The Guardian for this meeting was Maxine Walden. The comments are by Maxine.

This session on a Sunday afternoon had some meandering threads, a bit of 'history' and some animal antics between avi-bears. Sweet reading

Bertram Jacobus: hello hokon - i hope, i don´t disturb (?) ...
Hokon Cazalet: hi =)
Hokon Cazalet: nope your not
Bertram Jacobus: may be you like to meditate before the others come ?
Bertram Jacobus: and prefere quietness ?
Hokon Cazalet: naw, im just waiting, looking up some stuff online, not meditating at this time anyways
Bertram Jacobus: ok ... so i´ll take a seat as well ...
Hokon Cazalet: =)
Hokon Cazalet: how are you today?
Bertram Jacobus: okay, but no work and few money these days. that must be changed ... how about you ?
Hokon Cazalet: aw =(
Hokon Cazalet: im doing ok
Bertram Jacobus: good ! ...
Hokon Cazalet: =)
Hokon Cazalet: brb rl thing for a few minutes
Bertram Jacobus: ok
--BELL--
Bertram Jacobus: hello dash ! ...
Dash Earthboy: hey y'all :)
FcSeeker Resident: Hello all
Bertram Jacobus: hokon said she would be shortly afk ...
Dash Earthboy: hey Alf
Bertram Jacobus: hello fc seeker ! :-) - have you been here before ?
Bertram Jacobus: oh. that is alfi ?
FcSeeker Resident: twice before now
Bertram Jacobus: okay ... :-)
Bertram Jacobus: nice ...
Bertram Jacobus: and hi maxine
Dash Earthboy: hey Maxine
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Maxine
FcSeeker Resident: (do not still see Alfi)
Bertram Jacobus: i think, dash mixed that up ? ;-)
Maxine Walden: hi, everyone....
FcSeeker Resident: aha
Dash Earthboy: (anything in parentheses can be ignored)
Maxine Walden: Good to see you Bertram, Dash, Hokon, FcSeeker
Bertram Jacobus: :-) ...
Hokon Cazalet: back
Hokon Cazalet: hi all =)
Dash Earthboy: wb Hokon
Hokon Cazalet: Weeee! ^.^
Dash Earthboy: hey Zon
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Zon
Hokon Cazalet: hi zon
Bertram Jacobus: hi zon ! ...
Dash Earthboy: now what?
Dash Earthboy: i need some stuffed pizza :)
Maxine Walden: Dash, are you wondering about the conversation?
Dash Earthboy: what about it?
Maxine Walden: or about lunch?
Dash Earthboy: i like both! :)
Hokon Cazalet: oo pizza . . .
Maxine Walden: :))
Hokon Cazalet: pizza = ❤
Maxine Walden: yes, both are nourishing...
Dash Earthboy: wb Zon
Dash Earthboy: yep
Maxine Walden: hi,Zon
Bertram Jacobus: hi zon again ... (?) ;-)

After these intros we begin the conversation

Maxine Walden: So what flavor of conversation would folks like to have?
Dash Earthboy: history is the science of why one never takes two steps into the same river?
Agatha Macbeth: Hi all
Bertram Jacobus: hi aggers
Agatha Macbeth: (Or hi again!)
Maxine Walden: nice to see you again
Maxine Walden: :)
FcSeeker Resident: you say interesting thing Dash...
Agatha Macbeth: Sorry we lost you Max :(
Maxine Walden: Dash, care to say more...?
Dash Earthboy: more?
FcSeeker Resident: as I've learned that saying that 'history repeats himself all the time'
Maxine Walden: yes, Agatha, somehow I slipped through the tp net...
Dash Earthboy: happy to oblige ;)
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Bertram Jacobus: hiya woly ! ... :-)
--BELL--
Maxine Walden: always nice to see you, Wol
Wol Euler smiles.
Dash Earthboy: sans burka
Agatha Macbeth: She's been busy talking Arabic :p
Wol Euler: heheh
Hokon Cazalet: hi coprinka
Wol Euler: yeah, it catches on the horns, very tricky to wear
Maxine Walden: ah...multi talented...
Agatha Macbeth: Sure is!
Maxine Walden: Dash was in the middle of a thought a bit ago...
Agatha Macbeth: Please continue Dash
Wol Euler listens.

Zon continues the thread abotu history and repeating it...

Zon Kwan: history usually shows how man makes same mistakes over and over again
Dash Earthboy: was i in the middle of something again?
Maxine Walden: :), Dash
Agatha Macbeth: Agreed, Zon
Dash Earthboy: i hate when that happens
FcSeeker Resident: do you mean that the same man makes the same mistake again and again ?
Wol Euler: careless of him -- and unimaginative too
Wol Euler: at least make fresh ones
Dash Earthboy: :)
Maxine Walden: maybe we have two poles about the same 'thought': can't really repeat anything because things always change....but also men keep repeating the same mistakes, as if never learn from history/experience
Dash Earthboy: there's something to be said for consistency?
FcSeeker Resident: as far as I've learned, there is much things that man needs many lives to learn
Maxine Walden: would agree, Fc
Agatha Macbeth: Me too
Zon Kwan: repetition is the teacher
Dash Earthboy: what about these books "all i need to know I learned in kindergarten?"
Maxine Walden: :)
Zon Kwan: thats for the clever ones
FcSeeker Resident: that can be one person's experience
Zon Kwan: not for me
Wol Euler: some people lead simple lives
Zon Kwan: must go see you guys
Bertram Jacobus: i heared teachers who said : telling once a thing is enough. when the time comes the seed will grow ...
Bertram Jacobus: bye zon ...
Maxine Walden: may feel difficult to keep open-eyed and learning as we go through life...
FcSeeker Resident: there is Uranus with her teaching
FcSeeker Resident: "What ever you want to understand, you must experience by yourself"
Maxine Walden: because being open to learn means change and loss
Wol Euler nods.
Hokon Cazalet: yup maxine
Wol Euler: and admitting that you need to do it
Maxine Walden: yes, Wol
FcSeeker Resident: so is it possible to avoid learning ?
Dash Earthboy: in RL i'm surrounded by those who think so
Maxine Walden: :)
Wol Euler: heheheh
Dash Earthboy: except for what they want me to learn from them :)
FcSeeker Resident: is there something that you want to learn from them ?
Dash Earthboy: nope
FcSeeker Resident: then I think that you could have peace inside you for them
FcSeeker Resident: they are weeker than you
FcSeeker Resident: and they are that because they have this problem
FcSeeker Resident: they believe that they know better than you do
Dash Earthboy: so far so true

Trying to introduce the complexity of learning but also retaining an inner voice

Maxine Walden: maybe there is a fine line between being open to learning, but also having a sense of an inner voice...
FcSeeker Resident: can you see that you do genuinly teach them , even they might notice that much later than their this life
Bertram Jacobus: hii zen ! ... :-
FcSeeker Resident: there's still also the option that they notice that sooner
Wol Euler: hello zen
Dash Earthboy: hi zen
Hokon Cazalet: i think they feed on each other maxine: the inner voice gets stronger with learning, and one can learn better with a strong inner voice
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Zen
Maxine Walden: hi, Zen
Zen Arado: hi folks
Hokon Cazalet: hi zen
Maxine Walden: agree, Hokon
Hokon Cazalet: without a strong inner voice, one is blind; without learning one's voice is empty
Maxine Walden: ;)
Hokon Cazalet: =)
--BELL--

Zen returns and we begin a more jocular to and fro

Agatha Macbeth: Hello again Zen
Zen Arado: hello again Aggers
Zen Arado: bought a new AO
Zen Arado: hope it lets me sit places
Agatha Macbeth: Do tell...
Dash Earthboy: congrats Zen
Agatha Macbeth: AOs are a pain in my experience
Zen Arado: got fed up turning last one on and off
Zen Arado: yeh
Agatha Macbeth: They never seem to do what you want to do
Agatha Macbeth: Especially sits
FcSeeker Resident: aha
Zen Arado: yeh keep sinking into seats
FcSeeker Resident: (tries something)
Agatha Macbeth: And other strange stuff
Zen Arado: probably cos I buy cheap ones
Maxine Walden: what'd you just try, Fc?
Dash Earthboy: we like strange :)
FcSeeker Resident: (didn't help to detach it)
Agatha Macbeth: That's a relief Dash :)
Wol Euler: :)
FcSeeker Resident: (just would like to look a bit happier)
Maxine Walden: :)
Agatha Macbeth: You can get smile HUDs
Dash Earthboy: (anything in parentheses can be ignored) -- writer's motto
Hokon Cazalet: i never liked the ones i got
Zen Arado: smiles
Hokon Cazalet: ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻
Zen Arado: text smile
Maxine Walden: trapped in a sad-looking posture?
FcSeeker Resident: I'm smiling, but that's not to see when I sit like this
Zen Arado: yeh some sats make you slouch over and look sad
Hokon Cazalet: yup
Maxine Walden: hmm
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe pandas don't smile much?
Bertram Jacobus: but can´t you raise your head with putting the mouse pointer above you perhaps fc ?
Maxine Walden: In a way, by their coloring, I think I have always thought nearly all pandas were smiling
Agatha Macbeth: Are you getting enough bamboo?
Hokon Cazalet: hehe agatha
Hokon Cazalet wants a teddy bear avatar
Dash Earthboy: me too Max
FcSeeker Resident: I've tried that too without success
Maxine Walden: :)
Agatha Macbeth: You look cute to me: that's better than smiling
Hokon Cazalet: =)
Hokon Cazalet: ⓄⓂⒼ
Hokon Cazalet: ty
FcSeeker Resident: thank you very much Agatha
Wol Euler: heheheh
Hokon Cazalet: Weeee! ^.^
Wol Euler: try it
Agatha Macbeth: yw :)
Agatha Macbeth: Try what Wol?

Wol then gives Hokon a teddy to interact with Fc whose av is a panda.  Animal antics soon spring to life while the rest of us watch

Wol Euler: I took Hokon at her word and gave her a teddy bear av
Agatha Macbeth: Oh, right
Agatha Macbeth: Nice sit Zen :p
Agatha Macbeth: Glad it's not a female AO
Wol Euler: heheh
Hokon Cazalet: !
Hokon Cazalet: Yaaaaayyyyyyyy!
Zen Arado: weird
Agatha Macbeth: Aww cute Hok
Hokon Cazalet: omg, ty so much wol!!!!!!
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: yw
Hokon Cazalet: ive wanted this for years!!!
Hokon Cazalet: Weeee! ^.^
Wol Euler: heh, should have asked earlier
Hokon Cazalet: awwww
Agatha Macbeth: Tiny furry teddy Hokon
Maxine Walden: :)
Hokon Cazalet: hehe
FcSeeker Resident: (panda's heart started to beat very strongly now)
Wol Euler: :)))
Hokon Cazalet: hehe
FcSeeker Resident: (he wishes so much a girl friend)
Agatha Macbeth: Down boy :p
Wol Euler: love at first sniff
Maxine Walden: panda'sfound a new teddy friend
Hokon Cazalet: lol wol
Maxine Walden: teddy bear's picnic....
Bertram Jacobus: so nice here ... but / and i must leave ... have a nice time all ! *wave* ...
Hokon Cazalet: eep! o.O
Maxine Walden: bye Bertram...
Agatha Macbeth: Can't beat a bear with gestures
FcSeeker Resident: (waiting so much what the lady bear might say)
Hokon Cazalet: hehe
Zen Arado: bye Bert
Hokon Cazalet: bye bertram
Agatha Macbeth: Bye bert
Dash Earthboy: bye Bert
Wol Euler: bye bert
Hokon Cazalet: hi FcSeeker =)
FcSeeker Resident: bye bertram
Bertram Jacobus: ty all for the talks and the company ! ...
Zen Arado: see you shortly
FcSeeker Resident: Hi Hokon <3<3<3
Hokon Cazalet: (lol)
Agatha Macbeth: You too berti :p
Zen Arado: Hokon Bear
Hokon Cazalet: hehe
FcSeeker Resident: would you like to be my friend Hokon ?
Agatha Macbeth: Can you bear it?
Hokon Cazalet: sure!
Zen Arado: smarter the the average
Hokon Cazalet: Yaaaaayyyyyyyy!
FcSeeker Resident: Aaaaaaawwwwwww
Hokon Cazalet: lol, im gonna be a bear for the next few months i think
FcSeeker Resident: (panda is near to pass out for happiness now)
Hokon Cazalet: Huggies!
Hokon Cazalet: whoops
Hokon Cazalet: that doesnt work right lol
--BELL--

I move a couple of pillows away to give the two cuddly bears more room to get to know each other

Maxine Walden: I will move to the next pillow to give you more room
Wol Euler: awwwwww
Hokon Cazalet: ty =)
Agatha Macbeth looks round for David Attenbrorough
Wol Euler is charmed
Maxine Walden: hahahah, Agatha!!
Dash Earthboy: hey Korel
FcSeeker Resident: you can have my that sit
Wol Euler: aren't they sweet.

Hokon Cazalet: aw but you need a seat
Agatha Macbeth: 'Here we have the mating ritual of the lesser spotted teddy bear'
Wol Euler: hello korel
Hokon Cazalet: lol agatha
FcSeeker Resident: I can also stand beside you dear
Zen Arado: Hi Korel
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Freud
Hokon Cazalet: =)
Agatha Macbeth: Korel
Korel Laloix: Heya
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Korel
FcSeeker Resident: thank you dear
Hokon Cazalet: nice and cozy, ty =)
Maxine Walden: hi, Korel
FcSeeker Resident: may I give you something my dear ?
Hokon Cazalet: aw
Agatha Macbeth: You bet :p
Hokon Cazalet: hm
Hokon Cazalet: im ok for now, hugs are good though
Agatha Macbeth: Keep it clean guys....
Hokon Cazalet: lol

Aga, Wol and I think about this chatlog, what to title it, include a pic...etc

Maxine Walden: (wondering what the title of this chatlog should be...any thoughts?)
Agatha Macbeth: Animal Antics?
Wol Euler: it needs a photo
Agatha Macbeth: I have 3
FcSeeker Resident: I was so happy when I got this that I learned to love even I'm a toy
Maxine Walden: ah, good idea...
Hokon Cazalet: =)
Maxine Walden: Agatha, would you like to add a photo to the chatlog? I'm not very good at that
Wol Euler: I'll mail it to you, maxine
Agatha Macbeth: Sure Max :)
Agatha Macbeth makes a note
FcSeeker Resident: I met one such human girl who said that she dont believe that a toy can feel anything
Hokon Cazalet: awww ty wol hehe
Korel Laloix: Time for a nap I think...
Korel Laloix: Take care all.
Hokon Cazalet: aw thats sad Fc
Agatha Macbeth: Aww, what does she know?
Wol Euler: bye korel, sleep well
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Korel
Korel Laloix: caio
Wol Euler: nonsense, fc
Hokon Cazalet: some humans are just confused
Wol Euler: she must read "the velveteen rabbit"
FcSeeker Resident: that can be
Agatha Macbeth: True
Zen Arado: bye Korel
Agatha Macbeth nods @ Wol
Maxine Walden: thanks Wol for the pic. Not sure how to attach it to the chatlog. I will try but maybe you or Agatha could make sure a pic 'gets there'.
Wol Euler: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/williams/rabbit/rabbit.html
Agatha Macbeth: I will
Wol Euler: yes, I'll put it in for you
Wol Euler: or aggers
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Arisia
Wol Euler: hello ari
Agatha Macbeth: Hiya Ari
Maxine Walden: thanks to you both.
Arisia Vita: Hi all!
FcSeeker Resident: see how I've got a gf now
Agatha Macbeth: NW
Hokon Cazalet: hehe

Ari arrives and soon joins in with the emotional goings on

Zen Arado: Hi Ari
Dash Earthboy: hey Ari
Wol Euler gets all verklempt and has to blink rapidly a few times
Maxine Walden: hi, Ari.
Agatha Macbeth is feeling quite emotional now
Arisia Vita: nice to see you all
Maxine Walden: :) wol
Hokon Cazalet is rather ecstatic
FcSeeker Resident: Wol also took a photo of us
Hokon Cazalet: yup
Agatha Macbeth: You're front page news
Hokon Cazalet: Weeee! ^.^
Hokon Cazalet plays with Fc's bell
FcSeeker Resident: smiles *
Agatha Macbeth: Ding ding
Maxine Walden: Ari, you are sitting next to two teddies in love
Agatha Macbeth: One teddy, one panda...
Arisia Vita: that makes three in love here...
Wol Euler: awwwwww
FcSeeker Resident: oh please my dear
FcSeeker Resident: have a sit
FcSeeker Resident: I just didn't want to stand my back to Ari
Hokon Cazalet: just streching my legs =)
Agatha Macbeth: Hope he said 'sit'
FcSeeker Resident: Arisia is my friend almost from my birth to SL
Hokon Cazalet: cool
Arisia Vita: you have a beautiful back...
Wol Euler: nice
Hokon Cazalet: is he vulcan?
Agatha Macbeth: Front too...
Arisia Vita: a vision from all sides
Arisia Vita: I like the Vulcans
Hokon Cazalet: me too =)
Agatha Macbeth: Live long and prosper
Arisia Vita: thus my IDIC
Arisia Vita: The Vulcan IDIC is an abbreviation for Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, the name of a prestigious Vulcan award of merit, celebrating the vast array of variables in the universe – the sea of possibility that a Vulcan-trained mind can navigate.
Hokon Cazalet: =)
Hokon Cazalet: yup
Zen Arado: oh
Zen Arado: didn't know that
Agatha Macbeth: Pity QT isn't here
Maxine Walden: ah, interesting...
Wol Euler: rather like playas being actually
Dash Earthboy: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Play as Vulcan?
Agatha Macbeth pictures Pema with pointed ears
Maxine Walden: yes, wol, agree...:) Agatha...haha
Dash Earthboy: heheh
Arisia Vita: and pointed sideburns, which all Star Trek male personnel had...
Maxine Walden: :))
Agatha Macbeth: Even Uhura :p
Wol Euler: heheh
Arisia Vita: :)
Hokon Cazalet: =)
Zen Arado: must go
Hokon Cazalet: byebyes zen
Zen Arado: it's logical
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Zen, say hi to Berti for me
Arisia Vita: I too must run to dinner...
Arisia Vita: ty for making me feel so welcome
FcSeeker Resident: bon appetite my friend
Maxine Walden: thanks for coming, Ari
Arisia Vita: you are all special
Agatha Macbeth watches Ari rush into the distance
Dash Earthboy: bye Ari
Dash Earthboy: this has been about my most unusual Fathers Day yet

'Tis the end of the hour, and several of us are going...

Maxine Walden: And actually I have to go as well. Thanks for all the help re posting this national geographic 'special
--BELL--
Maxine Walden: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Can't beat unusual fathers :p
Dash Earthboy: bye Max
Hokon Cazalet: hehe, bye maxine
Agatha Macbeth waves
Dash Earthboy: :)@Aga
Wol Euler: I'm going to bert's meditation at PPI
Wol Euler: goodnight all, take care
Hokon Cazalet: bye wol, and ty again =)
Agatha Macbeth: Think I'll come too
Wol Euler: and you two, be happy <3
FcSeeker Resident: bye Wol
Dash Earthboy: g'nite Wol
Agatha Macbeth: TP me?
Dash Earthboy: me too
Hokon Cazalet: can i be teleported also?
Wol Euler: I'
Hokon Cazalet: pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?
Wol Euler: Ill give landmarks
Dash Earthboy: nite all
Agatha Macbeth: Hokkai
Dash Earthboy: on
Wol Euler: prancer
FcSeeker Resident: I sadly need to go, but I wish you good time my dear
Agatha Macbeth: ty :)
Wol Euler: bye fc, take care
Hokon Cazalet: awww see you later =)
Wol Euler: sweet dreams
Agatha Macbeth: Thank you for a lovely evening Ec :)
Hokon Cazalet gives Fc a huge hug
Hokon Cazalet: ☻
FcSeeker Resident: hugs back :)
Hokon Cazalet: Yaaaaayyyyyyyy!