The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.
Years for this date, the reader might no know what the big deal 'now' was.  The newly elected us president is an unknown which is scary.

Riddle Sideways: back
Riddle Sideways: Hi adams
Adams Rubble: Hello Riddle
Riddle Sideways: was looking the other way and might have missed the bounce in
Adams Rubble is walking a bit slower these days
Riddle Sideways: any reason?
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: the news is heavy
Adams Rubble: sorry to be morise
Adams Rubble: morose
Riddle Sideways: oh
Riddle Sideways: ah, now remembering how mad/upset last night
Riddle Sideways: then watched some SNL so sleep might be easier
Adams Rubble: it hangs heavy in the air
Riddle Sideways: which news has you this time?
Riddle Sideways: there are many to pick from
Adams Rubble: just in general
Adams Rubble: no news is good news :)
Riddle Sideways: the one that did it last night was the "Alt-Right" guy and the CNN reporters talking
Riddle Sideways: a way out there guy
Adams Rubble: I saw a headline this morning that trump is going to try to distract us
Adams Rubble: it is what he has done all year
Riddle Sideways: but, he did ask out loud "Are Jews People?"
Adams Rubble: geeez
               --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: many are pooh poohing the comparisons to Hitler
Adams Rubble: Last night I dreamed the Nazis were marching in our town
Riddle Sideways: yet it was the condition that Germany was in at that time
Riddle Sideways: the dividedness
Adams Rubble: yes divisiness
Riddle Sideways: All Jews had to wear a star to mark them
Adams Rubble: they are starting with the Muslims
Riddle Sideways: very afraid that is going to happen
Riddle Sideways: yes, a different mark for each
Riddle Sideways: those who will have to wear a green card
Adams Rubble: we are going to have to learn new skills to resist
Adams Rubble: watch out for our neighbors
Riddle Sideways: those that will have special marks on them showing they declared bankruptcy and not paid their workers
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: and those who have not paid their taxes
Riddle Sideways: here we go ... back to the McCarthy days of telling on your neighbors
Adams Rubble: there is a large moon behind use
Riddle Sideways: all those assault weapons that are stock piled under beds and in the kid's closets
Adams Rubble: that scares me

Riddle Sideways: yes, nice big virtual full moon
Riddle Sideways: the day goes so fast in SL. watching the moon quickly sink into the next sim
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: four years can be over in one year
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: wouldn't that be nice
Riddle Sideways: so nice that when dark thoughts cloud a mind, just looking at the moon does so much
Adams Rubble got us off to a bad start
Riddle Sideways: had to happen
               --BELL--
Adams Rubble: The trick is going to stay alert without getting bogged down in the distractions
Riddle Sideways: that is a trick
Riddle Sideways: culture a new mental state
Adams Rubble: I wonder how the nine seconds would help :)
Riddle Sideways: of alertness and
Riddle Sideways: actually it would
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Pema to the rescue
Riddle Sideways: every 15 minutes review the universe
Riddle Sideways: re-check the grand conditions
Adams Rubble: looking at our mind
Riddle Sideways: then go back to weeding the garden
Riddle Sideways: but stay alert to everything
Riddle Sideways: 1%
Adams Rubble: and looking out for our neighbors
Riddle Sideways: well, their garden is always greener
Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: sort of easy, one neighbor has hated us for years
Riddle Sideways: never knew why
Riddle Sideways: oh well,
Adams Rubble: once someone has a grudge it must be fed to keep it going
Adams Rubble: think up new reasons
Riddle Sideways: their not Racist, just have a grudge?
Adams Rubble thinking about enighbors
Riddle Sideways: there sure has been a lot of fuel to fed grudges lately
Adams Rubble: yes

Riddle Sideways: ok, now back to "garments" talk
Adams Rubble: we are taking oen step forward and two back :)
Riddle Sideways: liked that so much yesterday
Adams Rubble: yes, our garments
Adams Rubble: yes, our beliefs so color our perception of others
Riddle Sideways: what we judge others by their garments
Riddle Sideways: there were 2 very interesting NPR segments last night
Riddle Sideways: one was the results of a phone-in compaign of how Thanksgiving and politics will go together
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: how some ppl will not go to their relatives
Riddle Sideways: how some others have banned political talk
Riddle Sideways: etc.
               --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: the other was author Zadie Smith and a pretty unique view
Riddle Sideways: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/21/502857...ture-of-talent
Riddle Sideways: both British and American
Riddle Sideways: and wears a garment that most can't catagorize

Adams Rubble: The people who are nostalgic for the 50s were being protected from the world by the parents :)
Adams Rubble: just saying
Riddle Sideways: most of the interview is about the new book, but there are gems in there
Riddle Sideways: Yes! those nostalgic for the 50s were white
Adams Rubble: yes, that too
Adams Rubble: and being in a warm coccoon
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: bubble
Adams Rubble: not losing their job by being labelled a coomunist or hung from a tree because they were not white
Adams Rubble: making fun of the Beat Poets on Dobey Gillis
Adams Rubble: how's that for historic trivia (giggles)
Riddle Sideways: so loved Dobey Gillis
Riddle Sideways: The Thinker statue
Riddle Sideways: was his special thinking place
Adams Rubble: and Maynard was a caricature poking fun at anyone not thinking the popular line
Adams Rubble: the 50s line
Adams Rubble: Father knows best :)
Riddle Sideways: that was probably the hardest one
Riddle Sideways: how exactly could a Father know best?
Adams Rubble: How easy it is for Adams Rubble to get up on a sopbox :)
Adams Rubble: sopabox
Riddle Sideways: oh go ahead
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: soapbox
Riddle Sideways: you are short, so need a sopbox :)
Adams Rubble: all those ethnic jokes in the 50s
Adams Rubble: and slurs
Adams Rubble: nasty childhood deseases until the vacines were found and given in mass
Adams Rubble: most of all, I remember Mama :)
Riddle Sideways: occasionally looking out of the caccoon to see Amish and wonder about their lives
Adams Rubble giggles
Riddle Sideways: the slurs were against the Amish
Adams Rubble: giggle at the reference not the Amish
Riddle Sideways: how was that possible
Riddle Sideways: have thought that was the best intro to bigotry, racism, class, nasty evil things was picking on the Amish
Adams Rubble: wow, bringing the Amish in opens whole new ways of looking at this
Adams Rubble: I was raised in Pennsylvania and know nothing about picking on the Amish
Riddle Sideways: well that was the RL bigotry in small upstate NY
Adams Rubble: we get too soon alt and too late smart
Adams Rubble: wow
Riddle Sideways: those bad ppl were moving into our farms
Adams Rubble: in Philadelphia there were lots of other groups to make fun of
Riddle Sideways: buying up our lands
Riddle Sideways: having too many kids
Riddle Sideways: had separate schools
Riddle Sideways: etc.
Riddle Sideways: etc.
Adams Rubble has ancestors that lived on a few of the farms in Lancaster before the Amish
               --BELL--
Adams Rubble: they moved a bit west
Adams Rubble: were able to purchase bigger farms with the money :)
Riddle Sideways: so the white rural hicks had to have a class to pick on
Adams Rubble: yes
Riddle Sideways: our school district got the money for the kids that never attended
Riddle Sideways: being raised in a big city would not have made it soooo blatant that invented bigotry was wrong
Adams Rubble: it was hard not to know someone from the group being hated
Riddle Sideways: more groups to spread the ...
Adams Rubble: worked together, lived on the street together, went to school together
Riddle Sideways: yes, once you knew a 'Maynard' it became hard
Adams Rubble: hehe, I did not know any Maynards
Adams Rubble: only on TV
Riddle Sideways: (actually father's name was Maynard :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: did he have any thoughts about the show?
Adams Rubble: that he shared :)\\
Riddle Sideways: but, we had 'musicians' come to our house all the time (oh! no! not those)
Riddle Sideways: Jazz musicians
Riddle Sideways: the worst kind
Riddle Sideways: thinking of the scale thoughts
Adams Rubble: was your father a musician?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: *off
Riddle Sideways: played dances during the depression
Riddle Sideways: brought home more money from a saturday night
Riddle Sideways: then grandpa made all week
Riddle Sideways: sweating
Adams Rubble: !!!
Adams Rubble hates to note that it is past 11:00
Adams Rubble: we had quite a ride this morning
Riddle Sideways: don't want to go do what must be done
Riddle Sideways: would rather stay here chatting
Adams Rubble: we share much with our breathern in the heartlands
Adams Rubble: brethern
Riddle Sideways: mmmm the heartland
Adams Rubble wishes peace to all
Riddle Sideways: every 15min take time to be in sharing
Adams Rubble: casting off our garments to see our common humanity :)
Adams Rubble: yes, great idea Riddle
Riddle Sideways: sitting on a mountain top
Riddle Sideways: with no garments
Adams Rubble goes off singing, all the gold, in California, is in a bank in beverly Hills, in someone else's name.........
Riddle Sideways: in the snow
Riddle Sideways: is cold
Adams Rubble: nice thought--better than mine :)
Adams Rubble: it is cold here from the wind
Riddle Sideways: think George Harrison said something like that
Riddle Sideways: but, don't want to fact check it
Adams Rubble: I'll let you be in my dream if you let me be in yours (I think Bob Dylan said that)
               --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: I don't want a pickle - Arlo
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: leave the pickle in the brown paper bag
Riddle Sideways: you can't always get what you want
Riddle Sideways: "Isn't it a Pity"
Adams Rubble: one cannot top Riddle in a game of song references :)
Riddle Sideways: nah, try
Riddle Sideways: there feeling all better ...
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: let's go Give Thanks
Adams Rubble: YES!
Riddle Sideways: having the bestest of ThanksGivings
Adams Rubble: let us be grateful
Adams Rubble: have a very good Thanksgiving :)
Riddle Sideways: and you and yours
Adams Rubble: bye for now :)
Riddle Sideways: for Black Friday cometh
Riddle Sideways: by for now
Adams Rubble: yes, a day to walk in the woods
Adams Rubble: :)