The Guardian for this meeting was Mick. The comments are by Agatha Macbeth.

Tura Brezoianu: hi arabella
Bleu Oleander: 's current display-name is "Bleu".
Bleu Oleander: hi Ara, Tura :)
Tura Brezoianu: hi Bleu
Agatha Macbeth: Evening all
Mickorod Renard: hi folks
Agatha Macbeth: Arababe :)))
Agatha Macbeth: Woot
Bleu Oleander: hey Aggers, Mick :)
Agatha Macbeth: Good to see you back
Agatha Macbeth: Still has the hair I gave her too
Mickorod Renard: great to see Bruce back too
arabella Ella: hi 
Mickorod Renard: hi Raffi
Bleu Oleander: hi Raffi
Agatha Macbeth: Where's Brucie?
arabella Ella: yes aggers
Mickorod Renard: Bruce, thanks for sending the email and link to the mp3
Raffila Millgrove: hi all. my babysitting got cancelled so I am not going to be late after all. lol. I put in my "going to be late" apology on Monday. Bruce is coming.
Bleu Oleander: hi Eliza
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Raff & Liz
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Everyone!
Bleu Oleander: hi Storm, Eden
Eden Haiku: Hi everyone :)
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Stormy :)
Mickorod Renard: Hi Storm
Agatha Macbeth: And Edie :))
--BELL--
Mickorod Renard: Hi Eden
Raffila Millgrove: Bruce thought we were starting at noon cause of Zen.... so he was here then.. but he's coming again any minute.
arabella Ella: hi storm and all
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Mickorod Renard: oh noo, sorry Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: 's current display-name is "Bruce".
Agatha Macbeth: Here he is!
Eliza Madrigal: Was Zen here also at that time?
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Bruce
Agatha Macbeth: Brucie :))
Storm Nordwind: Hi all
Bleu Oleander: hi Bruce
Agatha Macbeth: He's back
Bruce Mowbray: Wow! HI, everyone!
arabella Ella: hi bruce
Mickorod Renard: Now then, I must make an appol on my behalf as I am away and not in control of what we are doing
Raffila Millgrove: I emailed to Bruce as agreed but I couldn't seem to find Aph's mail address. Someone needs to remind her.
Mickorod Renard: ah ty Raffi
Agatha Macbeth: Looks like the gang's all here
Eden Haiku: :)
Mickorod Renard: we did have a small get together on monday
arabella Ella: :) 
Mickorod Renard: just in case we had some monday folk
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Mickorod Renard: and in our chat there was a suggestion that questions could be posted on email prior to the next meeting so we have a chance to choose questions about sections
Agatha Macbeth: Good idea
Bruce Mowbray nods, agrees.
Bruce Mowbray: I can also send out mp3 readings, but we'll need to agree on a translation.
Mickorod Renard: and that the previous method of reports might become cumbersome but we will see how it pans out
Agatha Macbeth: Ooh
Agatha Macbeth nods
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, Bruce, you are reading it aloud?
Mickorod Renard: yes, great idea Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: No, the computer does that.
Eliza Madrigal: ah :) okay that's nice too
arabella Ella: /nods
Mickorod Renard: we have had some confusion over translation and pretty well ironed it out
Bruce Mowbray: I can give a link to that now, if you like. But we should also agree on a translation.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, confusion.
Mickorod Renard: he he
Mickorod Renard: Storm, can you recall the one we are doing?
Mickorod Renard: its in emails
Storm Nordwind: Yes
Eden Haiku: Darbandi and Davis Miick
Mickorod Renard: great
Storm Nordwind: Hold on
Storm Nordwind: Translated by Afham Darbandi and Dick Davis London: Penguin, 1984
Bruce Mowbray: This is the one my reading was from: http://thekingdomwithin.net/wp-conte...ddin_Attar.pdf
Eden Haiku: Available online as a PDF
Eden Haiku: Same same :)
Bleu Oleander: ah ok I have a newer translation
Mickorod Renard: I have a penguin book but on ebooks there is no prequil or what its called
Storm Nordwind: Starts of page 12 of that PDF
Agatha Macbeth: Prologue?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, introduction.
Mickorod Renard: the main story ..thats it Ags
Eliza Madrigal: I'm referencing a few different versions. Unfortunately I must have been so wrapped up reading the version on Kindle that I misplaced my ipad so can't say :)
Agatha Macbeth: 'It came to pass...'
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Mickorod Renard: he he
Storm Nordwind: Starts: "Dear hoopoe, welcome! You will be our guide; It was on you King Solomon relied To carry secret messages between His court and distant Sheba’s lovely queen. He knew your language and you knew his heart"
Agatha Macbeth: Sorry
Tura Brezoianu: Yes, the ebook has a different introduction form the Penguin, and doesn't include the Prologue (part of the poem)
Mickorod Renard: anyway, this is what our run up sessions are about
Bruce Mowbray thinks, we are a bit like the birds.
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Mickorod Renard: we are indeed
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Do I get to be the peacock?
Agatha Macbeth: Conference of the PaB
arabella Ella: tweet 
Mickorod Renard: but the main bit,,which we start from today,,is from line 616
Bruce Mowbray: yes, that's where my reading started.
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Mickorod Renard: so I think in previous get togethers we decided that our reading starts today from line 616
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/Conference%20of...Part%20One.mp3
Agatha Macbeth: Hello San :)
Eliza Madrigal: ty Bruce, and hi San
Santoshima Resident: hello everyone
Bleu Oleander: hi San
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, San!
Mickorod Renard: but............{hi san{
Eden Haiku: hi san :)
Agatha Macbeth sanhugs
Mickorod Renard: we are open today for any reportage /input/pictures or anything about the book so far
Bruce Mowbray listens...
Mickorod Renard: if we have nothing to offer thats ok too
Mickorod Renard: although Bruce has brought the mp3 which is fantastic
Bruce Mowbray wonders why mystics who know very well that these truths cannot be spoken - go right ahead and try to explain it, anyway.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Mickorod Renard: has anyone read the prologue?..he he Beruce
Bruce Mowbray: and I'm so glad that they do.
Agatha Macbeth: That's mystics for you Brucie ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: yeah.
Bruce Mowbray: identify closely with that tradition.
Bleu Oleander: unspoken truths don't sell
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Eden Haiku: Liked the fact that it was in a dream that Farid Attar was taught, by poet Mansour.
Bruce Mowbray listens carefully.
Mickorod Renard: I read most of the prologue and found it a bit heavy on the religious sidecan you say more Eden?
arabella Ella: truths that cannot be spoken are alleged ly explained 
Storm Nordwind: Do you mean allegorically?
Eden Haiku: Well, I just liked the fact that Attar had no living teacher, Only a dead sufi poet :)
Mickorod Renard: sometimes . for me anyway. my dreams are governed to a degree wit what I have read...the reading could open up dreaming
arabella Ella: cool
--BELL--
Bruce Mowbray ponders LoJong's "First consider everything to be a dream."
Mickorod Renard: nice idea Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: not mine, though.
Agatha Macbeth: Ineresting that the Simurgh turns up in China first
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh, excellent point, aggers.
Eden Haiku: Yes, and looses a feather :)
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: It mentions the Way too...made me think of a T'aoist connection
Mickorod Renard: yes, somewehere i read that the term china is used to relate to all places that have a high knowledge
Eden Haiku: oh!
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh?
Agatha Macbeth: Snap
Agatha Macbeth: Interesting
Mickorod Renard: or something like that
Eliza Madrigal: feel that (dream source) speaks to the sensibility at at first, the tale parallels Moses going to the mountain, rather than everyone, and the people saying they'd rather have him to talk to Gd. But someone who doesn't let the 'reasons' get in the way isn't hindered by even circumstances of waking life...
Eliza Madrigal: that at*
Bruce Mowbray: I find it interesting that Westerners look to the East for wisdom, and I wonder whether easterners look West. . . .
Agatha Macbeth: Had a feeling Moses would get in here somewhere
Eden Haiku: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :) just was the most obvious connection
Bruce Mowbray: Moses went east to the Promised Land.
Agatha Macbeth: If they do Brucie they're gonna be disappointed!
Mickorod Renard: just digesting that Eliza
Tura Brezoianu: And then the Simorgh is also said to be hidden in each person's heart
Eliza Madrigal nods
Eden Haiku: Interesting one Eliza :) The finch " like Moses have seen the flames burn high" :)
Tura Brezoianu: but without the sign (the feather) He would never be known
Mickorod Renard: yes Tura, I think the discovery is on several levels
Agatha Macbeth: Heart is where the home is
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Hidden secrets :)
Eliza Madrigal: homing in
Agatha Macbeth: That's a thought - where was the pidgeon?
Bruce Mowbray: I think most mystics would agree that every ground is holy . . . so Moses is taking off his shoes would be appropriate for everyone?
Agatha Macbeth: They do it all the time in Japan
Bruce Mowbray and And in every Zendo
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Bruce Mowbray: Hm
arabella Ella: most of asia
Eliza Madrigal: text seems to say everyone already has access they want the other to get for them? That's just a first glance reading though
Mickorod Renard: . I am a little concerned I may be asking everyone to read too far each week. has anyone any concerns?
Agatha Macbeth: Not from me
Bruce Mowbray: thank you, Eliza, for pointing that out. . . excellent.
Mickorod Renard: thats good
Bruce Mowbray: I think that most laymen expect the priests to be holy for them....
Bruce Mowbray: which of course is impossible.
Storm Nordwind is reading and enjoying the interspersed mini-stories, but not the straw-man moralizing ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: the birds seem to have the same problem.
Mickorod Renard: perhaps they as the book is, just mediums or mediators?
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, the straw men
Bruce Mowbray: Dharma Gates, also. . . . ?
Agatha Macbeth: See a lot of those online
Eliza Madrigal: there is definitely some contextualizing to do while reading
Bruce Mowbray: contextualizing = framing?
Eden Haiku: Sent me looking for the Bismallah on Wikipedia...
Bleu Oleander: as in context in which it was written?
Mickorod Renard: I am gripped in suspense to find out what we uncover, I dont know if it will be as deep as dhama gates
Eliza Madrigal: yes Bleu
Bleu Oleander: 12th C?
Storm Nordwind: I find the author is setting up cases, human foibles, that he can easily knock down and which don't really match the complexities of what humans are in general really like, neither in those individual foibles or their personalities as a whole.
Eden Haiku: Opening word of the Koran: In the name of God.
Agatha Macbeth: It's in Bohemian Rhapsody too
Bruce Mowbray agrees with Storm. each bird is a personality type.
Agatha Macbeth agrees with Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: or if you like, a "frame."
Mickorod Renard: yes, I found myself relating to each one in some way though,,maybe i am bad
Bruce Mowbray: Mick is BAAAAAADDDD!
Mickorod Renard: he he
Eliza Madrigal: I started to read it as about distancing and measuring of each bird - agree 'excuses' were shallow but maybe most sermons are in that way
Eden Haiku: likes the fact that the hoopoe first sees the positive trait of each bird
Agatha Macbeth: You *are* bad Mick...like Michael Jackson :p
Mickorod Renard: :)
Eliza Madrigal: true Eden
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh, great point, Eden.
Agatha Macbeth: JUst don't start walking backwards
Mickorod Renard: a sort of teacher reation from the hoopee
Storm Nordwind: The hoopoe doesn't come across to me as a compassionate being worthy of emulation.
Mickorod Renard: oh, I was hoping so, but have not read far enough
Bruce Mowbray: Is the hoopoe not honest to his disciples?
Agatha Macbeth: The Hoopoe wears a feathered 'truth crown' which makes me think of the Egyptian goddess Maat
Eden Haiku: Hoopoe carries secrets messages...
Storm Nordwind: Are they his disciples?
Bruce Mowbray: I sort of assume that they were disciples, since they came to a conference at which he is the main speaker and guide.
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Mickorod Renard: In some write ups it is alledged that the story relates to the birds being a masters deciples
Eden Haiku: Maat, yes Agatha. She wears the feather of justice/ and "justness' on her head :)
Agatha Macbeth: Ah not a government then
Agatha Macbeth nods
Storm Nordwind: I think it's more that he pronounces himself the best qualified, and they leave it at that!
Eliza Madrigal: probably a good thing that the hoopoe isn't so likable, since it is trying to get them to be themselves? (agreeing that not too likable)
Bleu Oleander: a power grab ;)
Agatha Macbeth: I like him
Storm Nordwind: hehe

An old friend returns...

Darren Islar: 's current display-name is "leaping Panther".
Tura Brezoianu: yes, all the birds come together and the hoopoe inspires them with the quest
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Darren :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Darren!!!
Agatha Macbeth: Wow
Mickorod Renard: Hi Darren
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Darren :)
Darren Islar: hi there
Bleu Oleander: Hi Darren
Raffila Millgrove: wow Darren. what a nice suprrise to see you!
Agatha Macbeth: Long time...
arabella Ella: hi Darren 
Mickorod Renard: wow, good turn out today
Eden Haiku: hi!
Agatha Macbeth: Woot
Storm Nordwind notices we have two birds present on shoulders. Perhaps they should be mandatory attire? ;)

                         
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh!
arabella Ella: smiles
Mickorod Renard: so, .....oh yes, have you seen my shirt? a great pressie from Bleu
Agatha Macbeth: Oh yes...I wondered
Raffila Millgrove only wears her radioactive rat on her shoulder which tends to turn all the lighting in the room to a green glow. lol
Eliza Madrigal: :) :) :)
Bleu Oleander: yes, I have Hoopoe tshirts if anyone wants one :)
Agatha Macbeth: Please!
Eliza Madrigal raises hand, very cute
Mickorod Renard: yippeee for Bleeu
Agatha Macbeth: Bleuji is so talented
--BELL--
Bleu Oleander: the black one or the one I have on?
Eliza Madrigal: black please
Agatha Macbeth: Black for me definitely :)
Agatha Macbeth: TY ♥
Raffila Millgrove: I'd like blue please? ty.
Bruce Mowbray: THAT was ELEPHANTASTIC!
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Mickorod Renard: he he
Tura Brezoianu puts on clockwork shoulder beetle
Tura Brezoianu: I'd like a black hoopoe shirt please
Mickorod Renard: so, the following section that we read..616 on...........how are we going to chat about it?,,next week?
Bruce Mowbray: I find it difficult to separate myself from my own understandings of mysticism . . . and to remain completely neutral as I read The Conference of the Birds.....
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Bruce Mowbray: it will be a good practice for me.
Tura Brezoianu: thanks!
Bleu Oleander: yw!
Mickorod Renard: I would like to think that with our diverse backgrunds we will have an interesting discussion
Eliza Madrigal: aren't we? :)
arabella Ella: how do you see mysticism then bruce
Bruce Mowbray: indeed, Mick
Agatha Macbeth: Hopefully
Bruce Mowbray: . Well, frankly, we mystics tend to feel that God is the most obvious thing in the universe. Or, as Jesus said, that those who have years hear. ( and those who have eyes, see.)
Mickorod Renard: Are we happy about how the story starts?
Bruce Mowbray: let those who have*
Mickorod Renard: sorryBruce
Agatha Macbeth: It works for me Mick
Bruce Mowbray: np.
Mickorod Renard: listens
arabella Ella: mmm Bruce that sounds rather simple 
Eden Haiku: What do you mean Mick?
Bruce Mowbray: I'm just hoping I can keep my focus on the book . . . or the text . . . without polluting it by my own experiences and feelings.
Mickorod Renard: I mean, did anyone want a brief description of how it starts
Mickorod Renard: ?
Eliza Madrigal is here for personal feelings as much as text
arabella Ella: we hear or see what suits us more often than not 
Bruce Mowbray nds to Eliza.
Agatha Macbeth: Right Liz
Bruce Mowbray: nods*
Mickorod Renard: yeh, I agree eliza
Eden Haiku: agrees too
Bleu Oleander: I'm here for my interest in world literature
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh!
Eliza Madrigal: but I understand... have to be aware of hobby horses too
Bruce Mowbray: comparative religion, too?
Mickorod Renard: we are all gonna take something from the read even though we may take something diferent
Santoshima Resident: am here for my interest in talking birds
Eliza Madrigal has an army of hobby horses
Eliza Madrigal: lolllol San
Bleu Oleander: :) San
Bruce Mowbray: :)))
Darren Islar: :)
Bruce Mowbray: I suspect that in some cultures birds are revered because they can fly into the heavens, escaping the burdens of Earth . .
Mickorod Renard: somewhere what I have read suggests to me a little of what we did in TSK......a sort of identifying our attachments
Bruce Mowbray: I'm thinking now of the dove that represented the Holy Spirit.
Bruce Mowbray: YIKES!
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, wings are a common representation of divinity (hence angels)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: 
Eden Haiku: How do you see " The Conference of the Birds" in the large context of World Literature Bleu?
Bruce Mowbray loves it!
Storm Nordwind regards San as Mistress of Subtlety
Eliza Madrigal listens
Agatha Macbeth loves it too
Bleu Oleander: similar to some sensibilities of "1001 Nights"
Bleu Oleander: which I'm studying now
Agatha Macbeth: Right Bleuji
Bruce Mowbray: ahhhh. . . wonderful comparison.
Bleu Oleander: a specific time and place ... cultural themes
Bleu Oleander: similar ... not specific :)
Eden Haiku: 1001 night came from oral transmission though which is not the case with "Conference"
Bleu Oleander: yes
Bleu Oleander: but some of 1001 nights was written also
Eden Haiku: And 1001 nights is ealier in time, around 10th century I think
Bleu Oleander: by a frenchman in the 19th C
Eden Haiku: Yes, sure, it was put in writing from the 14th centiury
Bleu Oleander: no also written as in adding new stories
Mickorod Renard: it would be interesting to get your opinion of whether 1001 nights or gilgamesh would be a good follow on book Bleu?
Bleu Oleander: well, both very interesting
Eden Haiku: But what do you see specific to "the Conefernce of the Birds' Bleu. I think you are the only one here who read the whole book already.
Agatha Macbeth: I can never remember if it's 'NIghts' or 'Knights' :p
Bleu Oleander: Gilgamesh is oldest
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Mickorod Renard: :)
Bleu Oleander: its too much to go into here, but I will comment as we go
Eden Haiku: Ok
Mickorod Renard: fantastic
Agatha Macbeth: Woot
--BELL--
Bleu Oleander: stories nested in stories is one similarity
Mickorod Renard: ah yes
Agatha Macbeth: Russian dolls
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Mickorod Renard: I sometimes wonder whether the stories within stories are my crazy imagination or if its a form of enlightenment
Bruce Mowbray ponders fractal stories. . . .
Darren Islar: can you elaborate Mick
Mickorod Renard: yes!
Mickorod Renard: I mean.Daren, that when I read some storries they seem to reveal so many other truths about life..but I feel not everyone has the same experience
Eden Haiku: The rethorical figure of embedment could be a form of enlightnment Mick, it's a good inuition I think :)
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Agatha Macbeth: You're so cute Edie
Mickorod Renard: also Bruce, there are the achetypes,,as in birds
Bruce Mowbray: To each his story (and his Dulcinea.)
Eden Haiku: smiles at Agatha :)
Bleu Oleander: I was referring to an actual literary construction
Bruce Mowbray: her story, too.
Darren Islar: Is that as in understanding the words used as a seperate truth or phrases, or images?
Mickorod Renard: is that to me Dareeren?
Mickorod Renard: Darren*
Eden Haiku: Finch understands unspoken words
Darren Islar: sorry, yes Mick
Bruce Mowbray: Finch is also rather paranoid.....
Bruce Mowbray: at least anxious.
Mickorod Renard: np, I would say as the imagination unrolls the narative
Agatha Macbeth ponders a paranoid bird
Mickorod Renard: if that makes sense
Bruce Mowbray: sort of flighty.
Storm Nordwind: So would you feel paranoid sitting with horns towering over you
Eden Haiku: Well, you can focus on their excuses or stay with their positive traits for a while...
Agatha Macbeth: Flighty! Love it
Mickorod Renard: he he
Eden Haiku: Parrot can flee despise the flames around its throat
Mickorod Renard: I rarely see the words just the picture the words conjure up
Eliza Madrigal: yes maybe contemplating those aspects together gives the complexity needed
Tura Brezoianu: The finch reminds me of the saying that too humble is half proud.
Darren Islar: I think so Mick, I thin it comes close to what I mean with images, which to me can be also be accompanied by words or feelings
Darren Islar: *think
Bruce Mowbray: ( I hope someone is getting a picture of this session. it should be preserved in the wiki.)
Mickorod Renard: Ags
Eliza Madrigal has taken a few
Bruce Mowbray: Great! Thanks, Eliza.
Darren Islar: right, the picture not the words itself
Agatha Macbeth: I have two for the log
Mickorod Renard: Ags is gonna post it for me as I am away at the mo
Mickorod Renard: on borrowed laptop
Eliza Madrigal: thanks both :)
Mickorod Renard: cobvered in mosquito bites
Agatha Macbeth bows graciously
Eden Haiku: Partridge's laughter strikes the door of God and destroys the Mountain of the Self
Agatha Macbeth: Edie is reading ahead I think x
Mickorod Renard: ok, well its closing in to end and I think we are prepped now
Eliza Madrigal: Ah, I'm hearing that I need to spend more time with the PDF rather than the version I've been reading!
Eden Haiku: No, that's right in the beginning Agatha
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Eden Haiku: Falcon breaks nature's form and rest at peace in Unity black cave
Agatha Macbeth: Missed that
Bleu Oleander: yes, me too Eliza
Agatha Macbeth: Wll re-read
Eden Haiku: I printed the PDF in order to take notes.
Darren Islar: which PDF?
Agatha Macbeth: How diligent :)
Eliza Madrigal: the language you are highlighting is so much more powerful Eden
Mickorod Renard: would it be fun to ask if afterreading the first section whether we feel we relate individually to a bird..or would that be too personal?
Eden Haiku: Yes, the poetic =form of this version is wonderful
Storm Nordwind: My PDF came pre-marked up for some reason, but with the later versions of Acrobat reader, you can add your own comments and highlights to the PDF and save them.
Agatha Macbeth: The whole thing reads like a Grail quest to me
Eliza Madrigal: lol Mick... I'm a bit like you, whenever I hear descriptions I can find something similar
Bruce Mowbray: http://thekingdomwithin.net/wp-conte...ddin_Attar.pdf
Mickorod Renard: its a bit shakespearian too,,or maybe I am daft
Agatha Macbeth: You're daft :p
Eden Haiku: Francolin rides Self as a donkey and sees the Holy Ghost arise in glory
Mickorod Renard: he he
Darren Islar: thanks Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: Mick is DAAAAAFFFFFTTTT!
Eliza Madrigal: self mastery
Eden Haiku: Nightingale melts with love the mail coat of Self
Mickorod Renard: so, any last requests ?
Eliza Madrigal is suddenly impatient to leave and read, hahha
Agatha Macbeth: A cigar?
Bruce Mowbray feels that Love is where it all is headed. . . .
Mickorod Renard: I hope so
Eden Haiku: Which is in sync withn Mick's goal :).
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Excellent.
Agatha Macbeth: Marx thought it was offside
Eden Haiku: Thank you Mick for hosting while away :)
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, thank you, Mick!
Storm Nordwind: Thank you Mick. I'm sorry I must disappear now
Bleu Oleander: ty Mick :)
Agatha Macbeth: TY Micko
Mickorod Renard: its my plaeasure, and especially to such a fine group of freineds
Santoshima Resident: bye Storm :)
Raffila Millgrove: I yhave photos. who should i send to?
Darren Islar: thanks Mick :)
Bruce Mowbray: Fly away....
Mickorod Renard: bye storm
Storm Nordwind waves
Eliza Madrigal: bye Storm
Agatha Macbeth: TC Stormy
Raffila Millgrove: for the log?
Santoshima Resident: Bruce is alight
Eliza Madrigal: Raffi you can attach them right to the log when posted, or I can if you like
Bleu Oleander: must go too ... bye all
arabella Ella: I must be off too bye everyone 
Mickorod Renard: btw, are we doing Monday? nnooo?
Santoshima Resident: bye Bleu, and Bruce
Mickorod Renard: maybe
Santoshima Resident: bye Arabella
Eliza Madrigal: thanks everybody! Ntsy Ara
Mickorod Renard: bye all going
Santoshima Resident: bye folks
Eliza Madrigal: I can't come two days per week, so I've chosen Thursdays
Raffila Millgrove: ok. ty. i will send them to you then. ty Eliza. Ty Mick for hosting us. glad to see so many here.
Agatha Macbeth: Good to see you back Darren!
Mickorod Renard: great
Darren Islar: bye everyione, pleasure to see you all again :)
Santoshima Resident: Will come on Thursdays
Darren Islar: thanks Ags
Santoshima Resident: yes, good to see you Darren :)
Mickorod Renard: Eliza, I will struggle two days too
--BELL--
Raffila Millgrove: great San. Please come again darren.. so great to see old faces.
Darren Islar: thanks San
Mickorod Renard: so Thurdaay is my official being here day
Eden Haiku: Lies being parrt ofyour group of' freineds': Mick :)
Darren Islar: not sure I can make Thursdaus though
Mickorod Renard: :))
Darren Islar: I just remembered :)
Raffila Millgrove: well we are meeting Mondays.
Eden Haiku: *likes
Raffila Millgrove: so you can come then as we pick up slack on Mondays.
Darren Islar: Mondays .. okay
Mickorod Renard: if i can do it Raffi I will
Darren Islar: I can do once in a fourtnigjt
Mickorod Renard: great!
Raffila Millgrove: great. see you all laters. hugs.
Santoshima Resident: so long
Eliza Madrigal waves
Eden Haiku: Bye!
Darren Islar: bye everyone
Mickorod Renard: ok, I need to go and hand back this laptop
Mickorod Renard: thanks folks
Eliza Madrigal: okay...thanks again Mick
Eden Haiku: Bye Mick!
Mickorod Renard: please feel free to im email if need to amend anything
Eliza Madrigal: bye Tura :)
Mickorod Renard: byeeeeeee
Tura Brezoianu: goodnight all

                           
Agatha Macbeth: Well that broke the ice
Eden Haiku: Yes Agatha! It's fun to have you onboard!
Eliza Madrigal: and chiming in!
Agatha Macbeth: It is
Eden Haiku: yes!
Eden Haiku: With interesting inputs!
Agatha Macbeth: Oh I chime from time to time
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Bit like a clock
Eden Haiku: Like a faithful bell :)
Agatha Macbeth: That too

Liz rezzes a giant ladybird...

Agatha Macbeth: Good heavens
Eden Haiku: Who is traveling by ladybird?
Eliza Madrigal: that is listed as though a bird in my inventory...
Eliza Madrigal: so glad I didn't rezz it in session
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Agatha Macbeth: It's a bird, but it isn't
Eden Haiku: Ah! Mystery solved!
Agatha Macbeth: Must be why some call them ladybugs
Eden Haiku: Looking up her birds inventory :)
Eliza Madrigal: I'm sorely lacking birds...
Eliza Madrigal: just these :)
Eden Haiku: Not a single bird. We need to go shopping Eliza :)
Agatha Macbeth: I only seem to have a parrot
Eden Haiku: And a beautiful colorful one Agatha!
Eliza Madrigal: quite a dramatic parrot though Agatha
Eliza Madrigal: yay shopping trip
Agatha Macbeth: Woot
Agatha Macbeth: Good excuse
Eden Haiku: It left your shoulder?
Agatha Macbeth: It's a bit big so I sent it home
Eliza Madrigal: went to conference
Eden Haiku: Good girl :)
Agatha Macbeth: Dunno how Long John Silver coped
Eliza Madrigal: hahah
Agatha Macbeth: Imagine all the parrot crap down his back...
Eliza Madrigal: he had a good excuse not to look for the simurgh (sp?)
Eden Haiku: Woke up to a bird singing this morning
Agatha Macbeth: Well he wasn't a bird
Eliza Madrigal: oh?
Agatha Macbeth: So excused duty
Eden Haiku: And thought he was singing "The Conference of the Birds" :)
Agatha Macbeth: Who Long John Silver?
Eden Haiku: No, the bird :)
Eliza Madrigal: an opera in 4 parts
Agatha Macbeth is confused
Eliza Madrigal: there is a bird here, who sounds like a car alarm...
Eliza Madrigal: but as I've gotten used to him, not so terrible... am very impressed
Eden Haiku: arrgh...
Agatha Macbeth: Good job I have him turned down then
Eden Haiku: A kind of geicko bird then Eliza ?
Eliza Madrigal: yes precisely
Agatha Macbeth: Com-pa-shun
Eliza Madrigal: or some version
Eliza Madrigal: in some ways I live in a gecko now
Eden Haiku: giggles
Agatha Macbeth: I often think of that
Agatha Macbeth: Adams and the dog
Eliza Madrigal smiles - I met a gecko in SL last week...
Agatha Macbeth: They get around
Eden Haiku: Oh!
Eliza Madrigal: she wore a baseball cap, really sweet
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Probably after flies
Eden Haiku: imagines a gecko with a baseball cap.Only in SL :)
Eliza Madrigal: she made a box full of positive quotes
Eliza Madrigal: so sort of a song :)
Eden Haiku: Nice :)
Agatha Macbeth: Can't beat a positive gecko
Eliza Madrigal: hehehe
Eden Haiku: hehe
Eden Haiku: On this positive note, I will bow to you two sweet ladies and head to complete my 10,000 steps into the rain :)
Eliza Madrigal: <3 sounds lovely
Eliza Madrigal: don't slip!
Agatha Macbeth: THat's a lotta steps
Agatha Macbeth: The longest journey and all that
Eden Haiku: Still, about 3,000 steps to go...
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: ah, so not terrible
Eden Haiku: yes, been doing that for almost two years now Agatha. It feels great!ç
Agatha Macbeth: Will be good when there are 39
Eliza Madrigal: I've doubled my steps inspired by eden
Eden Haiku: About 7 or 8 kilometers: I don't walk very fast. Urban walk :) Mostly in parks.
Eliza Madrigal: but fall short of 10000 most of the time :(
Eden Haiku: Wonderful Eliza!
Agatha Macbeth: I tend to march unfortunately :P
Eliza Madrigal: :)))
Eden Haiku: Bye Eliza and Agatha, have a great week end!
Eliza Madrigal: marching steps should count more lol
Agatha Macbeth: Be well Edie good to see you again
Eliza Madrigal: I have bruschetta to make for sudden guests too, but saw you two lingering :)
--BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: I like to linger sometimes
Eliza Madrigal nods... me too
Agatha Macbeth: Is that a little brusca?
Eliza Madrigal: don't think so :)
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Agatha Macbeth: I'll look it up
Eliza Madrigal: am seeing a mobster...
Agatha Macbeth: OMG
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Agatha Macbeth: That looks nice
Eliza Madrigal: I'm using fresh basil and tomatoes from my little patio garden
Agatha Macbeth: Basil!
Eliza Madrigal: yes that's my drug of choice, you too?
Agatha Macbeth: 'Not now Sybil'
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Ah I see
Agatha Macbeth: I love that Italian bread
Agatha Macbeth: And your pink boots
Eliza Madrigal: using ciabatta....and balsamic glaze at the end...
Agatha Macbeth: Wonderful
Eliza Madrigal: ^.^ ty... I think they are stuck on me
Agatha Macbeth: Wish I was there
Eliza Madrigal: when I get my grant from the universe to start a retreat center it will have a cafe and I'll make you some :)
Agatha Macbeth: WHy thank you dear :)
Eliza Madrigal: :) bye for now
Agatha Macbeth: I will look forward to it
Agatha Macbeth: Be well