The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender. Attending was Listener Master and Riddle.

Lucinda Lavender: Welcome Listener Master...
Riddle Sideways: sorry late
Riddle Sideways: :)
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Riddle!
Riddle Sideways: hi
Lucinda Lavender: are you in the deluge?
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm?
Lucinda Lavender: big rain storm?
Riddle Sideways: ah, I has been raining for 36 jours
Riddle Sideways: love it
Riddle Sideways: might bring us up to 35%
Riddle Sideways: of what we need
Riddle Sideways: went out and sat in it
Riddle Sideways: well took glasses off, that part is bad
Lucinda Lavender: Nice!
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: I hope all goes well.
Riddle Sideways: came back in and thought why didn't singing happen
Lucinda Lavender: yeah...
Lucinda Lavender: singing in the rain?
Riddle Sideways: tis amazing how national news reports some disaster everywhere
Lucinda Lavender: i just watched the news before coming here
Lucinda Lavender: wanting to have a sense of the world situation
Riddle Sideways: 13+ months without rain and our area must be a disaster
Riddle Sideways: 2 weeks ago was in Seattle
Riddle Sideways: it rained every other hour
Lucinda Lavender: wow!
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: yes...we have had that kind of on again off again rain
Riddle Sideways: son has moved from (the area with a forgotten name) to that little pennisula of NW Seattle
Lucinda Lavender: hmmm ballard?
Riddle Sideways: maybe
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: I am eating a chicken soup with dumplings
Riddle Sideways: ahhhhhhhh, jewish health food
Riddle Sideways: is it one of your chickens?
Lucinda Lavender: these dumplings are from a Polish/Russian book and called Cheese dumplings
Riddle Sideways: lol
Lucinda Lavender: no...have not lost a chicken in quite a while
Lucinda Lavender: we may get some snow this weekend
Lucinda Lavender: maybe we are gearing up for that
Riddle Sideways: ah
Lucinda Lavender: can you steer us in the direction of any current themes...if you want I mean
Riddle Sideways: sons house has a view of bay and coastal mountains that are never seen really
Riddle Sideways: well, in the prev and next 90 - sec
Lucinda Lavender: ah! rarely...right
Riddle Sideways: what do YOU do
Riddle Sideways: what DID you do?
Riddle Sideways: ate soup
Lucinda Lavender: in the last I was slurping soup:)
Riddle Sideways: was finishing typing a thought and half meditat until kittie said HEY
Lucinda Lavender: the bowl is almost empty tho so them I will stare at the black window. dark curtain of night again...
Lucinda Lavender: them = then
Riddle Sideways: spouse is at a friends
Riddle Sideways: friend has about a week to live
Lucinda Lavender: days are getting longer tho thankfully
Riddle Sideways: took them dinner
Lucinda Lavender: oh my goodness...
Lucinda Lavender: super spouse
Lucinda Lavender: heart goes out to all
Riddle Sideways: could help make the dinner, but could not go there
Lucinda Lavender: we are only here for a while and yet it seems so shocking to hear otherwise
Lucinda Lavender: we do what we can
Riddle Sideways: feeling very mortal lately
Riddle Sideways: about 2 months ago she went to doctor
Riddle Sideways: cancer is too far gone
Lucinda Lavender: heard a radio piece about what one remembers of the last words one heard from Mother
Lucinda Lavender: in which part of the body?
Riddle Sideways: Sister (G-d bless her) was with Mom for 2 years.
Lucinda Lavender: nodding...
Riddle Sideways: and is trying to remember last words
Riddle Sideways: in the night listening
Riddle Sideways: for the breathe that does not come
--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: from Brady's house. Spouse is delivering Chalhah to other best friend's whose spouse (a musician good buddy) just had a clean medical exam for once in that cancer
Lucinda Lavender: It is not always easy...I bet yours was happy to have the family...I feel happy I have in my mind my mothers last words to me..."I am so happy with everyone..." what grace to say that.
Riddle Sideways: ah, what grace
Lucinda Lavender: the challahis grace too...
Lucinda Lavender: and all the time spent knowing each other
Riddle Sideways: mine might be "wonder what this doessssss"
Lucinda Lavender: exploring the tubes etc?
Lucinda Lavender: the mechanics of what can surround one
Riddle Sideways: surrounding one
Riddle Sideways: right now there is a surrounding noise
Riddle Sideways: when the rains come
Riddle Sideways: the hibernating frogs
Riddle Sideways: come out
Riddle Sideways: to sings
Lucinda Lavender: yes!
Riddle Sideways: and they roar
Riddle Sideways: to be heard
Riddle Sideways: the meadow is aroar
Lucinda Lavender: curious communication by the frogs
Lucinda Lavender: who is waking us up?
Lucinda Lavender: what is this cold bath?
Lucinda Lavender: where is my life vest?
Riddle Sideways: yes,
Riddle Sideways: there is a ever so small depression
Riddle Sideways: in the meadow
Riddle Sideways: with 24 hours of rain
Riddle Sideways: it becomes
Riddle Sideways: a pond
Riddle Sideways: a life
Riddle Sideways: frogs
Riddle Sideways: ducks
Riddle Sideways: crows
Riddle Sideways: worms
Riddle Sideways: sometimes dogs and kids
Riddle Sideways: glorious mud
Riddle Sideways: all day was watching our the window
Lucinda Lavender: mud...glorious mud
Riddle Sideways: there was a field, a dirt, a meadow
Riddle Sideways: now life
Riddle Sideways: so short
Riddle Sideways: so fat
Riddle Sideways: fast
Lucinda Lavender: I feel the beat of a poem of sorts
Lucinda Lavender: mud glorious mud
Riddle Sideways: there is an Oak
Riddle Sideways: it has seen this and other houses sprout here
Riddle Sideways: seen them burn down
Riddle Sideways: grow back
Riddle Sideways: and go away
Riddle Sideways: finally an oak dies
Lucinda Lavender: to make glorious mud
Riddle Sideways: the Mud that we are
Riddle Sideways: dust to dust
Riddle Sideways: mud to mudd
Lucinda Lavender: Hooray!
Riddle Sideways: only humans need to read a recipe to make mud
Lucinda Lavender: :))
--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: 90-sec
Riddle Sideways: thoughts of Mud
Lucinda Lavender: Luci stirs the pot of mud
Lucinda Lavender: and thinks of spiral galaxies
Lucinda Lavender: and space
Lucinda Lavender: and emptiness
Lucinda Lavender: and fullness
Riddle Sideways: and dirt
Riddle Sideways: occasional rocks-pebbles
Riddle Sideways: straw
Riddle Sideways: the best mud pies
Lucinda Lavender: rolling down hills and into nooks and crannies
Lucinda Lavender: passing by
Lucinda Lavender: picking up
Riddle Sideways: yes
Lucinda Lavender: speed for a time
Lucinda Lavender: Luci squeezes the ketchup packet beside her...listening to the squish squish
Riddle Sideways: Flash - memory that had gone
Riddle Sideways: everyone else was making mud pies
Riddle Sideways: to sell on the street
Lucinda Lavender: ?
Lucinda Lavender: nice!
Riddle Sideways: instead pile the mudd higher
Riddle Sideways: mold a statue
Riddle Sideways: leave it in the sun
Riddle Sideways: a great work of art
Riddle Sideways: maybe (just maybe) some artist talent had come
Riddle Sideways: it was drying there
Riddle Sideways: probably tomorrow it would be dry
Riddle Sideways: sister notcked it over-away
Riddle Sideways: need to call sister
Riddle Sideways: in a couple hours
Riddle Sideways: she is 3 hours later
Riddle Sideways: wake her up
Lucinda Lavender: ok ...it was holding its space for a time....smiling and nodding
Riddle Sideways: tell her about it
Lucinda Lavender: yes! re membering
Riddle Sideways: Elton John song
Riddle Sideways: about 50 years on
Lucinda Lavender: which?
Lucinda Lavender: Luci wracks brain
Riddle Sideways: not knowing title. old one that has 50 or 60 years on in the chorus
Lucinda Lavender: ok:)
Lucinda Lavender: in honor of the years...shall we conclude?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: sorry for the morbidity tonight
Lucinda Lavender: good luck and thanks for sharing!!!
Lucinda Lavender: not morbid to me
Riddle Sideways: thank you for the friendship and warmth
Riddle Sideways: and Grace
Lucinda Lavender: happy heart inside
Riddle Sideways: until later
Lucinda Lavender: yes! carry on...mud glorious mud