2014.08.13 19:00 - The Present will wait for you

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

Aphrodite Macbain joined me this evening...

Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya
Aphrodite Macbain: Happy AUgust 13
stevenaia Michinaga: hello
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, happy day indeed
Aphrodite Macbain: Is all well with you?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, watching the summer slowly come to a close
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: today and ;last night it rained and rained
Aphrodite Macbain: and now everything is fresh again
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: it's been nice and cool at nights here
Aphrodite Macbain: easier to sleep. :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: although PaB has been unusually quiet inworld at my sassions
stevenaia Michinaga: sessions
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- noone came to my session last THursday- first time ever
stevenaia Michinaga: are they usually the same people?
Aphrodite Macbain: I am, trying not to take it personally
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- with a few variations. Rarely more than three at a time
stevenaia Michinaga: I view it as simple thing out of alignment

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: What do you think is misaligned?
stevenaia Michinaga: times, schedules, the natural flow of people's lives and a stationary time spot, nothing that won;t swing back at some point
Aphrodite Macbain: yes, perhaps. Tho I dont remember it being so bad during the previous summers
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm really busy in the 18th c Italian sim I'm in
Aphrodite Macbain: last week we had a yellow fever outbreak
stevenaia Michinaga: nice, you have many active members?
Aphrodite Macbain: and the island was quarantined
stevenaia Michinaga: eeek
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- wqe have about 30 active members
stevenaia Michinaga: good to see you survived
Aphrodite Macbain: lots of role play
Aphrodite Macbain: doctors, nurses
Aphrodite Macbain: learned a lot about medicine in the 18th c
Aphrodite Macbain: they knew nothing about the existence of erms
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, quite a bit different I would imagine
Aphrodite Macbain: *germs
Aphrodite Macbain: believed the fever came from sacks of coffee at the port
Aphrodite Macbain: and I run the cafe!!
Aphrodite Macbain: It was devastating!
stevenaia Michinaga: and you as a barista must have taken some heat
Aphrodite Macbain: (actually yellow fever was contracted from mosquitos)
Aphrodite Macbain: yes-
Aphrodite Macbain: I fainted a few times and cried a lot
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: order was restored at the end of the week
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: that was quick
Aphrodite Macbain: now we have a baby born from the woman who brought the disease to the island. She died.
Aphrodite Macbain: Things happen quickly in Sorrentina
stevenaia Michinaga: wow
Aphrodite Macbain: It's fun
Aphrodite Macbain: everybody plays their role to the full
Aphrodite Macbain: I often feel like a 12 year old in a play I've written
Aphrodite Macbain: we get to dress up and everyghing
stevenaia Michinaga: does participation occurr all day and night?
Aphrodite Macbain: This is the baby!
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: LIttle Anna Valentina
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry- she cries a lot
stevenaia Michinaga: will she be raised by the community?
Aphrodite Macbain: we are looking for a wet nurse-goats milk doesn't agree with her
Aphrodite Macbain: and right now Sister Blissful is taking care of her
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry- she's a bit noisy
stevenaia Michinaga: cute
Aphrodite Macbain: there you are
stevenaia Michinaga: after having on of my own, I take joy in being able to ignore the wimpers of other's children
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: how did the baby get here?
Aphrodite Macbain: here?
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: mu cat does this when I type
stevenaia Michinaga: Y
stevenaia Michinaga: lays between my arms
Aphrodite Macbain: I moved her there
Aphrodite Macbain: Love the photo
Aphrodite Macbain: she will be Christened next week in the Church
stevenaia Michinaga: I think the fountain will calm her
Aphrodite Macbain: I'll take her if u like. Yes- it is soothing
stevenaia Michinaga: sure
stevenaia Michinaga: the joys of barrowing
stevenaia Michinaga: giving things back
Aphrodite Macbain: lol

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: What have you got planned for the fall? Anything new?
stevenaia Michinaga: off to Calf. for a week to visit family and again in January
Aphrodite Macbain: nice
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, if you have patience you can find unusually cheap flights to the west coast
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm ON the west coast - yes- I can get some good flights to LA or SF
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm taking a 13 week course called Religious and Secular World Views- Everyday Enlightenment
stevenaia Michinaga: online?
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm enjoying it. Learning about Zen Buddhism
Aphrodite Macbain: no live- at Simon Fraser University here
stevenaia Michinaga: nice
Aphrodite Macbain: keeps the grey matter moving
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm continuing to try and meditate and to do botanical drawings.
Aphrodite Macbain: Both can take me out of blue funks I can get into
Aphrodite Macbain: Do you still practise Tai Chi?
stevenaia Michinaga: I seem to have lost my routine doing Tai Chi, not sure why
Aphrodite Macbain: too bad!
Aphrodite Macbain: that was very important to you I thought
stevenaia Michinaga: I should probably re-sign up for classes
Aphrodite Macbain: good idea
Aphrodite Macbain: once you retuern from Ca.
Aphrodite Macbain: *reeturn
Aphrodite Macbain: *return
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps, I will check the schedule, the have new classses every 10 weeks, the strange part is my teacher, who is also a nurse and parctives chinese medicine is allways ahving physical problems and she's younger than I am
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe that's why she's studying medicine. To try and understand her problem
stevenaia Michinaga: you would think she would be healther than most for some reason
Aphrodite Macbain: nods - as a good example to her students!
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe she was worse before she started practising
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps, I;ve known her for years
stevenaia Michinaga: she doesn't seem to be getting batter
stevenaia Michinaga: better
Aphrodite Macbain: aww. that's too bad
Aphrodite Macbain: wonder what is wrong with her
stevenaia Michinaga: often goes on liquid diet "fasts"
Aphrodite Macbain: hmmm
stevenaia Michinaga: I think she's a vegan too
Aphrodite Macbain: You can be healthy and vegan too! That's the theory anyway
stevenaia Michinaga: not that that should matter
Aphrodite Macbain: It does restrict what you can eat
Aphrodite Macbain: so in order to get what you need you have to know what you're doing
stevenaia Michinaga: that;s true for any diet you are on
Aphrodite Macbain: A friend of mine who is vegan lost 4 pounds and looks great
Aphrodite Macbain: 40 pounds
stevenaia Michinaga: awww, that might be more visit
stevenaia Michinaga: visible
Aphrodite Macbain: yes! very

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: He is trying to avoid following in his father's footsteps
Aphrodite Macbain: (died of a heart attack before he was 70)
Aphrodite Macbain: Terry is 74
stevenaia Michinaga: 70 is not a bad age to live to
stevenaia Michinaga: awww
Aphrodite Macbain: no
Aphrodite Macbain: But these days people are living happily into their 90s- like my mother!
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry - I keep talking through the breaks
stevenaia Michinaga: I often felt of the next 50 years were 1/2 as good as the 1st 50 I'd be a happy camper
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, you used to shush people who did that
Aphrodite Macbain: I think we redefine what good is when we get older
stevenaia Michinaga: I think we do do notice it better
Aphrodite Macbain: It''s not so much about climbing the highest peak but enjoying peace,and ideas and friends
stevenaia Michinaga: and more often
stevenaia Michinaga: I see it as appriciating the journey
Aphrodite Macbain: see- I've softened in my old age!
stevenaia Michinaga: you never run out of "getting there"
Aphrodite Macbain: no!
Aphrodite Macbain: always becoming
stevenaia Michinaga: even if there's not really a "there" to get to
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: there is the present moment I suppose
Aphrodite Macbain: and being fully in it
Aphrodite Macbain: (grins happily at Stevenaia)
stevenaia Michinaga: probably where happiness resides
Aphrodite Macbain: I have been reading a book called "Becoming Bamboo"
Aphrodite Macbain: which says just that
stevenaia Michinaga: will look it up
stevenaia Michinaga: what does it say
Aphrodite Macbain: dont just look at it and enjoy it from a distance, BEWCOME it
Aphrodite Macbain: *BECOME
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: ain't easy
Aphrodite Macbain: spend alot of my time in the future
stevenaia Michinaga: but you have to begin somewhere
Aphrodite Macbain: yes :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: I think it takes a long time to find just the present, and it's always there when you are ready for it :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Dinner calls - thanks for this. I enjoy talking with you.
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks for stopping by
Aphrodite Macbain: Byee
stevenaia Michinaga: see you soon