2011.06.07 13:00 - It is good to be seen

The Guardian for this meeting was oO0Oo Resident. The comments are by oO0Oo Resident.
 
oO0Oo Resident: :) Mr. Mowbray
oO0Oo Resident: ntsy
Bruce Mowbray: Peace and blessings, oO0Oo.
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Dream Workshop today?
oO0Oo Resident: that sounds right Bruce.. ::looks at mini-map for dots::
oO0Oo Resident: hiya SSL :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Sharon.
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Samúð, hi Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Dash.
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Dash
oO0Oo Resident: hi Dash.. gtsy :)
 
Dash's response helps me freshly consider abbreviated forms of expression
 
Dash Earthboy: g2bs
Dash Earthboy: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: (what is g2bs Dash?) :)
oO0Oo Resident: good to be '?'
Dash Earthboy: yep :)
Bruce Mowbray listens.
Dash Earthboy: it is good to be seen...sometimes I'm in a fog like ol' Bruce today
SophiaSharon Larnia: ah i get it now, thx
Dash Earthboy: i didn't get to sell my guitar today after all
SophiaSharon Larnia: have you ever played at the pavilion Dash?
Dash Earthboy: i drove it all the way to the store where he works and he'd forgot his wallet
SophiaSharon Larnia: sorry to hear that
Dash Earthboy: no, not here...not good connections/equipment for such streaming
SophiaSharon Larnia: oh :(
Dash Earthboy: yah
Dash Earthboy: but he did inquire why I'm selling my instruction guitar so cheap
SophiaSharon Larnia: I hope you've caught up on some of your sleep Bruce :)
Dash Earthboy: and then said he wants to take some lessons from me and is gonna try to help me find other regular (ofc/industry) work around here
SophiaSharon Larnia: :) Dash
Dash Earthboy: so there's cause for hope
oO0Oo Resident: :)

Exploration of an article related to an initiative in USA-Florida to raise price of tomatoes to resellers and fast food companies..

Dash Earthboy: meanwhile I see proponents for CIW in Florida are griefing Trader Joe
--BELL--

 
Dash Earthboy: something about a Fair Food agreement that raises the price of tomatoes by $1/lb
Dash Earthboy: http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/944-trader-joes-says-no-to-increase-for-florida-tomato-farmworkers
Dash Earthboy: oh crap...the facebook part got in that link
Dash Earthboy: just start at the second "http"
Dash Earthboy: was Yaku here earlier?
SophiaSharon Larnia: I cant say Dash
oO0Oo Resident: I didn't see him when I arrived at a bit before the hour
Dash Earthboy: ok
Bruce Mowbray: I think Yaku's at the Dream workshop.
Dash Earthboy: ah!
oO0Oo Resident: unable to get this link to work dash
Dash Earthboy: i was afraid of that
Dash Earthboy: maybe this one will work better
Dash Earthboy: http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/944-trader-joes-says-no-to-increase-for-florida-tomato-farmworkers
oO0Oo Resident: now i got it; http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/944-trader-joes-says-no-to-increase-for-florida-tomato-farmworkers&h=2f417
oO0Oo Resident: kk
SophiaSharon Larnia: here it says one penny/lb
Dash Earthboy: oops, i put a dollar instead of a penny didn't i?....blush
oO0Oo Resident: no worries... interesting article.. will save this to read in more depth.. ty Dash
SophiaSharon Larnia: no didnt mean for that :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: I understand the article, but want to know why they refused, if there is another reason
Dash Earthboy: thing is, I don't think a dollar a pound would solve the problem their trying to resolve: working conditions, slumlords, things that CIW doesn't have a viable solution for with their penny a pound approach
Dash Earthboy: on Facebook I sided w/Trader Joe that the approach was not viable as presented
Agatha Macbeth: Evening all
Dash Earthboy: hey Agatha
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Aggers
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Aggers.
oO0Oo Resident: hi Aggers :)
Agatha Macbeth: How are you Bruce?
Dash Earthboy: Bruce has resolved!
Agatha Macbeth: Really, wow
Agatha Macbeth: Resolved what?
SophiaSharon Larnia: as one of the comments say, its not the responsibility of grocery stores to provide for the farm employees, but since i know so little about this, even saying that much is more than i should say
Bruce Mowbray: still very weak and wobbly, I'm afraid -- but feeling a bit better than yesterday. Ty for asking.
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Agatha Macbeth: *huggles*

A fleeting appearance by an unknown passer through

Dash Earthboy: hey ****
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi ****
Agatha Macbeth looks for ****
Dash Earthboy: oops
SophiaSharon Larnia: and bye ****
Agatha Macbeth: ???
SophiaSharon Larnia: somebody just rezzed here and poofed
Dash Earthboy: my eyes are burning and tearing from allergies
Agatha Macbeth: Thought you said **** was here
Dash Earthboy: hard to see sometimes
Agatha Macbeth: Hay fever?
Dash Earthboy: guess it was ****
Agatha Macbeth: Who's ****?
SophiaSharon Larnia: laughs and shakes her head
Dash Earthboy: Who is she Soph?
Agatha Macbeth: The invisible woman evidently
Bruce Mowbray: **** came to check on Dash's tomatoes.
SophiaSharon Larnia: i dont know, some random person who rezzed here and disappeared
Agatha Macbeth: That was kind of her
SophiaSharon Larnia: Bruce! haha
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
SophiaSharon Larnia: sheesh
oO0Oo Resident: hehehe **** rezzed briefly.. perhaps taken to be **** briefly, perhaps thought to be '****' briefly.... ;)
Bruce Mowbray: Folks, it's time for me to get back in bed. .
Dash Earthboy: i don't do tomatoes here...i only buy these days
Bruce Mowbray: I will wish you each a happy and healty day.
Agatha Macbeth: Aww, take care Brucie
Dash Earthboy: best to you Bruce
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Bruce, nice to see you and rest why dont you :)
oO0Oo Resident: A happy and rejuvenating day to you Bruce.. good to see you :)
Bruce Mowbray: Bye for now.
--BELL--
 
 
Dash: on the CIW effort, the agreement they had the growers & distributors sign sounds wonderful but has no real structure, no real overseeing, and no specified enforecement of all terms
Aggers whispers: CIW?
 
    The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) at Wikipedia: http://is.gd/g4sBtH
 
SophiaSharon Larnia: why is the dream workshop ending so soon, thats kind of a first
 
Aggers reclines on her side briefly
 
SophiaSharon Larnia: Aggers, you look so comfy :)
Agatha Macbeth: Damn AO
oO0Oo Resident: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: ;p
Dash Earthboy: here Aggers... http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbo...to-farmworkers
Agatha Macbeth looks
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, I see
Dash Earthboy: they're picking on trader joe
SophiaSharon Larnia: i love trader joes, im still going to shop there
Agatha Macbeth: Tell him to drive a tractor over em
Dash Earthboy: i only have aldi close enough to me
SophiaSharon Larnia: whos to say the penny would go to workers anyway
Agatha Macbeth: Me too!
Dash Earthboy: but I liked TJ in Nashville
Dash Earthboy: yah Sharon that's a good point
Dash Earthboy: i boycotted lettuce for a good plan
SophiaSharon Larnia: whos regulating that? hmmm?
Dash Earthboy: but CIW...all flash & shoeless immigrant pictures
SophiaSharon Larnia: and I have to say this kind of convo irritates me, in the sense it makes me feel more helpless than I already do
Dash Earthboy: how so Sharon?
SophiaSharon Larnia: exactly how i said
Dash Earthboy: how more helpless?
SophiaSharon Larnia: do you think boycotting a tomato will solve poverty?
Dash Earthboy: huh?
oO0Oo Resident: the world moves fast.. all we can do sometimes is have impressions
SophiaSharon Larnia: maybe I should go
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Just the one?
SophiaSharon Larnia: haha
SophiaSharon Larnia: i boycott, THAT tomato
Agatha Macbeth: Mr Tomato...you are boycotted
Agatha Macbeth: Take it like a vegetable
Agatha Macbeth: ...fruit
Agatha Macbeth: I mean
oO0Oo Resident sees a boy in a hammock like cot, talking to a tomato
SophiaSharon Larnia: give the families who need them the damn tomatoes
Dash Earthboy: i think the leader of the movement i supported was Cesar Chavez
Dash Earthboy: the workers asked us to boycott lettuce to help them negotiate better with the growers
SophiaSharon Larnia tries to remove her self from the anger
Dash Earthboy: CIW doesn't seem to have such worker support
Agatha Macbeth hugs Shaz and strokes her hair
oO0Oo Resident looks softly at Aggers
SophiaSharon Larnia: grins thanks Aggers
Agatha Macbeth: :)
Dash Earthboy: good timing Aggers
SophiaSharon Larnia: bah
Agatha Macbeth nods
Dash Earthboy: i've had a farm...harvested blueberries, black walnuts, and other things including ginseng
SophiaSharon Larnia: nice Dash
Dash Earthboy: i like working close to the ground
Dash Earthboy: and i like to fly
Dash Earthboy: i piloted planes in my teens
SophiaSharon Larnia: a plane?
Agatha Macbeth: Nothing in between? :p
SophiaSharon Larnia: do you now?
Dash Earthboy: yes but only single & dual-engine small aircraft then
SophiaSharon Larnia: ooh take me
Dash Earthboy: nothing now
SophiaSharon Larnia: darn'
Dash Earthboy: except here on SL
Dash Earthboy: i can fly anywhere!
SophiaSharon Larnia: actually i would be scared to death
Agatha Macbeth: The Red Baron
Dash Earthboy: barron
Agatha Macbeth thinks of Snoopy flying his kennel
Dash Earthboy: heheh
SophiaSharon Larnia: i took a puddle jumper from delaware to pennsylvania and almost had an anxiety attack on the plane
SophiaSharon Larnia: and it is not as small as all that
SophiaSharon Larnia: eep
Agatha Macbeth: What's a puddle jumper?
SophiaSharon Larnia: i dont know a little plane
Dash Earthboy: yah, I made one instructor pee his pants
SophiaSharon Larnia: Dash!
Agatha Macbeth: Seems an odd name for something which flies
SophiaSharon Larnia: i know right
--BELL--
 
 
oO0Oo Resident has felt powerless in many ways... and the futility in seeing the simplicity of just wishing those that are hungry could be fed.. in a world not always set up to do that
Dash Earthboy: well, if a whole ocean is "the pond"?
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
SophiaSharon Larnia: it's not?
Agatha Macbeth: Could be
Dash Earthboy: i saw an interesting show about finding food growing in the cracks of the sidewalks in NYC
Agatha Macbeth: Good grief
SophiaSharon Larnia: Samúð, yes the perceived futility in wishes is what makes me feel powerless, the idea that nothing I could do would make any difference
Dash Earthboy: and I know there was good food in the vacant lot beside where I lived in Chicago near Wrigley Field
SophiaSharon Larnia: ive seen those urban gardens
oO0Oo Resident nods
SophiaSharon Larnia: i like the ones on top of buildings
Dash Earthboy: good food grows wild, like the herbs and ginseng and sassafras on my farm did
Dash Earthboy: yes one can cultivate food too...almost anywhere
Dash Earthboy: but my neighbors here won't let me grow/harvest anything outside
SophiaSharon Larnia: boo
Agatha Macbeth: Get a window box :p
Dash Earthboy: the ones with the loose Doberman who cut down healthy trees to run their off-road vehicles in
SophiaSharon Larnia: i have to say, its much easier to work at a job and buy the food than grow it
Agatha Macbeth: (a big one)
Dash Earthboy: yes those are good ideas Shar/Aga
Agatha Macbeth: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: i try to buy local
Dash Earthboy: my son thinks it's easier to buy Chik-FilA than to cook too :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: i do too lololo;
Dash Earthboy: but I like to cook
SophiaSharon Larnia: just awful for you in the long run (and short run too)
Dash Earthboy: oh there's healthy food out in those restaurants
Dash Earthboy: just gotta look careful
Dash Earthboy: and then afford it
Agatha Macbeth looks careful
SophiaSharon Larnia: the fast food here is cheaper than groceries
Dash Earthboy: i heard that
Agatha Macbeth: There's the rub
SophiaSharon Larnia: the junk in bargain stores like save a lot is cheap cheap cheap
Dash Earthboy: i've found that problem at some places
Agatha Macbeth loves junk
SophiaSharon Larnia: and to feed a family, a great deal
SophiaSharon Larnia: blah
Dash Earthboy: i used sav a lot in Ohio
SophiaSharon Larnia: you get stuff there that isnt junk
SophiaSharon Larnia: you can*
Dash Earthboy: mainly I like to grow my food to cut down on all the packaging we use
SophiaSharon Larnia: but the big family dinners are like, 2 bucks
Dash Earthboy: for sure Shar
SophiaSharon Larnia: gee what is wrong with me today
Dash Earthboy: really good deals
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Agatha Macbeth: The weather?
oO0Oo Resident: the challenges of the world today require great courage to be seen clearly, and to work with.. the practical choices can be complex and time consuming.. the emotional stuff hard to experience
SophiaSharon Larnia: i am so confused
SophiaSharon Larnia: how can this be perfect
Agatha Macbeth: Awww
Dash Earthboy: what's perfect?
oO0Oo Resident looks softly at SSL
oO0Oo Resident: your kindness and compassion are so apparent
Agatha Macbeth: She's a real sweetie our Sharon :)
Dash Earthboy: :)
oO0Oo Resident: yep
SophiaSharon Larnia: “When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
Dash Earthboy: maybe the question is "how can this be perfected"?
oO0Oo Resident: all wisdom traditions combine paradox
SophiaSharon Larnia: no it isnt, i am just an angry person
Dash Earthboy: anger isn't always a bad thing
SophiaSharon Larnia: anyway, this sort of convo rubs my fur the wrong way
oO0Oo Resident: agreed Dash... there is great intelligence in it
Dash Earthboy: against the grain, Sharon?
oO0Oo Resident: brb.. washroom
SophiaSharon Larnia: something like that
Dash Earthboy: it's almost time for me to bow out too...anything I can do to brush out the knits, Sharon?
SophiaSharon Larnia: hahah
SophiaSharon Larnia: no sorry to whine
--BELL--
 
 
feel a shift in energy, as though ducking under the imaginary boom swung cross deck after some enigmatic wind hits an invisible sail
 
SophiaSharon Larnia: and yes I would like some cheese with that whine
Agatha Macbeth: I love cheese
SophiaSharon Larnia: giggles
Agatha Macbeth: Especially emmental
SophiaSharon Larnia: huh? mental?
Dash Earthboy: i'll leave with this meditation: how can one pay attention when one lives in denial?
SophiaSharon Larnia: i never claimed to liv in denial
Agatha Macbeth: Depends how much you pay him I guess
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
Dash Earthboy: :)
 
Taking a washroom break, I missed what Dash switched on, but it seemed to freshen the sails further
 
Dash Earthboy: on
Dash Earthboy: off
Agatha Macbeth: Good heavens
SophiaSharon Larnia: ohh lord
oO0Oo Resident: back
Dash Earthboy: bye!
SophiaSharon Larnia: wb
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Dash :)
Agatha Macbeth: Take care dash
Agatha Macbeth: Dance well
oO0Oo Resident: bye Dash :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: ok i think im just going to put my head in the freezers, maybe im just too hot
oO0Oo Resident giggles
SophiaSharon Larnia: better than then the oven
SophiaSharon Larnia giggles
Agatha Macbeth: How many heads and how many freezers?
SophiaSharon Larnia: good lord
oO0Oo Resident: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: is feeling extraordinarily lazy
Agatha Macbeth: Never mind: soon be Christmas
SophiaSharon Larnia: hahahaha
SophiaSharon Larnia: you can never start too early
 
Aggers and SophiaSharon Onigokko in a small circle. I giggle, feeling lighter and lighter..
 
Agatha Macbeth: onigokko
oO0Oo Resident: shhhh... the shops will start stocking Christmas items
SophiaSharon Larnia: ack!!!
oO0Oo Resident giggles
oO0Oo Resident giggles
SophiaSharon Larnia: that will freak me out
oO0Oo Resident giggles
SophiaSharon Larnia: consumerism taken to a new level
oO0Oo Resident giggles
SophiaSharon Larnia: boing
oO0Oo Resident giggles
Agatha Macbeth: boing boing
SophiaSharon Larnia: yay running rings around Samuo
SophiaSharon Larnia: “When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
Agatha Macbeth: Or onigokko
SophiaSharon Larnia: ha!!!
oO0Oo Resident giggles
Agatha Macbeth: 0 will die laughing in a minute
oO0Oo Resident: weeeee =)
SophiaSharon Larnia: thanks again, i am always thanking someone
Agatha Macbeth: Gratitude is good :p
oO0Oo Resident: thanks for that SSL!
oO0Oo Resident: thanks Aggers
SophiaSharon Larnia: hey, i hope it was clear what i meant
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Agatha Macbeth: stop
SophiaSharon Larnia: i sure get more than i give it seems
oO0Oo Resident: yes, and thanks
SophiaSharon Larnia: lol
Agatha Macbeth smiles
oO0Oo Resident: feel the same SSL
Agatha Macbeth: That cured yer laziness
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehhe it did a bit
SophiaSharon Larnia: but now im hotter
SophiaSharon Larnia: laughs
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye 4 now :))
Agatha Macbeth: Hot stuff
oO0Oo Resident: whooo... feel like a strong, sharp, salty, seabreeze just had its way with my head :)
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Shaz
SophiaSharon Larnia: cool
Agatha Macbeth: Take care with the freezer
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
oO0Oo Resident: bye SSL.. thank you
Agatha Macbeth: Bye 0, meditate well :)
oO0Oo Resident: bye Aggers.. keep diaphanous gowns on hand ;) .. and thanks