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

Adams Rubble: Good Morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Riddle Sideways: standard greeting
Riddle Sideways: Merry Christmas Eve to you and your's
Adams Rubble: the year is swiftly disappearing
Adams Rubble: Thank you
Adams Rubble: it is a strange time this year
Riddle Sideways: how do people think turning the page on a calendar makes everything all better?
Riddle Sideways: yes, strange time
Riddle Sideways: very dark
Adams Rubble: not just turning the page Riddle. It is a whole new calendar :)
Riddle Sideways: Hoping for better pictures on this next calendar
Adams Rubble: thoi is a topic for next week (giggles)
Adams Rubble: this
Riddle Sideways: ok
Riddle Sideways: putting on hold
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: did you get your Presidential Pardon?
Riddle Sideways: seems everybody is getting one
Adams Rubble: hehe. I would not be in that group
Adams Rubble: only crooks, murderers and sycophants
Riddle Sideways: "All the President's Men" are pardoned of the stuff he had them do ㋡
Adams Rubble: sigh
Riddle Sideways: yes, Sigh
Riddle Sideways: Here's to hoping we soon don't need to talk about things like this
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: He is going to get worse
Adams Rubble: need to avoid the news
Riddle Sideways: do we dare look at any overnight News?
Adams Rubble: we are drawn to it like ants to molasses
Adams Rubble: BTW, that Christmas tree was made by Moon
Riddle Sideways: oh wow
Riddle Sideways: did not know that
Adams Rubble: he was generous with his creations
Riddle Sideways: was fun to see Moon again at the party. Hmmm, this year? last year?
Adams Rubble: I have not see him in a long time
Adams Rubble: I went to one of his mediatations sometime in the past few years
Adams Rubble: meditations
Adams Rubble: :)
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: many times see some olde time friends are online, but not here
Adams Rubble: yes, I see them too
Adams Rubble: sigh
Riddle Sideways: ha, wrote a text to a meditation teacher that we would not make it to the zoom yesterday
Riddle Sideways: got the reply that we were the 6th such message
Riddle Sideways: so was cancelling
Riddle Sideways: not sure why that was just blurted out ㋡
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: It got me thinking about zoom meetings
Adams Rubble: we have various onlime ways to socialize
Adams Rubble: including social media where many spend their time compaining
Adams Rubble: one person complains about her husband
Riddle Sideways: and/or bragging
Adams Rubble: yes bragging about husbands better than complaining about hiusbands
Riddle Sideways: ha ㋡
Adams Rubble: I guess the bragging and complaining are a sign of MEism
Adams Rubble: focused on me
Riddle Sideways: Egotism ?
Adams Rubble: interesting
Adams Rubble: In a strict sense, yes
Adams Rubble: but we think of egotism as lording over others
Riddle Sideways: yep
Adams Rubble: many of the people focused on themselves lack confidence and think they are failures
Riddle Sideways: yet, it could mean complaining better than others
Adams Rubble: hee about the complaining contest
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: reminded of an old Smothers Bros show skit
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: some guest star that was also a second to the main star
Riddle Sideways: and they were having a my life is worse than your's contest
Riddle Sideways: "Well mom always loved my brother better"
Riddle Sideways: we were so poor, I couldn't have a dog, so mom gave me an ant
Adams Rubble waiting to see if there is more
Riddle Sideways: nope, no more
Riddle Sideways: the pause took it
Adams Rubble: I was thinking of the many people sitting home alone these days with the computer their main contact with the world
Adams Rubble: how hard it must be for them to see themselves as part of the larger humanity
Riddle Sideways: hmmm
Adams Rubble: does social media reinforce the me-ness
Riddle Sideways: maybe and maybe not
Adams Rubble: so many hugs not given these days
Riddle Sideways: was on a thing named a telephone yesterday and the complaining was there too
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: yes different media but the situation may be similar
Riddle Sideways: yet was also standing at the end of the driveway chatting with the neighbor
Riddle Sideways: and there seemed to not be any complaining
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: reminiscing of times lived in snow areas
Riddle Sideways: and that we weren't now
Adams Rubble: snow is still piled up here
Riddle Sideways: walking to school 12 miles in the snow
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: up hill, both ways
Adams Rubble: on crutches
Riddle Sideways: "And we were glad to do it"
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: couldn;'t wait to get to those algebra problems
Riddle Sideways: and diagraming sentences
Adams Rubble: would you believe I never diagrammed a sentence?
Riddle Sideways: wha????
Riddle Sideways: you be that young?
Adams Rubble: not part of our curriculum
Adams Rubble: I learned my grammar in Latin class :)
Riddle Sideways: oh dear
Riddle Sideways: now theres a Dead language
Riddle Sideways: it built character
Adams Rubble: I was raised in Phuladelphia. "Yo Andrea, you want to get married or something?"
Riddle Sideways: think on how much Character you got out of that
--BELL--
Adams Rubble used her best Sylvester Sallone voice
Riddle Sideways: yep ㋡ heard it
Adams Rubble: Stallone
Riddle Sideways: a unique accent
Adams Rubble: yes, very very unique
Riddle Sideways: just had to look up "Philadelphia Story". Had forgotten the story line
Adams Rubble: we are very good at finding the slides at the sides of our topics :)
Riddle Sideways: oh yes
Riddle Sideways: brb
Riddle Sideways: back. Chaos averted
Adams Rubble: yaaay
Riddle Sideways: A Shout rang out from the kitchen
Riddle Sideways: It was the worst of calamities, it was the best of calamities
Riddle Sideways: what was the topic anyway?
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: all the slides on the sides have been covered
Riddle Sideways: but what is fenced in
Adams Rubble: I have been dancing around a subject brought up in my blog this morning that you prorbably have no9t seen
Adams Rubble: I have not done very well bringing it to the open
Riddle Sideways: whoops, not read the latest
Adams Rubble: of course, it is early there
Adams Rubble: actually I never got to the point in my blog either
Adams Rubble: :)
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: read it now, sorry to take the rime
Riddle Sideways: time
Adams Rubble: of course
Riddle Sideways: 2 great paragraphs
Riddle Sideways: drawn to wondering if the 2 are connected? probably not
Riddle Sideways: does not sound like social media complaining
Adams Rubble: I think they are
Adams Rubble: the whole world is seen through our consciousness
Riddle Sideways: which has built a construct of so much bigger
Adams Rubble: need to untrain our consciousness so that it includes all others
Adams Rubble: we are taught to be individuals in our early years
Riddle Sideways: and taught the benefits of the group
Riddle Sideways: The Wonders of it All
Riddle Sideways: It is a Wonderful Life
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: more Jimmy Stewart movies
Riddle Sideways: Tis the Season
Riddle Sideways: to think on the wonders, the past, the quiet
Adams Rubble: everytime a bell rings an angel gets its wings
Adams Rubble doesn;t know why I wrote that
Riddle Sideways: ha ㋡
Riddle Sideways: trying to think of that old poem, a popular poster back then. Desserata "You are It, you have a right to be here"
Adams Rubble: that sounds like a good way to end the session
Riddle Sideways: Desiderata
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a very good weekend. Thank you for this session today
Riddle Sideways: and not that parody
Riddle Sideways: and Merry Holidays one and all
Riddle Sideways: thank you
Riddle Sideways: by All
Adams Rubble: bye Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: from all my selves. hehe