The Guardian for this meeting was Agatha Macbeth. The comments are by Agatha Macbeth.

Bruce Mowbray: 's current display-name is "Bruce".
--BELL--1300

State of the Bruce
Agatha Macbeth: G'day Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: G'day!
Agatha Macbeth: How's the toes?
Bruce Mowbray: The toes are still hurting, but thank you for asking.
Agatha Macbeth: Aww *hug*
Bruce Mowbray: thanks, so much.
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder if Wol's home yet?
Bruce Mowbray: It's just one of those little "hurdles' that life sends along.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes life is good at that
Bruce Mowbray: She was working today?
Agatha Macbeth: I believe so
Agatha Macbeth: For how long I dunno
Bruce Mowbray: nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Blub okay?
Bruce Mowbray feels a bit of loneliness for Wol.....
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Bruce Mowbray: Blub seems to b e cool, thanks.
Agatha Macbeth: Can't be asy stuck in a another country miles from your family
Bruce Mowbray: ?
Agatha Macbeth: (Wol I mean, not Blub)
Bruce Mowbray: kk, !
Bruce Mowbray: Is Wol "stuck in another country"?
Agatha Macbeth: Well seems that way
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Agatha Macbeth: Or maybe her choice, don't really know
Bruce Mowbray: I had the consummate experience for meeting Wol, in person, in the flesh, as it were... three years ago.
Bruce Mowbray: And, I have to tell you,
Agatha Macbeth nods
Bruce Mowbray: my impression of her is that she would not find herself "STUCK" anywhere!
Agatha Macbeth: Fair enough
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Agatha Macbeth: You are not stuck either Brucie?
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yes.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Bruce Mowbray: I am quite stuck, on many levels.,
Bruce Mowbray: Alas.
Agatha Macbeth: Sorry to hear that
Bruce Mowbray: but, my typist is trying to watch.
Bruce Mowbray: NO,
Bruce Mowbray: but thanks.
Agatha Macbeth grins
Bruce Mowbray: It's just "life" at a level that he can comprehend it (my typist, I mean.)
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe there are varying degrees of stuckness
Bruce Mowbray: There are, indeed!
Bruce Mowbray: all the way from tar pool to ecstacy.
Agatha Macbeth: Hm, well tar pools i don't know about
Bruce Mowbray: There a varying degrees of everything, I guess.
Agatha Macbeth nods
Bruce Mowbray: I only know tar pools from LIFE magazine graphics of dinosaurs... (leaving a lasting impression on an impressionable youth),
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Bruce Mowbray: and from the feeling-self of my typist, at times.
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Bruce Mowbray feels empathy for those poor dinosaurs, stuck.
Bruce Mowbray: (Have FELT such, myself.)
Agatha Macbeth: And then being dug up millions of years later
Bruce Mowbray: OH MY GOD, yes!
Bruce Mowbray: HOW embarrassing....
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Zon
Bruce Mowbray: Just when the self-respecting dino thought she'd had it finished.
Bruce Mowbray: HEYA, good Zon-ji!
Zon Kwan: hi again
Agatha Macbeth: How is Zon?

Seth's words of wisdom

Bruce Mowbray: Quite a sesson, wasn't it, Zon?
Zon Kwan: nods
Bruce Mowbray: (with Seth, of course.)
Bruce Mowbray: also nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Today?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, the past two hours, actually.
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, ok
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Agatha Macbeth: What was he talking about this time?
Bruce Mowbray: Metanoia and Paranoa.... Seth's topic today.
Bruce Mowbray: Paranoia*
Agatha Macbeth: What's metanoia?
Bruce Mowbray: Ahhh!
Bruce Mowbray: WHAT a wonder question?
Bruce Mowbray: wonderful*
Agatha Macbeth: Well the other I know already :p
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Bruce Mowbray: don't we all!?
Agatha Macbeth: Hmm
Bruce Mowbray: Metanoia is a breaking through to the other side.
Agatha Macbeth: Like Jim Morrison?
Bruce Mowbray: a realization that there is infinitely more.
Zon Kwan: transendence?
Agatha Macbeth: I see
Bruce Mowbray: Well, maybe, like jim.,,,,, but I don't know the DOORS that well, actually.
Bruce Mowbray: YES, a sort of transcendence, indeed.
Agatha Macbeth: Doors of perception perhaps
Bruce Mowbray: I like to call it a "Gate."
Bruce Mowbray: Yes!
Agatha Macbeth: Like a stargate?
Bruce Mowbray: Doors of perception beyond perception.
Zon Kwan: like enlightenment
Bruce Mowbray: It might be what some folks call a "Stargate," although I never thought of that metaphor as applying here. WOW! A great insight, thanks!
Agatha Macbeth: And that's metanoia? Interesting
--BELL--1315
Bruce Mowbray: Well, please do not accept MY "concept" of what metanoia is.
Bruce Mowbray: I have no exclusive rights to it.
Bruce Mowbray: I would say, with the Buddha, find your own light.
Agatha Macbeth: Thank you for telling me anyway :)
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Thank you for listening while I told you.
Agatha Macbeth: Well I don't learn if I dont listen
Agatha Macbeth: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Profound.
Agatha Macbeth: True
Bruce Mowbray: How deep are these waters?.....
Bruce Mowbray: It seems the more I "hear," the deeper they go.
Agatha Macbeth: About six inches I think
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmmm.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh thought you meant the fountain
Bruce Mowbray: Siz inches seems an infinity.
Bruce Mowbray: Six.
Bruce Mowbray: And maybe this fountain is also infinitely deep,
Bruce Mowbray: who knows?

Wol's arrival

Agatha Macbeth: Wollie ♥
Bruce Mowbray: YAYYYY!
Bruce Mowbray:
Bruce Mowbray:
Wol Euler: evening all, sorry I'm late
Bruce Mowbray:
Bruce Mowbray: HEYA, Woly!
Agatha Macbeth: Just got back?
Wol Euler: not exactly, just busy until now
Bruce Mowbray: coolo. NP!
Agatha Macbeth: Hmm, happens
Wol Euler: I got up late this morning and haven'T been able to make up the time :)
Agatha Macbeth: Oh dear
Agatha Macbeth: Forgot the clock?
Bruce Mowbray: it is not possible to "make up" the time.
Wol Euler: nope :)
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Wol Euler: set those at 9pm last night already :)
Wol Euler: to be prepared mentally for the change
Agatha Macbeth: Good thinking
Bruce Mowbray: OH! You mean the day-light savings time change!
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
Agatha Macbeth: Yep, last night
Wol Euler: yep, we are on summertime now
Bruce Mowbray: Over here - beyond the pond -- we did that a while back.
Zon Kwan: hi wol
Wol Euler: and in summer spirit too! It was 27°C here today (80°F)
Bruce Mowbray: OMG!
Agatha Macbeth: Summertime and the living is easy
Wol Euler: hello zon
Bruce Mowbray: "The flies are buzzin'"
Agatha Macbeth: Bzzz
Bruce Mowbray: "and the cotton is high."
Agatha Macbeth ponders high cotton
Bruce Mowbray: (in MARCH?!)
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Bruce Mowbray: hmmmm, indeed.
Zon Kwan: waves
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Zon
Wol Euler: bye zon, sorry to drive you away
Zon Kwan: lol
Agatha Macbeth: Anyone here heard of Zerlina Maxwell?
Bruce Mowbray: nope.
Wol Euler: I know a Zerlina in an opera by Mozart....
Wol Euler: but she didn't have a surname that I know of
Agatha Macbeth: I received a nc from a friend earlier today
Agatha Macbeth: Very thought provoking
Wol Euler: do tell
Bruce Mowbray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-Qa92Rzbk
Agatha Macbeth: Disturbing too
Bruce Mowbray listens.
Wol Euler: "rape culture"? yes, I saw that.
Agatha Macbeth: Brought to mind a discussion a mutual friend had on FB a while back
Agatha Macbeth: I must read more about her

Since nobody but me seemed concerned by this subject, I let it slide...

Bruce Mowbray: oppps, just realized I got the line wrong: Should hve been "Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high."
Bruce Mowbray: not flies are buzzin'
Wol Euler nods.
Bruce Mowbray: also nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Well Blub isn't jumping, he's going round and round :p
Bruce Mowbray: oh yeah,
Bruce Mowbray: what a routine he has!
Bruce Mowbray: Just call him Sysiphis the fish.
Agatha Macbeth: Just hope he doesn't get dizzy
Agatha Macbeth: At least he doesn't have a rock to roll
Bruce Mowbray: Nope, his typist has a monopoly on duzziness.
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Bruce Mowbray: also on dizziness.
Bruce Mowbray: afk, for just a sec.
Agatha Macbeth: Dizzy Gillespie
Agatha Macbeth: So how was the daily grind?
Wol Euler: could have been worse
--BELL--1300
Wol Euler: I have some grinding still to do
Agatha Macbeth: The grinder's work is never done
Bruce Mowbray: Before my typist retired, folks told him that after he stopped working, he would wonder how he ever found time to do everything he would be doing after retu=irement.
Bruce Mowbray: retirement*
Bruce Mowbray: so true.
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, Mr Parkinson and all that
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Bruce Mowbray: The stuff to be done fills the time/space that we have to do it?
Agatha Macbeth: Something like that
Bruce Mowbray: yeah, something.
Agatha Macbeth: Not sure if he knew about metanoia
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Not sure if I know about metanoia, either,
Agatha Macbeth: Hehe
Bruce Mowbray: although it resonates with my typist.
Agatha Macbeth: For meta is better
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I wouldn't say "better....."
Bruce Mowbray: I would say, "beyond."
Agatha Macbeth: Beyond these things
Bruce Mowbray: a recognition, beyond normal recognitions.
Bruce Mowbray: yes.
Agatha Macbeth: Procol harum

The Gate

Bruce Mowbray: and a realization that that recognition presents a "gate."
Bruce Mowbray: an opening,
Bruce Mowbray: for further transformation, perhaps.
Agatha Macbeth: Into what I wonder?
Bruce Mowbray: metanoia is like that.....
Bruce Mowbray: who knows?
Bruce Mowbray: Go THROUGH!
Bruce Mowbray: Take a chance!
Agatha Macbeth: Not time yet
Bruce Mowbray: VERY important to know that!
Bruce Mowbray: Whether it's time or not.
Agatha Macbeth: I went though kinda one three years ago
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Wol Euler: a metanoia?
Bruce Mowbray listens very carefully.
Agatha Macbeth: Well something like it
Agatha Macbeth: Or maybe I'm wrong
Bruce Mowbray: Did you "gate" tell you it was time to walk thought it/
Bruce Mowbray: your*
Bruce Mowbray: (I hope that's not too personal a question.)
Agatha Macbeth: Hmm, well it didn't actually 'tell' me anything, it was just there so to speak
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Agatha Macbeth: It's like walking through a totally featureless landscape and finding a thing in the middle for no reason at all
Agatha Macbeth: Bit like on Star Trek
Bruce Mowbray: nods.
Bruce Mowbray: a stargate?
Agatha Macbeth: When Kirk goes through that portal and meets Joan Collins :p
Bruce Mowbray: perhaps a desert?
Bruce Mowbray: oh dear!
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Agatha Macbeth: (Is that the one?)
Bruce Mowbray: I am WAYYY out of my league on this one!
Agatha Macbeth: A horse with no name;-)
Bruce Mowbray: yeppers.
Agatha Macbeth: For those who go back far enough
Bruce Mowbray listens.
Bruce Mowbray: (and is SURE that is typist goes back far enough.)
Agatha Macbeth: Not sure if it felt good to be out of the rain tho hehe
Agatha Macbeth: I quite like rain
Bruce Mowbray: It rained here all day yesterday, and I enjoyed it.
Agatha Macbeth: Snow stopped then?
Bruce Mowbray: But, I sort of feel there is a mix of metaphor and literalism going on,,,,, "To be out of the rain" isn't really talking about rain, of course.
Agatha Macbeth: True
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth: That reminds me, I must geet some seed for my bird feeder
Bruce Mowbray: When one is not yet "out of the rain," but then the literal rain comes, it seems like a blessing and an affirmation.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, especially in the desert
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Bird feeders take priority over everything else in live: MY value system.
Agatha Macbeth: A voice crying in the wilderness, etc
Bruce Mowbray: olife*
Bruce Mowbray: life8
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Bruce Mowbray: life*
Bruce Mowbray: oh heck!
Agatha Macbeth knows the feeling
Bruce Mowbray: VIRDFEERERS TAKE PRIORITY OVER SPELLING!
Agatha Macbeth: Just as well
Bruce Mowbray: virdfeerers?
Agatha Macbeth: Poor birds would have real problems otherwise!
Bruce Mowbray: My birds don't care a tweet about spelling,
Bruce Mowbray: only FOOD FOOD FOOD!
Agatha Macbeth: Are you using a voice typer by any chance?
Bruce Mowbray: No, obviously not.
--BELL--1345
Bruce Mowbray: Voice recognition does not mispell.
Bruce Mowbray: or misspell, either.
Agatha Macbeth: Zen's did, all the time :p
Agatha Macbeth: Think it was his accent
Bruce Mowbray: Really?
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".

                 
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Sanji
Bruce Mowbray: So, Zen's voice recognition software must have found other worlds that sounded like his vocalizations.
Wol Euler: um, wait, did it misspell or did it type the wrong words? I believe the latter
Santoshima Resident: greetings
Wol Euler: hello osan
Wol Euler: *san
Agatha Macbeth: Yes the latter
Bruce Mowbray: Because voice-recognition only uses words in standard dictionaries.
Agatha Macbeth: Would be good at scrabble then
Bruce Mowbray: SAN-ji!
Santoshima Resident: B-ji!
Bruce Mowbray: :)))))
Santoshima Resident: good to see you all
Agatha Macbeth likes the Bee Gees
Bruce Mowbray: and to see you, as well!
Bruce Mowbray:
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
Agatha Macbeth: Hope Berti has remembered we're coming in ten mins
Bruce Mowbray: Oh@!
Agatha Macbeth: Don't see him on
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, he will rem3ember, I'm sure.
Bruce Mowbray: also, remember.
Agatha Macbeth: 3 times
Bruce Mowbray: away from keyboard for just a sec, again.
Agatha Macbeth: He's gone to feed the birds :p
Santoshima Resident: i have a new tea-house ... will give you each a LM in case you ever need a respite
Santoshima Resident: (interested ?)
Agatha Macbeth: Oh nice San
Agatha Macbeth: Osiyo K
Wol Euler: cool
Wol Euler: and hello Korel!
Agatha Macbeth: Is that in the village?
Korel Laloix: osiyo.... smiles
Agatha Macbeth: You look rather amazing
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Wol Euler: wherre did San go?
Agatha Macbeth: Er
Bruce Mowbray: San is here, I see her.
Wol Euler: ah, there you are
Bruce Mowbray: HEAYA, Kori!
Agatha Macbeth: TY
Wol Euler: ((berti in ten minutes))
Bruce Mowbray: yeppers.
Bruce Mowbray: or nine.
Korel Laloix: heya
Bruce Mowbray ponders micro-worlds.
Bruce Mowbray: and their realities.
Agatha Macbeth: I find the big worlds enough to handle
Bruce Mowbray: for sure!
Agatha Macbeth: Oh it's in Buyeo? Nice
Santoshima Resident: tyyou, from Paradise
Santoshima Resident: she is big into realestate ... otherwise
Agatha Macbeth: Ahh, how is she?
Santoshima Resident: i wouldn't known how to do it
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Santoshima Resident: and wouldn't have cared to find out
Santoshima Resident: but has been quite fun
Bruce Mowbray: AHHH! Here's a notice from Berti. So, he's in-world.
Agatha Macbeth: Always good to know about people who know that sorta thing
Santoshima Resident: yep
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, Berti is in da house
Santoshima Resident: time to head over the mountain?
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe we should mosey on over?
Wol Euler: five minutes
Santoshima Resident: ok
Agatha Macbeth: Good idea
Bruce Mowbray ponders, "Berti is in da house."
Agatha Macbeth: I'll go now to get settled
Bruce Mowbray: me too, aggers.
Bruce Mowbray: THANKS!
Santoshima Resident: ditto
Wol Euler: well, I guess that is it
Agatha Macbeth: Bye for now folks, tc
Santoshima Resident: will you come over, korel?
Korel Laloix: ciao
Santoshima Resident: it's quite short
Wol Euler: Korel, do you wish to come with us` for a ten minute silent meditatoin?
Agatha Macbeth: Yes come with us K
Wol Euler: you can be silently annoying there :)
Wol Euler: heheh

               
Santoshima Resident: nice dress
Santoshima Resident: both you you!
Korel Laloix smiles
Santoshima Resident: you + you
Santoshima Resident: see you soon
Korel Laloix: My settings have gone strange.... everyone is short and thick... any suggestions?
Wol Euler: that's the place, if you do wish to join us
Wol Euler: huh
Wol Euler: is the text odd too?
Korel Laloix: NO.. must the view.
Wol Euler: hmmmmm
Wol Euler: strange
Korel Laloix: I look like I am about 4'0 and about 150 lbs.
Wol Euler: try adjusting the size of the SL window
Wol Euler: that may cause it to jump back to normal scale