The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Adams Rubble: Good eveiing Eos :)
Adams Rubble: evening
Eos Amaterasu: Evening, Adams!
Adams Rubble: The bell shushed me
Eos Amaterasu: me too :-)

Adams Rubble: the nights are getting longer
Eos Amaterasu: and arriving quicker each day
Adams Rubble: yes
Eos Amaterasu: this morning in th east there will be a bunch of planets
Adams Rubble: will be raining here
Eos Amaterasu: rain coming here too
Adams Rubble: I think it is the remnants of Patricia
Eos Amaterasu: from 0 to 300 in 24 hours
Adams Rubble: ???
Eos Amaterasu: Patricia went from tropical storm to Cat 5 in 24 hours
Adams Rubble: yes, it was an amazing transformation
Eos Amaterasu: from whisper to major opera :-)
Adams Rubble: right between two population areas
Eos Amaterasu: very nice of her
Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble: has the new government taken power yet?
Eos Amaterasu: November 4th
Adams Rubble: next week
Eos Amaterasu: I must say, Tuesday, the day after the election, felt like a totally new day
Eos Amaterasu: what a feeling!
Eos Amaterasu: the curse of Harperman had been dispelled
Eos Amaterasu: a new dawn, a new day, a new life
Eos Amaterasu: for us
Adams Rubble: yes
Eos Amaterasu: (to somewhat quote Nina Simone, "Feeling Good")
Adams Rubble: :)
Eos Amaterasu: I'm starting to use this "Shazam" app to recognize music
Eos Amaterasu: Recognized Ronan Parke singing that
Eos Amaterasu: anyway, that was an amazing election, in retrospect
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: things are messed up south of the border
Eos Amaterasu: one thing about recognizing someone with a potential to be a great leader (Prime Minister in this case)
Eos Amaterasu: is that we also recognize our own simllar potential
Eos Amaterasu: to stretch toward our best intentions
Eos Amaterasu: that means the whole country can feel that
Adams Rubble: :)
Eos Amaterasu: which is amazing
Eos Amaterasu: if only for the moment
Eos Amaterasu: I'm willing to be naive enough to see the moment
Adams Rubble: it is good to have the moments :)
Eos Amaterasu: I think that's part of PaB practice: finding the moments
Adams Rubble: yes, and they come every 15 minutes
Adams Rubble: well a fraction of a moment :)
Adams Rubble: I have not remembered to do that in a long time
Eos Amaterasu: "this moment / is different / from any / before it " - Incredible String Band
Adams Rubble noticed how deftly Eos went from politics to PaB practice
Eos Amaterasu: heh heh

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: I think PaB can be helpful to and in politics
Eos Amaterasu: but there are moments of silence called forth occasionaly
Adams Rubble: It is difficult sometimes seeing the mess made of things
Eos Amaterasu: that's also often an occasion for silence
Eos Amaterasu: but politics can also feel like a fascinating disaster whirlpool going down down down
Adams Rubble: you betcha

Eos Amaterasu: how's your life transitioning?
Adams Rubble: I am having a grand time :)
Eos Amaterasu: Hmm, sounds gallant!
Adams Rubble: learnking new stuff
Adams Rubble: learning
Adams Rubble: (not how to type)
Eos Amaterasu: life learns
Adams Rubble: my hand and arm are slowly healing
Eos Amaterasu sends out well-being-beams )))))))))))))
Adams Rubble: thank you :)
Adams Rubble: this past week I have been reflecting on how wonderful my undergraduate education was but also how deficient it was
Adams Rubble: it was much more conservative than I realized (It was somewhat radical for me)
Eos Amaterasu: but it seems you've made a journey anyway
Adams Rubble: yes, I have been most fortunate
Adams Rubble: still one wishes one had known some things sooner :)

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: hmm, yes
Eos Amaterasu: Is there an example of something like that you can share?
Adams Rubble: too soon alt und too late smart (Pennsylvania Dutch saying)
Adams Rubble: I wish I had been introduced to Buddhism much earlier
Eos Amaterasu: meetings with remarkable teachings
Adams Rubble: my thoughts this week is about poetry though
Eos Amaterasu: writing poetry?
Adams Rubble: all these exciting things were happening about 5 miles from my campus and I did not learn about them until this week :)
Adams Rubble: 15 miles
Adams Rubble: For now it is about reading poetry
Eos Amaterasu wonders what those exciting things were
Adams Rubble: the New York School - O'Hara, Koch, Schuyler, Ashberry
Adams Rubble: even the Beat poets were not part of my education
Eos Amaterasu: they were somewhat contemporaneous with it....
Adams Rubble: but I am happy that I can come back to it now
Adams Rubble: yes but on going yet when i was in school
Adams Rubble: there was a poem that someone wrote in the school's literary magazine that was condemned by the mosty respected faculty members
Adams Rubble: I do not have a copy but it was called Ecce Homo
Adams Rubble: The figure in the poem was relieving himself
Eos Amaterasu: we do that every day
Adams Rubble: At the time I thought the poem was rather good
Adams Rubble: funny that I still remember that
Eos Amaterasu: the poem opened something?
Adams Rubble wonders how Eos will get this thread back to paB
Eos Amaterasu: I'll ask Ariadne
Adams Rubble: :)
Eos Amaterasu: when the world suddenly feels different, looks different
Eos Amaterasu: that's a kind of suspension
Eos Amaterasu: entering the new dawn, the new day, the new life
Eos Amaterasu: Wallace Stevens
Eos Amaterasu: this guy working in an insurance company in Connecticut
Eos Amaterasu: & writing these luminous world opening up thru facticity of details kinds of poems

--BELL--

Adams Rubble: It had an autumn smell/And that was how I knew/That I was down a well/I was no longer young
Adams Rubble: (WS)
Eos Amaterasu: I think your museum exhibitions had such a quality, presenting art that opens up
Eos Amaterasu: space and art
Adams Rubble: the museum is one thing I have not gotten around to
Adams Rubble: I must gfo back to RL. tank you for the discussion
Eos Amaterasu: sometimes space of awe
Eos Amaterasu: Thanks Adams, so good.
Eos Amaterasu: Ciao ciao!
Adams Rubble: good night :)