2013.07.12 19:00 - Contentent Continued

The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender. Attending were Santoshima and stevenaia.

Lucinda Lavender: Hi to anyone who has come by...
Lucinda Lavender: I am here now:)
Lucinda Lavender: Luci sits quietly...
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Santoshima Resident: hiya stevie
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Luci
Lucinda Lavender: hi steve! and San!!
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi San
stevenaia Michinaga: did you just get here too?
Lucinda Lavender: yes a bit ago...car shopping...
Lucinda Lavender: oops
stevenaia Michinaga: what did yu bye?
Lucinda Lavender: nothing yet...was looking at subaru to replace vanagon..due to the need for an automatic
stevenaia Michinaga: car shopping take forever once they get their sales claws on you
Lucinda Lavender: I am doing cragslist by owner
stevenaia Michinaga: aww, much better than a dealer
Lucinda Lavender: ankle is asking for a break:)
stevenaia Michinaga: not a break
stevenaia Michinaga: an break
stevenaia Michinaga: a
Lucinda Lavender: :))
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: you would think you would invent just one more word to avoid confusion
Santoshima Resident: i think i will go plant some mint, please excuse me
Santoshima Resident: maybe be back in a short while
Lucinda Lavender: bye for now san:)
stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy, fresh mint is the best
Santoshima Resident: bfn
Santoshima Resident: yes!
Lucinda Lavender: I am not sure what you meant Stevenaia...
stevenaia Michinaga: we always add it to fresh fruit
stevenaia Michinaga: mint from our doorstep
Lucinda Lavender: yum!
Lucinda Lavender: well how was you week ?
Lucinda Lavender: your
stevenaia Michinaga: week was busy, I enjoy a busy week, got much done
Lucinda Lavender: great!
stevenaia Michinaga: do you teach during the summer?
Lucinda Lavender: yes...well I do lunch at a drop in program in the same building
Lucinda Lavender: just 3-4 hours a day
stevenaia Michinaga: nice summer hours
Lucinda Lavender: yes and it allows me to get the house clean for visitors in August
stevenaia Michinaga: family gathering?
Lucinda Lavender: but I have had to learn that I should not spend much time on ladders
Lucinda Lavender: wedding
stevenaia Michinaga: oh, nice, congrats
Lucinda Lavender: for our daughter
Lucinda Lavender: thanks
stevenaia Michinaga: daughter still at Mt V'ernon?
Lucinda Lavender: yes!...
stevenaia Michinaga: I saw a story about the new Library , the director looks kinds deadly
Lucinda Lavender: there is a facebook interview of her on The new Room Renewed which she writes
stevenaia Michinaga: the website is very nice
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes:)
Lucinda Lavender: here is the article
Lucinda Lavender: I may edit later
stevenaia Michinaga: cool
stevenaia Michinaga: nice pic
Lucinda Lavender: yes:)
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: Interesting to go to school and have facebook work that sort of thing part of ones job...
stevenaia Michinaga: :) who would have thought
Lucinda Lavender: right! who would have...and I bet it happens alot these days
Lucinda Lavender: part of ones job being keeping up a presence
Lucinda Lavender: AS my boss would say...the sales job
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, smeone thinks it;s important, hehe
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: so my morning session went towards the topic of contentment...any thought on it?
stevenaia Michinaga: interesting counterpint to Hypocricy
Lucinda Lavender: not a focussed question I guess
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Lucinda Lavender: I was just pondering it from my yoga class
stevenaia Michinaga: it is a worthy state, easilly attainable when you drop the clutter as it is what remains
stevenaia Michinaga: when everything is a gift
Lucinda Lavender: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: the older I get , the more contentment there is, I suspect it's a matter of acceptance
Lucinda Lavender: yes perhaps so! for me it is also amazement...
stevenaia Michinaga: but no, I really haven;t given it much thought... grins
Lucinda Lavender: grins also
Lucinda Lavender: oh the places to go!
stevenaia Michinaga: I am more amazed how much gets in the way of people seeking it, when that usually get's you a journy, not contentment
stevenaia Michinaga: but if you travel with contentment, you are always at your destination
stevenaia Michinaga: a bad mix of metaphors
Lucinda Lavender: that is ok...
Lucinda Lavender: this morning we were looking at what is undergirding contentment...that is not material i guess
stevenaia Michinaga: undergirding?
stevenaia Michinaga: will look that up
Lucinda Lavender: well it came ain the latter part of the 7 am
Lucinda Lavender: a pillar of sorts
stevenaia Michinaga: I think when you are born, all you ahve is contentment, perhaps until you are hungry, anyway, then you spend the rest of your life on the return trip
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: lucky to have food, shelter, friends, etc
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, many things count toward contentment
stevenaia Michinaga: the trick is to nor get burdened by the "other" things
stevenaia Michinaga: *not
Lucinda Lavender: when contentment arrives without things...
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: contentment without consumption
stevenaia Michinaga: or possessions
Lucinda Lavender: I love the contentment from consumption too:)
Lucinda Lavender: but there is a certain quality that comes from watching things unfold perhaps
Lucinda Lavender: everything on its track of unfolding
Lucinda Lavender: when I worked on the dream art show...I saw something unfold there
Lucinda Lavender: ...dreaming brought teachers, teachers inspired dreaming...and dreaming created som art.
Lucinda Lavender: some
Lucinda Lavender: the art show simplified that idea for me
Lucinda Lavender: mainly when trying to explain to people who are new to me
Lucinda Lavender: contentment at seeing it
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it;s a process...contentment
stevenaia Michinaga: something that finds you, you don;t seek it
Lucinda Lavender: right!
Lucinda Lavender: exactly...not exactly sought for...
Lucinda Lavender: Thanks Stevenaia for your help in thinking about contentment
Lucinda Lavender: have a good weekend!
stevenaia Michinaga: you are welcome, somethimes the words here are on targer and get things going nicely
stevenaia Michinaga: *target
Lucinda Lavender: great!
Lucinda Lavender: helping to see a balance perhaps
stevenaia Michinaga: after a week of hypocricy, it helps
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Lucinda Lavender: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: night Luci
Lucinda Lavender: just happenstance by way of going to my yoga class.
Lucinda Lavender: night to you too