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

Lila Darkmatter: Hi Eos and Samúð
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Sam (quite a look!)

Eos Amaterasu: (speaking of personas (masks))!
oO0Oo Resident: sorry if I landed on anybody
oO0Oo Resident: Hello
oO0Oo Resident: rez rez
Lila Darkmatter: (my daughter is playing gregorian monks singing boulevard of broken dreams)
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Lila
Lila Darkmatter: Hello :)
Eos Amaterasu: broken dreams are themselves dreams, are they not?
Lila Darkmatter: whether flying or not flying
Lila Darkmatter: :)
Eos Amaterasu: Shall we use this week's topic of "masks" as a framing?
Lila Darkmatter: sure :))
oO0Oo Resident: sure
Eos Amaterasu: the topic is the mask nowness wears
oO0Oo Resident: never seems to go out of style
Eos Amaterasu: even when styles change it remains
Lila Darkmatter: Hi Stevenaia :)
oO0Oo Resident: [19:04] Eos Amaterasu: the topic is the mask nowness wears
Eos Amaterasu: Stevenaia persona arrives: greetings!
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: nowness?
Eos Amaterasu: it's interesting that "persona" means "mask"
stevenaia Michinaga: didn;t know that
stevenaia Michinaga: latin? Greek?
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Lila, Eos, Sam
Eos Amaterasu: Wikiepedia says: A persona (plural personae or personas), in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word is derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask. The Latin word probably derived from the Etruscan word "phersu", with the same meaning, and that from the Greek πρόσωπον (prosōpon).
Eos Amaterasu: we are Guy Fawkes
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm, never thought of me as mask
Eos Amaterasu peers behind stevenaia's mask...
Eos Amaterasu sees "42"
oO0Oo Resident wonders if there is a relationship between prayer and masks
Eos Amaterasu: can us say more?
Eos Amaterasu: u
oO0Oo Resident: thinking about Pema.. talking to living, and living better
oO0Oo Resident: aspiration
oO0Oo Resident: and what mask prayer might begin with
oO0Oo Resident: whether there is subject/object there'
oO0Oo Resident: what kind of expressions those may be
Eos Amaterasu: is form essentially mask?
oO0Oo Resident: in a sense I believe so yes
Eos Amaterasu: I suppose prayer could be from beyond my mask to beyond masks
Eos Amaterasu: at least in intention
oO0Oo Resident: perhaps mask carries form's connotations
stevenaia Michinaga: before SL there was text chat, which also offers a place for a mask

--BELL--

oO0Oo Resident: eep
Eos Amaterasu: Samúð is gone with the bell, and back with the bell
Eos Amaterasu: wb
Lila Darkmatter: :)
oO0Oo Resident smiles
Eos Amaterasu: masked balls and parties always seem to be fun and specially charged
stevenaia Michinaga: wonders if whatever your mask is, intentional or not, how much can you truely show of yourself, there really is no "no-mask"
stevenaia Michinaga: ni.e., nothing is complete explosure
Eos Amaterasu: there is no 'no-mask'?
stevenaia Michinaga: there is only mask
Eos Amaterasu: nothing that is is complete exposure
Eos Amaterasu: 'there's nothing you can see that isn't shown': all you need is masks
stevenaia Michinaga: your music lyric references are always right on :)
Lila Darkmatter: :) interesting connections.. prayer-exposure-aspiration, masks as entries of being seen
stevenaia Michinaga: wb Sam
oO0Oo Resident: ty
Eos Amaterasu: a mask is like the enso stroke....
Eos Amaterasu: inside the mask and outside the mask
Eos Amaterasu: but actually the space in and out is the same

stevenaia Michinaga: I may be babbling, I just drove back from a weekend in Montreal (8 hour drive)
Lila Darkmatter: :)
Eos Amaterasu: Cool!
stevenaia Michinaga: (could be the scotch too)
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Lila Darkmatter: um, drove back drinking scotch?
Eos Amaterasu: did you meet our dream friend?
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, Fox was there
Lila Darkmatter smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: we met w/ her family at an outdoor restaurant
Eos Amaterasu: micro meetup
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, was fun
oO0Oo Resident smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: looks nothing like Fox
stevenaia Michinaga: somehow we recogized each other
Eos Amaterasu thinks pointed ears and bushy tails
stevenaia Michinaga: masks are pretend
Lila Darkmatter: "somehow we recognized each other" :))
stevenaia Michinaga: no feathers to give me away
Lila Darkmatter: same face underneath perhaps
Eos Amaterasu: original face before mask was worn?
stevenaia Michinaga: is always the case

--BELL--

Lila Darkmatter smiles
Eos Amaterasu thinks of the hero with a thousand faces
Eos Amaterasu: or Avalokiteshvara/Kuanyin with a thousand arms
Eos Amaterasu: Quanyin with so many different forms, faces, sexes
oO0Oo Resident: hard.. those juggling moments.. when 1000 arms are busy, and one see's the milk bottle just starting to tip off the table..
Lila Darkmatter: manifest expressions of ... inexpressible
Eos Amaterasu: Quanyin would make short work of 100 bottles of beer on the wall
oO0Oo Resident: me laughs
Lila Darkmatter: :) tipping points
oO0Oo Resident: tippling points?
Eos Amaterasu: hic
oO0Oo Resident: hahaha
Eos Amaterasu: I guess playing with form as a game is what masks can be about, very energetic that way
oO0Oo Resident: prayer.. taken lightly
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.wimp.com/chinesehands/
stevenaia Michinaga: comes to mind
oO0Oo Resident considers palying with that phrase
oO0Oo Resident: backspaces
oO0Oo Resident: ooooooooh
Lila Darkmatter: quite beautiful in moments Stevenaia, ty
oO0Oo Resident: indeed
Eos Amaterasu: wow, yes

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: If you get to wear more than one mask, you might realize you were wearing a mask; whereas if you only wear one mask, you might think that's your face
Eos Amaterasu: therefore, have a masked ball
stevenaia Michinaga: is "your face" what you show or what others see in you?
Eos Amaterasu: perhaps it's a mask which you think is not a dream
Lila Darkmatter: the built in 'safety' net... space between, expressions
Eos Amaterasu: we build up or grow our faces interactively, with others: both what we show and how others see us, affecting each other
Eos Amaterasu: my facial muscles respond to your facial muscles
Eos Amaterasu: ha ha, we are such funny beings!
stevenaia Michinaga: where does the mask end and the no-mask begin?
Eos Amaterasu: I think we can realize "I had a mask", but there still might be further masks
Lila Darkmatter: wb Samúð
Eos Amaterasu: especially karma, force of past karma, is pretty inexorable... our masks have lifetimes of work behind them
oO0Oo Resident: ty
Eos Amaterasu: personal history driving certain ways to hold ourselves
Eos Amaterasu: personas in playing as being
Lila Darkmatter: and holding others... some element of seeing one mask unmasking the underlying maskness... haha
stevenaia Michinaga: masklessness :)
Lila Darkmatter: :)
Eos Amaterasu: "the play's the thing, wherewith we'll catch the masklessness of the mask"
stevenaia Michinaga: like exchanging avatars, wearing the mask of someone else... walking a mile in their shoes
Eos Amaterasu: hmm, yes
Lila Darkmatter: intimacy, in the know

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: could make for an intersting session :)
Lila Darkmatter: Night Eos, thanks
Eos Amaterasu: time to re-cloak....
Eos Amaterasu: good night, thank you, masked friends :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: night
Lila Darkmatter: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: night lila, good seeing you
Lila Darkmatter: my eyes are closing, too... other dream worlds peeping into this one
Lila Darkmatter: Nice to see you too Stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: dreams are the only thing that that are yours w/o a mask
Lila Darkmatter: much shape shiftings in dreams... dreamer and dreams intertwined
stevenaia Michinaga: I think of it as a headache, something truely dificult to share
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Lila Darkmatter: haha
Lila Darkmatter: well :)
stevenaia Michinaga: sweet dreams
Lila Darkmatter: who can tell the difference...dreamer and dream ...not me
Lila Darkmatter: Night
Lila Darkmatter: And night Samúð if able to return