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

Eos Amaterasu: theme: pressure drop and timelessness

Eos Amaterasu: hi stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: greetings Eos
Eos Amaterasu: how's it going?
stevenaia Michinaga: going well
stevenaia Michinaga: seems turnout at the 7:00 has been light lately
stevenaia Michinaga: thought you could use some company in lieu of talking to yourself
Eos Amaterasu: heh heh
stevenaia Michinaga: which can actually be productive sometimes
Eos Amaterasu: yeah...

Eos Amaterasu: thinking of pressure drop and timelessness
stevenaia Michinaga: what kind of pressure?
Eos Amaterasu: somewhat like this period of my mom's recent death
Eos Amaterasu: experience of the plug pulled out and so no more pressure
Eos Amaterasu: just a kind of evenness
Eos Amaterasu: out of going here and going there
Eos Amaterasu: no more high to low and low to high
stevenaia Michinaga: aww, all times coming together
stevenaia Michinaga: memories
Eos Amaterasu: and kind of eternality of what was temporal presence
Eos Amaterasu: or maybe that was always there

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: I think everything is always here, it's just a matter of choosing either voluntarily or not
Eos Amaterasu: the ocean is always under the waves
stevenaia Michinaga: and memories are timeless
Eos Amaterasu: present day experience is also timeless
Eos Amaterasu: "these are the good old days"
stevenaia Michinaga: then is everything timeless?
Eos Amaterasu: I remember (paradoxically) experiencing some times that way, live
stevenaia Michinaga: as memories?
Eos Amaterasu: as actuality
stevenaia Michinaga: could you define "actuality"
Eos Amaterasu: they do use that word "recollection" to describe present tense mindfulness
Eos Amaterasu: actuality: what is currently being experienced
Eos Amaterasu: & some more deep glosses on that, perhaps
Eos Amaterasu: after investigating what and how is currency being experienced
Eos Amaterasu: what is zooming us, actual-izing us
Eos Amaterasu: "I seem to be a verb"
Eos Amaterasu: (who is speaking?)
Eos Amaterasu: I find myself being
Eos Amaterasu: who or what is playing as being me
stevenaia Michinaga: we are what are actions make us
stevenaia Michinaga: even if it's just thinking

Eos Amaterasu: do you actually think your own thoughts?
Eos Amaterasu: or do you experience them?

stevenaia Michinaga: I am about to jump into a 40 year time warp this weekend at my HS reunion, looking back at yourself throught the eyes of others gives you in interesting perspective on what you "are" or wore
Eos Amaterasu: 40 year elastic band of identity
stevenaia Michinaga: whether the thoughts then or now are mine or not, they are unique as a whole
Eos Amaterasu: "the moving finger... is moving on" (- B Dylan)

Eos Amaterasu: ciao Korel!
Korel Laloix: heya
stevenaia Michinaga: I am frozen in time through my old aquaintances
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Korel
Korel Laloix smiles
Korel Laloix: Frozen does not sounds good unless you are icecream.
stevenaia Michinaga: or old friends
Eos Amaterasu ponders that
Korel Laloix: Can't stand winter.. just want to crawl in a warm blanket lined closet and hybernate until next summer.

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: Korel poofs.....
stevenaia Michinaga: seems strange discussing friends of 40 years with Korel who may be making those relationships now

Eos Amaterasu: when you know you're going to die, and in fact that everything's gonna die, everything seems more timeless
stevenaia Michinaga: why is that?
Eos Amaterasu: suspension
Eos Amaterasu: time actually doesn't go anywhere
stevenaia Michinaga: I thought all it did was flow
stevenaia Michinaga: in one direction, except when we suspend it
stevenaia Michinaga: we try to be the rock in the stream
Eos Amaterasu: drop in the stream
Eos Amaterasu: is there one stevenaia or many stevenaias, dotting the line of time?
stevenaia Michinaga: which time
Eos Amaterasu: each stevenaia in a different time
stevenaia Michinaga: I think there is only one in each time
Eos Amaterasu: seems to arise with the each-iness of time
stevenaia Michinaga: never to be joined again
stevenaia Michinaga: creates a richness of you possibilities
stevenaia Michinaga: I'm liking that
stevenaia Michinaga: like your own long lost children
stevenaia Michinaga: released into times
Eos Amaterasu: watching yourself at play?
stevenaia Michinaga: or knowing but never seeing

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: that was then; in the reunion it becomes now; but is it the same that? or is it more like a dance?
Eos Amaterasu: yikes, a reunion dance!
Eos Amaterasu: how retro is 40 years ago?
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps we will do the time warp (again)
Eos Amaterasu: Rocky Horror
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: Luckily it was before Disco
Eos Amaterasu: Staying Alive
Eos Amaterasu: the past becomes mythical and present now
stevenaia Michinaga: so true
Eos Amaterasu: we each grow our own history, and cultivate it
stevenaia Michinaga: on that lovely note of expectation, I bid you fairwell
Eos Amaterasu: bonne nuit!
Eos Amaterasu: thnx, stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: night