2012.09.13 19:00 – Dreaming of God

The Guardian for this meeting was Paradise Tennant. Participants Included stevenaia, Santoshima,  Lucinda, and druth

stevenaia Michinaga: Paradise here?
stevenaia Michinaga: yet?
Santoshima Resident: nope
Santoshima Resident: just sent an email to our art group {including you}
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Santoshima Resident: rather, an IM
Santoshima Resident: {gad}
stevenaia Michinaga: an IM
Santoshima Resident: true, an IM
stevenaia Michinaga: I didn’t get an im
stevenaia Michinaga: what program
Santoshima Resident: let me check
stevenaia Michinaga: this is going to be a very silly log
Santoshima Resident: np, often the case
Santoshima Resident: yes, IM was sent
Santoshima Resident: stored, apparently
Santoshima Resident: until you are online
stevenaia Michinaga: I am online
stevenaia Michinaga: grins
Santoshima Resident: apparently
stevenaia Michinaga: lol
Santoshima Resident: but until the IM goes through
Santoshima Resident: we can't be sure
stevenaia Michinaga: ok
Santoshima Resident: how are you?
--BELL--
Santoshima Resident: you wanna claim this
Santoshima Resident: {nunge, nudge }
Santoshima Resident: ok, i'll do it
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Paradise
Santoshima Resident: heya Paradise
Paradise Tennant: hey there so sorry to be late ... I had company ..and they simply were loathe to go :))
stevenaia Michinaga: could you delete the first few lines of the log when you edit it, we were babbling
Santoshima Resident: :)
Paradise Tennant: sure can no worries
Santoshima Resident: sadly, it sounds very similar to a lot of conversations here
stevenaia Michinaga: grins
Santoshima Resident: so, not technically "blabbing"
Santoshima Resident: might as well leave it in
Santoshima Resident: up to you
stevenaia Michinaga: we were pretending to sound like geeks
Santoshima Resident: we ARE geeks of a sort
Paradise Tennant: ahh a good game of pretend
stevenaia Michinaga: Play as Geek
Santoshima Resident: how are you, Paradise?
Paradise Tennant: actually ok but a little worse for wear .. a very hard day :) today :)
Santoshima Resident: oh, sorry ...
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, sorry you are having such a rough week'
stevenaia Michinaga: wow the pictures on the board are looking great
Paradise Tennant: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: Storm looks like the second coming
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: what should we talk of :)
stevenaia Michinaga: Fubu comes in for the night
stevenaia Michinaga: compassion is the week's theme
stevenaia Michinaga: compassion for the sleepie tonight
Paradise Tennant: smiles are you sleepie tonight stev ?
stevenaia Michinaga: I think I may have over carbed up tonight, that stuff will make anyone tired, Pai Thai
stevenaia Michinaga: halavah for dessert (more sugar)
Paradise Tennant: hmm had pad thai tonight too on a patio .. yummies
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: this was all after Tai Chi class
stevenaia Michinaga: busy evening
stevenaia Michinaga: almost 17 people in the class in the new class, lots of old students helping new students
Paradise Tennant: hmm sounds it .. then you have a right to be sleepie
stevenaia Michinaga: right or not I can't stop yawning
Paradise Tennant: smiles shall we do the art project another night?
stevenaia Michinaga: it will have to be next week, I have the makings of an insane weekend
Paradise Tennant: hm ok :))
Paradise Tennant: maybe we can doodle a bit with different ideas
stevenaia Michinaga: for the new year, maybe after my or your session next week
stevenaia Michinaga: that's a god idea, I work better on paper and will scan it, what are your thoughts , Paradise
Paradise Tennant: have a picture in my mind of 4 little labs with our name tags looking at a blackboard with the full equation for pi on it .. with puzzled looks :)) holding notepads calculators .. yawning :))
Paradise Tennant: maybe scratching
Paradise Tennant: ok could do yours
--BELL--
Santoshima Resident: please excuse me .... need to sleep
Paradise Tennant: okies :)) nite nite san :))
stevenaia Michinaga: lol, seems to be contagious
stevenaia Michinaga: night san
Santoshima Resident: :) nite
stevenaia Michinaga: did I tell you my idea?
Paradise Tennant: no >
stevenaia Michinaga: well it involves out pets
stevenaia Michinaga: our
stevenaia Michinaga: I see a picture of you me san and Luci in the playgoda here, being the experiment with our pets in lab coats standing over the miniature pagoda taking notes
stevenaia Michinaga: (and you)
Paradise Tennant: smiles that would be cool :))
Paradise Tennant: like it
stevenaia Michinaga: but it should be pics , not a model
Paradise Tennant: we have actual pictures of our pets
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, not sure about the lab coats
Lucinda Lavender: hello friends
Paradise Tennant: hiya luci :)))
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Luci, I think we are canceling the afterparty
Lucinda Lavender: ah
Lucinda Lavender: I know it can be late
stevenaia Michinaga: you and paradise can work on your ideas
stevenaia Michinaga: I told her mine
Lucinda Lavender: ok:)
Paradise Tennant: what was your idea luci ?
Lucinda Lavender: wow really!
Lucinda Lavender: I have no ideas
Paradise Tennant: ahh ok they will come
stevenaia Michinaga: lol, well you can still be part of it
Lucinda Lavender: sorry no ideas because I am inundated with work
stevenaia Michinaga: I have ideas but no building skills
Lucinda Lavender: no skills either
Paradise Tennant: hmm yes always a challenge translating what we imagine into virtual reality :)
Lucinda Lavender: it would be cool to work on but realistically...it is doubtful
Lucinda Lavender: unless I can be kind of last minute
stevenaia Michinaga: inspiration comes when it's ready
Lucinda Lavender: ok...
stevenaia Michinaga: and with a group project it's usually easier
Lucinda Lavender: well has any one proposed anything?
stevenaia Michinaga: then 1 idea builds on another
Lucinda Lavender: so true
Lucinda Lavender: I am ok with ideas
stevenaia Michinaga: san has been working on hers at the Sanbox
Lucinda Lavender: ah
stevenaia Michinaga: sandbox
Paradise Tennant: what was san's idea ?
stevenaia Michinaga: she is a good builder
Lucinda Lavender: I have not even followed the focus of the project
stevenaia Michinaga: I forgot, she said she changed in anyway
stevenaia Michinaga: life as a lab
Paradise Tennant: playasbeing as a laboratory :)))
Lucinda Lavender: ah...
stevenaia Michinaga: thnx para
Paradise Tennant: but we were thinking of using labs >> lab puppies :)))
stevenaia Michinaga: or Labradors
Paradise Tennant: did you tell luci your idea stev ?
Lucinda Lavender: I had this dream a bit back...where I asked the ipad in the dream what is play as being...and the ipad said(answered like an oracle) I am god
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Paradise Tennant: wow luci
Lucinda Lavender: shocked me awake too...
stevenaia Michinaga: wow indeed
stevenaia Michinaga: do you have an ipad?
Paradise Tennant: maybe awareness lifts the curtain a bit on the divine
Lucinda Lavender: yes...and I am actively engaged in teaching how to use it to many people
Lucinda Lavender: particularly those under 5 years of age
Lucinda Lavender: currently we are working on dots and lines, connecting them and counting them
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: anyway...I am currently studying how we are effected by working with screen time
Paradise Tennant: So important to be able to connect the dots Jwhat is screen time
Lucinda Lavender: making observations and making up the language to use when talking to children about the screen and its abilities
Paradise Tennant: the computer screen ?
Lucinda Lavender: any time we find ourselves drawn into a screen I guess
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Lucinda Lavender: how to be active and not passive working with it...
stevenaia Michinaga: bedtime for me, night my friends
Paradise Tennant: nite nite stev
Lucinda Lavender: sleep well:)
Paradise Tennant: are you up to talking a bit more about your dream luci ::)))
Lucinda Lavender: sure Para
Lucinda Lavender: here or somewhere else?
Lucinda Lavender: so nice to see you
Paradise Tennant: hiya san :))
Lucinda Lavender: hi San
Santoshima Resident: hello again
druth Vlodovic: hey guys
Lucinda Lavender: Hi druth:)
Santoshima Resident: hey druth
Paradise Tennant: well was thinking here for a bit then maybe scooting over to hear max kleene sing it is his 6th rez day
Paradise Tennant: hiya druth
Lucinda Lavender: what does that mean?
Paradise Tennant: luci had a dream
Lucinda Lavender: about the day...
Lucinda Lavender: and yes...
Paradise Tennant: his sl birthday his sixth sl birthday
Lucinda Lavender: did have a dream
Lucinda Lavender: ah!
Lucinda Lavender: do you want to hear the dream?
Santoshima Resident: ok
Lucinda Lavender: or later another time
Paradise Tennant: yes please
druth Vlodovic: please
druth Vlodovic: lol, "yes I'd like to hear it now if you would like to share"
Lucinda Lavender: I am standing in a brightly lit gymnasium...holding tightly to a Barbie Doll. Thinking that they are so special, tho hard to get a hold of and keep....then there is a shift and I am asking the Ipad as if it is a deck of some sort...What is Play as Being?"...and it says I am God. end of dream.
Lucinda Lavender: that is the whole thing
Paradise Tennant: wow
Santoshima Resident: short, sweet, and cosmic
Lucinda Lavender: yes:) San
Lucinda Lavender: this is why I love dreaming...
Lucinda Lavender: I often think about how dressing here is playing like Barbies
Paradise Tennant: yes it is!
Santoshima Resident: yup
Lucinda Lavender: stretching to ones bigger self
Lucinda Lavender: when I was little my mom made my Barbie clothes
Lucinda Lavender: wish I had them now
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: Barbie gets a lot of negative spin
Paradise Tennant: yes the things we lose that we have really cherished are hard
Lucinda Lavender: but in the dream the way I held her was like she was a power object
Paradise Tennant: always thought she was cute .. particularly liked the hats and shoes
Lucinda Lavender: nodding
Lucinda Lavender: the feminine
Paradise Tennant: hmm emanating >>>
Paradise Tennant: the feminine :))))
Lucinda Lavender: I read an article once that spoke of how she was thought up
Lucinda Lavender: by the wife of and advertising guy
Lucinda Lavender: she saw a doll in Germany that she knew her daughters would play with...
Lucinda Lavender: because she could see they needed to play as older girls
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: smiles she has symmetry to her that is very appealing
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: funny...so do we!
druth Vlodovic: g2g, 'night all
Paradise Tennant: was looking tonight at a friend's trip pictures from Rome and the statue David and he was perfectly proportioned
Lucinda Lavender: night Druth
Santoshima Resident: 'nite druth ~ gtsy
Paradise Tennant: nite nite druth
Lucinda Lavender: studying the human form...
Lucinda Lavender: do you want to discuss the art project?
Paradise Tennant: sure
Paradise Tennant: san what did you want to do as a project ?
Lucinda Lavender: San:)
Santoshima Resident: I can show you something
Lucinda Lavender: cool
Santoshima Resident: but upstairs
Paradise Tennant: ok
Santoshima Resident: too difficult here
Paradise Tennant: ok
Lucinda Lavender: ok
Santoshima Resident: now?
Lucinda Lavender: sure