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

Eos Amaterasu: hmm
Hana Furlough: 's current display-name is "Hana".
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Hana!
Eliza Madrigal: 's current display-name is "Eliza".
Hana Furlough: Hello Eos! Happy New Year!
Eos Amaterasu: So nice to see you, & happy new year indeed!
Hana Furlough: Great to see you as well!
Hana Furlough: Hello Eliza!
Eliza Madrigal: Hana! Hello :) Hi Eos!
Eos Amaterasu: HI Eliza.... nice outfit!
Hana Furlough: Yes, very fancy!
Eliza Madrigal: thank you :) Scrubbed up for New Years
Eliza Madrigal: Happy New Year, btw
Hana Furlough: Happy New Year to you, too!
Eliza Madrigal: ^.^
Eos Amaterasu: ^_^
Eos Amaterasu: our very own mayan calendar episode, every year
Hana Furlough: lol!
Eos Amaterasu: the cliff at the end of time :-)
Eliza Madrigal: slippery slope

Eos Amaterasu: So is nothing our topic this week?
Eliza Madrigal: mhm
Hana Furlough: "nothing" is the topic?
Eos Amaterasu: apparently
Hana Furlough: interesting
Eliza Madrigal: well, nothing-ness
Eos Amaterasu: geez, nothing with a PhD
Eliza Madrigal: nothing-esse?
Eos Amaterasu: nothing-gained?
Eliza Madrigal: nothingness sounds like a substance to me

Paradise Tennant: smiles and waves all round and listens
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Para!
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Paradise :)
Hana Furlough: Hi Paradise!
Paradise Tennant: hiya hana eos eliza happy new year :)
Eliza Madrigal: Happy New Year to you too! thanks
Hana Furlough: to you, too, para!

Eos Amaterasu: "and we'll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down" - Joni M
Eliza Madrigal: "nothing's gonna change my world"
Eos Amaterasu: the FBI will be rounding up nothing
Paradise Tennant: smiles at the Joni quote she had such a way with words

--BELL--

Wol Euler: evening all
Eliza Madrigal: Evening, Wol
Paradise Tennant: hiya wol happy new year :))
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Wol, happy neue year!
Hana Furlough: Hi Wol!
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: lovely to see you all here today
Paradise Tennant: just noticed the dance machine :))))
Paradise Tennant: smiles what a nice idea of sunshine's
Eliza Madrigal: much dancing yesterday.. and a little this morning too... the slideshows give peeks into some of the hoopla
Eliza Madrigal: Sun is overflowing with partiness...fireworks...
Eos Amaterasu: bountiful
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: yes
Wol Euler nods.
Eos Amaterasu: enoughness all around
Paradise Tennant: sunshine and partiness just kind of go together and partiness should always be bountiful :)))
Hana Furlough: : )
Wol Euler: lots and lots of enoughness
Eliza Madrigal smiles.. too long since I'd heard that word
Wol Euler makes a note to suggest it as a topic of the week
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eos Amaterasu: great idea
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Eos Amaterasu: one aspect of "nothingness" I find is that of playing as being something, like my avatarish self here, in the midst of a bigger nothingness, like walking through a waking dream
Paradise Tennant: it is all kind of play
Eos Amaterasu: both chuang tzu and the butterfly
Bleu Oleander: 's current display-name is "Bleu".
Wol Euler: hello bleu
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Bleu :)
Bleu Oleander: hi all :)
Hana Furlough: Hi Bleu!
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Bleu!
Wol Euler ponders bigger and smaller nothingnesses
Paradise Tennant: hiya bleu happy happy new year
Bleu Oleander: happy new year to everyone :)
Eos Amaterasu: perhaps smaller nothingnesses are like holes in the fabric
Eos Amaterasu: (like the hole in Ringo's pocket)
Wol Euler: yes I was just thinking of that :)
Wol Euler: hehehehe
Wol Euler: if you put a hole into a hole ...
Eos Amaterasu: "I've got a hole in me pocket...."
Eliza Madrigal: how can so much seem to be happening, then close the laptop, or move to another room, or close one's eyes... and... nothing. where did the nothing go before? it really didn't, but wasn't there something... lol
Paradise Tennant: smiles ..
Eos Amaterasu: Eliza's playing hide 'n seek with reality
Paradise Tennant: nods
Wol Euler grins.
Eliza Madrigal: :) or being played
Hana Furlough: : )
Eliza Madrigal: still thinking about thresholds I guess :) New Years being a sort of one
Bleu Oleander: :)
Eos Amaterasu listens
Eliza Madrigal: came up in discussion last night.. contexts and thresholds
Wol Euler listens.
Eliza Madrigal: and over dinner tonight too, was reminded of a line that "a man is the room he's in" when describing to my daughter the need to change context, even if just imagination sometimes
Eliza Madrigal: ie sallies n such

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: hi stevie
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Stevenia :)
stevenaia Michinaga: sorry Eliza, didn;t see you there
Wol Euler: hello stevie
Bleu Oleander: hi steve :)
Eliza Madrigal: s'ok
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: happy new year to all
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. and looks around her room :))
Bleu Oleander: u 2 :)
Hana Furlough: Hi Steve! Happy New Year!
Eliza Madrigal: HNY
Paradise Tennant: hiya stev .. happy new year

Eos Amaterasu: what does this room we're in say about us?
Bleu Oleander: so what context are we in now?
Eliza Madrigal: what is it made of?
Wol Euler: agreements
Bleu Oleander: are we in rl or sl or somewhere in between?
Wol Euler: some spoken, others not
stevenaia Michinaga: room? is it a room/
Eliza Madrigal: is the room inside or outside?
Eos Amaterasu: the room, pavilion, contains us avatars
Eos Amaterasu: it has space in the middle
Bleu Oleander: can you be in two rooms at once?
Eos Amaterasu: (water, fountain, air :-)
Eliza Madrigal: we seem to contain each other, too
Bleu Oleander: fuzzy edges
Wol Euler nods.
Eliza Madrigal: yes
Eos Amaterasu: my mirror neurons render you
Wol Euler: it's a different room when Pema is here
Wol Euler: at lest in my appreciation of it
Bleu Oleander: it's a diff room when anyone is here
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Eliza Madrigal nods
Eos Amaterasu: ripples in self water
Paradise Tennant: we all are room changers :))
Wol Euler: true; just the most striking example
Eliza Madrigal grins
Eliza Madrigal: in some ways always feels like pema is here
stevenaia Michinaga: a special air fills this place then
Eos Amaterasu: (at first I thought you meant Chödron)
Wol Euler chuckles.
Hana Furlough: (ha!)
Eliza Madrigal: :) would love that
Wol Euler: perhaps Pema is Pema's alt
Eos Amaterasu: the room / pavilion is also in and thru its architecture
Eliza Madrigal: but really we are here with all who influence and make us up , too
Hana Furlough: for sure
Eliza Madrigal: Bleu's and Paradise's dogs are here :)
Eos Amaterasu: we have lots of other's conversations yakking in us
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Paradise Tennant: mine is sleeping
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Luci, HNY!
Paradise Tennant: loved the term you used the other night eos our karasse 's [karass]

Eliza Madrigal: Hi Luci, HNY
Paradise Tennant: hiya luci happy happy new year
Wol Euler: hello luci, happy new year
Hana Furlough: Hi Luci!
Lucinda Lavender: hi all

Bleu Oleander: we all bring an entourage
Bleu Oleander: hiya Luci
Lucinda Lavender: happy, peaceful, and to all taste of Rhubarb wine which I send you now:)
Eliza Madrigal: mmmm, ty Luci
Paradise Tennant: sometimes people just keep cropping up in your life .. like they are in the same kamic net just bouncing around together
Bleu Oleander: :)
Paradise Tennant: hmmm rhubarb wine .. looks at her tea and blinks
Eos Amaterasu tastes rhubarb wine
Lucinda Lavender: it is pink
Lucinda Lavender: new
Eliza Madrigal: does seem that way... like already known and then seem to fall into familiar feeling
Eos Amaterasu: or else it's like, uh oh, here comes love potion #9?
Eliza Madrigal: haha
Wol Euler: that might explain why some people can be liked and understood at first sight

Eliza Madrigal: Hi Aphrodite :) NHY
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Aph!
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Aph, happy NY!
Bleu Oleander: hey Aph ... HNY :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Aph

Wol Euler: because they were always part of your kavasse, but you haven't met them yet
Aphrodite Macbain: Happy New Year!
Hana Furlough: Hi Aph!
Lucinda Lavender: HNY!
Wol Euler: *karasses
Eos Amaterasu: hmm, my friends I haven't met yet
Wol Euler: **karasse
Paradise Tennant: smiles love the concept
Eos Amaterasu: invisible networks, we don't know we're in each others' mycelium
Bleu Oleander: friends in the next room
Paradise Tennant: having friends I have not met yet
stevenaia Michinaga: they ones whos gears are ment to mesh with yours, there is a place for them to fit
Wol Euler: hard to explain otherwise why that is so
Eliza Madrigal: ah, like that Bleu
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bleu Oleander: beyond the threshold in a way
Wol Euler: except as reincarnation, that you were friends in previous life

--BELL--

Wol Euler: (one of the ways that the next Dalai Lama is recognized is that he is instantly attracted to people in the search party who were the previous DL's friends
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: that could really add up
Lucinda Lavender: in the dream work i have done it is described that when one shares the same midheaven degree in an astrological chart...that they come from the same soul home you might call it...so they might share a connection to "Soul" that is similar ...
Lucinda Lavender: part of a system of thought that I was exposed to
Paradise Tennant: smiles soul sisters :)) soul brothers
Eliza Madrigal: in some circles terms like resonate dimensionalities are used... guess trying to point to same phenomenon - have certainly experienced that on a few occasions of "oh its you"
Wol Euler nods.
Eos Amaterasu: like meeting a meme
Paradise Tennant: well hard to explain meeting someone and being able to complete their sentences otherwise ..
Eos Amaterasu: or the meme meets you
Eliza Madrigal nods ... could be compatible capacities?
Eliza Madrigal: lit up in similar or opposite places? heheh
Eos Amaterasu: there's a lot of common singing going on in us, at all kinds of levels; within and with that we "find" or make our own voice
Eliza Madrigal: *nice*
Wol Euler nods.
Paradise Tennant: starts to humm
Aphrodite Macbain: hmmmmmmmmm
Eliza Madrigal: mmmmmm

Hana Furlough: (sneaks out to go get lunch -- happy new year to all!)
Wol Euler: bye hana, take care
Eliza Madrigal: Happy New Year Hana
Eos Amaterasu: HNY< Hana!
Lucinda Lavender: Happy new Year Hannah
Lucinda Lavender: oops
Bleu Oleander: bye Hana HNY!
Lucinda Lavender: Hanah
Lucinda Lavender: oops Hana

Eos Amaterasu: resonate dimensionalities of singing?
Lucinda Lavender: thnking about the harmonics
Paradise Tennant: bye hana
Lucinda Lavender: that come through vowel sounds and differering voices
Lucinda Lavender: we work so hard to get agreement in a choir
Wol Euler smiles.
Lucinda Lavender: not easy
Eliza Madrigal: ease of expression when a group gets to really know /intuit one another?
Eos Amaterasu: do the bump
Paradise Tennant: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: bump?
Bleu Oleander: http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Portsmouth+Sinfonia+Beethoven+Symphony+No+5
Bleu Oleander: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia
Wol Euler giggles.
Bleu Oleander: somehow it works hehe
Eliza Madrigal: ooh, hah :)
Wol Euler: you realize this is what school music teachers hear all day :O
Bleu Oleander: :)
Eos Amaterasu: mutating angels making up the choir :-)
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Eliza Madrigal: acquired taste :)

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: "Bryars was interested more in experimenting with the nature of music than forming a traditional orchestra. Instead of picking the most competent musicians he could find, he encouraged anyone to join, regardless of talent, ability and experience. The only rules were that everyone had to come for rehearsals and that people should try their best to get it right and not intentionally try to play badly." thanks so much Bleu
Bleu Oleander: interesting huh?
Eos Amaterasu: sounds like us :-)
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes
Eliza Madrigal: yes ^.^
Lucinda Lavender: I like that..
Wol Euler nods.
Paradise Tennant: should never just about getting it right .. but mostly getting it :)
Paradise Tennant: *be
stevenaia Michinaga: :
Eos Amaterasu: thanks all - must depart
Paradise Tennant: nite nite eos ..thank you
Eliza Madrigal: thanks Eos, night :)
Eos Amaterasu: Cheerful New Year!
Wol Euler: goodnight eos, take care
Bleu Oleander: night Eos
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Aphrodite Macbain: night
Paradise Tennant: wol was suggesting we do another 99 days .. :)) to strengthen a pracitse of our choice :))
Wol Euler nods.
stevenaia Michinaga: The1st workday for the year begins tomorrow... night my friends
Wol Euler: wol forgot to tell the e-mail group abbout that! I'll do it tomorrow
Paradise Tennant: have picked my practise :) contemplative housework :)
Paradise Tennant: nite nite stev
Bleu Oleander: night steve :)
Eliza Madrigal: :) NIght Stevenaia
Wol Euler: goodnight stevie, take care
Aphrodite Macbain: washing dishes is pleasant
Paradise Tennant: yes
Eliza Madrigal: ah, nice one Para
Paradise Tennant: find housework a good balance to centering and you end up with a clean house a clean mind
Wol Euler: win/win :)
Bleu Oleander: :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Eliza Madrigal nods.... I enjoy cleaning too
Aphrodite Macbain: or at least a tidy one
Eliza Madrigal: you're affecting something seemingly small on the outside but often feels like a big difference
Aphrodite Macbain: How is your waist line Wol?
Eliza Madrigal: lol
Wol Euler: heheheheh
Wol Euler: enormous
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Wol Euler: constant feeding
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Aphrodite Macbain: I went to a party last night and hardly anyone drank
Aphrodite Macbain: that's what happens when you get old
Wol Euler nods.
Aphrodite Macbain: but we managed to have fun anyway
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Wol Euler: a lesson worth learning
Aphrodite Macbain: even danced to 50s toons
Eliza Madrigal: without drinking? hehe
Bleu Oleander: amazing
Aphrodite Macbain: just a sip or 2 of prosecco!
Lucinda Lavender: sounds fun
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes
Wol Euler: that doesn't count :)
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: wish we had some of that peach stuff wol
Wol Euler: Bellini
Wol Euler grins.
Paradise Tennant: yum
Aphrodite Macbain: YES!! bellinis
Wol Euler: you could make your own, peach nectar and prosecco
Lucinda Lavender: sounds delicious
Wol Euler: maybe some sugar ....
Paradise Tennant: did you go to harry's bar in venice where they invented it ?
Wol Euler: it is, very sweet
Bleu Oleander: mushed up peaches with prosecco
Wol Euler: no, you can buy it bottled :)
Aphrodite Macbain: wonders what peach nectar really is- sounds like something in a fairy tale
Aphrodite Macbain: in Vancouver?
Aphrodite Macbain: dont I wish
Bleu Oleander: yummy with fresh peaches in a blender with ice ... just add prosecco
Aphrodite Macbain: had to make do with rose prosecco
Paradise Tennant: http://www.bellinicocktail.it/home.php?lang=1
Lucinda Lavender: wow
Paradise Tennant: this one ?
Lucinda Lavender: sounds great
Aphrodite Macbain: ohh - now I need to find peaches...
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe a can- does that count?
Bleu Oleander: noooo
Wol Euler: canned peaches? *shudders*
Bleu Oleander: fresh is better :)
Lucinda Lavender: maybe a summer drink...
Aphrodite Macbain: whie peaches- not many of those around right now
Aphrodite Macbain: white
Lucinda Lavender: Luci has an idea
Bleu Oleander: yes sipped by the canal :)
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe in Australia
Aphrodite Macbain: ah yess
Bleu Oleander: well .... you know :)
Aphrodite Macbain: yes :-)
Bleu Oleander: :)
Lucinda Lavender: how about imagining a special drink for each season
Paradise Tennant: smiles ..
Bleu Oleander: have sipped a few at Harry's myself :)
Lucinda Lavender: that exemplifies the seasons flavor
Aphrodite Macbain: hot rum toddies for now?
Wol Euler: or mulled wine
Aphrodite Macbain: with nitmeg
Aphrodite Macbain: nut
Paradise Tennant: cocoa with candy canes in it
Aphrodite Macbain: sweet tooth!
Lucinda Lavender: all yummm
Bleu Oleander: ok STOP
Wol Euler: heheheheh
Lucinda Lavender: What for spring?
Aphrodite Macbain: grins and salivates
Paradise Tennant: lavender iced tea
Aphrodite Macbain: oooo

--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: I want to learn of an herbal infusion kind of thing
Lucinda Lavender: with alchhol of some sort
Aphrodite Macbain: mmm like a liqueur
Bleu Oleander: vodka are nice to do that with
Lucinda Lavender: what herb..
Bleu Oleander: almost any
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. I am getting noddy and have an early morning tomorrow .. back at the mines .. .. going to have say thank you my karasse .. sweet dreams everyone .. with every seasonal beverage imaginable...
Bleu Oleander: http://cocktails.about.com/od/spirits/ht/infusions.htm
Wol Euler: goodnight, paradise, take care
Bleu Oleander: sweet dreams Para :)
Lucinda Lavender: nite Para...and happy sleep year
Paradise Tennant: http://nuannaarpoq.wordpress.com/thalassas-herbal/herbal-infusions-some-basicsto-be-expanded/
Wol Euler: I have to move on too, actually, goodngiht all! be happy and healthy
Aphrodite Macbain: waves
Paradise Tennant: happy new year :)) wishing each and everyone of you a wonderful 2013 full of magic
Lucinda Lavender: Good year to you Wol
Eliza Madrigal: Night Aph, Para, Wol, everyone
Aphrodite Macbain: thank you Paradise
Eliza Madrigal: sweet dreams
Aphrodite Macbain: night John Boy
Bleu Oleander: bye Wol, Para
Aphrodite Macbain: sleep well
Bleu Oleander: nite all :)
Eliza Madrigal: Night Bleu, Luci
Eliza Madrigal: <3 HNY
Bleu Oleander: HNY :)
Lucinda Lavender: thanks Bleu