2019.12.12 07:00 - Musing on the Fragility of Life

    The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

     

    Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
    Riddle Sideways: Greetings Adams
    Riddle Sideways: that is a nice outfit. Kimono or Gi?
    Adams Rubble: things are back to nromal it seems
    Adams Rubble: just a generic meditation robe
    Riddle Sideways: mostly back to what passes as almost normal
    Adams Rubble: we are alive
    Riddle Sideways: remember shopping all over for a long time and not finding ones like that
    Riddle Sideways: that avi wear the hakama for a year or more
    Adams Rubble: I have two but they are not transferable
    Adams Rubble: I have been watching the Netflix series called the crown
    Riddle Sideways: was not asking for the shirt off your back ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: was saying it looks nice
    Adams Rubble: :) thank you Riddle
    Adams Rubble: in one of the later episodes there is a recounting of a disaster in a Welsh mining town
    Adams Rubble: the coal company piled up debris on top of a mountain over top of a natural spring
    Adams Rubble: it rained for three days in october 1966
    Adams Rubble: and the debris came down the mountain in a landslide and buried a Junior School kkilling 116 children
    Riddle Sideways: oh dear
    Adams Rubble: two long troughs were dug at the cemetery and all the little coffins laid side by side
    Adams Rubble: there was a scene in the movie and there is a clip of all the townspeople lined up along side the troughs singing a hymn
    Adams Rubble: it is very moving and reminder of how fragile our lives are
    Adams Rubble: I have been musing of that for the past 24 hours
    Adams Rubble: must remember to hug our loved ones
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Adams Rubble: this is the link to the actual film clip of the funeral
    Adams Rubble: https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA6RW5Q4G3MPQZNKD2KBXYQ6FN6-RTV
    Adams Rubble: it is two minutes
    Adams Rubble: the hymn is Jesus, Lover of My Soul
    Riddle Sideways: thank you
    Adams Rubble: life is fragile and precious
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: Musing
    Riddle Sideways: making dinner later last night and listening to "This American Life"
    Riddle Sideways: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/689/digging-up-the-bones
    Riddle Sideways: a long piece
    Adams Rubble: maybe you would summarize
    Riddle Sideways: the essence is that Greece has so little land that it can't waste it on cemetries
    Riddle Sideways: they have run out of room to bury people
    Riddle Sideways: so, they dug them out and let newer ones have the space
    Adams Rubble: like the old monasteries
    Riddle Sideways: dig them up
    Riddle Sideways: is that what they did in those little plots next to the monasteries?
    Riddle Sideways: to fit them all in
    Adams Rubble: hey dug up the bones and sorted them--all the skull together, etc
    Riddle Sideways: Even the famous one under the huge tombstones? Sir Ralph or Mozart
    Adams Rubble: I guess I am making this sound more universal than it was.
    Adams Rubble: places like Mount Athos
    Adams Rubble: Mount Sinai
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: The area grew up in has many sacred burial grounds
    Riddle Sideways: and there were many modern reasons to build a highway there or a dam that has the lake behind it back up
    Riddle Sideways: big issue on trying to move those graves
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Adams Rubble: big cities too
    Adams Rubble: people who were supposed to move bodies did not and then they are discovered late when excavating for newer construction
    Adams Rubble: the bodies not the people who were spposed to move them :)
    Adams Rubble: one of my acestors farms is under a lake and it is a gated community and I could not even visit the lake
    Riddle Sideways: Jerusalem has that problem on every remodel
    Adams Rubble: oh yes
    Adams Rubble: layers of city
    Adams Rubble: I don;t think I want a Hamlet seeing my bones and saying alas, poor Rubble, I knew her well
    Riddle Sideways: more musing
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: OR getting use out of bones that one is not using anymore
    Adams Rubble: if one believes in reincarnation, one has left lots of bones over the lifetimes
    Riddle Sideways: can't find a good link to another story heard last night.
    Riddle Sideways: Of the guy looking for Troy
    Adams Rubble: you posted that link
    Adams Rubble: Shleeman
    Adams Rubble: he destroyed lots of archaeological evidence on the way
    Riddle Sideways: don't remember posting a link
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: check 07:19
    Riddle Sideways: oh! it was in the same show
    Riddle Sideways: the prolog
    Riddle Sideways: The Family plot was the point of the link
    Riddle Sideways: a wonderful cheery topic today
    Riddle Sideways: Well, the part about Hug you Loved Ones is very good
    Adams Rubble: we are alive
    Adams Rubble: we have another day to experience the world around us
    Adams Rubble: all the good and the bad
    Riddle Sideways: it will be a busy day
    Adams Rubble: lots to experience?
    Adams Rubble: many to love
    Riddle Sideways: counting blessings
    Adams Rubble: one by one
    Adams Rubble: 100 things to be grateful for :)
    Adams Rubble: spend the day determinings what they are :)
    Riddle Sideways: yes, busy day is mostly planned out, but has all that room to be grateful
    Adams Rubble: I hope you have a very good day and weekend :)
    Riddle Sideways: and Thank you
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: thank you for being here :)
    Adams Rubble: bye for now

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