2014.07.02 19:00 - Phenomenal

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Lucinda Lavender joined me tonight for a varied discussion

stevenaia Michinaga: greetings Lucy
Lucinda Lavender: greatings to you to:)
Lucinda Lavender: greetings...
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Lucinda Lavender: I have not seen you or anyone in quite a while!
stevenaia Michinaga: things ahve been quiet around here lately, good to see you
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: good to see you too
Lucinda Lavender: I found there was hardly anyone here during my friday session so I had asked to stop that hosting time
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Lucinda Lavender: I would sit by myself and found I felt not quite up to conversing...
stevenaia Michinaga: Since the discussion about the muffet video I posted took on a life of its own, I somehow found a link to an introduction to Phenomonology online that I began reading (578 pages) don;t know if I will ever finish but I never know where this place will take me
Lucinda Lavender: quite phenomenal!
stevenaia Michinaga: lol, we shall see, only on page 56
stevenaia Michinaga: and am reading it on my iPhone, was great when I was traveling this past week
Lucinda Lavender: where did you go?
Lucinda Lavender: most likely a place that was warm...
stevenaia Michinaga: was visiting my old roommate in Chicago for a day then off to Minneapolis to work on a relative's addition to their home. It was not too warm
stevenaia Michinaga: very warm when I returned home
Lucinda Lavender: ah!
Lucinda Lavender: someone came to my door...sorry was gone for a second
stevenaia Michinaga: NP, have have you been spending your summer?
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: well...I am not working at the moment due to the end of the school year. but I am baby sitting and next week I will do subbing
Lucinda Lavender: trying to find good shoes for my feet
Lucinda Lavender: so I stay healthy there
Lucinda Lavender: tending garden etc
stevenaia Michinaga: nice
Lucinda Lavender: having a daily meditation time
Lucinda Lavender: yes!
stevenaia Michinaga: I have had a total lapse of my practice :(
Lucinda Lavender: I have to say the interview about our participation in PaB caught me at a stressfull time so my communication got kind of goofy
Lucinda Lavender: and i was somewhat challenged to express what I needed to say
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Lucinda Lavender: well you will get back to it I imagine
stevenaia Michinaga: in time I hope
Lucinda Lavender: I get back into things like that when I feel they call to me
stevenaia Michinaga: strange to be avoiding things that feel so good
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Lucinda Lavender: I have a book I have been using with a thought for the day...called Ocean of Dharma...
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps I feel good about other things
Lucinda Lavender: we just passed the center of the year
Lucinda Lavender: recently
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it was light past 10:00 in Minnesota, that was nice
Lucinda Lavender: yes! perhaps each in it's own season
Lucinda Lavender: light late here too
Lucinda Lavender: it feels like the world calls when there is a lot of light
Lucinda Lavender: then when the days are short the opposite
stevenaia Michinaga: the strangeness of how time presents itself
Lucinda Lavender: fast, slow, etc
Lucinda Lavender: full empry
Lucinda Lavender: empty
stevenaia Michinaga: tonight there was a wonderful rainbow
Lucinda Lavender: nice!
Lucinda Lavender: was it off in the east?
stevenaia Michinaga: the south, just a bright piece of it, it really didn;t photgraph well
Lucinda Lavender: nods
Lucinda Lavender: thinking about how there are different challenges at different ages.
Lucinda Lavender: another aspect of time
Lucinda Lavender: perhaps.
Lucinda Lavender: read an article about how teens are quite prone to anxiety
Lucinda Lavender: brin pickings I think
Lucinda Lavender: brain
Lucinda Lavender: they cannot process their fear as well
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, so little of what wieghed on me in the past matters now
Lucinda Lavender: me too!
stevenaia Michinaga: rather relaxing these days :)
Lucinda Lavender: they can experience ptsd because of this
stevenaia Michinaga: wow
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: I will see if I can find the link
Lucinda Lavender: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/29...?referrer&_r=1
Lucinda Lavender: ny times
Lucinda Lavender: it just explained a few memories
Lucinda Lavender: for me
Lucinda Lavender: I could claim and post our conversation if you feel ok about that
stevenaia Michinaga: I already have
stevenaia Michinaga: , well claimed it
Lucinda Lavender: ok great!
Lucinda Lavender: seems like there are many reasons for charge we can put on what we experience
Lucinda Lavender: I was happy to see the front steps of the Met this week in a tv program:)
Lucinda Lavender: Happy memory there...
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles, we still got here often
stevenaia Michinaga: good times and good food
stevenaia Michinaga: *go
Lucinda Lavender: And I was happy to hear parts of the Brahms Requiem in a myster program soundtrack
Lucinda Lavender: so just thinking about how happiness of the past replays in the present...
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I carry happy memories with me a very long time
Lucinda Lavender: nice:)
Lucinda Lavender: me too I think ...
Lucinda Lavender: I was wondering if you had seen any good movies lately
stevenaia Michinaga: we saw the Grand Budapest Hotel, highly recommended
Lucinda Lavender: that was what I wanted to ask about!!
Lucinda Lavender: because I saw I could rent it now...
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, do
Lucinda Lavender: seemed potentially interesting!
Lucinda Lavender: ok:)
stevenaia Michinaga: you will enjoy it
Lucinda Lavender: Yay!!!
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: we saw another ercently but I can't remember (like a dream)
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: well I have not watched a movie in a while. But I thought maybe over the weekend
Lucinda Lavender: memory is an interesting thing...I had a dream recently about it...that I was with a group of people getting ready to go off from each other and remember something "of beauty, connection...or perhaps something difficult" and then bring it back to the group to share.
stevenaia Michinaga: nice
Lucinda Lavender: it felt useful in some way
stevenaia Michinaga: you remember dreams so well
Lucinda Lavender: well I am not sure...but I had a week in june that was a week of dreams
Lucinda Lavender: then I can go for monthes
Lucinda Lavender: without one
stevenaia Michinaga: great, do you write the down
Lucinda Lavender: yes I do...I think I have created my library of dreams
Lucinda Lavender: but they are there so that I can remember them
stevenaia Michinaga: I need to go to bed soon
Lucinda Lavender: ok:) I wish you happy dreams
Lucinda Lavender: say hi to H
stevenaia Michinaga: night Luci, thanks
stevenaia Michinaga: will do
Lucinda Lavender: night:)
Lucinda Lavender: thanks for being here