2019.04.29 07:00 - Buddhist Cows

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

Riddle, Eden and Adams

 

Journeys to the East and to the West

 

Riddle Sideways: Morning, this is a nice place to sit

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)

Adams Rubble: the landscape this way is a metaphor for emptiness

Riddle Sideways: oh, that is one way of thinking of it

Adams Rubble: PaB listener is missing Eden this morning

Riddle Sideways: keeps asking out for an Eden

Riddle Sideways: thinking of a doggie staring out the window waiting for master to come home

Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble: here is Eden :)

Riddle Sideways: use to be wild grasses out in that field

Eden Haiku: Hi Adams and Riddle, sorry for my tardiness. Had to reboot :)

Riddle Sideways: reboot Mondays, Happen ㋡

Adams Rubble: np Eden we were thinking about doggies looking out the window waiting for masters to come home while the landscape was empty

Eden Haiku: How were your journeys East and West?

Eden Haiku: Cute little puppies :)))

Adams Rubble: Riddle introduced me to a new artist while i was out of town

Eden Haiku: Oh!

Adams Rubble: we talked about her in my Thursday session

Riddle Sideways: got a bit use to Eastern time and now easier to get up early

Riddle Sideways: plus, daylight is earlier

Riddle Sideways: now

Adams Rubble: I still have what seems to be a cold from my trip and I haven't adjusted back to East Coast time

Riddle Sideways: Introduced and mentioned Hilma Af Klint to a couple others also

Eden Haiku: Jet lag seems always easier when you come from further east, I noticed that

Riddle Sideways: told San, who already knew and loved Af Klint's work

Eden Haiku: Will read your Thursday session :)

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: sat next to a teen on plane who was blowing nose every 4.5 minutes

Adams Rubble: I just learned about an early French Woman filmaker who also was forgotten by history Alice Guy-Blaché

Riddle Sideways: 2 days later had sore throat

Eden Haiku: Never heard of her :(

Eden Haiku: Sorry Riddle...

Adams Rubble: if people could only learn to share love like they do germs

Eden Haiku: smiles

 

—BELL—

 

Instead off deep quiet pause

 

Riddle Sideways: thank you,

Riddle Sideways: read about Alice instead of deep quiet pause :(

Riddle Sideways: not sure what Narrative Fiction is

Eden Haiku: Thought about the floods instead of deep quiet pause :(

Adams Rubble: took the hard sand out of my eyes instead of deep quiet pause :(

Eden Haiku: That explains our quietness. Bell didn't have to shhh us :)

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku: Rivers and lakes around Montreal are overflowing with melted snow and lots of rain. flooding suburban towns...5000 people are stranded, out of their homes.

Adams Rubble: ohhh. We did not hear about that down here :(

Riddle Sideways: had not heard

Riddle Sideways: either

Adams Rubble: weather is getting so extreme everywhere

Eden Haiku: I'm your news channel from up North :)

Eden Haiku: Yes,extreme weather. Experts call the flooding "millenial" (once chance on 1000 to get it) and it's the second one in two years...

Adams Rubble: yes Eden

Adams Rubble is not looking forward to the once in a millenium storms

Eden Haiku: Greta Thunberg wrote on Twitter today :"activism works/then act"

Riddle Sideways: yes, there are becoming more stories from around the world of activism being effective

Eden Haiku: Reached out to family members who live in the area. They are safe but they have friends who lost their homes...

Adams Rubble: :(

Eden Haiku: Some people had to leave very quickly when a dam broke and had to leave their pets

Riddle Sideways: :(

Eden Haiku: Canada just bought more oil from Saudi Arabia...

Riddle Sideways: is that on Mr. T's no buy list?

Eden Haiku: Feeling powerless andwondering what to do in order to "act"

Eden Haiku: Mr T., is pretending a lot of things. Saying one thing, doing something else.

 

--BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: He refused asylum to Puigdemont, the catalan leader....

Eden Haiku: But gave 10 millions dollars to an ex- terrorist from Guantanamo...

Riddle Sideways: he has found 'Executive Privilege' and is going to use that all over

Eden Haiku: Yes :(

Riddle Sideways:feeling old and feeling proud (at the same time) of the young generations for getting up and out to action

Eden Haiku: Any good news?

Eden Haiku: Ah yes, the young generations are out to action, that's nice :)

Riddle Sideways: Greta and Parkland have lit fires under a generation

Eden Haiku: Didn't hear from Gonzalez for a while, is she still active for gun control?

 

Rebooting and breaking buds

 

Onigokko!

Eden Haiku: onigokko

Riddle Sideways: not finding anything recent

Riddle Sideways: thank you

Eden Haiku: stop

Eden Haiku: onigokko

Eden Haiku: Shaking it off :)

Eden Haiku: Admiring Adams beautiful skirt

Eden Haiku: stop

Eden Haiku: Ah! A fresh start.Rebooting our conversation :)

Eden Haiku: Silent and thoughtful we are :)

Adams Rubble wakes up and rubs eyes

Eden Haiku: Still jet lagged Adams?

Adams Rubble: yes and have cold

Eden Haiku: Ah yes, and the cold...

Eden Haiku: Sorry for that…

 

--BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: Spent the pause sipping my coffee

Eden Haiku: Tasting it

Eden Haiku: Enjoying it

Eden Haiku: Contemplating the breaking red buds

Riddle Sideways: just heard today's newspaper hit driveway. thinking to not open it

Eden Haiku: In the maple tree

Adams Rubble looks at newspaper in the maple tree

Riddle Sideways: oh, the colors back East were so beautiful

Eden Haiku: :))

Adams Rubble: yes love the colors this time of year

Riddle Sideways: bushes and trees and flowers

Eden Haiku: Are the trees in bloom already where you were Riddle?

Riddle Sideways: not much

Riddle Sideways:or not as much as saw back there

Adams Rubble: our dogwoods and red bud and magnolias and fruit trees are vainly showing off their colors

Eden Haiku: Here it's only tiny buds, still, some hope of a Spring :)

Riddle Sideways: the Magnolia has like 4 blossoms

Eden Haiku: Magnolias are just buds still...

Riddle Sideways: well the Lavender at the end of driveway is all in bloom

Eden Haiku: At last, all the snow has melted

Adams Rubble: the little ones were in full bloom when on the west coast

Riddle Sideways: the meadow is starting to show Lupine

Eden Haiku: oh, lavender smells so divine Riddle!

Adams Rubble: yes lavender is wonderful

Riddle Sideways: yes, brush hand over it when down there to get paper and it smells so nice

Eden Haiku: It's a fragrance so full of grace isn'it? Freshness and delicateness (no such a word I'm afraid but you know what I mean :)

Riddle Sideways: yes

Eden Haiku: Sang an old French song, a folk song from the Middle Ages it seems that I remember from childhood. It is about lovers sleeping in a bed fragrant with lavender :)

Riddle Sideways: there is one field in the Salinas Valley that we drive by that has Lavender as far as can see

Eden Haiku: OH!

Eden Haiku: that must be exhilarating!

Eden Haiku: remembers spending two summer months in the Drome Valley in France and getting dizzy on the lavender smells on each and every field :)

Eden Haiku: Walking on little roads surrounded by the rolling hills of Pre-Alps

Riddle Sideways: not sure what the other flower areas are. but there are 3 other fields of solid red, yellow and white

Eden Haiku: wow! California is such a paradise!

Riddle Sideways: Windows background and/or boot screen used to be of those French Lavender fields/hills

Eden Haiku: Virtual lavender smell good as well :)

Riddle Sideways: the next valley over is the Salinas Valley and feeds much of the world all year

Eden Haiku: Little tender green leaves are showing up on weeping willows :)

Riddle Sideways: so neat to drive it

Riddle Sideways: each half mile it changes to a different crop

Eden Haiku: Many of our greens and vegetables and fruits are from California :)

Riddle Sideways: who eats all those Brussel Sprouts

Eden Haiku: We can buy local veggies and fruits only during the summer months

Riddle Sideways: and we have Strawberries in February

 

—BELL—

 

Broccoli and Cauliflower fields

 

Eden Haiku: smiles at Riddle's dislike. Same here :) [Brussels sprouts]

Riddle Sideways: no no actually like Brussel Sprouts, but less then one plant per year

Riddle Sideways: the shortcut to go to the Bay area and airports goes through theBroccoli and Cauliflower fields area

Adams Rubble: that should be a song

Riddle Sideways: probably was, but nobody bought it

Eden Haiku: Saw a movie shot in Iqaluit, in the Nunavut, far north territory where Inuits live. The son had killed a seal and proudly brings it home. They cut it on the floor and all the family eats the raw meat, even the toddler.

Eden Haiku: Without the California Broccoli and Cauliflower fields, we would be reduced to eat meat...hard on vegans :))

Eden Haiku: Especially raw meat...

Riddle Sideways: very hard to digest

Adams Rubble: there are advantages to being an omnivore

Eden Haiku: There are....

Eden Haiku: But I was a vegetarian at birth, so...

Eden Haiku: Kind of :)

Adams Rubble: wow, at birth?

Eden Haiku: I'm sure my mom fed me sausages and such horrid meat when I was young...

Eden Haiku: As soon as I could, I refused meat:)

Adams Rubble grew up in the land of meat and potatoes

Eden Haiku: Here too, meat and potatoes...But I ate only the potatoes :)

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: yep, grew up in that land of meat and potatoes and snow.Moved away about 19

 

Living and Loving Cows

 

Eden Haiku: I love cows though. Loving cows with languid eyes :)

Eden Haiku: "Living" cows

Eden Haiku: Living and loving cows

Adams Rubble: cows are beautiful animals

Riddle Sideways: grew up with stupid cows. like goats though

Adams Rubble: bulls are mean though

Eden Haiku: Stupid cows? No, they are just cooler than us :)

Adams Rubble:cows are laid back like Buddhists

Eden Haiku: My uncle had a dairy farm and I used to feed the cows in the stable

Adams Rubble: laid back

Eden Haiku: Buddisht cows :)))

Adams Rubble: Bulls are like Mara

Riddle Sideways:worked dairy farms. up at 5am working is Not the teenage way

Adams Rubble: nooo

Eden Haiku: Said that already, but one of my best memories of India is this ceremony honoring cows and feeding them sesame cakes :)

Adams Rubble: getting up at 5 am can make a teenage dislike cows

Eden Haiku: Yeah, that kind of work must have been hard Riddle. Mine was only an occasional week end thing for a city girl :)

Adams Rubble: my mother was very happy to escape the farm

Adams Rubble: wanted no part of it

Eden Haiku: My dad also. His father was a farmer.

 

—BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: My granddad is the one who planted the maple tree I'm contemplating in the window right now, all bare except for red buds :)

Riddle Sideways: Just saw cows from a different view

Adams Rubble: my grandfather could not stand the city--farming was his joy

Adams Rubble: nice eden :)

Adams Rubble: I must go. I am working on a project

Adams Rubble: I hope you both have a wonderful day

Eden Haiku: Bye Adams,. Hope the cold goes away swiftly. Take care :)

Riddle Sideways: oh! just noticed that the company that sells Lupin/Lupine seeds is "Eden Brothers"

Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble waves

Eden Haiku: Nice name fore a company :)

Riddle Sideways: hope you have the most fun project

Adams Rubble: oh eden--did you claim log?

Eden Haiku: Forgot, tks!

Adams Rubble: I had claimed it to stop listener reminders

Adams Rubble: bye for now

Riddle Sideways: bye for now

Eden Haiku: Thank you

Eden Haiku: Any plans for today Riddle, beyond recycling?

Riddle Sideways: so maybe plans, huge plans, RL is yelling them out :))

Riddle Sideways: just reminded this is the 5th Monday of a month so an extra feed homeless evening

Eden Haiku: Me too :) Did nothing much about these during the week end. So now they are screaming too...

Eden Haiku: So wonderful you do volunteering. That is something I should start doing...

Eden Haiku: You and Adams are such an inspiration about that kind of activism :)

Riddle Sideways: was not able to do much volunteering during working years

Riddle Sideways: having to pay it back

Eden Haiku: Always wanted to volunteer for children. Never did...

Eden Haiku: You have to make a year round commitment, which is hard for me...

Riddle Sideways: volunteered yesterday at the Marathon here

Eden Haiku: Wow, and today again, tonite?

Riddle Sideways: stand and point which way the runners-walkers should go

Riddle Sideways: and cheer them on

Eden Haiku: That's very needed :)

Eden Haiku: And it feeds your own soul too :)

Riddle Sideways: the downhill at 3 mile point people were all smiles

Eden Haiku: Must have been wonderful to see :)

Riddle Sideways: the coming back uphill 6 mile point people were not so smily

Eden Haiku: :)

Riddle Sideways: this was the 12K race part of the weekend

Riddle Sideways: in a most lovely park here

Riddle Sideways: so actually getting up and out by 5 was a good start to a Sunday

Eden Haiku: Walking my 10k steps by a cold river and gusts of wind on Saturday here, and Sunday in the park, less windy and sunny at last ;)

Riddle Sideways: should go.One RL voice is listing off the tasks

Eden Haiku: You prefer getting up for runners than for cows or you are not a teenager anymore? Have a great day Riddle !

Riddle Sideways: thanks for the day

Eden Haiku: Thank you :))