The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Aphrodite Macbain, Alfred Kelberry and Eos Amaterasu joined me this evening

stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Aphrodite Macbain: waves back
Alfred Kelberry: hi :)
Aphrodite Macbain: hey boxy
Alfred Kelberry: where did everyone go?
Aphrodite Macbain: \We all just arrived
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Boxy, Aphrodite
stevenaia Michinaga: Did we miss the party?
Aphrodite Macbain: it's only 7\\\\\\\;03
Alfred Kelberry: i expected a big crowd for the friday meeting :)
Aphrodite Macbain: there wasnt one last week
Alfred Kelberry: oh, ok
Alfred Kelberry: fair enough. people are not on time in sl.
stevenaia Michinaga: trying to remember
Aphrodite Macbain: If I act more strangtely than usual, please blame eeit on my new laptop.
Alfred Kelberry: easy to slack in sl. you can always blame "busy rl" :)
Alfred Kelberry: eeok :)
stevenaia Michinaga: nice Aph, what did you get?
Aphrodite Macbain: an acer aspire
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Alfred Kelberry: nice
Aphrodite Macbain: it weighs about 3 lbs
Aphrodite Macbain: i will take it to \\\venice with me
Alfred Kelberry: light
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: yes. and a decent graphics card
stevenaia Michinaga: when is the venice event?
Aphrodite Macbain: late september.
Aphrodite Macbain: \i am hoping that people will join me then
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe wol, boxy,arabella,
Aphrodite Macbain: \i am trying to find cheap accommodation
Aphrodite Macbain: for 6 people- an apartment with a lot of beds
Aphrodite Macbain: and a kitchen
Aphrodite Macbain: Other people have expressed interest but..
Aphrodite Macbain: it will more likely be those in \europe who come
stevenaia Michinaga: sounds nice, wish I could join you
Aphrodite Macbain: We can revive the \berlin meet up - but in\venice
Aphrodite Macbain: me too
Alfred Kelberry: stev, you can if you want :)
Aphrodite Macbain: there is an architecture biennale in \\\venice then...
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: you could write it off as a business expense
Alfred Kelberry: those backslashes are suspicious :)
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry
Aphrodite Macbain: they are next to my \'enter\' button
stevenaia Michinaga: hehe, that would be fine, but you need the business to afford to write something off
Alfred Kelberry: eek
Aphrodite Macbain: \;-\0
Aphrodite Macbain: grr
stevenaia Michinaga: canadian keyboard?
Aphrodite Macbain: wonder why it's doding this
Aphrodite Macbain: ddoding
Aphrodite Macbain: \doing
Aphrodite Macbain: cant even spell
stevenaia Michinaga: you ahve been hanging around my typing to long
Aphrodite Macbain: \;-\0
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Alfred Kelberry: naughty fingers
Alfred Kelberry: pushing things :)
Aphrodite Macbain: naughty\/
Aphrodite Macbain: \\/
Aphrodite Macbain: ?
Alfred Kelberry: \o/
stevenaia Michinaga: /\/\/\/\/\
Aphrodite Macbain: ah I see what's happening
stevenaia Michinaga: caploc?
Aphrodite Macbain: the keys are all messed up
Aphrodite Macbain: my brain is too old to adapt to a new keyboard
Aphrodite Macbain: yay
stevenaia Michinaga: that must be my excuse
Alfred Kelberry: you didn't look at the keyboard when you bought it? :)
Aphrodite Macbain: guess not!
Alfred Kelberry: oh well. new adventure :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I now have 4 computers, each with a slightly different keyboard
Alfred Kelberry: keyboard is the first thing i try out
Aphrodite Macbain: smart
Alfred Kelberry: no compromises there
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: cool, $1000 bucks round trip to venice...
Aphrodite Macbain: who is the goc tonight?
Alfred Kelberry: eos :)
Aphrodite Macbain: not bad!!!
stevenaia Michinaga: I have been picking up since sylectra left
Aphrodite Macbain: from where stevenaia?
stevenaia Michinaga: Newark, NJ
Eos Amaterasu: hi aph, boxy, stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Eos
Aphrodite Macbain: You should come.
Aphrodite Macbain: The whole trip wont cost more than 2000 for you
stevenaia Michinaga: we shall see how things are over the summer
Aphrodite Macbain keeps her fingers crossed
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Ewan
Aphrodite Macbain: We are talking about a gettogether in Venice, Eos, Ewan
Eos Amaterasu: Cool - when?
Alfred Kelberry: 260 for me
Aphrodite Macbain looks around for Ewan
Aphrodite Macbain: end of september
stevenaia Michinaga: he was here, then poofed
Eos Amaterasu: hmmm
Aphrodite Macbain: there are direct flights to Venice I think. But maybe not from \halifax!
Eos Amaterasu: Knowledge Federation Conference in Durbrovnik Sep 30 - Oct 3
Aphrodite Macbain: what is the knowledge confederation\/
Aphrodite Macbain: and do you go\/
Eos Amaterasu: conf for cognitive geeks
Aphrodite Macbain: go?
stevenaia Michinaga: lol, are there any other kind?
Aphrodite Macbain: what is the opposite of cognitive?
Eos Amaterasu: when in Sept is Venice?
Aphrodite Macbain: I am proposing the end
Aphrodite Macbain: I will be hiking in the rockies mid september
Eos Amaterasu: it's just a short way to Venice, Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: are u going to the cog conf \\\eos?
Eos Amaterasu: had looked at it with interest :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: you must be one of \'those\'people
stevenaia Michinaga: The city looks amazing, just a short swim to venice too
Eos Amaterasu: especially for Aph after her training in the rockies
Alfred Kelberry: it'd be fun to attend
stevenaia Michinaga: (10 hour drive)
Aphrodite Macbain: grins
Aphrodite Macbain: I'll be sit in a plane for 10 hrs if \i can
Aphrodite Macbain: weeeieerd
stevenaia Michinaga: how has the Stillness theme been going this week, I haven't been reading the logs lately
Eos Amaterasu: it's been there
Aphrodite Macbain: Me neither. Tryibg to think of something to do with \'motion\'
Eos Amaterasu: stillness and motion
Aphrodite Macbain: for the dome
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: together
Aphrodite Macbain: \i imagine a tornado with the still centre
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, been thinking about that too since motion seems to be the other end of stillness
Aphrodite Macbain: or in the centre of it
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: neither past or present
stevenaia Michinaga: the place where all motion begins
Eos Amaterasu: stillness in both motion and stillness
Aphrodite Macbain: fixed but dynamic
Eos Amaterasu: free to make gestures
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder how that can be translated into a sculpty\11
Aphrodite Macbain: !!
Aphrodite Macbain: like a ballerina en pointe
stevenaia Michinaga: even hurricanes have stillness at their center
--BELL--
Alfred Kelberry: eos, you've been following the occupy movement. what are the latest news from the barricades?
Aphrodite Macbain: exactly
Eos Amaterasu: in stillness hurricanes happily happen
Alfred Kelberry: yay! can hear aph's typing :)
stevenaia Michinaga: Aph, you turned your voice on
Aphrodite Macbain: there stillness now at the barricades?
Eos Amaterasu: actually I'm not up to date on Occupy et al...
Alfred Kelberry: it seems to me that it faded out
Eos Amaterasu sings, "You've got to occupy yourself..." to the tune of "You've got to lively up yourself"
Aphrodite Macbain: It did in Halifax and Vancouver
Alfred Kelberry: wall street, greed, and free market have won once again
Aphrodite Macbain isnt sure the tune to \lively up yourself
Aphrodite Macbain: hum a few bars \eos
Aphrodite Macbain: Eos
Alfred Kelberry: hehe
Alfred Kelberry: cute
Aphrodite Macbain: lalalala
Aphrodite Macbain: Nice computer! The sound works too!
Aphrodite Macbain: Is there such a thing as a still mind?
Eos Amaterasu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDnNqsy7rYE
Aphrodite Macbain: Is it possible without being dead\\\/
Aphrodite Macbain: ?
Eos Amaterasu: watching?
Eos Amaterasu: being watched?
Aphrodite Macbain: ?
Aphrodite Macbain: is that stillness?
Eos Amaterasu: What would be an experience of stillness?
Eos Amaterasu: or what is that right here?
stevenaia Michinaga: listening could be stillness
Aphrodite Macbain: here?
Aphrodite Macbain: attentiveness?
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, listening is a cool verb
Eos Amaterasu: attending
Eos Amaterasu: ready to pounce, yet relaxed
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: like a raptor
Aphrodite Macbain: like my cat watching a bird
Eos Amaterasu: ack!
Eos Amaterasu thinks of the robin's nest in the porch rafters....
Aphrodite Macbain: cept there is always a little twitch
Aphrodite Macbain: aww- with blue eggs in it?
Aphrodite Macbain: can you hear boxy?
Eos Amaterasu: I was hearing various rattling noises, aph
Aphrodite Macbain: kk \i was playing \lively up---
Alfred Kelberry: hi
Alfred Kelberry: i was away, sorry
stevenaia Michinaga: typing... does it have a built-in camera?
Aphrodite Macbain: hi?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: skype friendly
Eos Amaterasu: I think there is a kind of open stillness quality to the pavilion here
Eos Amaterasu: lots of big space around us
Eos Amaterasu: yet contained in a way
Aphrodite Macbain: it is a still place until we sit in it
Eos Amaterasu: ah
Eos Amaterasu: let us sit in stillness
stevenaia Michinaga: then?
Aphrodite Macbain: tho the fountain continues to gurgle
Eos Amaterasu: no expectations
Aphrodite Macbain: yes \ok
Eos Amaterasu: continues to lively
Alfred Kelberry: aph, who is planning your hiking route? group as a whole? or you visit the known trails already?
Aphrodite Macbain: I am going with a group of women who have hiked together eery september since 1987
Alfred Kelberry: yes, i remember :)
Eos Amaterasu: wow
Aphrodite Macbain: we take 1 day hiking in to a lodge
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: one day hikibg around the area, and one day hiking out
Alfred Kelberry: so, you decide on the spot? or is it the same route each time?
Aphrodite Macbain: Each year is different
Aphrodite Macbain: -we rotate where we go. \\\\\\anywhere where there is a lodge to sleep in
Aphrodite Macbain: this year it will be mound \assiniboine
stevenaia Michinaga: I must slip out, busy day tomorrow in town
Aphrodite Macbain: bye stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: bye stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: night all
Aphrodite Macbain: glad you will be busy -making money \i hope for the trrip
stevenaia Michinaga: :0
Alfred Kelberry: bye, stev
Alfred Kelberry: why not 2 times a year, aph? :)
Aphrodite Macbain: \\it's hard to get us all together- we are from all over north america
Alfred Kelberry: scattered girls
Aphrodite Macbain: and it costs money to fly there and to pay for food and accommodation
Alfred Kelberry: how much per person?
Aphrodite Macbain: \new \york- \\\\\\\vancouver, \calgary, \toronto, \banff, Canmore
Aphrodite Macbain: Edmonton
Alfred Kelberry: calgary flames :)
Aphrodite Macbain: We are all ages and stages in our lives. \the oldest is 67 and the youngest is about 50
Alfred Kelberry: for some reason i liked this team as a kid. guess it sounded pretty.
Aphrodite Macbain: This year we are scattering the ashes of one of these women- the \\\\\\\\koki \broads.
Alfred Kelberry: so glad for you, aph, and your group. go girls! :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Skoki
Alfred Kelberry: yes, i remember. she passed away recently.
Aphrodite Macbain: :-) we are famous in the rockies -Canadian rockies anyway
Eos Amaterasu: sudden stillness
Aphrodite Macbain: you remember boxy?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes she died of cancer
Aphrodite Macbain: 2 ys ago
Alfred Kelberry: you talked about it
Alfred Kelberry: oh wow, been 2 years
Aphrodite Macbain: \yes- it was nice to talk to this group.
Aphrodite Macbain: \someone suggessted tonglen to me
Aphrodite Macbain: and \i tride to practise it
Aphrodite Macbain: tried
Alfred Kelberry: tonglen?
Aphrodite Macbain: We all associated \kate with \mt assiniboine so we are scattering her ashes there.
Eos Amaterasu: hmmmm
Alfred Kelberry: why is that? she liked it?
Aphrodite Macbain: \she sang, \'will there be yodelling in heaven\' at the foot of the mountain\1
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: we all remembevr it
Eos Amaterasu hears the mountains ring
Eos Amaterasu hears the stillness
Aphrodite Macbain: anyway- \i will have tales to tell in \venice as we sit at a caffe in the \piazza san marco
Aphrodite Macbain: hears the bells
Aphrodite Macbain: and the silence
Eos Amaterasu smells the coffee
Aphrodite Macbain: Smells dinner
Eos Amaterasu imagines the ambience
Alfred Kelberry hears road construction
Aphrodite Macbain: :-(
Aphrodite Macbain: so late?
Alfred Kelberry: subtle, from the distance - rather entertaining :)
Alfred Kelberry: or so early
Aphrodite Macbain wonders how road construction can be entertaining
Eos Amaterasu: so late here..... thanks Aph and boxy....
Eos Amaterasu: aloha
Aphrodite Macbain: Nite Eos
Alfred Kelberry: eos, sleep well
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks for the stillness
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: Time to eat...
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: nite boxy
Alfred Kelberry: eat well, you
Alfred Kelberry: hiking girl
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)