2015.02.14 19:00 - Essence of reality

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: Greetings and apologies, I ahve not yet become acclamated to your tuesday time
Eos Amaterasu: np
Eos Amaterasu: thought I would visit the Drop Inn
stevenaia Michinaga: this week is a possibility :)
Eos Amaterasu: How's things?
stevenaia Michinaga: things are picking up in good ways after a but of a slow winter
stevenaia Michinaga: *a bit
stevenaia Michinaga: and you?
Eos Amaterasu: oh, all kinds of things are doing their things :-) including a concentrated bout of cold winter
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, we expect below 0 •F on monday
Eos Amaterasu: another snow followed by freezing rain followed by freezing and snow tomorrow
stevenaia Michinaga: snowing 2-4" tonight here, but nothing like boston
Eos Amaterasu: I've been out in the snowy woods last two days: sunshine peering through trees onto white purity and stillness
stevenaia Michinaga: we ahve friends there who are getting sick of it all
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: I love the sound after the snow, so quiet
Eos Amaterasu: yes, still some sounds, crows in the woods, but in stillness
stevenaia Michinaga: like an altered reality
Eos Amaterasu: this very essence of reality

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: life in itself, very strong
Eos Amaterasu: what we try to recover, back to the garden
stevenaia Michinaga: interesting that a cold icy wasteland can bring feeling of quiet and calm (when dressed appropriately)
Eos Amaterasu: (speaking of which, for l8tr, Woodstock, amazing Richard Thompson performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h54rRq2SAv0)
Eos Amaterasu: Yeah, warm jacket a necessity
Eos Amaterasu: plus ski/nordic poles to survive the ice
stevenaia Michinaga: never heard him before, sounds like Gordon lightfoot a bit
Eos Amaterasu: from England, Fairport Convention, then Richard and Linda Thompson, then on his own
stevenaia Michinaga: awww, it;s been a while since I heard them (decades)
Eos Amaterasu: good music is timeless :-)
Eos Amaterasu: So what's your feeling on the next stage for PaB and its SL presence?
stevenaia Michinaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDzyOV-nb8g
stevenaia Michinaga: at my last session on friday the discussion with Bleu, Luci, and Paradise seems to heading toward a simplified, smaller (bite sized) and affordable area surrounding this pavillion, for the pice of a feww cups of coffee a month
stevenaia Michinaga: *price
Eos Amaterasu: Sounds about right
Eos Amaterasu: I think have a location is important, and the Pavilion and surroundings here in SL serves as that
stevenaia Michinaga: the struture of which will need to be worked out
Eos Amaterasu: This pavilion should be here the way the Temple of Delphi is there
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, and the potential to still remain in people's landmarks keeps things present
stevenaia Michinaga: we also went to a linden land that is not used but it would not be "ours" pics in the log... one moment
stevenaia Michinaga: https://wiki.playasbeing.org/Chat_Logs/2015/02/2015.02.11_19%3a00_-_PaB_%3d__2_cups_of_coffee%2f%2fmonth
Eos Amaterasu: I'd be willing to raise 2 cups of coffee per month for PaB in SL
Eos Amaterasu: more like two double cappuccinos per month
stevenaia Michinaga: I don;t think it would take to many of us to accomplish that
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: I would hate to loose what exists as the physical heart of PaB, if only as a place for pathes to cross. something to hold on to a bit longer
Eos Amaterasu: You mean this pavilion? And what else?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes this place and whatever session structure continues
stevenaia Michinaga: I suspect there will be an evolution with this transition
stevenaia Michinaga: group dynamics in actions when change occurs
Eos Amaterasu: avatar aspect of SL is I think a very interesting and powerful part of PaB, part of the Play and part of the Being
Eos Amaterasu: but of course PaB can play and be in other worlds, like RL, as well
stevenaia Michinaga: it's possible at any moment SL may transition into something else, it's only a matter of time until people re-assess the value the virtual real estate :)
stevenaia Michinaga: =I've been to other Virtual worlds, they seem slow in gaining any sort of critical mass
Eos Amaterasu: Can you take SL inventory into Open Sim, for example?
stevenaia Michinaga: Bleu has said she has re-created herself elsewhere, you have to begin from square one
stevenaia Michinaga: sort answer, no
stevenaia Michinaga: *short
Eos Amaterasu: Yeah, last time I tried it was a kind of powerful experience, to lose all the parts of yourself
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: even your "look"
Eos Amaterasu: like being born again
Eos Amaterasu: "in another place, in another face..."
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Eos Amaterasu: I don't have to go to Florida or Mexico to escape the snow: I come here!
stevenaia Michinaga: what are your thoughts about how PaB should continue?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, always warm in SL
Eos Amaterasu: I think keeping SL presence as a world-wide meeting place is important
Eos Amaterasu: keeping the avataric aspect
--BELL--
Eos Amaterasu: but also more intersections with RL
Eos Amaterasu: Also this place and this group are kind of an "Open Dojo"
Eos Amaterasu: "dojo" being a place of the way
Eos Amaterasu: we each come to it from our own backgrounds and practices and perspectives
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, few seem to exist
Eos Amaterasu: but still keep an open space for all of us yet now owned by any of us
Eos Amaterasu: yet not owned
Eos Amaterasu: I think part of the practice of that is to have some practice for holding oneself in one's highest purpose/intention
Eos Amaterasu: and also seeing someone else hold themselves that way
Eos Amaterasu: and all holding each other in their highest intentions
Eos Amaterasu: magical practice
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles, I have found there is much to be learned from each other
stevenaia Michinaga: this place facilitates that , at least for me
Eos Amaterasu: as an architect you must know how a "build" can do that
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
stevenaia Michinaga: I am also amazed at what personal baggage never seems to reach this place, is left at the door
Eos Amaterasu: hmm
stevenaia Michinaga: or outside since there are no doors
stevenaia Michinaga: it creates a new openness that this places seems to take advantage of
stevenaia Michinaga: nature of reality discussion is not often brought up in my experience in RL, at least not on a regular basis
Eos Amaterasu: heh heh
stevenaia Michinaga: I would hate for this opportunity to "go dark" after all this time
Eos Amaterasu: "let is shine, let it shine, let it shine"
Eos Amaterasu: but that's also the thing, how to circulate that around
Eos Amaterasu: Good night, stevenaia, I will depart, midnight here'
stevenaia Michinaga: night Eos, thanks for stopping by
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: keep warm