2016.12.14 13:00 - Vast Templates of Inner Light

The Guardian for this meeting was Mickorod Renard, with a group of Other Guardians. :) Eliza posted this session and as she did so, wanted to change the title a million times as she encountered so much love, funny, and wisdom.

:::pause to acknowledge true good fortune:::::

Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Riddle.
Riddle Sideways: ha, not tricking somebody to sit on the tiny seat next to you?
Riddle Sideways: Hi
Riddle Sideways: hi All
Bruce Mowbray: Ahhh, perhaos I should move one cushion to my right....
Riddle Sideways: ever login to SL and wonder how did I get to this place?

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Tura, Mick, and Cat.
Tura Brezoianu: hi everyone
Bruce Mowbray: Aggers cometh.
Mickorod Renard: hi folks
Bruce Mowbray: No Eliza today?
Mickorod Renard: I think she has other business to attend to
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, agger.
Tura Brezoianu: she's at the dentist
Agatha Macbeth: No she just came on
Bruce Mowbray: +s
Mickorod Renard: and, Aph also is busy
Bruce Mowbray: sry.
Tura Brezoianu: or was, she just came online
Catrinamonblue Resident: Aph is at the dentist
Riddle Sideways: Aph is at dentist
Mickorod Renard: Hi ags
Riddle Sideways: snap
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)

Agatha Macbeth: And here she is!
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Aph is at . . . the . . Heya, Eliza!
Mickorod Renard: oh, heres Eliza
Mickorod Renard: to save the day
Eliza Madrigal: Hi everyone :)
Eliza Madrigal: ha ha... no, please, you are hosting Mick! :))
Agatha Macbeth: Reports of your demise were premature :P
Mickorod Renard: who what me?
Eliza Madrigal: <--just walked in after a 3 hr drive from a funeral mass
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Bruce Mowbray: Mercy!
Catrinamonblue Resident: hugs
Eliza Madrigal: :) So, glad that Aph gave us our guide for today?
Mickorod Renard: well, I dont mind leading the way. but i am not well prepped
Eliza Madrigal: thanks Mick
Agatha Macbeth: She's a bit down in the mouth it seems
Eliza Madrigal: badumbump
Riddle Sideways: oh! was prep needed?
Eliza Madrigal smiles

Bruce Mowbray feels he has over prepped...
Bruce Mowbray: (got carried away with it.)
Mickorod Renard: well..we are discussing the thing that was given by Cal
Agatha Macbeth: Is that a Tibetan lama?
Riddle Sideways: anticipates Bruce
Eliza Madrigal: timely, Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Mickorod Renard: I will look it up
Bruce Mowbray gets stage fright.
Eliza Madrigal settles in
Agatha Macbeth pokes Liz

Mickorod Renard: INNER LIGHT
Mickorod Renard: HAS EVERYONE GOT A COPY?
Agatha Macbeth: NO
Mickorod Renard: oops, shouting
Riddle Sideways: in your email attachment
Bruce Mowbray: It was the "theme" that Cal gave us in the Original Face group two weeks ago.
Eliza Madrigal: yes, let me find the notecard
Agatha Macbeth is clueless
Mickorod Renard: ok,,given you one Ags
Agatha Macbeth: Ah Ty
Eliza Madrigal: okay good to go!
Agatha Macbeth: Allons y

Mickorod Renard: no probs,,it only takes a few mins to read,,but maybe a lifetime to understand
Bruce Mowbray: :) Yes, still working on it, Mick.
Agatha Macbeth: Opposite of Lord of the Rings then
Mickorod Renard: i could open the chat with a clip that I pondered
Mickorod Renard: if you like?
Bruce Mowbray: Please do, Mick.
Mickorod Renard: If one does not want to make compromises within oneself, but insists on remaining true to one's principles, one suffers deprivation. Nevertheless one has a fixed goal to strive for even though the people with whom he lives do not understand him and speak ill of him.
Riddle Sideways: ok, ponder-away
Bruce Mowbray: (that is from the I Ching....)
Mickorod Renard: I was wondering what the deprivation was?
Mickorod Renard: yes
Bruce Mowbray: Deprivation of "the light"?
Bruce Mowbray: (solstice, and all....)
Mickorod Renard: I am assuming that you deprive yourself from the pleasures of what you could have done
Bruce Mowbray: I think the I Ching is suggesting that your social context is not supportive.....
Eliza Madrigal: from the understanding of those around you as well, if connected to next line
Mickorod Renard: like things that are not correct,,in ones 'higher' standing
Bruce Mowbray nods.
Bruce Mowbray: (several possible layers of meaning....)

Mickorod Renard: mmm....even though I am a bit of a lad..i do like the truth,,and notice how hard it is to find and how folk dont like to hear it
Catrinamonblue Resident nods
Eliza Madrigal: not always able to articulate deepest values to others
Tura Brezoianu: one wishes to further one's principles, but the times do not support it
Mickorod Renard: yes Tura..that fits in nice with the beginning bit
Eliza Madrigal nods, like that emphasis 'the times'

Mickorod Renard: how do you think we can live in a world when it seems so corupt and wrong?
Eliza Madrigal: we seem to be doing so :)
Agatha Macbeth: What's the alternative?
Mickorod Renard: true
Bruce Mowbray: sort of like looking for facts in a post-fact world?
Bruce Mowbray: or truth in a post-truth world.
Mickorod Renard: it reminds me of that wierd word again that i always forget..what is it Eliza?
Mickorod Renard: equanamity
Agatha Macbeth: Supercalifragilisticexpealidoscious
Eliza Madrigal: equanimity
Mickorod Renard: he he
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Riddle Sideways: nice speeling Agers
Eliza Madrigal: (with apologies to the bell)
Agatha Macbeth: (Probably wrong)
Eliza Madrigal: I'm thinking that the problem is also the answer to the dilemma...re the deepest values
Bruce Mowbray loves "the problem is the answer."

--BELL--

Mickorod Renard: we see and we feel and we are mindful but yet powerless to intervene?..so we choose to go within ourselves to preserve our light?
Bruce Mowbray: Excellent, Mick.
Mickorod Renard: I struggle with that a bit cos I fall for a fight but i know that only brings more grief
Agatha Macbeth: You ol' pugilist
Bruce Mowbray: Save whatever seeds you can through the frozen winter months - Spring will come and you'll need them.
Mickorod Renard: he he
Mickorod Renard: thats a cool way of looking at it Bruce
Eliza Madrigal nods
Agatha Macbeth notes Brucie is learning from the squirrels
Riddle Sideways: and should be enough fertilizer around to grow things
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray feels that Americans might be in for a four-year winter.
Agatha Macbeth: Could be 8!

Bruce Mowbray: OK. Shall I share what I have. . . such as it is?
Agatha Macbeth: Better stock up those nuts
Eliza Madrigal: I've been thinking that I need training in 'holding space' better.... space for the light to live in
Eliza Madrigal: please Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Agatha Macbeth: It gets in through the cracks Liz

Bruce Mowbray: Two lines from William Stafford’s poem leap out at me:
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Mickorod Renard: listens

Bruce Mowbray: I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact. And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
Bruce Mowbray: How could you know what occurs if you did not recognize it?
Bruce Mowbray: Has the poet given us a riddle? Recognition, it seems, is more than mere knowing.

Bruce Mowbray: Everything that Calvino wrote, and that Aphrodite shared, points to an inner knowing: an Inner Light.
Bruce Mowbray: Here’s another quote that I sometimes use as a centering thought in our morning meditations at the in-world Garden of Inner Peace:
Bruce Mowbray: “If there is something you truly want to know, then you listen with your own wisdom. Meditation is learning how to listen with your own wisdom, so that you can truly know.” --Lama Thubten Yeshe
Eliza Madrigal: wow, nice

Bruce Mowbray: That sort of listening - and knowing/recognizing - implies that we each have vast reservoirs of inner wisdom
Bruce Mowbray: and that this wisdom is not discernible superficially or at first glance.
Mickorod Renard: mmmm nice
Bruce Mowbray: A calm trust is required if such enclaves within enclaves are to be discovered and known.
Bruce Mowbray: For me, the building of such wisdom, and the building of trust in one’s own wisdom,
Bruce Mowbray: must be a cumulative, bottom-up process.
Bruce Mowbray: It must be like evolution (built from the bottom up in tiny context-interactive increments) - unlike creationism (with prefabricated top-down Design.)

Bruce Mowbray: Perhaps we transmit such wisdom genetically - through our DNA - across thousands of generations.
Bruce Mowbray: Perhaps such wisdom exists in everything - invisibly, inaudibly, as subtle templates that underlie Being itself.
Bruce Mowbray: My “recognition,” if you will, is that both suppositions (genetics and underlying ontology) are how things hang together through time:
Bruce Mowbray: Together they comprise a long line of mutually dependent elephants (as William Stafford put it),
Bruce Mowbray: slowly and trustfully winding their way back to a park called “Inner Light.”
Bruce Mowbray: [done]

Agatha Macbeth: The mutually dependent elephants in the room
Mickorod Renard: I am thinking of the word Grace..Bruce....I dont know if that fits..maybe thats what you get when you use this inner knowledge
Bruce Mowbray: Grace is precise how I see it, Mick...
Mickorod Renard: but lovely putting together Bruce

Riddle Sideways: would that be some Great Knowledge that is always available to listeners?
Bruce Mowbray: though not of the religious kind.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, always available.
Eliza Madrigal keeps coming back to Great Knowledge, too
Eliza Madrigal: I love the listening 'with' wisdom... not 'to'.... as though something imposing
Bruce Mowbray: Wonderful, Eliza.
Eliza Madrigal: receptive yet knowing
Bruce Mowbray: Others?
Riddle Sideways: perhaps Riddle's shinnings now?
Eliza Madrigal: please :)
Bruce Mowbray listens.

Riddle Sideways: 1. Thank You so very much Cal, this is a great well doc
Riddle Sideways: Re: 'News' media (paper, TV, radio, internet, emails, social, etal.) 24/7, Breaking news, interruptions, down the side of web pages
Riddle Sideways: uch of the darkness has been brought on by the bomb-bardment of glum and doom of 'News'
Riddle Sideways: Having gone over 3 decades without 'News' sources attaching, life was much better
Riddle Sideways: BTW - friends would call/visit to inform personally of worldly items needed to be known
Riddle Sideways: There was no loss of info in that retreat
Riddle Sideways: Slowly dinner chats, clock radios, newpaper front pages, gym TVs, webpages. emails, etc. crept back into daily.
Riddle Sideways: Riddle joined those who listened and hung the head and shoulders from the weight of all those 'News' Stories. And becamse a sad person
Riddle Sideways: recent PaB sessions have gone on about the emotional rollercoaster many are on.
Riddle Sideways: Personally there is a need to watch cat youtubes before trying to go to sleep.
Riddle Sideways: Hopefully, some of you laughed
Riddle Sideways: Hopefully, some "lightened up"
Catrinamonblue Resident smiles
Riddle Sideways: for a moment, for a breath, for 9-seconds, Lighten up
Riddle Sideways: Cal's words and quotes created images of a train of thoughts mostly dark mixed with an inner light one
Riddle Sideways: A 15-min gong goes off, intake the breath seeing where the thoughts were and going, hold the breath and thought train, see how funny they look, exhale with a 'Light'laugh at the joke
Riddle Sideways: Those 'between' spaces where the Darkest of seasons turn to the stupid cat videos of Light
Riddle Sideways: inner beaming out
Riddle Sideways: Done

Eliza Madrigal: wise and beautiful, Riddle

--BELL--

Mickorod Renard: wonderful, yes super obs
Bruce Mowbray: Wonderful. Thank you, Riddle.
Eliza Madrigal: goat videos are good too
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Agatha Macbeth: 0.0
Eliza Madrigal: elephants playing on sea shores
Eliza Madrigal grins
Mickorod Renard: raises eyebrow
Agatha Macbeth: And ducks
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Riddle Sideways: what-ever does it for you :)
Mickorod Renard: ok,,sheep then
Agatha Macbeth: Baaa
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Agatha Macbeth: 'Yes I was that sheep'

Bruce Mowbray ponders if "whatever it does for you" has some common denominator among all of us... something that "does it" for all of us.
Mickorod Renard: erk
Agatha Macbeth: Osiyo K
Riddle Sideways: Hey
Korel Laloix: Heya
Eliza Madrigal smiles at Kori
Mickorod Renard: Hi Kori
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Kori :)
Korel Laloix: Good to see you all.
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Kori. Good luck catching up with this one.
Eliza Madrigal: that's a nice question actually... in a serious way
Korel Laloix smiles
Agatha Macbeth wonders where the bikini went
Bruce Mowbray: Some "common denominator" of Inner Light?
Korel Laloix: I can put it back on... smiles..
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Mickorod Renard: hang on which Q?
Riddle Sideways: winter cloths
Eliza Madrigal nods... what nurtures. It is a continuation of our general theme this year in some ways

Riddle Sideways: inner light nurtures
Eliza Madrigal: when actually practicing the pauses, not just in session, they do nurture some kind of remembrance of light

Bruce Mowbray: The single-file line of elephants breaks down as a metaphor pretty quickly in this group...
Bruce Mowbray: (I hope.)
Riddle Sideways: please ignore the Elephants in the room
Eliza Madrigal: I can't even line up with myself yet ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Would prefer a circle of elephants. . .
Korel Laloix: single-file line of elephants?
Agatha Macbeth: The blind men haven't even recognised them yet

Bruce Mowbray: THAT is ELEPHANTASTIC!
Mickorod Renard: are we looking for the circus or the park?
Bruce Mowbray: _____
Bruce Mowbray: / 0 \____
Bruce Mowbray: / _ \__/ \
Bruce Mowbray: / / \ ____ I \
Bruce Mowbray: /_/ I I I I
Bruce Mowbray: I__I I__I
Bruce Mowbray: 
Agatha Macbeth: This is .... ELEPHANTASTIC !!
Agatha Macbeth: _____
Agatha Macbeth: / 0 \____
Agatha Macbeth: / _ \__/ \
Agatha Macbeth: / / \ ____ I \
Agatha Macbeth: /_/ I I I I
Agatha Macbeth: I__I I__I
Eliza Madrigal: hahah
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: The park is where the circus is. . . and the elephants (in Stafford's poem) know that.
Mickorod Renard: when I read it I wasnt sure whether they were trying to escape
Riddle Sideways: really? goes to reread

Korel Laloix: I am lost more today than normal it seems.... smiles
Eliza Madrigal: ^.^
Agatha Macbeth: Happens to me too K
Bruce Mowbray loves aggers's "The blind men haven't recognized them yet."
Eliza Madrigal gives Kori a note
Mickorod Renard: lost may just be another way of saying not attached
Agatha Macbeth: :P
Bruce Mowbray: Good luck with that, Kori.
Catrinamonblue Resident: no worries Kori, I totally don't get it and I've been here from the start...
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Agatha Macbeth: Attatchment not saved
Riddle Sideways: good luck with the note.
Bruce Mowbray: not connected, Mick?

Mickorod Renard: i often think of becoming lost
Mickorod Renard: i was a runnaway as a child tho
Eliza Madrigal: 'not all who wander are lost' (Tolkein)
Agatha Macbeth: Only most
Bruce Mowbray: connection and attachment might be two different things... or more than two.

Riddle Sideways: sings "I once was lost and now am again ..."
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Mickorod Renard: he he
Eliza Madrigal loses it... so funny
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Calm down Liz
Agatha Macbeth: Don't scare George
Bruce Mowbray: (I ran away from home at age five - one of my wisest behaviors, I realized decades later.)
Eliza Madrigal: hahha, sorry, am I making a scene
Agatha Macbeth: You? Never
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal ran away as a teen a few times too
Mickorod Renard: ha ha Bruce, I was only thinking the same, I packed a box with teddy bears and ran off
Bruce Mowbray: You've just come from a funeral, Liz you've earned the right to make a scene.
Eliza Madrigal smiles, thank you :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: me too :) running away, did it as an adult to from time to time
Agatha Macbeth: You had your priorities right at least Mick
Mickorod Renard: grin

Eliza Madrigal: ah, running away as an adult... :))
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Eliza Madrigal: that's what this is, haha
Riddle Sideways: thinking the world ran away
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes I guess so :)
Mickorod Renard: oh yeh, our second life..whispers
Bruce Mowbray: It is very important that adults get lost from time to time.
Korel Laloix: I think I have that art mastered.
Riddle Sideways: likes 'not all who wander are lost'
Mickorod Renard: I am often encouraging my partner in this
Riddle Sideways: or 'not all who wonder are lost'
Bruce Mowbray: (intentionally, if necessary).
Eliza Madrigal: :) brb, agatha woke George
Agatha Macbeth: Not guilty
Catrinamonblue Resident: lol

Bruce Mowbray: Would love to hear from others on today's theme, if anyone wishes to share.
Agatha Macbeth: The unbearble lightness of being
Riddle Sideways: The unbearble lightness of being george
Mickorod Renard: now then..have we discovered anything?......yes. any more thoughts
Agatha Macbeth: We didn't, the elephants might

Mickorod Renard: I was still wondering something
Korel Laloix: My mother was an extremely dark person... and I am fairly certain I absorbed a lot of that before I had any ideas about this sort of thing. And I am now trying to sort out what to do with that reservoir of her that is in me.
Bruce Mowbray ponders ---- If one knows where to find Inner Light, one is never REALLY lost. Listens for more from Kori and Mick.

--BELL--

Mickorod Renard: kori, do you mean she kept herself to herself?
Korel Laloix: I feel very aware of how some things that co-exist in me that should not be able to live together... but some how do.
Korel Laloix: No, she actively pushed her darkness on and into me.
Bruce Mowbray feels he has several internally contradictory selves. . . and is fine with that. A mosaic.
Riddle Sideways: yep, know the feeling of contradictories co-existing
Mickorod Renard: you know, I feel that way too, I am often at war with my own thoughts
Riddle Sideways: how they do dat
Eliza Madrigal: :)

Mickorod Renard: maybe that was what i was wondering..at bit earlier
Korel Laloix: Trying to let my light eclipse the dark does not work....
Bruce Mowbray: Each a knight sitting around a round table, shared by other contradictory knights, enjoying the feast of SELF together?
Mickorod Renard: how do we retreat into our inner light when perhaps we feel we should be taking action?
Bruce Mowbray: You are so right, Kori.
Korel Laloix: More a matter of trying to train my dark thoughts to good results I find is the most productive way forward.
Korel Laloix: But still uncomfortable some times.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I share your discomfort.
Riddle Sideways: Stay uncomfortable, my friends
Bruce Mowbray: Perhaps the mis-shapen beasts in all of us are actually princesses yearning to be brought forth from the dungeon....
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Mickorod Renard: hey..i thought of the word 'pre meditated' but it already exists
Riddle Sideways: :)

Korel Laloix: What does this mean?

Korel Laloix: And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park,

Bruce Mowbray: We don't need to change them, only to bring them into the light. And isn't that one of the things this theme is suggesting?
Bruce Mowbray: It is from Wm. Stafford's poem, Kori.
Korel Laloix: I know.. reading it.
Bruce Mowbray: It means that unless we stay connected, we'll lose our way.
Korel Laloix: An English idiom I have never seen I think?
Bruce Mowbray: (or something like that).
Riddle Sideways: or is it a tree/forest view thing?
Bruce Mowbray: Typically, in circuses, elephants will parade holding each other's tails in their trunks.
Agatha Macbeth: Elephants really do walk in convoys don't they?
Korel Laloix looks it up

Riddle Sideways: but what about the park?
Mickorod Renard: I worried that was symbolic of conditioning..re the elephants
Tura Brezoianu: I take it to mean that if everyone just follows someone else, we never get to see the truth for ourselves
Bruce Mowbray: Conditioning seems to be suggested.... I worried about that too, Mick.
Bruce Mowbray: Me too, Tura.
Riddle Sideways: send in the clowns
Mickorod Renard: he he
Bruce Mowbray: Clowns are needed to keep us out of line.
Eliza Madrigal: I loved the sense of order and ceremony at the service today... it seemed to provide a way to keep moving amidst a lot of emotion

Korel Laloix: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-elephan...king-in-a-line
Bruce Mowbray: shake us up a bit.
Korel Laloix: Intersesting
Korel Laloix: Interesting
Agatha Macbeth: I can never spell that word either
Korel Laloix: lol
Mickorod Renard: perhaps it is about breaking the cain..and not bothering with the circus,,as it is just a fiction
Mickorod Renard: chain*
Riddle Sideways: thanks, more reading after
Eliza Madrigal: if PaB wiki had a record of typos corrected, 'interesting' would be in top 10 :)
Agatha Macbeth: 'Breaking the Cain'
Bruce Mowbray: powerful typo, aggers.
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
Agatha Macbeth: East of Eden
Bruce Mowbray ponders Augustine's notion that sin was passed from Cain to us....

Korel Laloix: I find the last two lines interesting.
Korel Laloix: the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe — should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.
Bruce Mowbray listens.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, wonderful lines.
Korel Laloix: But I am more worried about the darkness in me than that around me.

Bruce Mowbray: You are wise to have such concerns, Kori.
Bruce Mowbray: Each of us should be so wise.
Catrinamonblue Resident: nods
Bruce Mowbray: rather than thinking all the others are the dark ones.
Mickorod Renard: I think we all have a potential dark side and part of our skill is to keep that under control
Korel Laloix: lol... wise is not a word used on me much at all... thanks though
Bruce Mowbray: Oh Kori. You have enormous reservoirs of wisdom . . .

Eliza Madrigal: 'the cave you fear to enter holds the treasures that you seek' (Campbell)
Catrinamonblue Resident agrees with Bruce
Riddle Sideways: Eliza, it also holds a bear, 5 bats and a goat video
Eliza Madrigal: hahha

--BELL--

Korel Laloix: Can you point them out for me please?
Eliza Madrigal: don't forget the elephant on the beach
Eliza Madrigal: I picture it as though energy gets bottled up...
Catrinamonblue Resident: once upon a time I travelled dark paths of depression, carved marks on my arms... A therapist I had told me "you are the keeper of the happiness" it was a life changing moment when I realized i could be happy...
Eliza Madrigal: and that's what we find in those caves
Catrinamonblue Resident: for Kori
Korel Laloix smiles
Bruce Mowbray: No, I cannot and neither can anyone else, Kori. Only you can find your own wisdom. Agrees profoundly with Cat.
Mickorod Renard: thats a wonderful thought Cat
Bruce Mowbray: Thank you for your honesty, Kori.
Eliza Madrigal: guardian = keeper ?
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes can be

Riddle Sideways: elephant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IinZzBQCtjE

Bruce Mowbray: You, Kori, speak a truth for many of us -- though we may not say it out loud.
Mickorod Renard: well said Bruce

Korel Laloix: Good to know there are other people as dysfunctional as I am... smiles.. and such good company too...
Eliza Madrigal is crying all over herself with this elephant... but agrees with Bruce, who agrees with Cat
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray feels that our demons might be gurus and shamans in disguise.
Catrinamonblue Resident: we are all dysfunctional I think, just conditioned not to show it
Riddle Sideways: of course they are
Bruce Mowbray: Time for me to be scraping up supper. THANKS everyone.
Riddle Sideways: dress them up anyway you want
Korel Laloix: Ciao
Tura Brezoianu: bye Bruce
Eliza Madrigal: thanks Bruce
Riddle Sideways: by Bruce
Catrinamonblue Resident: Bye Bruce :)
Agatha Macbeth: Scrape well Brucie
Agatha Macbeth: Thanks for the elephants
Bruce Mowbray: ty.
Bruce Mowbray: May we all scrape well.
Riddle Sideways: ah :)
Mickorod Renard: bye Bruce
Agatha Macbeth: And store up yer nuts
Riddle Sideways: ummmm
Eliza Madrigal: Oh!
Korel Laloix: Oh that reminds me.... bag of chocolate covered hazelnuts in my other desk...

Eliza Madrigal: I forgot... make sure everyone knows the party time has been changed to 11AM SLT Sunday
Agatha Macbeth: Crnch
Catrinamonblue Resident: mmmmm chocolate :)
Eliza Madrigal: 18th still, but Zen will DJ
Mickorod Renard: wow,,what time is that uk?
Catrinamonblue Resident: k :)
Agatha Macbeth: 7 Mick
Riddle Sideways: so that Zen can make it
Riddle Sideways: yippppeeee
Eliza Madrigal: yes
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Mickorod Renard: thanks Ags

Tura Brezoianu: "And the chocolate shone in darkness; and the darkness did not overcome it."
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Nom
Riddle Sideways: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :) Tura
Eliza Madrigal: and the wine... which I am about to partake in shortly
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Mickorod Renard: I am overseas but hope to make it
Agatha Macbeth: Can't beat a good partake
Korel Laloix: This feels like a wine sort of day.
Eliza Madrigal: Hope you can too Mick!
Eliza Madrigal: it surely does
Riddle Sideways: whines

Korel Laloix: Sama likes this hot wine with spices thing that i can't get used to.
Mickorod Renard: might have bad connection we will see
Korel Laloix: But it smells lovely on the stove.
Eliza Madrigal: ((((Mick)))))
Mickorod Renard: oh yeh ..hot wine and spice,,nice
Eliza Madrigal: hot wine...
Mickorod Renard: mmmmmmmm
Eliza Madrigal: yeah, not so much for me either
Korel Laloix: I just get a cup and hold and smell it and poor it back in the kettle when it gets cold.. then she yells at me and I get another cup..
Eliza Madrigal: haha
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Tura Brezoianu: deeply metaphorical, that is
Korel Laloix: lol
Catrinamonblue Resident: time for me to go :)
Korel Laloix: Ciao
Catrinamonblue Resident: bye all
Eliza Madrigal: :) yes me too... unraveling

Mickorod Renard: ok,,have we a topic for next week?
Agatha Macbeth: TC Cat ^.^
Eliza Madrigal: so happy to have made it home in time to be with you all

Riddle Sideways: ok, back to Life, which was already in progress
Mickorod Renard: bye all going
Eliza Madrigal: the topic continues, with Aph here hopefully
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, we're so wonderful
Mickorod Renard: ok great
Eliza Madrigal: you are Agatha
Eliza Madrigal: good company :)
Agatha Macbeth: Oh I am too
Eliza Madrigal: :P
Eliza Madrigal: hah...here I go, wiping elephant tears
Agatha Macbeth: Love to George
Korel Laloix: Take care.

Mickorod Renard: maybe we can find some deep understanding on this elephant thing
Tura Brezoianu: goodnight all
Mickorod Renard: bye everyone
Agatha Macbeth: BFN floklings
Riddle Sideways: maybe Agatha and Riddle should not be together ar cereal conversations
Agatha Macbeth: Floklings?
Agatha Macbeth: Cereal killers
Riddle Sideways: too funny
Riddle Sideways: by
Agatha Macbeth: Byee

Agatha Macbeth: Just think, if I'd landed at Ahern or Violet instead of Hanja, none of this would have ever happened...