2011.09.13 19:00 - Painting your world from the inside

The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Claire
Claire Maskelyne: Hello! Here for the meeting?
Eos Amaterasu: Umm, yes - so you've been here to Play as Being before?
Eos Amaterasu: I can give you a notecard...
Eos Amaterasu: or what meeting are you here for :-)
Claire Maskelyne: Yes, I have been to Play as Being before. But I haven't been in a long time, and I've been missing it.
Eos Amaterasu: ummm
Rhiannon Dragoone: hi EOS
Eos Amaterasu: hopefully we can find it
Rhiannon Dragoone: hi claire
Eos Amaterasu: hi Rhiannon
Claire Maskelyne: Hello, Rhiannon. I'm not sure we've met before?
Rhiannon Dragoone: hi Claire. not sure either
Eos Amaterasu: feeling that you're missing something gives you a kind of intelligence about it
Rhiannon Dragoone: how are you?
Eos Amaterasu: that might be a great way to approach the 90 seconds gap coming up on the quarter hour:
Rhiannon Dragoone: What are we discussing?
Eos Amaterasu: [19:06] Claire Maskelyne: Yes, I have been to Play as Being before. But I haven't been in a long time, and I've been missing it.
Eos Amaterasu wonders about what it is that is being missed
Eos Amaterasu: and whether it is here
Eos Amaterasu: it is a kind of strange attractor :-)
Claire Maskelyne: I am objectively better off than I have been in some time, but I'm also quite troubled.
Rhiannon Dragoone: There is always a sense of void when you no longer do something That's been a part of tour life
Eos Amaterasu: hmm, good to experience both sides, Claire
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Eos, Rhiannon, Claire
Eos Amaterasu: HIu SophiaSharon
Rhiannon Dragoone: hi sophia
Eos Amaterasu: feeling as if what's missing is right here....

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: How was that?
SophiaSharon Larnia: Hi Santoshima
Santoshima Resident: hi
Rhiannon Dragoone: hi santo
Santoshima Resident: sophia, eos, claire, rhi
Eos Amaterasu: HI Santo
Santoshima Resident: please call me San
Santoshima Resident: hi susan
Claire Maskelyne: Hello, Santo. :)
Claire Maskelyne: Hello, Sophia.
SophiaSharon Larnia: reading your last line before the pause, Eos, was thinking how externally everything is the same but whats going on emotionally can color it so differently
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Susan
Eos Amaterasu: hmm, yes, we paint from the inside out
Claire Maskelyne: Yes, and I was thinking that a lot recently, and how it pertains to my own life.
Eos Amaterasu listens
Rhiannon Dragoone: Emotions are What create the sense of loss
Claire Maskelyne: But don't we also objectively lose things?
Santoshima Resident: like ... car keys ? you mean ...
Rhiannon Dragoone: but we place the meaning in them, claire
Eos Amaterasu: we cooperatively lose things....
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: we paint the loss of keys
Eos Amaterasu: HI stevenaia
Santoshima Resident: hellooo Stevenaia !
iwandertoo Resident: hi everyone
Rhiannon Dragoone: hi Steve!
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Santoshima Resident: hallooo susan
iwandertoo Resident: hi steve
iwandertoo Resident: hi santoshima
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Rhi :0
Santoshima Resident: (what does ":O" mean?)
stevenaia Michinaga: typo
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Santoshima Resident: :))
Rhiannon Dragoone: the keys aren't valuable in themselves. its what we can't do when They are fine That is important.
Claire Maskelyne: Yes.
Rhiannon Dragoone: oh. I thought you might be staring at me or something. lol
Santoshima Resident: huh?
Rhiannon Dragoone: you know. 0...0
Santoshima Resident: double huh?
stevenaia Michinaga: well, you are floating above and behind Eos
Eos Amaterasu cranes his neck
Santoshima Resident: like a giant blowup doll
iwandertoo Resident: painting
SophiaSharon Larnia can't find her car keys
iwandertoo Resident: you were speaking of paining from within and emotions?
iwandertoo Resident: *painting
Rhiannon Dragoone: giant. blow up doll. Now That's insulting, but This EOS as well as me. lol
Santoshima Resident: no insult intened
Santoshima Resident: d
Eos Amaterasu: I think Rhiannon is on cell-phone app, is that right?
Eos Amaterasu: (Hi Susan)
Rhiannon Dragoone: Yes
iwandertoo Resident: hi Eos
Eos Amaterasu: painting our world from within, yes
stevenaia Michinaga: words have a way of coloring what we see as well
Eos Amaterasu: it's nice that Second Life lets us kind of echo that
Eos Amaterasu: you notice that when you go from one language to another
Santoshima Resident: indeed ~ have to go back to work ... goodbye all & thank you ~
Rhiannon Dragoone: But Which is worse, being callef a blow up doll or the Guy which uses it?
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye San
Eos Amaterasu: Bye San
Rhiannon Dragoone: by sam
Eos Amaterasu: both are paintings from within
Claire Maskelyne: Do you think you can give us an example of 'painting from within', Sophia?

--BELL--

SophiaSharon Larnia: I wasn't the one who put in those words, but I can ;)
SophiaSharon Larnia: today was much brighter, the sunshine more lovely, the wind rustling the leaves more peaceful, and all it took was a kind word with someone. Different than yesterday
stevenaia Michinaga: I was thinking that very same question... with a few answers, such as poetry..(colors your words in your unique way). a headache (colors yourself with a pain one can see)
Eos Amaterasu: hunger
SophiaSharon Larnia: ggod point Steve
Eos Amaterasu: love
Rhiannon Dragoone: good examples
stevenaia Michinaga: Inner peace, (a color everyone can see)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Aphrodite
Eos Amaterasu looks at Stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: hi Aph
iwandertoo Resident: hi Aphrodite
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: looks back
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya SSL, Stevenaia, Claire, Eos, Susan, Rhi
Rhiannon Dragoone: hi Aph
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Aphrodite
Aphrodite Macbain: Lovely day it has been
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: I hope for all of you too
Eos Amaterasu: we were talking about painting our days from within, Aphrodite
Claire Maskelyne: For me, I just got a rather grueling full-time job... and suddenly I feel like I'm priming for disaster every day.
Aphrodite Macbain: can you explain more Eos?
stevenaia Michinaga: Aph, your shirt is great bt the fist word on the back is covered by your hair, (What) is not the an swer?
SophiaSharon Larnia: sorry to hear that Claire, that kind of thing really does rev up the adrenaline
Aphrodite Macbain: I've been painting a lot right now and posting it on the wiki
SophiaSharon Larnia: oh? cool Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: War - I'll fix the shirt
Eos Amaterasu:
[19:17] SophiaSharon Larnia: reading your last line before the pause, Eos, was thinking how externally everything is the same but whats going on emotionally can color it so differently
[19:18] SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Susan
[19:18] Eos Amaterasu: hmm, yes, we paint from the inside out
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks for pointing that out. I should look in the rear view mirror more often
SophiaSharon Larnia read Aph's shirt as: Peace is not the answer, and knew that was not what it said!
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Eos Amaterasu: so how do we work and play with our own inner atmosphere?
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Oh
SophiaSharon Larnia: oO0O0
Eos Amaterasu: whoO0Oo?
oO0Oo Resident: Nice group :) Hi everybody
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles (and thinks on your question)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi oO0Oo
stevenaia Michinaga: I ask myself how can I quiet the weather inside
Aphrodite Macbain: I paint it sometimes, and sometimes I write it
Rhiannon Dragoone: hi 0!
Eos Amaterasu: yes, we use media to express ourselves to ourselves
Aphrodite Macbain: colours are very much connected to emotions along with textures and shapes
Claire Maskelyne: Steve, you identified what one of my current problems with my own situation is.
Aphrodite Macbain: a personal conversation using images.
Eos Amaterasu: "and all these emotions of mine keep holding me from giving my life to a rainbow...like you!" - JH
Claire Maskelyne: The work that I'm doing permits me very little time and space in which to retreat into myself and recover. I don't have that internal comfort as much right now.
Eos Amaterasu: hmm....
Claire Maskelyne glances curiously at the big board to her left.
stevenaia Michinaga: the only cure from stress is releasing it
Rhiannon Dragoone: Claire, but can come here. :)
iwandertoo Resident: integrate
Aphrodite Macbain: Can you stop every so often and just be in your body Claire?
iwandertoo Resident: the things which bring you peace...find them through-out your day
stevenaia Michinaga: time for yourself, wherever you can find it isimportant
Aphrodite Macbain: walk to work?
Aphrodite Macbain: walk at lunch?
Claire Maskelyne: Well, thanks to the fact that I'm sitting in a less-than-comfortable chair for six hours...
oO0Oo Resident: Buckaroo Bonzai
Aphrodite Macbain: walk dodnt sit
stevenaia Michinaga: breath deeply and slowly, we all have time for that :)
Aphrodite Macbain: don't
Aphrodite Macbain: sit
Claire Maskelyne: And I've only got about 30 minutes uninterrupted alone time for lunch.
Aphrodite Macbain: that's enough time
Eos Amaterasu: all it takes is 9 seconds
Aphrodite Macbain nods
oO0Oo Resident: "be yourself.. notice others"
Eos Amaterasu: sprinkle them throughout :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: every 15 minutes
Aphrodite Macbain: or more
Eos Amaterasu: random acts of gap
Claire Maskelyne: Sprinkle what throughout, exactly?
SophiaSharon Larnia: wb Susan :)
stevenaia Michinaga: sometimes it jsut takes 90 seconds every now and then to reflect enough to see
Eos Amaterasu: little openings :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: nine second pauses
oO0Oo Resident: wb Susan
iwandertoo Resident: thanks crashed
stevenaia Michinaga: or nine seconds :)
stevenaia Michinaga: wb
Aphrodite Macbain: look at your hand, squeeze your fingers
Eos Amaterasu: ~~
Claire Maskelyne: The problem is, the nature of my work doesn't even allow for nine-second pauses.
stevenaia Michinaga: but perhaps we shouldn;t barrage you with ways to relax, hehe
Claire Maskelyne: Or at least, not reliably.
Eos Amaterasu: yes
iwandertoo Resident: it does
Aphrodite Macbain: you may just get tense!
Claire Maskelyne: No,please do help me figure this out.
iwandertoo Resident: it does
Eos Amaterasu: roar!
iwandertoo Resident: how do you think you can find 9 seconds?
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe
oO0Oo Resident grits teeth.. then relaxes and smiles
iwandertoo Resident: three deep breaths
Aphrodite Macbain: It is your health at stake as well as your mental well-being
Eos Amaterasu: a 90 seconds is coming right up: here's your chance!
stevenaia Michinaga: beating relaxing thoughts into you :)
Eos Amaterasu: and all of ours!
iwandertoo Resident: lol
oO0Oo Resident: lol

--BELL--

iwandertoo Resident: 3 deep breaths = 9 s
Aphrodite Macbain: we'll send you all our relaxation
SophiaSharon Larnia: (brb will pause while afk
Rhiannon Dragoone: I hate to abandon Claire, but I need to check in the Ham I'm cooking
iwandertoo Resident: take care, Rhi
Rhiannon Dragoone: you too, Susan
Rhiannon Dragoone: bye all
Eos Amaterasu: ciao
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye!
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Rhi, enjoy diner
stevenaia Michinaga: dinner
oO0Oo Resident: Bye Rhi... and best wishes
Aphrodite Macbain: yum ham
Rhiannon Dragoone: Ciao, EOS
Rhiannon Dragoone: bye ooo
Rhiannon Dragoone: ty, Steve
Rhiannon Dragoone: Yes, Aph. Can hardly wsit
Rhiannon Dragoone: waves and poofs
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Rhi
Aphrodite Macbain: Eos shrugs his shoulders...
Eos Amaterasu: ?
Aphrodite Macbain: she was standing on you
Eos Amaterasu: oh
stevenaia Michinaga: who was that Clair
stevenaia Michinaga: e
SophiaSharon Larnia: just had a thought, that parts of my mind are an unrezzed wall
SophiaSharon Larnia: while afk
Aphrodite Macbain: a friend of Rhi- she brings a lot of people here
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
SophiaSharon Larnia: is that what clear is, when it comes into focus
Aphrodite Macbain: clatity is a wall in focus?
Eos Amaterasu: real-ize as an active verb
Claire Maskelyne: How is everyone feeling right now?
Aphrodite Macbain: to become real; to realize a plan
SophiaSharon Larnia: happy to be here, Claire
Aphrodite Macbain: a litle unrezzed
Aphrodite Macbain: *little
Aphrodite Macbain: *clarity
Aphrodite Macbain: see what I mean?
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: nice and soft and mellow
Aphrodite Macbain: thank you Stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: there is the idea of a "totem", as in that "Inception" movie
Eos Amaterasu: a token to remind you
Eos Amaterasu: just to remind you
iwandertoo Resident: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: a token or a totem?
SophiaSharon Larnia: can you say more, Eos? About real-ize being an active verb?
iwandertoo Resident: i've used those effectively
stevenaia Michinaga: like a wishnik doll, remember those?
Aphrodite Macbain: realize=make real
stevenaia Michinaga: cute, nakid and big hair
Eos Amaterasu: oh, (to SSL), our awareness shapes perceptions and, as Goethe said, corresponding organs of perception: we realize each other
Aphrodite Macbain: I am not sure what you mean Eos about a totem to remind you? Are you referring to the little "clues" that connect us with another world so we can come back to it?
SophiaSharon Larnia: thanks, will make a note to look at that later
Eos Amaterasu consider stevenaia's totem :-)
Eos Amaterasu: for example, a tiny sacred space in your home
SophiaSharon Larnia: im not sure what a wishnik doll is, but it almost seem to me that it would bring you to a specific time
Eos Amaterasu: a little bump
stevenaia Michinaga: how can you not relax with one of those (fill in your totum)
Eos Amaterasu: the world giving you a loving bump
Eos Amaterasu: you giving the world a loving bump
Aphrodite Macbain: we make each other real by using corresponding organs of perception?
Eos Amaterasu: "I believe in Miracles, you sexy thing...."
oO0Oo Resident: lol
SophiaSharon Larnia: heh
oO0Oo Resident: awesome
Aphrodite Macbain: goose bumps of awe
Eos Amaterasu: a small snowglobe makes a great totem: you tip it over, and it takes a while to settle down
SophiaSharon Larnia: feels corresponding goose bumps
oO0Oo Resident: "The burning heart of reality kindles the twigs of awesome truth." - Trungpa Rinpoche

--BELL--

Claire Maskelyne: I wish I could bring a snow globe to work.
Aphrodite Macbain: A totem is a stipulated ancestor of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, or tribe."
stevenaia Michinaga: I believe in Miracles, you sexy thing
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOl4oeHZnBk
Eos Amaterasu: taa, ta ta tadada....
SophiaSharon Larnia: (just had a cute idea for a necklace charm, a little snowglobe, but i digress)
Aphrodite Macbain: you would have to shake the necklace from time to time
Claire Maskelyne: That would actually be nice.
Aphrodite Macbain: could be painful
Eos Amaterasu: there could be a little pavilion inside
Eos Amaterasu: inside
Claire Maskelyne: I need some sort of charm of my own.
iwandertoo Resident: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: shame in RL you can't shrink down things like you can in SL hahah
Aphrodite Macbain: You have charm Claire
Eos Amaterasu: a future version would have holograms of avatars
Claire Maskelyne: I tried bringing an origami lotus to work, then a little plastic unicorn from Tokidoki, but neither really seemed to calm me down.
Claire Maskelyne giggles. 'Thank you, Aphrodite'.
Aphrodite Macbain: Mayne a mandala you can stick to your computer?
Aphrodite Macbain: *maybe
Claire Maskelyne: Hmm.
Aphrodite Macbain: when you're not using it of course
SophiaSharon Larnia: i love this idea, i think im borrowing it too :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Or a textile with a mandala on it
Eos Amaterasu: there is a little "Droplet" web-based app...
iwandertoo Resident: (waves...going to wander....best to everyone)
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Susan
Eos Amaterasu: bye Susan
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! Susan
stevenaia Michinaga: bye susan
Aphrodite Macbain waves
oO0Oo Resident: Bye Susan
Claire Maskelyne: Goodbye, Susan. ^-^
Eos Amaterasu: I keep a browser tab open to it at work
Claire Maskelyne: Do you know any mandalas that help calm the mind?
Aphrodite Macbain: Many of them can. Use ones with cool colours like blue and green and grey
Eos Amaterasu: that's a highly personal question :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.google.com/search?q=mandalas+that+help+calm+the+mind
Eos Amaterasu: awesome
stevenaia Michinaga: ask google images :)
Aphrodite Macbain: nice
Eos Amaterasu: crowd-sourcing the answers
Claire Maskelyne: Hee hee
SophiaSharon Larnia: im sure a picture of your family at work does the same thing, grounds you to what is important when youre having abad day
Aphrodite Macbain: making your own mandala can be very calming
Eos Amaterasu: yes... like a pebble from a special stream
Aphrodite Macbain: unless it triggers thoughts of responsibility and anxiety...
Claire Maskelyne: I'm checking Etsy for some mandalas now... I think red and yellow might work best for me, warm colors.
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- pebbles are perfect. holding and playing with a pebble is also nice
SophiaSharon Larnia: i love etsy :)
Aphrodite Macbain: like worry beads...
stevenaia Michinaga: what is etsy ?
SophiaSharon Larnia: http://www.etsy.com
Aphrodite Macbain: etsy betsy teenie weenie
Claire Maskelyne: It's a site like eBay... only all the goods are either antiques or handmade.
Eos Amaterasu: a web page for handmade stuff - love it!
SophiaSharon Larnia: yea, they have some unusal, neat stuff
Aphrodite Macbain: I like the apply cosy jacket sleeve
Aphrodite Macbain: apple
Aphrodite Macbain: handy for cold apples
SophiaSharon Larnia: heh
Claire Maskelyne: Hehe
Eos Amaterasu: I have to call it a night - thank you all
stevenaia Michinaga: night Eos
Aphrodite Macbain: Nite Eos. It must be late 4U
Eos Amaterasu: bye!
oO0Oo Resident: Night you sexy thang :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Eos, nice to see you
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
Aphrodite Macbain giggles at oO0Oo
Claire Maskelyne: Good night, Eos!
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm off too. Thanks for this. Good luck Clairre
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Aphrodite
Aphrodite Macbain: Nite
oO0Oo Resident: Off like a 3 day old salmon Aph?
SophiaSharon Larnia: me too, bye for now!!
oO0Oo Resident: Night
oO0Oo Resident: ;)
SophiaSharon Larnia: have fun
stevenaia Michinaga: bye SSL
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: always
Aphrodite Macbain: Gee thanks Sam - I would have preferred "you sexy thing"!
oO0Oo Resident: Bye SSl
oO0Oo Resident: jk

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: hehe
Claire Maskelyne: It's so quiet here.
Claire Maskelyne: It's often quiet in SL, but somehow it feels warmer and safer here.
stevenaia Michinaga: sometimes there are bird tweeting
stevenaia Michinaga: I think I hear crickets but they may be in RL, maybe the full moon drove them away
stevenaia Michinaga: was this your first time here Claire?
Claire Maskelyne: No, don't you remember me, Steve?
Claire Maskelyne: I used to be Claire Beltran.
stevenaia Michinaga: awww, welcome bacl in that case, wasn;t sure if you were you
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: how are you
stevenaia Michinaga: it has been quite a while
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
oO0Oo Resident: :p
stevenaia Michinaga: nice transformation Samud
oO0Oo Resident: :)
oO0Oo Resident: trying to find the best ever version of Hot Chocolate's "You sexy Thing" on YouTube
stevenaia Michinaga: nice song
stevenaia Michinaga: shall I turn the log off?
Claire Maskelyne: Yes, please.