2017.11.06 07:00 - A library of remembered scents

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

Eliza, Eden, Riddle and Adams in the rising sun

Breaking the glass ceiling

Eden Haiku: Good morning Riddle!
Eden Haiku: How are you?
Eden Haiku: Good morning Eliza :)
Eliza Madrigal: Good morning Eden, Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: like magic the sun is up this early ㋡
Eden Haiku: Good morning Adams!
Eliza Madrigal: Morning, Adams :)
Riddle Sideways: amazing what setting the clock will do
Adams Rubble: Good morning everyone :)
Eden Haiku: Yes :)
Eden Haiku: We broke the glass ceiling in Montreal!
Riddle Sideways: wow, great
Eden Haiku: A woman has been elected as a mayor!
Eliza Madrigal:::cheers:::
Adams Rubble: yaaay
Eden Haiku: She's 43, spontaneous, with a big smile, rides a bicycle and wants to create more public transporation!
Eden Haiku: It's exhilarating!
Eliza Madrigal: oh to be 43 with a big smile again... ;-)
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: yeah!
Adams Rubble: Unfortunately, most of us in USA only knew about one Canadian mayor who made news here
Eden Haiku: The crack sniffing Toronto mayor?
Adams Rubble nods
Riddle Sideways: Unfortunately, US has gone backward
Eden Haiku: He was horrible
Adams Rubble nods
Eden Haiku: The one we had in then last four years was corrupt...
Adams Rubble: booo
Eliza Madrigal: happy for every bright spark
Eden Haiku: The new mayor of our neigborhood is also a young woman and she was at my 3rd (and last!) book party Saturday in a book store!
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, nice Eden!
Riddle Sideways: nice
Eliza Madrigal: you're wrapping up your tour?

Timelines, timeliness, lifelines and "TIMLINESS"

Eden Haiku:Any bright sparks in your timelines these days?
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Adams Rubble looks for her timeliness
Adams Rubble: ohh timelines
Eden Haiku: Still Montreal Book Fair in late November and Quebec City in April, maybe Paris in March, but it's slowing down a bit, thank god...
Eliza Madrigal tries to read her lifelines
Riddle Sideways: went to a gallery opening of photographs
Eden Haiku: listens
Eliza Madrigal nearly  caught up with exhibits  yesterday morning, very nice
Riddle Sideways: so many exhibits to go to
Eliza Madrigal:embarrassment of riches
Eden Haiku: Yes, we are lucky :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Paris in march sounds poetic
Eliza Madrigal: I had missed the Lady Wenji exhibit before... was very moved by that one
Adams Rubble: The Lady Wenji exhibit rips out your heart, juggles it a bit, and then puts it back
Eden Haiku: Was trying to remember her name Lady Wenji, yes, what a beautiful exhibit and lovely poems!
Eliza Madrigal: an apt description for sure
Eliza Madrigal: a few quite haunting lines

--BELL--

"How can I have my heart heard from the ends of the earth?"

Eden Haiku: Didn't hear the bell... Did you?
Riddle Sideways: that pause was nice to relive that exhibit
Eliza Madrigal: "How can I have my heart heard from the ends of the earth?"
Eden Haiku: Just changed the treshold...
Eliza Madrigal hasn't turned on sound yet
Eden Haiku: A beautiful verse indeed...
Riddle Sideways: sound of fountain is relaxing
Eden Haiku: It's a good thing we have a chatting bell and so funny too... "Will ring in 814 seconds". Wol's puts a touch of fantasy in our all our sessions :) Her magical touch!
Adams Rubble: timliness :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: giggles
Eliza Madrigal read this morning (think I'd known before)that insects experience time as much faster than humans, who seem to be moving very slowly
Riddle Sideways: many of our wonderful members have such sences of houmours
Eden Haiku: smiles
Eliza Madrigal: yes they do :)
Adams Rubble: scents of the humours
Eden Haiku: Didn’t know that Eliza, what a new perspective!
Riddle Sideways:  watched a hummingbird this morning 
Eden Haiku: smelling
Riddle Sideways: its scent of time must be sooo fast
Eliza Madrigal: ooo
Eden Haiku: laughing out loud
Adams Rubble: dogs know best
Eden Haiku: Somehow, it reminds me of the timelines when we used to travel to this giant in the sky...
Riddle Sideways: dogs Really have a scent of time
Riddle Sideways:and humour
Eden Haiku:Especially when it rains
Adams Rubble: and who has been to the tree in front of the house
Eliza Madrigal: their snout is a scent cathedral
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: A scent cathedral, wow! George is really inspiring you Eliza!
Riddle Sideways: a library of remembers scents
Eliza Madrigal: or as my daughter says, snoot :)
Eliza Madrigal: Well, I read this book, "Inside of a Dog" and the author talks about this... yes, a library of scents!
Riddle Sideways:just a snoot full of timelines makes the medicine go down
Eden Haiku: A library of remembered scents! Lovely title! [thank you Riddle!f or providing yet another log title!]
Eliza Madrigal: about how we should allow them to linger and what they are doing
Eden Haiku: The insects you mean?
Eliza Madrigal: and people are taming them too much. not giving them time to explore (dogs)
Eden Haiku: Sorry, missed a line...
Riddle Sideways: which one?
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: About the "Inside a dog' book
Eliza Madrigal: our logs are like a library of voices perhaps
Eliza Madrigal: some with senses of humor :)
Eden Haiku: A library of remembered scents too :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)

Wild white rose, citrus, orange blossoms and lilacs of heaven

Eden Haiku:What is your most powerful memory of a scent?
Eliza Madrigal thinks...
Eden Haiku: I know mine
Eden Haiku: The smell of a wild white rose

--BELL--

Eden Haiku: In my grandma's garden, when I was 12 or so
Eliza Madrigal: wow
Riddle Sideways:   trips over "most powerful memory"  
Adams Rubble scratches head
Eden Haiku: I picked the rose and attached it to my wrist
Riddle Sideways: memory of last night waiting for 2 people to get through a kitchen door so could exit. first had scent of lilacs. second needed to take a shower and stop smoking
Eden Haiku:Oh, that's interesting Riddle, a fresh memory?
Eliza Madrigal: my great grandmother's gardenias still linger strongly...   but there is a scent in my mind that I'm not sure I've ever smelled in the 'real world'... of citrus blossom.   It happens sometimes and is 'right there' if I look for it. It is weird to try to categorize 'strongest'
Eliza Madrigal: but super interesting too :)
Adams Rubble: interesting Riddle :)
Eden Haiku: A citrus blossom... never smelled that scent...
Riddle Sideways:had a job in Fla in the orange groves. at blossom time it was so sweet
Adams Rubble likes lilac smells
Eden Haiku: It's like you smell something that you label "citrus blossom'" but you don't know where it comes from?
Eliza Madrigal: and lilac colors
Eden Haiku: Loves lilacs smells and colors too
Eliza Madrigal: I know Eden.. maybe recognize but don't remember the source, and associate it somehow with peace and meditation and such
Riddle Sideways:in the next valley over, there is about a mile of lilac fields
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: however, hard to smell at 50 mph
Eliza Madrigal: omygoodness... you do live in heaven, Riddle

Saint Riddle of the flourishing valleys

Eden Haiku: When I lived in India, they said that "strange flowery smells" were indicators of the presence of a ethereal saintly being passing by
Eden Haiku: As it happens in meditation, that could be what you smelled Eliza :)
Eliza Madrigal: that's a beautiful notion
Eden Haiku: Yes, Riddle lives in paradise, sighs
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: A mile of lilac fields!
Riddle Sideways: somebody has to
Adams Rubble giggles
Eden Haiku:  And yet he is so humble :) 
Eliza Madrigal: that's why he gets to live there, hehe
Riddle Sideways: and miles of tomatoes. another of Brussel sproats
Eden Haiku: Riddle is a saint
Riddle Sideways: ha... gappaws
Eden Haiku: giggles
Eliza Madrigal: Saint Riddle of the flourishing valleys
Eden Haiku: hehe
Riddle Sideways:   copies that out to show many others not knowing this  
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: A saint in hawaiian shirts and long poney-tail playing air guitar on a cloud :)))
Eliza Madrigal: hiding in plain sight
Eden Haiku: :))
Riddle Sideways: and Jewish saints are rare
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Eden Haiku: Very rare!
Eden Haiku: You might be the only one hehe
Eliza Madrigal: but we could find you with our master snoots
Adams Rubble: many in early church
Riddle Sideways: there was at least one other
Eden Haiku: Our master snoots filled with flowery scents!
Eliza Madrigal: hahah
Riddle Sideways: a snoot full
Eden Haiku: Do tell about Jewiish saints?
Adams Rubble: all  the apostles, Paul...etc
Eden Haiku: Many in early church?
Adams Rubble: Jesus was Jewish
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Ah yes...
Riddle Sideways: did Jesus ever get sainted?
Eden Haiku: Nope
Eliza Madrigal: someone should get on that
Eden Haiku: Jewish but not a saint
Eden Haiku: But you are right for Paul and Peter and all the apostles :)
Riddle Sideways: Peter, Paul and Mary
Riddle Sideways: not that not right
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Adams Rubble: yes Mary was Jewish too
Eden Haiku: Also Californian saints :)
Adams Rubble: Santa maria

--BELL--

Santa Maria and the secret lives of trees

Eden Haiku: Ave Maria
Eden Haiku: Memories of last session's music
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: yes, listened to many renditions last week
Adams Rubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypMv_vKtGuk
Riddle Sideways: oh NO! not more youTubies
Adams Rubble: same one :)
Riddle Sideways: funny, had never thought about you Tubbies
Eden Haiku: Thanks Adams
Eden Haiku: Had a delightful experience during the pause
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Eden Haiku: Slowly drinking a glass of water, eyes closed. Listening to Elena Garanca's singing
Riddle Sideways: Ahhhhh
Eden Haiku: With thoughts about insects seeing humans so slow
Riddle Sideways: the smell of a glass of water
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal feeling soft and transcendent
Eden Haiku: And dogs needing to linger in their libraries of scents
Adams Rubble: Unfortunately there are places a glass of water smells
Riddle Sideways: how people see Trees as slow
Eliza Madrigal: slow tree movement...
Adams Rubble: except for poplars
Eden Haiku: been wanting to read this book about trees, have you?
Eliza Madrigal: secret life of trees?
Eden Haiku: About how they communicate, yes, that’s it!
Riddle Sideways: 50 shades of grey treebark?
Eden Haiku: giggles
Eden Haiku: You are the one who talked about the book were you Eliza?

The art of pruning to preserve natural tendencies

Eliza Madrigal: would like to read that one too, but have only listened to interviews... did read a book called "Cutting Back"
Eliza Madrigal: about people who prune the temple trees in Japan
Eden Haiku: oh!
Eliza Madrigal: such a sacred and specialized process
Eden Haiku: listening
Eliza Madrigal: the trust to allow anyone to tamper with these ancient trees is hard won...
Eliza Madrigal: and the author was an american...
Eliza Madrigal: a master gardener in California ....was just a pleasant read, and highlighted that their aim is to preserve natural tendencies
Eliza Madrigal: rather than over pruning, like so many think Japanese gardens should be
Eden Haiku: Oh!
Eden Haiku: To preserve natural tendencies, how wonderful!
Riddle Sideways: the art of Pruning ... very much like raising children
Riddle Sideways: when tough love might be needed
Riddle Sideways:when nothing is needed
Riddle Sideways: to let go
Riddle Sideways: to intervene
Eden Haiku: Reminds me of Valerie Plante, the new mayor who broke the glass ceiling. She was jumping and laughing on the stage, so happy, like a child!
Eden Haiku: That’s beautiful Riddle!
Eliza Madrigal nods
Riddle Sideways: whoops, did not mean to
Eliza Madrigal: I love that Eden, she wasn't trying to be too cool about it all I guess :)
Eden Haiku: No, and she didn't call her companion and her two boys on the stage immediatly,she savoured her victory, then they came to hug her!
Eliza Madrigal: :)))
Eden Haiku: A brave girl!
Eliza Madrigal: sounds so
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: weird what things can be controversial
Eliza Madrigal: :)

--BELL--

A ¨wonderious¨ world

Eden Haiku: Can you imagine a world where women lead at many levels?
Eliza Madrigal: must try to imagine harder
Riddle Sideways: yes. still recalling what mayor of Paris said of Mr. T
Eden Haiku: Paris has a woman mayor and she did wonders for the city.
Eden Haiku: Oh, missed that, what did she say Riddle?
Riddle Sideways: in that most wonderious accent... "He is sooo Stupid"
Eden Haiku: giggles
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Speaking the truth like a child :)
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Eden Haiku: But then, that is not nonviolent communication... Labeling others is a no no...
Eden Haiku: giggles
Eliza Madrigal: can maybe label what he stands for?
Eden Haiku: but it’s fun to let the jackal speak up :)
Eliza Madrigal has a friend running for delegate in Virginia tomorrow :::crossing fingers::::
Eden Haiku: Oh! That's great Eliza!
Eden Haiku:A woman friend?
Eliza Madrigal: yes
Eliza Madrigal: clear and ferocious
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: She might change Virginia :)
Eden Haiku: Clear and ferocious, wow!
Eliza Madrigal: I read that T has actually brought about more women running for office....
Eliza Madrigal: not sure of the numbers but I believe it is a significant bump
Riddle Sideways: yes, he has all the Nasty Women standing up
Eden Haiku: Oh, he might me a hidden treasure then?
Riddle Sideways: very hidden
Eden Haiku: A blessing in disguise?
Eliza Madrigal: only way to keep going is to think so maybe
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal laughs Riddle
Eliza Madrigal still laughing
Eden Haiku: Always loved that English expression: "a blessing in disguise"
Eden Haiku: Brings up some hope
Riddle Sideways: we can hope so
Eden Haiku: giggles
Eliza Madrigal: some sparks
Eden Haiku: Sparks and scents
Riddle Sideways: snoots
Adams Rubble: I must go, thank you for your presence this morning :)
Eden Haiku: And sacred music
Eliza Madrigal: thank you Adams
Adams Rubble: bye for now :)
Eden Haiku: Thank you Adams :)
Riddle Sideways: thank you Adams
Eden Haiku: Bye, have a nice day!
Eliza Madrigal: the music is a wonderful 2nd or 3rd beginning of the day
Riddle Sideways: it will be a nice day. it is recycling day ㋡
Eden Haiku: Waking up early Eliza?
Eliza Madrigal smiles as alleluia begins
Eliza Madrigal: quite Eden, due to time change I think :)
Riddle Sideways: an hour early today
Riddle Sideways: however, just the same time
Riddle Sideways: by the Sun
Eden Haiku: Here too, a bit confusing yes :)
Riddle Sideways:   the cats knew what the time was  
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: oh! Brilliant cats!
Riddle Sideways: George prolly did too
Eden Haiku: They know with their bodies
Eliza Madrigal: George sleeps later than me these days, so funny
Eliza Madrigal: I wake and he lingers and stretches
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Eden Haiku: Hope you wake him up in revenge Eliza :)
Eliza Madrigal: hahha
Eliza Madrigal: he pesters me to go to bed at night, too
Eliza Madrigal: starting at 11 or so
Riddle Sideways: and you drag him outside
Eliza Madrigal: and he gets me back by protesting when I'm on the computer
Eden Haiku: George loves his sleep :)
Eliza Madrigal: idea of companion... one who disrupts in loving ways
Eden Haiku: :)
Riddle Sideways: not sure about cats fitting that
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Eden Haiku: hehe
Eliza Madrigal: they make up for your not having to actually leave the house to take them out
Eliza Madrigal: thanks for your fine company this morning <3
Eden Haiku: Guess George wants his walk and the recycling bin wants to be filled?
Eden Haiku: Thank you both for being here!
Riddle Sideways: must stop this fun and go have other fun
Eliza Madrigal: cute shoes Eden ^.^
Eden Haiku: Have a great Monday!
Riddle Sideways: thanks for Being
Eden Haiku: Rain shoes :)

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal smiles
Eliza Madrigal: ♥ ♥ ♥
Eden Haiku: And loves the blue sparks in your girly long hair ;_
Eden Haiku: That was a fun session, thank you rythmic friends :)
Eliza Madrigal notices the lavender and lilac colors....
Eliza Madrigal: bfn <3
Riddle Sideways: bfn
Eden Haiku: Bye bye!