2017.06.05 07:00 - Adams playing as Rubble

The Guardian for this meeting was Eden Haiku. The comments are by Eden Haiku.

Adams, Eliza and Eden

Gardenia days

Eden Haiku: Good morning Eliza :)
Eliza Madrigal: Good Morning, Eden! :)
Eden Haiku: I'm glad you could come this morning :)
Eliza Madrigal: Me too :) Thanks
Eliza Madrigal: Going to be a lots of PaB day
Eden Haiku: Riddle is still traveling and Adams must be rehearsing her speech :)
Eliza Madrigal: And you? How are you doing with all that is going on?
Eden Haiku: Yes, Adams’ show at noon and then session at 1pm...
Eden Haiku: I'm fine, still walking my 10,000 steps even in the rain (we are having bad weather a lot)
Eliza Madrigal: Raining a lot here too, but so needed. My gardenias are beginning to thrive
Eden Haiku: Gardenias! You are so lucky to live in such a lush climate!
Eliza Madrigal: They were doing poorly, but the last week of rain has perked them up
Eden Haiku: I remember gardenia bushes in India, so lovely!
Eden Haiku: After roses, gardenia is my next favorite!
Eliza Madrigal: there was a gardenia hedge near where my great grandmother parked her car, and we'd pick them on the way inside, to put in little bowls :)

9th PaB annivesary for Adams

Adams dressed up to the nines for her Playing as Rubble presentation at Art of Being that afternoon

Eden Haiku: Adams! Nervous about this afternoon?
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Adams!
Adams Rubble: Hello Eliza and Eden ::
Adams Rubble: yes Eden
Adams Rubble: I just sent out my email
Eden Haiku: Just breathe deeply :)
Adams Rubble: ok
Adams Rubble: This is my first presentation in SL
Eden Haiku: I'm sure you are all very well prepared and organized.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Oh, is it?
Adams Rubble: I am still rewriting
Eliza Madrigal: how interesting, and today is your anniversary... for PaB, or SL?
Eden Haiku: Are you going to be in written chat or voice chat?
Adams Rubble: yes, 9 years ago, I showed up at a session with a few other newbies
Eden Haiku: **********Applause!!**********
Eden Haiku: **********Applause!!**********
Eliza Madrigal: :::claps and smiles::::
Adams Rubble: My voice gets all messed up Eden so I have to do it in chat
Adams Rubble: something wrong with SL
Eden Haiku: Written chat is fine Adams ;)
Adams Rubble: One of the co-founders of the Buddha Center was a newbie that day too
Eliza Madrigal: I don't think I would have gotten as involved in SL if it were a voice based medium
Eden Haiku: I was just wondering if you would like to rehearse for us :)
Adams Rubble: I wrote a prologue last night with the help of my alt

--BELL--

A teaser and a twin sister

At Adams' presentation later that day with my twin sister Rrose

Adams Rubble: I will give it to you as a teaser :)
Adams Rubble: Prologue air: Two avatars, each unlike upon gazing, Dwelling in different worlds: virtual and so-called real. In the recesses of brain stuff, where we set our scene,Each finds space to carve out "self", And wonder, from time to time, about the other.
Eden Haiku: Oh, that is beautiful Adams!
Eliza Madrigal: that's marvelous :))
Eden Haiku: A poetic voice, I love it!
Adams Rubble: The notecard is all "airs"
Adams Rubble: That one did not make the notecard
Eden Haiku: Maybe I will bring my twin sister Rrose to your event :)
Adams Rubble: I did not know you had a twin sister Eden
Adams Rubble: that's nice
Eden Haiku: Mmm, she's been sleeping beauty for ages but I could awaken her on my laptop :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: I'm very excited about your Art of Being show Adams!
Adams Rubble: well I hope I don’t disappoint anyone
Eliza Madrigal: me too, sorry that Riddle will be traveling though...
Adams Rubble: I gave Riddle his own presentation
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, wonderful
Adams Rubble: although much has been rewritten since then
Eliza Madrigal: also the benefit of text
Adams Rubble: Riddle told me not to change anything but I did
Eliza Madrigal: haha
Eden Haiku: Lucky Riddle :)
Eliza Madrigal: I'm sure he knew those directions might be impossible
Eden Haiku: :)
Eden Haiku: "Each find space to carve out "self".... that's very profound
Eliza Madrigal nods thoughtfully
Eden Haiku: We have so many parts in our "self" don't we?
Adams Rubble: we can
Adams Rubble:I used to have about 15
Adams Rubble giggles
Eden Haiku: Really, 15 avatars in SL?
Adams Rubble: yes
Eden Haiku: Wow!
Eliza Madrigal: prolific expressions
Adams Rubble: My RL Avatar is a maniac
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Eden Haiku: I can tell that :)
Adams Rubble: there are just two of us active now
Adams Rubble: three counting my RL avatar
Eden Haiku: But that is a fantastic idea... Eden is real copycat, be warned!
Eliza Madrigal imagines the realm of sleeping avatars
Adams Rubble: It's not what it is cracked out to be :)
Adams Rubble: 15 avatars behaving badly
Eden Haiku: My twin and I also have a triplet. He's called Wilfred. He's been here a bit, at PaB. as well as Rrose.
Eliza Madrigal: hm... counting, but I think... 6 for me
Eden Haiku: I had my companion drive one while I was driving Rrose on laptop and Eden on desktop.
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Adams Rubble: yes sometimes need multiple computers to keep them goiing
Eden Haiku: I was aiming for a photo for an Art of Being project...:) A few years ago.
Eden Haiku: I must have it somewhere it inventory :)
Eliza Madrigal remembers Eden's avi family
Adams Rubble: :)

Family that plays together stays together

Adams Rubble: The family that plays together stays together
Adams Rubble: or is that prays?
Eden Haiku: You are already very inspiring Adams! With only the prologue air :)
Eliza Madrigal: oops, no, 7 :)
Eliza Madrigal: I'm half maniac I guess haha
Eden Haiku: haha
Adams Rubble: :)

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: Lila misses SL, but mostly attended Eos's sessions....
Adams Rubble remembers the Nesbitt story "Half Magic"
Eden Haiku:Lila Darkmatter, I remember her fondly :)
Eden Haiku: Wondering which Adams is delivering the speech at the gallery? I guess it’s a surprise:)
Eliza Madrigal: avatars seem to be made up of the spaces they interact with... perhaps excepting primaries? Hm, who knows... overthinking, ol
Adams Rubble: I am doing the presentation and with just one small exception it will be just about me and my RL Avatar in 2008
Eden Haiku: Rrose was the root avatar, Eden came after. I thought I needed to create a new avatar for a different computer :)
Adams Rubble: My RL avatar had only 3 avatars in 2008 :)
Eden Haiku: Ah!
Eliza Madrigal: what a funny turn, Eden
Eden Haiku: Yes :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: that's a very nice idea Adams, to go back to those first impressions
Adams Rubble: I was the most active that first summer
Eden Haiku: Eden is a character from one of my novels, based on a real young woman I saw in India, a young Israeli woman.
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: Summer of 2008....
Adams Rubble: My name was more impulsive :)
Eliza Madrigal: a lifetime in a flash
Eliza Madrigal: making eliza's name was like using a ouiga(sp) board :)
Eden Haiku: It’ your middle name too isn'it?
Eliza Madrigal: Beth is
Eden Haiku: Adams, does your RL avatar share your delight in textures? I just noticed the beautiful blouse you are wearing
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I guess maybe
Adams Rubble: art historian
Eden Haiku: I notice you always choose clothes with a lot of details and textures
Adams Rubble: I make some of my clothes
Eliza Madrigal: oh!
Adams Rubble: whoops rl interruption, will be back
Eden Haiku: Ah, you create them in SL? That is why they are so special
Eden Haiku: No problem Adams :)
Eliza Madrigal: You didn't speak to the Israeli woman Eden? Just saw her?
Eden Haiku: Can you create some clothes too Eliza? You are pretty good at building, I saw your new house!
Eliza Madrigal: the one I put up and took town? It was bought and then tampered with :)) but thanks
Eden Haiku: No. We saw each other over a few days in Pushkar, a small town in Rajasthan,
Eliza Madrigal: I've not made clothing aside from just adding patterns to basic templates occasionally
Eliza Madrigal listens
Eden Haiku: Everybody was gathering at sunset at the Moon cafe
Adams Rubble: back, reading...
Eden Haiku: She was so independant, so funny, so alive.
Eliza Madrigal: "so alive"
Eden Haiku: She made some joke about the guy selling camel tours one day as she passed me by, I smiled. But she made a big impression on me.

--BELL--

Adams Rubble: I guess maybe I misspoke. I use the basic templates too and add the textures. Nice images, Eden.
Eden Haiku: I didn't know her name, but when I met a 4 year old girl who was called Eden in Montreal years later, I gave her that name and made her a poet,
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: that's wonderful :)
Eliza Madrigal: Adams, what you do is more sophisticated for sure... all my outfits look like pajamas!
Eliza Madrigal giggles

A bus ride in Rajasthan

Adams Rubble remembers riding on a bus in Rajasthan (this would have more meaning if after my show)
Eden Haiku: Oh...another cliffhanger Adams?
Adams Rubble: you can guess where it fits in later
Adams Rubble giggles
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Ok, listening :)
Adams Rubble: went from Agra to Jaipur
Adams Rubble: very exciting
Adams Rubble: no camels
Adams Rubble: or Edens
Adams Rubble: but lots of India
Eden Haiku: smiles
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: You must have liked the colorful veils of the Rajasthani women! In the fields in their hot pink and emerald green silks!
Eden Haiku: With lots of textures of gold theads and broderies!
Adams Rubble: yes and looked so fresh in the hot dusty climate
Eden Haiku: Yes!
Eliza Madrigal imagining
Eden Haiku: You haven't been to India yet Eliza, but you have seen Japan, lucky you!
Eden Haiku: It has always been my dream to go to Japan but I never did ... yet
Eliza Madrigal:India one day :)
Eden Haiku:Japan one day :)
Eliza Madrigal: When I think of planning such trips I get overwhelmed... want to do everything, see everything, so then the scope gets too big
Eden Haiku: We are still so young! (*especiallly you Eliza :)
Adams Rubble: speak for your yourselves :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Eliza is indeed pretty young :)
Eliza Madrigal grins
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: Yes, well, my RL avatar is kind of fishy now...[I meant apprehensive]afraid of earthquakes and atomic powerplants....
Eden Haiku: But let us drink again at the fountain of youth!
Eliza Madrigal nods.... yet, as I imagine India must be, it is like going to a diff planet in some ways...
Adams Rubble: incredible poverty in India
Eliza Madrigal: so few places like that, especially as weary as one gets living in a place like the US that covers itself in the same 5 stores
Eden Haiku: Yes, and it's changing fast, so fast. A different country every time....
Adams Rubble does not go to those stores :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Yes Adams, such a shock, the poverty, the first time... I wouldn't move from my ashram for about 4 months

--BELL--

See you later!

Many of us attended Adams playing as Rubble wonderful show: it was very moving!

Adams Rubble: :) I was only there 8 days and was much pampered
Eliza Madrigal: hard to reconcile the heartbreaking poverty with such spiritual flourishing in areas
Eden Haiku: Did you ride the Maharadjah train? Heard about it...
Adams Rubble: no
Adams Rubble: no trains, only bus
Eden Haiku: Yes, India is quite a puzzle
Adams Rubble: (another reference in the show. hehe)
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Eliza Madrigal: I'm so excited... and to be back on time I need to go now...picking up son's cap n gown today ^.^
Adams Rubble: bye Eliza
Eden Haiku: You are good at this cliffhanging thing dear Adams:)
Adams Rubble: I think I will be there
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: Bye Eliza! See you later :)
Eliza Madrigal: see you both later, haha
Eden Haiku: You better be there you Adams!
Adams Rubble: I hope Riddle is having a good trip
Eden Haiku: Yes, me too;) Hi Riddle !!!
Eden Haiku: I just decided which outfit I'm going to wear this afternoon!
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I have been deciding for two weeks :)
Adams Rubble: finally chose this
Eden Haiku: My twin as a much smaller closet :)
Adams Rubble: but may change my mind by then :)
Eden Haiku: Oh good!
Adams Rubble: my explorer outfit is in second place
Adams Rubble: or maybe my red suit
Eden Haiku: I thought you had a very professional look when you fisrt came in, I already saw you as the commissary of the exhibition :)
Adams Rubble: awww :)
Eden Haiku: That»s perfect Adams!
Adams Rubble: OK, I better go and rest up or rewrite the whole thing again. hehe
Adams Rubble: see you later today
Eden Haiku: How long does your presentation last Adams?
Adams Rubble: Hopefully less than an hour because there is a session after
Adams Rubble: I did it with Riddle in less than an hour
Eden Haiku: See you later, don't rewrite, I'm sure it’s fine! Ah yes, perfect!
Adams Rubble: but there may be more interruptions
Eden Haiku: Break a leg!
Adams Rubble: like my poster :)
Eden Haiku: Looking forward to it Adams!
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Eden Haiku: Bye sweetheart!