeting was Eden Haiku. The comments are by Eden Haiku. 

Eden and Yaku hugging at the end of this hugging session

Baby talk

Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning eden
Eden Haiku: Good morning Yaku! How are you?
Yakuzza Lethecus: trying to relax right now
Eden Haiku: Back from work?
Yakuzza Lethecus: have my coffee and this time i've already eaten the salad :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: yes
Yakuzza Lethecus: came home 15 minutes ago
Eden Haiku: healthy eating, good for you :))
Yakuzza Lethecus: well, it's just an appetizer for the dinner later :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: i don't even have lunch at work
Bleu Oleander: hi Yaku, Eden :)
Eden Haiku: I'm still blissfull from yesterday: having held my one-month great-niece in my arms for the first time :)))
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey sunshine
Yakuzza Lethecus: amazing :)
Eden Haiku: Good morning Bleu, hello Sunshine ;))
Bleu Oleander: hey Sun :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: morning bleu
Yakuzza Lethecus: how old is she ?
Sunshine Vayandar: one month ;)
Eden Haiku: One month!
Bleu Oleander: awww!
Sunshine Vayandar: ;))
Eden Haiku: Premature baby due on May 9th, born on March 17!
Bleu Oleander: must be tiny
Eden Haiku: So much full of life and love, so calm.
Sunshine Vayandar: ;))
Sunshine Vayandar: oh really
Sunshine Vayandar: and all is ok with baby and mommy?
Eden Haiku: Now she's about 6 pounds, she quitted the hospital yesterday at noon and she had her first family party at my place last night! We were 10 adoring adults :)
Bleu Oleander: how nice Eden :)
Sunshine Vayandar: ohh i miss being close to babies
Eden Haiku: She is a pro:) We took turns holding her, she looked into our eyes, smiled. They say it's not "real" smiles but hey, we loved it!
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey eliza
Bleu Oleander: hi Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Hello Hello!
Sunshine Vayandar: hi Liz ;))
Eden Haiku: Have memories of her mother as a baby in my arms and of her grand-father as a baby in my arms also :) My brother is a young grand-dad :)
Sunshine Vayandar: how are you?
Eden Haiku: Eliza, hi :)))
Eliza Madrigal: :))awwwww
Sunshine Vayandar: oh really ;))
Yakuzza Lethecus: hello susan
Sunshine Vayandar: hi susan ;)
Eden Haiku: Was telling others that I met the little one Eliza, still brimming with joy!
Sunshine Vayandar: brb one moment
Bleu Oleander: hi Susan
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Susan :)
Eden Haiku: Hello Susan, nice to see you:)
iwandertoo Resident: :)

Direct line to Being

Eliza Madrigal: yes, I gathered... how blissful
Eliza Madrigal: you are full of baby joy
Eden Haiku: I am :)
Eden Haiku: Felt close to Being :)
Eden Haiku: Played with Being
Eliza Madrigal: mmmmm
Eliza Madrigal stops to remember gazing for days into 'new baby' eyes
Eden Haiku: Don't you have this feeling that babies are closer than most of us most of the time?
Eden Haiku: Close to Being I mean...
Eliza Madrigal: some kind of directness, yes
Eden Haiku: Direct line :)
Eliza Madrigal: surely no agendas yet :)
Eden Haiku: hehe
Eden Haiku: And how are you doing yourself guys?
Eden Haiku: Would anyone like to suggest a focus for next 90 seconds?
Eliza Madrigal: hmmm
Eliza Madrigal: some kind of freshness, openness... direct connection perhaps
Bleu Oleander: nice
Eden Haiku: Yes!
Eliza Madrigal: inspired by your inspiration :)
Eden Haiku: Let us focus our awareness onto noticing the freshness, the openness, the direct connection as you suggest Eliza :)

--BELL--

Eden Haiku: Felt the connection with the baby the moment I closed my eyes when the bell rang.
Eden Haiku: Felt she was a little Buddha sitting in my heart
Eden Haiku: Connecting me with my Mom in the netherworld with a direct line
Bleu Oleander: so poetic!
Eliza Madrigal: beautiful
Eden Haiku: and also connecting me with each of you, Yaku in Germany, Bleu in Arizona, Eliza in Miami and Susan...I did not know where, but here, at the fountain.
iwandertoo Resident: cali
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Ah, sunny Calfornia :) Picturing you at the beach all the time, surfing Susan :))
Bleu Oleander: funny to see "Bleu in Arizona" .... breaks the immersiveness in some ways :)
iwandertoo Resident: hehe...northern...but love the sunshine and seaside
Eden Haiku: I have a geographic imagination :)
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Eden Haiku: Funny I never picture Eliza in the waves, wonder why ?
Eliza Madrigal: Eliza appreciates Miami a lot, sometimes gives her typist fresh perspectives...
Eliza Madrigal: Both Eliza and her typist are always searching for tree cover :)
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bleu Oleander: funny how sense of place changes from sl to rl
Eden Haiku: Ah! The tree under which you wait for your daughter after school?
Eliza Madrigal: there are times though... dusk on beaches... the sound stays with one for days...
Eliza Madrigal: and yes :) that one and I seem to be finding others...
Eliza Madrigal: funny how it happens
Eden Haiku: Ah, the sea birds...Seagulls sounds...So evocative...
Eliza Madrigal: like a baby's eyes can open you to all other eyes

Living food and April snowstorms

Eden Haiku: Was at this Living Food workshop up in the hills Saturday.
Bleu Oleander: what's that Eden?
Eden Haiku: Been told that if you soak nuts during the night, it multiplies the nutrients by 900!
Eliza Madrigal: all nuts?
Eden Haiku: It starts a new life in the nuts. Like germinating seeds but with nuts it's invisible.
Eliza Madrigal: hmm
Eden Haiku: Mainly about healthy eating Bleu, fresh foods, lightly steamed. Very interesting.
Eliza Madrigal: the secret life of nuts...
Eden Haiku: Felt the baby brimming with that kind of pulsing new life!
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Eliza Madrigal: brimming, what a wonderful word
Eden Haiku: Full blown snowstorm on our way back.
Eliza Madrigal: wow in mid April no less
Eden Haiku: My brother had it too, driving from his place far up North.
Bleu Oleander: amazed to think about snow in april
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Aph :)
Bleu Oleander: hi Aph
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Steve :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: hi aph
Bleu Oleander: hey steve
Yakuzza Lethecus: and steve
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Eden Haiku: My boyfriend was caught in ice storm coming from another town :) April in Quebec yes :)
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry Yaku!
Eden Haiku: hello Aphrodite, good morning early bird :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi, just in for a few minutes
Eden Haiku: Hello Steve, nice to see you. Holiday?
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello everyone.

Fruitful chaos

Eliza Madrigal: makes me think of my oldest daughter, she came into the world wide-open, huge eyes... couldn't get enough stimulation... she was exhausting :) now at 18 well... she seems to be having a time of this again :) All I can do is hold on
Aphrodite Macbain smiles
Eliza Madrigal: and :::breathe:::: :D

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: and enjoy
stevenaia Michinaga: holiday tonight
stevenaia Michinaga: minute is up, must be off :)
Eden Haiku: That's wonderful Eliza :) She must be so lively...
Bleu Oleander: bye steve ntsy
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Eden Haiku: Bye Steve. Take care!
Eliza Madrigal: steve sighting
Eden Haiku: Ah Passover starting tonite on the 19th...
Eliza Madrigal: Hm, well, wonderful isn't the word right now but I believe that underneath, it is a similar time for her :)
Eliza Madrigal: very alive
Eden Haiku: What you do not call wonderful now will seem so in a while I'm sure :))
Eliza Madrigal: :)))
iwandertoo Resident: ::)
Eden Haiku: Did she died her hair purple and painted her nails black?
Eliza Madrigal: oh that would be far easier :)
Eden Haiku: is feeling very curious....
Eliza Madrigal: :)) Actually there is something to see... in times of transition, growth, transformation...maybe there is chaos
Eden Haiku: but understands you want to respect her privacy :)
Eliza Madrigal: yes... she's very open like me but I like to talk around the edges
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bleu Oleander: chaos can be good time for creativity and exploration
Eliza Madrigal: yes!
Eliza Madrigal: exactly, hard to see at first perhaps, or even during
Eden Haiku: Yes, I agree. Chaos is fruitful.
Eliza Madrigal: living food
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: hehe
Eliza Madrigal: thank you for letting me share; that helped already :)
Bleu Oleander: isn't that why we're here? :))

Hugging frenzy

Eliza Madrigal: :)) (((Bleu))))
Eden Haiku: :))
Bleu Oleander: (((Eden, Yaku, Eliza, Susan, Aph, Sun)))
Eden Haiku: Enjoying the big hug from Bleu. Wow!
Eliza Madrigal: (((Eden Yaku, Bleu, Susan, Aph))))
Eliza Madrigal: ((sun)) from afar
Eden Haiku: (((Yaku, Bleu, Eliza, Susan, Aph and Sunshine)))
Eliza Madrigal: hehe so nice
Bleu Oleander: yes!! should hug more often :))
Eliza Madrigal: agreed! direct!
Aphrodite Macbain: ((((( everyone)))))
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Eden Haiku: Might be afk for a little while, unless my brother would like to see my screen. He's downstairs and my boyfriend overheard him saying he's coming to say goodbye. He's leaving later today for a place called Iles de la Madeleine, for some work.
Aphrodite Macbain: what is it about hugs that is so wonderful?
Eden Haiku: Yes, even virtual hugs are wonderful...
Eliza Madrigal: hmmm yes
Aphrodite Macbain: Right in the middle of the St Lawrence River?
Eden Haiku: afk

My older brother who had been visiting my Dad downstairs for the last two days, came up to say goodbyes. I sat with him in the kitchen for about 20 minutes and I got a wonderful big hug as he came in, and another one as he left: he now lives in Newfoundland where people are well known for their warmth and friendliness. Even my Dad gave us rounds of hugs when he came back from there! But with all this RL shows of affection, I missed the hugging fun around the fountain...

Bleu Oleander: hugs break boundaries
Yakuzza Lethecus: does everyone have a tool for hugs in sl ?
Eliza Madrigal nods maybe they go straight for the heart and neverminding anything else
Aphrodite Macbain: an aaautomatic closeness
Yakuzza Lethecus: !list
Aphrodite Macbain: hood for hugger and huggee
Eliza Madrigal: TY Yaku
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks Yaku
Bleu Oleander: ty!
Eliza Madrigal: ah, nourishment
Yakuzza Lethecus: hug eden heiku
Aphrodite Macbain: How does it work?
Bleu Oleander: !list
Aphrodite Macbain: !list
Yakuzza Lethecus: i haven't used it in a while :) , eden did you get a message ?
Eliza Madrigal: hehe
Bleu Oleander: hehe
Yakuzza Lethecus: to accept ?
Eliza Madrigal: thank you Bleu
Bleu Oleander: nice!
Eliza Madrigal: It should ask the other if they'll accept a hug...
Aphrodite Macbain: bleu
Bleu Oleander: hug Eden Haiku
Yakuzza Lethecus: hug susan sorensson
iwandertoo Resident: k
iwandertoo Resident: what do i do?
Aphrodite Macbain: !list
Bleu Oleander: how does this work?
Eliza Madrigal: I have a different one maybe...
Eliza Madrigal: let me see
Yakuzza Lethecus: you just type "hug and the person" you want to hug

--BELL--

iwandertoo Resident: hug
Aphrodite Macbain: !command hug Susan
Yakuzza Lethecus: wear it and then type !list
Yakuzza Lethecus: !list
Eliza Madrigal: ilist
Aphrodite Macbain: can't seem to hug you susan!
iwandertoo Resident: hehe
Bleu Oleander: !list
iwandertoo Resident: !list
Aphrodite Macbain: !list
Aphrodite Macbain: !hug yaky
Bleu Oleander: !hug Yaku
Aphrodite Macbain: !hug yaku
Aphrodite Macbain: yall
Aphrodite Macbain: Yayy
Bleu Oleander: haha!
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
iwandertoo Resident: haha
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks Yaku
Aphrodite Macbain: !list
Bleu Oleander: awww
Eliza Madrigal: that's another kind... just in case
Bleu Oleander: ty!
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Eliza Madrigal: I haven't figured out this new one Yaku
Eliza Madrigal: ilist
Aphrodite Macbain: !command hug Bleu
Bleu Oleander: hugging got me in the fountain hehe
Eliza Madrigal: heheh
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: i think fael also made some of these
Eliza Madrigal: It is a fresh hug fest
Aphrodite Macbain: I can't hug you Bleu
Bleu Oleander: funny!
Bleu Oleander: !hug Aphrodite
Yakuzza Lethecus: !hug eliza
Aphrodite Macbain: !yes
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Eliza Madrigal: :))) I like this one that it says 'gives Eliza a big hug"
Bleu Oleander: !hug Aphrodite
Aphrodite Macbain: !command hug Bleu

Yakuzza Lethecus: !hug eden
Eliza Madrigal: eden may be afk

[I must have looked very snobbish, it's a good think Eliza noticed I said I was going to be afk for a while and said so, otherwise...]

Bleu Oleander: have to say "!hug ....." Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: !hug Bleu
Eliza Madrigal: :D
Eliza Madrigal: there ya go!
Bleu Oleander: :D
Aphrodite Macbain: awww wet feet and all
Eliza Madrigal: heheh
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks Bleu
Bleu Oleander: hehe
Eliza Madrigal: Nice way to begin the day again
Aphrodite Macbain: yes. virtual hugs

Bleu Oleander: nice photos for the session Eden?

[Obviously missed the opportunity to take many great pictures...]

Bleu Oleander:a hug fest :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Oh - they're on film!?

Eliza Madrigal: she is afk I think....
Eliza Madrigal: otherwise she'd be up hugging :D

[Thanks again for saving my reputation (((Eliza))) ]

Note to Storm: group hug script [please?]

Bleu Oleander: can you hug more than one at a time?
Eliza Madrigal: I wonder about finding a group hug, hm
Aphrodite Macbain: group hug!
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Aphrodite Macbain thinks that might be complicated
Aphrodite Macbain: but fun
Eliza Madrigal: maybe...
Eliza Madrigal: yes :)
Bleu Oleander: I'm imagining someone has invented that somewhere in sl
Aphrodite Macbain: we'd have to line up like a chorus line then bend
Bleu Oleander: haha
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Aphrodite Macbain: joining into a circle, then get tighter and tighter
Bleu Oleander: we need a good scripter in our group
Aphrodite Macbain: yes. who is that do you think? Bleu, Sophia, Storm?
Bleu Oleander: maybe Sun knows how to do that
Eliza Madrigal: somehow I have a circular dance picture ... like at weddings...
Eliza Madrigal: hands around shoulders dancing around the fountain
Bleu Oleander: note to Storm: group hug
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Aphrodite Macbain: was it scripted - I guess it had to be Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, prob doesn't exist...
Eliza Madrigal: yet
Eliza Madrigal: but people are amazing
Aphrodite Macbain: a new enterprise of PAB's - bringing the community together
Eliza Madrigal: sunshine may indeed know where to acquire a group hug
Aphrodite Macbain: through group hugs
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: hehe
Aphrodite Macbain: happens after onigokko
Bleu Oleander: ha ha
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Bleu Oleander: could combine the two
Aphrodite Macbain: exploding apart then coming together
Bleu Oleander is getting carried away
Eliza Madrigal: :) oni afterglow
Aphrodite Macbain: in a nice way
Bleu Oleander: :)

Magic of hugging is working!

Eliza Madrigal: it really does help... am feeling so warm and fuzzy, think to email daughter and then channel into work...
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Aphrodite Macbain: what will work be today?
Eliza Madrigal: (((((((((((((((((friends)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Bleu Oleander: hugging my puppy just now :)
Eliza Madrigal: ah, bit of writing and laundry :)
Aphrodite Macbain: hugging my tea cup
Bleu Oleander: hehe
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Eliza Madrigal: thanks so much everyone, bye for now
Aphrodite Macbain: eyeing my cat
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye eliza
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Bleu Oleander: bye Eliza ... take care
Eliza Madrigal: bye!
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! eliza, have a great Monday
Bleu Oleander: should go too
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Bleu Oleander: bye all
Aphrodite Macbain: me too
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye everyone
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! all

--BELL--

Hugging Yakuzza

As I came back to my keyboard a few minutes later, Yaku was standing alone by the fountain. I thought he was leaving, but scrolling back through the local chat, I realized he might have been waiting for me so I claimed my virtual hug.

Eden Haiku: Bye Yaku :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: take care eden
Eden Haiku: My brother just left. Got real big hugs:)))
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Eden Haiku: Sorry I missed the conversation. Waving to others through the log!
Eden Haiku: Can I get a virtual hug Yaku (just scrolling back)
Yakuzza Lethecus: !hug eden
Eden Haiku: Again!
Yakuzza Lethecus: !hug eden
Eden Haiku: For the picture :))
Eden Haiku: Thank you! Felt real good Yaku!
Yakuzza Lethecus: de nada :)
Eden Haiku: You hugged each other for the remaining of the session it seemed!
Eden Haiku: I'm lucky you stayed for me :) Tks!
Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, partly :) [In fact, Yak explained in IM he was experimenting something with camera moves :)]
Yakuzza Lethecus: you had the better hugs in rl then :)
Eden Haiku: Oh yes, my brother from Newfoundland gives the biggest hugs!
Eden Haiku: He's wonderful.
Eden Haiku: he's the one who isn't a grand-dad yet. :) It was synchronicity that we all met at my place yesterday :)
Eden Haiku: hug/ Yakuzza
Yakuzza Lethecus: !hug eden
Eden Haiku: I said yes :) [Tricky you have to accept the hug: if you are distracted and fail to click the blue notecard, it doesn't work!]
Eden Haiku: Doesn't work anymore? You can get addicted to these hugs :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: i don't know when it will time out
Eden Haiku: ! yakuzza

--BELL--

We kept talking both in IM and local chat. Yaku shifted to voice as I read the log and he kept experimenting. I asked for more hugs, as pictures are not quite right. This time, Yak shooted a video. It looks a bit strange but it's completely innocent :)

Eden Haiku: ! hug yakuzza
Yakuzza Lethecus: !hug
Yakuzza Lethecus: in one command
Eden Haiku: !hug Yakuzza
Eden Haiku: !hug Yakuzza
Eden Haiku: !hug yakuzza
Eden Haiku: Got a good pic this time, thank you :)
Eden Haiku: Scrolling back to read the log. Are you still experimenting?

--BELL--

Yakuzza Lethecus: !hug eden
Yakuzza Lethecus: .
Yakuzza Lethecus: !hug eden
Eden Haiku: ! hug Yakuzza
Eden Haiku: Nice :)))
Eden Haiku: It looked like you were walking...tho
Eden Haiku: 82
Eden Haiku: acht twei [was mimicking him..]
Eden Haiku: That's fine, we are experimenting :)
Eden Haiku: ach zwei
Eden Haiku: around is good, less jumpy then camera...
Eden Haiku: great! will use the link on the log
Eden Haiku: no problem
Yakuzza Lethecus: http://de.xfire.com/video/451dfc/
Eden Haiku: thru dropbox?
Eden Haiku: LOL the fact that you are jumping looks a bit lubric, but it's nice :)
Eden Haiku: Not sure if I will post that one :)
Eden Haiku: But it's good for you to develop this it would be useful for Art of Being!
Eden Haiku: You could be our official director!
Eden Haiku: Yes :)))
Eden Haiku: Sure, I understand. Have a nice dinner!
Eden Haiku: BFN