2011.11.17 19:00 – Fairy Tales and Chocolate Silk Pie!

The Guardian for this meeting was Paradise Tennant.  Participants included Lucinda, Bertrum, stevenaia, Observerm, and  oOOOo

The session started off quiet – I drank liquorice tea and posted bits of Rumi poetry and prose.

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
 

 “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
 

“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
 

 “Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.”
 

 “I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
 

 Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
 

 “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.” ― Rumi
 

 Rumi: Words of Paradise Ghazal 943, from the Diwan-e Shams

Time passes, time passes wearing out all clocks Traveling into the eye of night. The dance Of senses is stilled in night prayer The path to the Unseen unveils itself. Sleep’s angel shepherds its flock of spirits towards Spectral cities and rose-proofed gardens Beyond the deadly confinement of place and time. Now the spirit freed from the cell of the sleeping Body and the drab images of its daily Senses, feels with the heart’s revealing eye A thousand forms and shapes, origin of origins, Of one eternity and unblemished moment. You could justly say the spirit has come home. Refreshed and a child again in this shy epiphany, Its heart now an inner space made clean by contiguous Forms coating its skin with recovered bliss. — Interpretive translation by Raficq Abdulla “Words of Paradise” Viking Studio, 2000
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Paradise..
Paradise Tennant: Hiya Luci :)
Paradise Tennant: How are you :)
Lucinda Lavender: I seem to be either too  hot with a fire dress or too cool in the blue outfit...:)
Lucinda Lavender: How are you?
Paradise Tennant: You look lovely :)
Paradise Tennant: Fun in sl .. there are no limits to fashion
Lucinda Lavender: thank you
Lucinda Lavender: dress ups
Lucinda Lavender: play
Paradise Tennant: well ..drinking  tea    dog is snoozing .. and I  have been reading Rumi :)
Paradise Tennant: yes :) play !
Lucinda Lavender: that sounds lovely
Paradise Tennant: we get so dull when we grow up do you think?
Lucinda Lavender: oh...I suppose
Paradise Tennant: went to a book store event tonight with the dog  .I had a glass of wine he cruised the cheese table :)
Lucinda Lavender: I stayed home resting my foot again today
Lucinda Lavender: cheers to you both:)
Paradise Tennant: ouch what happened
Lucinda Lavender: started up the stairs the other night...in stocking feet and the dark....turned back around to check something and stepped on the edge of the step...so then I slipped
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: so a sprain ?  nothing broken ?
Lucinda Lavender: two smallest are bruised...we did not ex-ray since they treat it the same
Lucinda Lavender: Luci puts her foot up on the table...
Paradise Tennant: have any arnica?
Lucinda Lavender: with the hiking boot on :)
Paradise Tennant: that helps
Paradise Tennant: comes in cream and tablets
Lucinda Lavender: I have something called traumeel...that might help...
Lucinda Lavender: similar
Paradise Tennant: ahh  ok
Paradise Tennant: never heard of traumeel
Lucinda Lavender: thanks for the suggestion
Lucinda Lavender: let me see...
Lucinda Lavender: has arnica in it:)
Lucinda Lavender: will use it:)
Lucinda Lavender: homeopathic
Paradise Tennant: takes the swelling away fast and no swelling means much less pain
Lucinda Lavender: Ok what does Rumi have to say?
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: hm m  let me see
Paradise Tennant: “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.” ― Rumi
Paradise Tennant: liked this one :)
Lucinda Lavender: perfect for me today
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes :)
Paradise Tennant: maybe a mental shimmy:)
Lucinda Lavender: :)))
Paradise Tennant: Rumi: Words of Paradise Ghazal 943, from the Diwan-e Shams Time passes, time passes wearing out all clocks Travelling into the eye of night. The dance Of senses is stilled in night prayer The path to the Unseen unveils itself. Sleep’s angel shepherds its flock of spirits towards Spectral cities and rose-proofed gardens Beyond the deadly confinement of place and time. Now the spirit freed from the cell of the sleeping Body and the drab images of its daily Senses, feels with the heart’s revealing eye A thousand forms and shapes, origin of origins, Of one eternity and unblemished moment. You could justly say the spirit has come home. Refreshed and a child again in this shy epiphany, Its heart now an inner space made clean by contiguous Forms coating its skin with recovered bliss.
Paradise Tennant: this was lovely too
Paradise Tennant: he was incredibly prolific
Paradise Tennant: could post his poems for years and not run out I think :)
Paradise Tennant: drinking liquorice  tea ..really yummy :)
Lucinda Lavender: quite something...to generate that many ideas
Paradise Tennant: like they flowed through him
Lucinda Lavender: I like liquorice everything
Lucinda Lavender: liquorice ice cream
Paradise Tennant: they make liquorice ice cream?
Lucinda Lavender: well we had it once while travelling when the kids were young
Lucinda Lavender: it was worth a photo
Lucinda Lavender: and  tasty
Lucinda Lavender: long ago now
Paradise Tennant: smiles going to be on the look out now you know    wonder if comes in gelato :P
Lucinda Lavender: ...love gelato...
Paradise Tennant: me  too ..
Lucinda Lavender: had a pistachio one once
Paradise Tennant: smiles my fav ..
Lucinda Lavender: recently had an earl gray ice-cream...
Paradise Tennant: nice !
Lucinda Lavender: absolutely amazing
Paradise Tennant: had earl grey chocolate last week was really good  too:)
Lucinda Lavender: does it seem to you that the flavours are getting very exotic?
Lucinda Lavender: it does to me
Paradise Tennant: hmm yes
Paradise Tennant: maybe we just notice more
Lucinda Lavender: I think that the compute/internet is responsible...
Lucinda Lavender: everyone look at each other’s ideas
Paradise Tennant: find .. I focus more on the small pleasures the little indulgences ..a daily reward to look forward to
Paradise Tennant: making the world a smaller place
Lucinda Lavender: yes me too!
Lucinda Lavender: I get to go to a puppet show tomorrow
Lucinda Lavender: Cenerentola Italian cinderella
Paradise Tennant: smiles sounds like fun
Lucinda Lavender: yes
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: She will save the Prince
Paradise Tennant: lol perfect !
Paradise Tennant: googling  it :)
Paradise Tennant: Hiya Bertrum
Bertrum Resident: hi Luci, Paradise.
Paradise Tennant: we are talking of the Italian version of the Cinderalla story
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Bertrum
Lucinda Lavender: In  this telling she saves the Prince
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Paradise Tennant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella
Paradise Tennant: Hiya  stev .. we are talking of cinderalla :) the italian version where she saves him and it seems she is a fairy :()
stevenaia Michinaga: sounds lovely
Paradise Tennant: actually have always liked fairy tales :)
Lucinda Lavender: Me too:)
stevenaia Michinaga: usually they are scary
Paradise Tennant: they are packed with magic adventure :) character
stevenaia Michinaga: evil step mothers
Lucinda Lavender: consequences
stevenaia Michinaga: witches
stevenaia Michinaga: ovens
Lucinda Lavender: hoodwinks
Bertrum Resident: Anyone know why the feed has this extra text?ovens (Translation failed: the parameter 'appId' must contain at least '16' characters Parameter name: appId)
stevenaia Michinaga: scratching head
Bertrum Resident: It follow everyone's dialog.
Lucinda Lavender: I am  not seeing it:)
stevenaia Michinaga: is your translator checked
Paradise Tennant: hmm  now that is strange not on my screen
stevenaia Michinaga: (on top)
stevenaia Michinaga: not on mine either
Bertrum Resident: Maybe that was it. Somehow that box was checked.
Bertrum Resident: Thank you!
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Lucinda Lavender: Stev are your feet warm?
stevenaia Michinaga: guess that means I check it from time to time...ooops
Paradise Tennant: lol they look a little hot actually stev ?
stevenaia Michinaga: I was dancing earlier
stevenaia Michinaga: barely time to cool off
Paradise Tennant: smiles :))) good choice then ...
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: ah...Para just read a poem from Rumi about Dance
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm, sorry I missed that
Paradise Tennant: “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.” ― Rumi
Paradise Tennant: shall we each pick a favourite fairy tale?
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Lucinda Lavender: :)sure...
stevenaia Michinaga: is your cat typing on your keyboard , Bert?
Bertrum Resident: My cat responded before I could ask a question.
Paradise Tennant: lol
Lucinda Lavender: wow Bertrum your last statement is quite intense...
stevenaia Michinaga: :), they always do
Bertrum Resident: What type of tale?
Lucinda Lavender: maybe one that impressed you?
stevenaia Michinaga: would 'Where the wild things are " be a fairy tale?
Paradise Tennant: yes :) :))
stevenaia Michinaga: or just a monster story
Lucinda Lavender: Great book tho
Lucinda Lavender: love the monsters having a wild time
Paradise Tennant: monsters were born to be wild :) they like heavy bass too :)
stevenaia Michinaga: Maurice Sendak also did a great one about baking that I can't remember
Lucinda Lavender: In the night kitchen
stevenaia Michinaga: YES!'
Bertrum Resident: That's a terrific book.
stevenaia Michinaga: I like that one better
Lucinda Lavender: Milk in the Batter Milk in the Batter...we bake cake and Nothings the matter!!
Paradise Tennant: smiles luci and stev know all the best books :)))
stevenaia Michinaga: books about dreams
Lucinda Lavender: it was always a fun  thing to read aloud
Lucinda Lavender: so true
stevenaia Michinaga: read them to my son often
Lucinda Lavender: aw...to my kids too...
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes the world is a happy place when a cake is in progress :)
Lucinda Lavender: magical sort of event
Paradise Tennant: or whipped chocolate silk pie !
Lucinda Lavender: oh my!
stevenaia Michinaga: stir it, shake it, bake it
stevenaia Michinaga: waves to Observerm
observerm Resident waves
Bertrum Resident: the book was controversial too.
Paradise Tennant: smiles hello Observerm :) nice to see you .. :) would you like to sit with us :)
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: we are talking of baked goods and fairy tales :)
Lucinda Lavender: soon will be time to go..
stevenaia Michinaga: dinner?
stevenaia Michinaga: speaking of baked goods
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: yes:)
Paradise Tennant: take out tonight?  surely you are not cooking with a sore foot :)
Lucinda Lavender: baked a beef
Paradise Tennant: ahh well that is easy :)
Lucinda Lavender: and some potatoes
Lucinda Lavender: through it in the oven
Paradise Tennant: sounds yummy ]
Lucinda Lavender: the oven in the fairy tales...interesting place to be put
Lucinda Lavender: transformation
Paradise Tennant: yikes yes .. the old witches oven
stevenaia Michinaga: don;t they cook witches in there
Lucinda Lavender: purification
Bertrum Resident: Hansel & Gretel
Paradise Tennant: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: nod
Lucinda Lavender: but they tricked  her  didn't they and got away?
Paradise Tennant: Hiya Sam we are talking of fairy tales
Paradise Tennant: smart little kids
Lucinda Lavender: with the bone...through the cage?
Lucinda Lavender: oh we are too small to eat
Lucinda Lavender: fatten us up!
oO0Oo Resident: lol
oO0Oo Resident: waves and smiles
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Samud
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Samúð
Bertrum Resident: hi Sam
Lucinda Lavender: always love the little houses in the woods where they live...
stevenaia Michinaga: gingerbread?
Paradise Tennant: liked goldilocks
Paradise Tennant: little bear house little bear chairs .. little bear beds :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes..she  had to learn I guess...about wandering in...
Paradise Tennant: little bear porridge bowls
Bertrum Resident: Snow White had help in the kitchen
Paradise Tennant: lol yes sneezy grumpy lol
stevenaia Michinaga: Didn’t Cinderella work in her stepmother's kitchen
Lucinda Lavender: I would be called spacey perhaps
Paradise Tennant: yes she did all the chores
Lucinda Lavender: sweeping
oO0Oo Resident: could get Grimm
stevenaia Michinaga: bed tme, night all
Paradise Tennant: she had some friendly mice :) always good to have company
Bertrum Resident: Night Steve.
Paradise Tennant: Nite Nite stev :)
oO0Oo Resident: Night Stevenaia
Paradise Tennant: Thank you
Lucinda Lavender: night steve:)
Bertrum Resident: Friendly mice indeed.
Lucinda Lavender: fairy godmother
Paradise Tennant: would that not be nice :)
Paradise Tennant: to have a fairy god mother
Paradise Tennant: someone who could show at odd moments
Paradise Tennant: and do magic !
Lucinda Lavender: turn things into other things
Bertrum Resident: Wizard of Oz... Glenda made things sparkle
Paradise Tennant: yes clean up in a wink :) big feasts with the clap of the hands :)
Lucinda Lavender: withches...have an energy about them...
Lucinda Lavender: was reading about this just today
Paradise Tennant: have you met any real life witches Luci?
Lucinda Lavender: not that I know.
Bertrum Resident: You, Paradise?
Paradise Tennant: not that I know
Lucinda Lavender: but where I was reading a point was made about how they carry energy for the story...
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: they are the force to be reckoned with
oO0Oo Resident: quack
Bertrum Resident: Bell, Book & Candle
Bertrum Resident: Witches at their best!
Paradise Tennant: it seems magic .. has a draw to it
Lucinda Lavender: will look to see if I can find it...
oO0Oo Resident: hard to authenticate either magic or witches
Bertrum Resident: It's certainly a draw though. Something we hope exists...
Bertrum Resident: Its all a mystery. So why not believe in magic?
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes something outside the mundane ..but when you really look at the mundane it is just as magical and fantastic in a way
Bertrum Resident: Yes, that's very true. That's the whole sense of really seeing.
Paradise Tennant: just finished reading " To a mountain in Tibet" by Colin Thurbron ..had started a long time ago and then finished it last night
Paradise Tennant: talks of magic as real
Lucinda Lavender: sounds interesting
Bertrum Resident: Did you like the book?
Paradise Tennant: lots of references to the bon religion which was very much a spiritual shamanism kind of faith
Paradise Tennant: yes he is a wonderful travel writer :)
Paradise Tennant: wrote Shadow of the Silk Road
Bertrum Resident: Night Luci
Paradise Tennant: someone who is sensitive to the echos of a place
Paradise Tennant: nite nite luci
Paradise Tennant: enjoy dinner
Paradise Tennant: thank you :)
Lucinda Lavender: nite all:)
oO0Oo Resident: night Luci :)
Lucinda Lavender: thanks...sweet dreams...
Paradise Tennant: find one book leads to another ..
Paradise Tennant: because I have not read much on the bon faith
Paradise Tennant: bought wonders of the natural mind by tenzin wangyal a bon lama ...
Paradise Tennant: nice to have a kindle .. like having a 24 hour books store .. on your nite stand :)
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: but there are cultures where magic ..is believed to be very real ..with much the same .. certainty .. we place in our technology :)
Bertrum Resident: I prefer the real books, with real pages and that tactile sense of books.
Paradise Tennant: yes they are the best :)
Paradise Tennant: but they take a lot of space :)
Bertrum Resident: I like the magic of technology as well.
Paradise Tennant: read a quote once that said  “Magic is just science we do not understand yet”
Bertrum Resident: Well there seems to be some logic to that.
Bertrum Resident: Although not everything that's magic is science.
Paradise Tennant: yes true :)
Paradise Tennant: nothing is all just one thing :)
Paradise Tennant: well speaking of magic it is just about the witching hour here . so I will say thank you and good night:)
Bertrum Resident: May you have a magical dreams!
oO0Oo Resident: Nigh tPara )
Paradise Tennant: smiles good night Sam ..Bertrum  Observerm .. Thank you   Dream well :)
Bertrum Resident: I should sign off too. Night Sam and Observerm
oO0Oo Resident: Night :)