2018.05.23 19:00 - 99 days

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

stevenaia Michinaga: hello storm
Storm Nordwind: Hello Steve
stevenaia Michinaga: I was about to edit and post my 99 day sketch
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stevenaia Michinaga: was hoping to do it in 99 seconds
Storm Nordwind: Please do. I can just be idle. I'm fairly good at it and quite like it. :)
stevenaia Michinaga: thx
stevenaia Michinaga: done :)
Storm Nordwind: Well done :)
Storm Nordwind: Oh, and very nice. :)
stevenaia Michinaga: I try t keep them quick, can't say I've ever seem my consistent work
Storm Nordwind: Do you find the regularity of doing it for the 99 day project useful?
stevenaia Michinaga: it was more of trying without expectations to see what emerges, so in that regard, it is a success
Storm Nordwind nods
stevenaia Michinaga: and I am filling a very nice notebook working with a very nice pen
Storm Nordwind: Yes, sometimes the act of throwing yourself in non-judgmentally brings unexpected gems.
Storm Nordwind: Working with good tools can be a joy in itself :)
stevenaia Michinaga: I was hoping for something less tonal and more minimal, but some things you just can't direct
Storm Nordwind: In general, or for just this one?
stevenaia Michinaga: all
stevenaia Michinaga: (in general), perhaps another 99 will redirect my result
Storm Nordwind: Well I've enjoyed them!
stevenaia Michinaga: thank you, I am amazed how they differ from the photo, which I take after
Storm Nordwind: But as you say, that's what can happen when trying without expectations
Storm Nordwind: I am doing an kind of equivalent thing outside the 99 day project...
stevenaia Michinaga: oh?
Storm Nordwind: My old school friend, whom I got back together with online after 50 years, and who now lives in Canada - we correspond back and forth each day using the chat feature of a game called Words With Friends...
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Storm Nordwind: And we've elected to write only in verse! We must chat by writing a poem about the word we have just played (it's like Scrabble).
Storm Nordwind: You start out each time not knowing where it will go, but you just have the confidence you'll be able to resolve it when you get to the end.
stevenaia Michinaga: wow, I've played WWF, bit am not very good at it
Storm Nordwind: It's in its second incarnation now. WWF2
Storm Nordwind: Aph and I also play it.
Storm Nordwind: Though without the verse!
Storm Nordwind: The point being though, you start to write the verse each time. It could be 2 lines or 20. It's not planned, but it's always fun. And somehow there's meter and rhyme. (sorta. ish;)
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, we used to do PaB poetry with groups here at some sessions like that
stevenaia Michinaga: I found this fountain pen made from Carbon fiber, made writing and sketching somehow enjoyable
Storm Nordwind: That sounds somehow sumptuously delicious. :)
Storm Nordwind: I was given a hand-carved ballpoint in December, with musical symbols on it and guitar neck clip. It's a little heavy to use, but it's in front of me now and I'm using it.
stevenaia Michinaga: tools can be very encouraging
Storm Nordwind: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: a pen, a notebook, ink, it's like a party in your hand
Storm Nordwind: :))
Storm Nordwind: "What do you give the man who has everything?" Apparently, you give him a pen. So I really should tell them I don't have everything. ;)
stevenaia Michinaga: there is also the famous Bar Mitzvah line, "Today I am a Fountain Pen"
Storm Nordwind: I've never heard of that. Should I look it up?
stevenaia Michinaga: google it
stevenaia Michinaga: I just did and was amazed
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Storm Nordwind: I have a 3 minute video by Sam Levenson to listen to, it seems
stevenaia Michinaga: link?
Storm Nordwind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asjpn94ZLi0
stevenaia Michinaga: good luck with the Yiddish
Storm Nordwind chuckles
stevenaia Michinaga: obviously... you had to be there
Storm Nordwind: So it seems
Storm Nordwind: Well you've posted your sketch, I should post my day's reading report too.
stevenaia Michinaga: lol, no pressure
Storm Nordwind: But... but... if I don't post it... I'll break the habit and it will all over,
stevenaia Michinaga: or, you'll have to start all over again
Storm Nordwind: Argh!!!
Storm Nordwind: Better get started on it then
Storm Nordwind: The clock is ticking
stevenaia Michinaga: I've missed days it comes back the next time you post
stevenaia Michinaga: you have several more hours than I
Storm Nordwind: True
Storm Nordwind: And for our friend Zen it is already tomorrow
stevenaia Michinaga: post your WWF prose
Storm Nordwind: Well...
Storm Nordwind: funny you should say that....
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
Storm Nordwind: The central lines of the Ballad of Za that I read at the anniversary poetry recital came from WWF poem I wrote
Storm Nordwind: It was a long poem I read - 900 words I think - but those 12 lines in the middle, which were the central theme anyway, I'd written before.
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Storm Nordwind: So I will bid you adieu, and get to work... but not in verse :)
stevenaia Michinaga: :), night Storm
Storm Nordwind: Goodnight my friend :)