2019.01.29 07:00 - The Stone Boy

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Howdee, let's see how long we can stay logged in
Adams Rubble: I'll be OK now
Riddle Sideways: good
Adams Rubble: I hope you are
Riddle Sideways: backup laptop is rebooting now. this computer is acting sick
Adams Rubble: I hope Eden made it to Cuba OK
Adams Rubble: wow
Riddle Sideways: what was your issue?
Adams Rubble: I am not sure but I may have tried to tp too soon
Adams Rubble: was not fully rezzed I guess
Adams Rubble: WHO was impatient
Riddle Sideways: maybe
Riddle Sideways: ㋡

Riddle Sideways: yes, hope air flight was ok for Eden
Adams Rubble: have you ever read Thich's The Stone Boy?
Riddle Sideways: no
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Adams Rubble: I read it last night for the first time

Adams Rubble: It will be hard to capture. It is set in Vietnam during the war
Adams Rubble: A little girl's father is killed in the war
Adams Rubble: then she is blinded by Agent Orange
Adams Rubble: she plays the flute
Adams Rubble: the blindness makes her more aware of some things and she plays a mournful song on her flute
Adams Rubble: a boy shows up
Adams Rubble: he does not talk much and seems not to know how to many human things
Adams Rubble: she takes him home for lunch
   Adams Rubble: little one just came in
   Adams Rubble: she left
Adams Rubble: mother comes home and they eat together
   Riddle Sideways: awwww
Adams Rubble: the little girl name To asks if he can stay the night
Adams Rubble: he does and they become good firends
Adams Rubble: they go to the market
Adams Rubble: soldiers come, bombs dropped, terrible mayhem
Adams Rubble: the mother is missing
Adams Rubble: the little boy and girl look all over for their mother and have adventures
Adams Rubble: the boy says it is his mother too and when they find the mother the war will stop
           --BELL--
Adams Rubble: they end up taken--she is put into a school for blind and he keeps getting in trouble trying to make peace, He is exiled to the North where they try to get him to say false things about the south.
Adams Rubble: he sings and a bird (a friend of To) appears and leads him to To
Adams Rubble: They escape and he takes her up into the mountain
Adams Rubble: he says if she drinks the dew and rubs it on her eyes, it will cure her blindness
Adams Rubble: they climb and climb
Adams Rubble: finally reach the top
Adams Rubble: he waits for the dew to appear and cups his hand and lets her drink
Adams Rubble: rubs it on her eyes
Adams Rubble: they fall asleep
Adams Rubble: when she wakes up she can see but the boy is gone
Adams Rubble: she looks up at a rock and recognizes the boy who waves and then it seems to be just rock
Adams Rubble: she decides to stay on the mountain another day and there the story ends

Adams Rubble: I probably left out important things
Riddle Sideways: ahhhh, a nice bedtime story, thank you
Riddle Sideways: /likes stories
Adams Rubble: I read it last night and have been pondering the meaning
Riddle Sideways: oh Yes! it probably has deep meanings
Adams Rubble: it really shows how the interests of a few perpetuate war
Adams Rubble: tell lies
Riddle Sideways: and how the supposedly blind can see
Adams Rubble: it reminded me a bit of Mother Courage
Adams Rubble: wandering through the war seeing terrible cruelity
Adams Rubble: people trying to take advantage
Adams Rubble likes stories too :)

Riddle Sideways: wartime-like situations make the seeing of those taking advantage (and those not) much clearer
Riddle Sideways: dire situations make the senses sharper
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: war against nature as well as people
Riddle Sideways: in times of ease, complacency sets in
Riddle Sideways: or story writting happens
Adams Rubble: when we suffer we know what it means not to suffer
Riddle Sideways: and not the reverse
Adams Rubble: right
Riddle Sideways: later... after and in a time of quiet. he was able to write it down. starting with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
Riddle Sideways: wrote it down for others to read
Adams Rubble: as opposed to now :)
Adams Rubble: it is the worst of times and the worst of weather
Riddle Sideways: wrote it so 'possibly' we did not really have to be in it again
Adams Rubble: yes
           --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: how much can sitting in the comfy chair in front of the nice fire with cocoa, reading can WE get?
Adams Rubble: there is so much for us to read and watch that could help us understand why we should not be in it
Adams Rubble: it keeps us out of trouble :)
Adams Rubble: the trick is to get the others to read it

Riddle Sideways: yes. when young (long ago), read enough to think and decide that Vietnam was not a place to visit. Even though the expenses of getting there would be paid for.
Adams Rubble: oh my, yes
Riddle Sideways: read enough to think that had seen it
Riddle Sideways: sent a nice polite letter to them declining the offer

Riddle Sideways: nice
Riddle Sideways: is that an admiral's hat?
Adams Rubble: lady swashbuckler hat
Riddle Sideways: a 3 feathered schooner hat
Riddle Sideways: ah
Adams Rubble: it is unacceptable that our country caused so much misery in Vietnam, Southeast Asia and later in other places
Riddle Sideways: YES!
Riddle Sideways: remembers having stopped watching the Burns Vietnam series
Riddle Sideways: depressing, sad, angry
Adams Rubble nods
Riddle Sideways: "How can you Lie, when you know"
Adams Rubble: Ho wanted to be George Washington
Riddle Sideways: swore to never sing that song in public, but did last week
Adams Rubble: what song?
Riddle Sideways: Ohio
Riddle Sideways: Four dead in Ohio
Adams Rubble: ohhh

Riddle Sideways: What if they gave a War
Riddle Sideways: and nobody came

Riddle Sideways: or
Riddle Sideways: W A R
Riddle Sideways: what is it good for
Riddle Sideways: absolutely nothing
Riddle Sideways: say it again

Adams Rubble: oh it's one two three four, what are we fighting for?
Riddle Sideways: be the first one on your block, to have your boy come home in a box

Adams Rubble: well this morning we are certainly getting at the reasons we need to develop our love and compassion
Riddle Sideways: ha

Riddle Sideways: ya know, standing on this soapbox, allows one to see for miles and miles
           --BELL--

Adams Rubble: I am going to have to go, Riddle
Adams Rubble: thank you for our chat
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a peaceful day full of gratutude and love :)
Adams Rubble: gratitude
Riddle Sideways: thank you, for the time
Riddle Sideways: and story
Adams Rubble: thank you for hosting :)
Riddle Sideways: and need for gratutude, love and compassion reminders

Adams Rubble: I have a dentist appoint at 6 on Thursday. I may be a little late to the session
Riddle Sideways: ok
Adams Rubble: should be here by 7:15
Riddle Sideways: good luck
Adams Rubble: this appt had been moved 4 times :)

Riddle Sideways: and have good play today
Adams Rubble: I think of Pema when i watch her play so involved
Adams Rubble: the todler playing
Adams Rubble: toddler
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Adams Rubble: that could be miscontrued :)
Adams Rubble: Pema used to talk about laying like a child :)
Adams Rubble: playing
Adams Rubble slaps offending finger
Adams Rubble: bye for now :)
Riddle Sideways: by All
Riddle Sideways: deep breathe