2011.08.29 07:00 - On Balance and Easy Laughter

The Guardian for this meeting was Eliza Madrigal. The comments are by Eliza, joined by Dash, Susan, oO0Oo, Zen, Bleu, FcSeeker, Taramudra, Yakuzza, and Santoshima...

Dash Earthboy: hey Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Morning Dash
Eliza Madrigal: All recovered from your busy weekend?
Dash Earthboy: not quite...still some bruises and hurting muscles
Dash Earthboy: but at least I've caught up on the sleep :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Dash Earthboy: this morning I get to track down a laundromat
Dash Earthboy: and possibly arrange for a different motel to move to mid-week
Dash Earthboy: there has been no contact yet from several who offered assistance in finding house shares this weekend
Dash Earthboy: from the credit union, insurance agents, and real estate agents among others
Dash Earthboy: no response to my answering Craigslist ads either

Eliza Madrigal: I wonder if in the future you might have a role to play for others in the situation as you find yourself.... maybe learning all the potholes
Dash Earthboy: oh there are certainly many who have gone before me this way
Eliza Madrigal: I've heard of sites like 'couchsurfing.com"
Dash Earthboy: i'm signed up with them
Eliza Madrigal: I guess people give reviews, as one would with someone they made a purchase from
Eliza Madrigal: re manners and such?
Dash Earthboy: nothing closer than the hostel in Boulder for me
Eliza Madrigal: ah, Boulder was lovely when I jaunted there 20 years ago
Eliza Madrigal: can almost feel cobblestone
Dash Earthboy: quite a roller coaster going from bunks in dorms to kingsize beds in rooms all to myself
 

Bleu Oleander: hi Eliza ... hi Dash
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Bleu ! :)
Dash Earthboy: hey Bleu
Eliza Madrigal: Lovely to see you bright and early this morning, Bleu
Eliza Madrigal wonders what you might be working on, what trouble awaits...hehe
Bleu Oleander: yes, very bright and early
Dash Earthboy: Denver is apparently tied for hottest August record now
Dash Earthboy: set back in 1937
Bleu Oleander: will announce the new Art of Being project this week
Eliza Madrigal: (there is someone with the last name assange for wikyleeks on my radar, hah)
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, glad to hear :))
Dash Earthboy: yah
Dash Earthboy: hey Fc
Eliza Madrigal: Hi FcSeeker :)
Bleu Oleander: hi Fc
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Dash Eliza Bleu

Bleu Oleander: is there a topic this morning?
Eliza Madrigal: We haven't really begun a topic this morning, just catching up with the daily events

Dash and I ask complimentary questions...

Dash Earthboy: i'm not familiar with that Art of Being project Bleu
Eliza Madrigal: Have one in mind?
Dash Earthboy: can you give some details?
Bleu Oleander: sure

Bleu Oleander: it will be a Chair-ity
Bleu Oleander: design or buy a chair as staging for a poetry reading
Bleu Oleander: either your poem or someone elses
Bleu Oleander: details will follow in in an email

Eliza Madrigal: wonderful :) I wondered if there was a theme or if it was open
Eliza Madrigal: or both :)
Dash Earthboy: wow
Dash Earthboy: sounds great!
Eliza Madrigal: really looking forward to it, love to play in the dome
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Yakuzza
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Yaku! :)
Bleu Oleander: hi Yaku
Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning everyone
Dash Earthboy: hey Yaku
Eliza Madrigal: First pause approaching... throwing out 'appreciation' to consider :)
Bleu Oleander: sorry, brb rl call

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: Thanks everyone
Eliza Madrigal: Would someone like to share a report, what might have come up during the pause?
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Santoshima :)
Bleu Oleander: hi Santo
FcSeeker Resident: Hello san
Santoshima Resident: hi Eeliza, Bleu, Dash, Yaku
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Santoshima Resident: Eliza
Yakuzza Lethecus: hello santo and zen
Bleu Oleander: Eliza, you asked about a theme for the Art of Being project
 

Bleu Oleander: "balance"
 

FcSeeker Resident: Hello Zen
Eliza Madrigal: I kind of like my name with two Ees :)
Santoshima Resident: hello Zen
Eliza Madrigal: Oh... Balance!
Dash Earthboy: hey San & Zen
Bleu Oleander: hi Zen
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Zen :)
Zen Arado: Hi all
Eliza Madrigal: why does that strike me as the most perfect thing you could have said this morning? :))
Bleu Oleander: and it will be October 2nd at noon
Bleu Oleander: haha
Bleu Oleander: nice Yaku

I grabbed a balance beam from inventory, however it landed on Yaku...

Santoshima Resident: you want that log in your eye?
Eliza Madrigal: sorry ya haha
Dash Earthboy: hitching post?
Bleu Oleander: balance beam?
Dash Earthboy: aha
Bleu Oleander: hahaha
Eliza Madrigal: tada
Santoshima Resident: maybe remove the heels, just a suggestion ...
Bleu Oleander: a great one for Art of Being
FcSeeker Resident: Hello O
Zen Arado: what balance you have Eliza
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Bleu Oleander: just need the poem
Dash Earthboy: applause
Zen Arado: **********Applause!!**********
Zen Arado: **********Applause!!**********
Bleu Oleander: *•.¸('*•.¸ ♥ ¸.•*´)¸.•*
Bleu Oleander: woo hoo
Bleu Oleander: ¸.•*(¸.•*´ ♥ `*•.¸)`*•.¸

Eliza Madrigal: Hi oO0Oo :))
Dash Earthboy: hey Sam
Santoshima Resident: wel done!
Zen Arado: Hi Sam
Eliza Madrigal bows
Eliza Madrigal: and invites anyone to try... quite fun
Santoshima Resident: hello Sam
Bleu Oleander: hey, I'm pretty good :)
Bleu Oleander: Zen too
Eliza Madrigal: quite good, yes
Eliza Madrigal: great jumps
oO0Oo Resident: Yaynesss! and (((hugs)) and hellos!
Eliza Madrigal smiles
FcSeeker Resident: <3
Santoshima Resident: everyone wobbles on that right end of the beam
Eliza Madrigal: there is a silly glitch at the end where one's head is turned around :))
Bleu Oleander: haha
Santoshima Resident: yay zen, yay bleu!
Dash Earthboy: woohoo Fc!!!
Eliza Madrigal: whoa impressive
Santoshima Resident: wow!
FcSeeker Resident: <3

Eliza Madrigal: Bleu was just saying that the theme for the next Art as Being project is "balance"
oO0Oo Resident smiles
Santoshima Resident: brb
Bleu Oleander: any preliminary ideas about balance?
Eliza Madrigal: sure
Eliza Madrigal listens (sure was to Santo)
Zen Arado: prefer to be out on a limb
Bleu Oleander: :)
Eliza Madrigal grins
Santoshima Resident: * back
Santoshima Resident: ?
Zen Arado: wb Santo
Eliza Madrigal: wb :)
FcSeeker Resident: wb
Bleu Oleander: actually a good place to practice balance Zen

Eliza Madrigal: somehow the word' balance' seems to fit will with 'alignment'
Santoshima Resident: [07:27] Eliza Madrigal listens (sure was to Santo)
Santoshima Resident: ?
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, Bleu asked a question at the same time I responded 'sure' to your saying you'd be right back
Santoshima Resident: oh,
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Santoshima Resident: pls continue
Eliza Madrigal: the word used to seem very uninspiring to me...
Eliza Madrigal: but now represents stability
Bleu Oleander: what are some ways in which we seem out of balance?
Zen Arado: could be 'ordinary' 'mundane'
oO0Oo Resident: Think I'm wet enough now.. [}[}[}[}[} <3<3<3<3 (|(|(|(|(|(|(| (offers Bamboo sampler to Fc)

--BELL--

FcSeeker Resident: smiles
FcSeeker Resident: <3thank you<3
oO0Oo Resident: sorry.. meant to whisper
Eliza Madrigal: :) Sam
FcSeeker Resident: <3
oO0Oo Resident: Nice entrance yaku!
Eliza Madrigal: hah Yaku, jumped off before I could take a picture....
Eliza Madrigal: nice leap
Yakuzza Lethecus: hi sam, i was here before :)
oO0Oo Resident gets out of world reincarnationy deja vu

Eliza Madrigal: What about for you Bleu?
Bleu Oleander: balance can mean many things
Dash Earthboy: hey Susan
FcSeeker Resident: hi Susan
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey susan
Eliza Madrigal: Morning Susan :) We're musing on 'balance'
iwandertoo Resident: waves 2 every1
Zen Arado: Hi Susan
Bleu Oleander: in art you could say balance is about color and shapes
Eliza Madrigal: form?
Bleu Oleander: yes also form
Bleu Oleander: is nature naturally balanced?
Eliza Madrigal: haha
Santoshima Resident: hi susan
Eliza Madrigal: nature isn't 'thrown off balance' as easily as I am I think... maybe no agendas

FcSeeker Resident: in art of people's food is needed sweet and sower...
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Bleu Oleander: what makes us think we are balanced?
Zen Arado: I don't know what balance is when I think about it
Zen Arado: thought I did
FcSeeker Resident: imo there is not balance in nature because so many spieces dies all the time and new one gets birth
oO0Oo Resident: the little thingies in our ears
Zen Arado: don't think nature cares much about balance
Bleu Oleander: so physical balance, but also mental balance?
Eliza Madrigal: alignment comes to mind for me ... the image of a stable tree, rooted, fruit showing up as it will....

FcSeeker Resident: in case nature would be in balance ---imo---there wouldn't be birth at all...
iwandertoo Resident: a sense of things being "right" or a sense of things are not qute "right" (unbalanced)
Eliza Madrigal: yes
Bleu Oleander: and how does that sense develop?
oO0Oo Resident: energy and matter may be in a kind of balance
Eliza Madrigal: mmm
iwandertoo Resident: a set of values, actions consistent with them, level of happiness

Bleu Oleander: experience?
Bleu Oleander: balance is subjective?
Eliza Madrigal: not so sure... we tend to frame experience... seems a drop in the bucket to what we do with it, nods
Zen Arado: I think so
Eliza Madrigal: proportionally, isn't there much more space to every bit of matter?
Bleu Oleander: matter is mostly space
Eliza Madrigal nods
Eliza Madrigal: tiny drop of color tints a whole bowl of clear water
oO0Oo Resident: :)
FcSeeker Resident: takes a humble bow
oO0Oo Resident: Fc
FcSeeker Resident: namaste
Eliza Madrigal: Bye FcS :) Namaste'
Santoshima Resident: bye Fc
oO0Oo Resident: namaste
Zen Arado: bye Fc
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye fc
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Bleu Oleander: bye Fc

Santoshima Resident: i need to go, too ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6bqFBYSJ6E
Santoshima Resident: thanks for the conversation

Yakuzza Lethecus: take care santo
oO0Oo Resident: Bye santo
Eliza Madrigal: Bye Santo :)
Santoshima Resident: bye
Zen Arado: bye Santo
Bleu Oleander: bye Santo
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Eliza Madrigal: Nice clip!
Dash Earthboy: bye to the departed
Dash Earthboy: sry, a knock at the door turned into a longer than expected interruption

Eliza Madrigal: pause approaching....
Eliza Madrigal: let's continue with 'balance' :))

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: thanks :)
Dash Earthboy: *still working on it :)
Eliza Madrigal: the pause seems to bring us back to balance as a group sometimes...
Bleu Oleander: does balance come naturally or do we have to work at it?

Yakuzza Lethecus: can grasping for balance bring unbalance ?

Dash Earthboy: hey tara
Bleu Oleander: good point Yaku
Yakuzza Lethecus: hello tara

Dash Earthboy: must say yes to that Yaku
iwandertoo Resident: i think so, yaku

Eliza Madrigal: Hello Tara :) lovely name
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Bleu Oleander: hi tara
Zen Arado: Hi Tara
oO0Oo Resident: Hi tara
Eliza Madrigal: Have you visited Play as Being before?
taramudra Resident: yes txs
Bleu Oleander: must go .... bye all :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye bleu
Dash Earthboy: bye Bleu
Eliza Madrigal: Bye Bleu, thanks for the questions
iwandertoo Resident: waves
oO0Oo Resident: bye Bleu

taramudra Resident: may i ask what is the topic today?
Yakuzza Lethecus: balance
Eliza Madrigal: It will be an interesting exhibit :)
Eliza Madrigal: yes 'balance'
taramudra Resident: ok txs
Eliza Madrigal: The group will have an art exhibit in October.. with that theme... so we were musing :)
taramudra Resident: sounds great

Eliza Madrigal: What are your interests Tara?
taramudra Resident: i like to hear about almost everything
Eliza Madrigal: you can definitely find almost anything here :))
Eliza Madrigal: hehe
taramudra Resident: great :)
Zen Arado: plenty of it too
Zen Arado: :)
Eliza Madrigal grins yes
taramudra Resident: :)

Eliza Madrigal: Yaku, good point earlier... re grasping for balance sending the sense of it farther away....
Eliza Madrigal: so then what? :)
Zen Arado: to other extreme
Dash Earthboy: guess part of the balance act is not to reach too far each time
Zen Arado: small adustments
Eliza Madrigal: interesting point too, Dash
Eliza Madrigal: if we have some sense that balance is the default, then all that would seem to be needed would be stopping and letting that be?
Zen Arado: depends what it is applied to
Zen Arado: ?
Eliza Madrigal: but if natural then why so hard? :))

iwandertoo Resident: is balance the default?
Eliza Madrigal: hmm
taramudra Resident: i wish it was
iwandertoo Resident: or is this what we see in others that we admire and wish to learn from
iwandertoo Resident: (wondering out loud)
Eliza Madrigal: great wonderings... considering...
Dash Earthboy: part of letting it be is adjusting to the changes...so balance is active project
iwandertoo Resident: nods
Eliza Madrigal: resting in chaos :)
taramudra Resident: :)
iwandertoo Resident: is restless
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Yakuzza Lethecus is procrastinating :P
Eliza Madrigal giggles
oO0Oo Resident: in flux, but not flumoxed (sp?)
Eliza Madrigal: !
Dash Earthboy: :)

Eliza Madrigal: when I feel most off balance it seems I'm trying to create something I already have
Eliza Madrigal: but feel sort of lost from, strange
iwandertoo Resident: you recognize this during or after?
Eliza Madrigal: Bye Dash :) happy laundry
Dash Earthboy: pax et bonum y'all
iwandertoo Resident: waves
taramudra Resident: waves

--BELL--

oO0Oo Resident: Bye dash
Zen Arado: bye too
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye dash
Yakuzza Lethecus: and zen
Eliza Madrigal waves to Zen
iwandertoo Resident: waves...best to everyone
Yakuzza Lethecus: and everyone
Eliza Madrigal: Bye Susan too, haha :)
Eliza Madrigal: :))) Ya
Eliza Madrigal: Thanks :)
 

Eliza Madrigal: Tara when you were here before did someone ask about the recordings...
Eliza Madrigal: make sure that was okay with you?
taramudra Resident: sure no problem i already know and its ok with me :)
Eliza Madrigal: we've kept wiki records for over three years
taramudra Resident: i know i read some, interesting...
Eliza Madrigal: what did you find?
Eliza Madrigal: fun to pick a random day and year
taramudra Resident: many regarding existence
taramudra Resident: yes its fun to read them
Eliza Madrigal: ohhh

Eliza Madrigal: the group's founder wrote a book transcript last year... many considerations of existence there....
taramudra Resident: it may be found in the same place as the transcripts?
Eliza Madrigal: calling into question fundamental ideas I guess... yes let me find the link for you
taramudra Resident: ty
Eliza Madrigal: http://wiki.playasbeing.org/PaB_Books/Magic_of_Time
taramudra Resident: got it txs!
Eliza Madrigal: we met and talked about the chapters as they were written, but I'd like to go back and start again
taramudra Resident: i made a bookmark its looks great
Eliza Madrigal: Did you read some of this too 0?
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: these are some f my favorite discussions here... time and timelessness....
taramudra Resident: interesting

oO0Oo Resident: Just a glance thus far.. saving for a balanced day
Eliza Madrigal smiles
taramudra Resident: hahaha!
taramudra Resident: yeah
taramudra Resident: im trying to keep my balance too...
taramudra Resident: :)

oO0Oo Resident: does tara laugh?
taramudra Resident: yeah
taramudra Resident: why?
oO0Oo Resident giggles
taramudra Resident: i dont get it
oO0Oo Resident: sometimes it rebalances me ;)
taramudra Resident: someone laughing?

Eliza Madrigal: "If you knew how perfect everything was you would tilt your head to the sky and laugh and laugh"
oO0Oo Resident: yes.. sometimes anyone
oO0Oo Resident: yes!
taramudra Resident: wow cool idea!
taramudra Resident: never though of it
Eliza Madrigal: laughter as medicine
taramudra Resident: i should definitely laugh more then
taramudra Resident: and i mean it really
oO0Oo Resident: are you sick in some way?

taramudra Resident: do you both find it easy to laugh?

taramudra Resident: no, fortunatelly
Eliza Madrigal: hmmm good question....
taramudra Resident: mmmm, well we all are a bit sick dont you think?
Eliza Madrigal: I thought of medicine because my yoga teacher reminds us how the body is a pharmacy naturally
taramudra Resident: i hope you both are healthy
taramudra Resident: i love yoga too
Eliza Madrigal: basically healthy, yes :)
taramudra Resident: great!
taramudra Resident: hey i gotta run but see you soon ok?
Eliza Madrigal: but interesting that you consider the condition of things in your question too
taramudra Resident: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Nice to meet you Tara
taramudra Resident: ty
taramudra Resident: nice to meet you too guys!
Eliza Madrigal: bye for now
taramudra Resident: wish a great day for you!
taramudra Resident: namaste
Eliza Madrigal: For you as well, Namaste'
oO0Oo Resident: Bye.. nice to meet you Tara
taramudra Resident: nice to meet you! samud
oO0Oo Resident: ty for your kind sentiments
oO0Oo Resident: Joy to you Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: And Joy to you Sam... seems your musing of the last few days, quite contagious :))

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)))))
Eliza Madrigal: :))))))
Eliza Madrigal: hah! yes
oO0Oo Resident: Yes! hah

Eliza Madrigal: tara reminded me of something ...
Eliza Madrigal: my son was telling me about his friends one day and categorizing them...
Eliza Madrigal: one of his friends he called 'an easy laugher'
oO0Oo Resident: mmm
Eliza Madrigal: may we all be such

oO0Oo Resident giggles
oO0Oo Resident giggles
Eliza Madrigal: /giggles
oO0Oo Resident giggles

Samúð (oo0oo): :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Samúð (oo0oo): Your son is most wonderfully lucky indeed
Eliza Madrigal: yes he has a bright way of noticing things :)
Samúð (oo0oo): Maybe that's how he chose his mother
Eliza Madrigal: I think if I gave them all a choice to re-choose they'd have different criteria, haha
Eliza Madrigal: bbut they wouldn't find someone who thought them more the berries
Samúð (oo0oo): to repay your kindness.. to be your mother perhaps
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Samúð (oo0oo): (kids.. are you reading?)
Eliza Madrigal: appreciated your comment on Wester's log, btw
Eliza Madrigal: :) They are back at school
Samúð (oo0oo): Do they read the logs?
Eliza Madrigal: alas, no
Samúð (oo0oo): alas? ::grins::
Eliza Madrigal: yes I've found it strange that they aren't interested in SL outside of my interest in it
Eliza Madrigal: yet my son loves something called minecraft
Eliza Madrigal: similar with building etc
Eliza Madrigal: I would like to have a house they would visit, might be fun
Eliza Madrigal: but they do relate to Bleu's videos

Samúð (oo0oo): imagine if they came inworld here... on an occasion, people would be happy to sing your praises and delight in meeting them
Samúð (oo0oo): perhaps a farfetched idea
Samúð (oo0oo): depending on their ages
Eliza Madrigal: I did expect my daughters to be more interested when they got older... now 19 and 15
Eliza Madrigal: but they have their own worlds to play in I guess :)
Samúð (oo0oo): ::laughs:: Imagines parent admonishing, "I'd like you to TP straight to the pavilion.. Please don't go to your default 'home'"
Eliza Madrigal laughs wildly
Eliza Madrigal: "that is NOT what you are wearing to meditation!"
Samúð (oo0oo): lol
Samúð (oo0oo) giggles
Eliza Madrigal: they wander in with some guy with lots of weapons on his back, long claws on his fingernails....
Eliza Madrigal: @@
Eliza Madrigal: "But mom he's really nice"
Samúð (oo0oo): "Dear, you haven't looked at these "groups" he belongs to. Do not let him take control of your avie!
Eliza Madrigal: that's exactly right!
Eliza Madrigal: hahha
Eliza Madrigal: but I'd like for them to meet the wonderful people I've met here
Samúð (oo0oo): ahem... enough said
Eliza Madrigal: life is long and the possibilities endless

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Eliza Madrigal wonders whether to paste the rest of conversation after I ended the recording.. hmmm
Samúð (oo0oo): how does one end the recording?
Eliza Madrigal: just click 'stop'
Samúð (oo0oo): can appreciate if you feel aspects of talking about your kids feels too private
Eliza Madrigal: I'm okay... I love telling those stories actually
Eliza Madrigal: I learn a lot from them

Samúð (oo0oo): Calvino Rabeni: if I relaxed and smiled it might "rebalance" the system

Samúð (oo0oo): ::sighs:: :))))
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Eliza Madrigal: "relax, breathe, smile"
Eliza Madrigal: seems a good plan
Samúð (oo0oo): Here's to Cal! ::clink::
Eliza Madrigal: :::clinks::
Eliza Madrigal: Bye for now my friend, see you soon

Samúð (oo0oo): Right-e-o! and cheerio!