2011.06.05 19:00 - Sightings

The Guardian for this meeting was Calvino Rabeni. The comments are by Calvino Rabeni.

Lucinda Lavender: hi...
Calvino Rabeni: Hi Cinda
Calvino Rabeni: Have you seen anything unusual lately?
Lucinda Lavender: mainly nyc:)
Lucinda Lavender: that is where I am now
Calvino Rabeni: must be some impressions there
Lucinda Lavender: yes!...keep thinking I see famous people
Lucinda Lavender: Joni Mitchell and Leonard cohen:)
Calvino Rabeni: ah I was going to propose Alan Alda
Lucinda Lavender: Joni was in this mornings dream:)
Calvino Rabeni: Good eve, Samuo
oO0Oo Resident: Cal.. Lucinda :)
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Samuo
oO0Oo Resident: gtsy
Lucinda Lavender: gtsytoo
oO0Oo Resident: New York :)
Lucinda Lavender: yup:)
Lucinda Lavender: so very exciting
Lucinda Lavender: what is up with the two of you?
Lucinda Lavender: what is new I mean
oO0Oo Resident looks at Cal and grins
oO0Oo Resident: I was just walking on Oak Tree Common
oO0Oo Resident: thinking about a poem to write
Lucinda Lavender: ah...nice
Lucinda Lavender: cal?
Calvino Rabeni: sensing a partly formed poem swirling around in the air
Lucinda Lavender: oops...sorry
Lucinda Lavender: nodding...same
Lucinda Lavender: in the next room...
Lucinda Lavender: there is pondering
oO0Oo Resident: lol.... well I noticed myself being sort of out of the poetic groove... while walking.. then saw an acorn under that beautiful oak
oO0Oo Resident: maybe something will come of it...
Lucinda Lavender: acorns..into mighty oaks grow
Calvino Rabeni: I find long walks good times for musing those half formed notions
Lucinda Lavender: hi Susan:)
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Lucinda Lavender: yes...walking and thinking...
Lucinda Lavender: While walking today...learning to cross the streets...amidst so many other walkers....
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: hi Paradise:)
Calvino Rabeni: Hi Paradise and Susan :)
iwandertoo Resident: waves
oO0Oo Resident: hi paradise :) .. hi Susan :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles and waves hiya lucinda .. cal .. susan O
Lucinda Lavender: HI Steve:)
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Steve:)
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Paradise Tennant: hiya stev :)
oO0Oo Resident: Stevenaia :)
stevenaia Michinaga: greetings all
Calvino Rabeni: Greetings Stevenaia
oO0Oo Resident: SSL :) hiya
Paradise Tennant: hiya sophia :) gtsy
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi everyone :))
iwandertoo Resident: hi SSL
Lucinda Lavender: HI SSL:)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi SSL
Lucinda Lavender: Luci is pretty excited to be here...since she has not been online much:)
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Lucinda Lavender: just wanted to say hello
SophiaSharon Larnia: :) Luci
SophiaSharon Larnia: so your home now?
Lucinda Lavender: not yet...still nyc
SophiaSharon Larnia: :) nice
Paradise Tennant: smiles and listens :)
Lucinda Lavender: visiting the ace hardware daily
Paradise Tennant: how has the trip been
Paradise Tennant: lol
Lucinda Lavender: very amazing
Lucinda Lavender: one more week to untangle the heirogliphs at the met
SophiaSharon Larnia: haha
Lucinda Lavender: there are some very old things there...hope to explore some each day
SophiaSharon Larnia: i hope you get a chance too, and at least the weather is nice for you
Lucinda Lavender: yes the heat has lifted
Paradise Tennant: yes it would be a wonderful place to spend a couple of weeks really :) just spending time with each piece of art each piece of history :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Lucinda Lavender: I have yet to get to the asian area .
Lucinda Lavender: take a sublet...and stay for some time...
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Druth
iwandertoo Resident: waves
druth Vlodovic: hi
Paradise Tennant: hiya druth :) gtsy :)
oO0Oo Resident: hi Druth! :)
Lucinda Lavender: hi druth:)
Lucinda Lavender: luci will listen ...thinks she is a chatterbox:)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Druth
Paradise Tennant: smiles really enjoying the chat it is vicarious travel :)
Lucinda Lavender: :)...
Lucinda Lavender: 68 steps up...with 5 floors in 95 degree weather was our move
Paradise Tennant: ouch
Lucinda Lavender: one person lost 4 and a half pounds
SophiaSharon Larnia: whoa
Paradise Tennant: been there did that could not walk the next day
SophiaSharon Larnia: i bet, shin splints ;/
Lucinda Lavender: just glad it is done:)
iwandertoo Resident: (used to cut school to go to the Met)
Lucinda Lavender: really Susan?
iwandertoo Resident: yes, really
Lucinda Lavender: wow...
iwandertoo Resident: and cleaned a whole lot of test tubes for it
iwandertoo Resident: shakes head
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Lucinda Lavender: what were your favorite parts?
Paradise Tennant: smiels I suspect the met connects the world
iwandertoo Resident: the fragonards...not sure why
Paradise Tennant: everyone gets there at some point llike rome use to be :)
Lucinda Lavender: what is a fragonard?
iwandertoo Resident: an artist
iwandertoo Resident: "the kiss"
iwandertoo Resident: he was a bit...risque for his time (perhaps this stood out in the room)
--BELL--

iwandertoo Resident: you can hear each footfall, each shuffle when walking the marble in the Met. It's very different during the week than on weekends.
Calvino Rabeni: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/resources/frag_stol.jpg
Lucinda Lavender: will go tomorrow and see/hear...
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Lucinda Lavender: sweet Cal
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Lucinda Lavender: love the dress and its fabric
iwandertoo Resident: its part of a series
iwandertoo Resident: (ty Cal)
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.googleartproject.com/museums/met
SophiaSharon Larnia: googling fragonard, alot of his painting seem to have, I don't know what the word for it is, back lighting, darker in front, beautiful
stevenaia Michinaga: go w/o going
SophiaSharon Larnia: thanks cal and steve
Calvino Rabeni: "Useless Resistance" http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/anc_frag_useless.html
Paradise Tennant: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/anc_frag_stol.html
stevenaia Michinaga: Lucinda, Museum is closed on Mondays
Lucinda Lavender: thanks stevenaia
Lucinda Lavender: good to know
Lucinda Lavender: looks like a fun pillow fight...
SophiaSharon Larnia: http://en.wahooart.com/a55a04/w.nsf/Opra/BRUE-7YMHBF
SophiaSharon Larnia: i smell the fabric in this one lol
oO0Oo Resident can hear the folds in her dress... richly moving
Paradise Tennant: smiles they really knew how to make dresses back then :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Calvino Rabeni: The transparent striped fabric is amazing
iwandertoo Resident: the detail in vermeers are amazing as well...the marble
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi observerm
Paradise Tennant: hello obesrverm :) nice to see you ..would you like to sit with us :) tonight :)
stevenaia Michinaga: and the crowd in the room beyond
observerm Resident waves
iwandertoo Resident: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes steve
Paradise Tennant: we are looking at paintings of the met :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes the other day I saw a painting there and it had a see through scarf as part of it...i mavrvelled at the idea of painting a see through cloth
oO0Oo Resident smiles and waves to observerm
stevenaia Michinaga: welcome observerm
SophiaSharon Larnia: the boy looks very feminine to me too
Lucinda Lavender: yes...what is she thinking about I wonder...
Lucinda Lavender: she the dress wearer
SophiaSharon Larnia: shhh shhh so nice to see you, now you must go lol
Lucinda Lavender: :)
iwandertoo Resident: he would be much younger and have this quality, i believe (than say the norm for today)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: nite nite ssl
SophiaSharon Larnia: i was paraphrasing the girl in the picture
Lucinda Lavender: ah
Paradise Tennant: lol
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
SophiaSharon Larnia: imagining
Paradise Tennant: text is confusing :)(
SophiaSharon Larnia: i knows, sorry :D
Paradise Tennant: you can practically hear the silk swish and the sighs of young love
stevenaia Michinaga: like peering into someone's dream
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: have you been dreaming of nyc luci ?
Lucinda Lavender: I was wondering if the girl is wondering who might be nearby...
oO0Oo Resident: bye SSL... gtsy
Lucinda Lavender: my dreams have been full of faces...
Lucinda Lavender: as one sees when walking
Paradise Tennant: smiles lots and lots of faces in nyc
Calvino Rabeni: NY has lots of those doesn't it?
Calvino Rabeni: (snap)
Lucinda Lavender: yes!
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: interestingly today I dreamed of my conductor...wrapped as a mummy sort of...and in more like a younger persons size...in yellow cloth...and thought that it was time to mourn his child self
Lucinda Lavender: sort of unusual...
Calvino Rabeni: yes
druth Vlodovic: I take it you don't find he has a fresh approach to music
Lucinda Lavender: saw the mummies at the met...friday
oO0Oo Resident: lol Druth
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Lucinda Lavender: well...he played classsical music during his life...
Lucinda Lavender: thought that mourning the younger age was an interesting thought tho
oO0Oo Resident wonders if Luci will visit the sight where the World Trade Center towers were
Lucinda Lavender: good question Samuo...
SophiaSharon Larnia: oh the conductor of your choir that passed away recently, Luci
Lucinda Lavender: yes SSL
Lucinda Lavender: before I cam to NYC I wonder...feel pretty shy on the subways yet
Lucinda Lavender: have thought about how the city has the story
Lucinda Lavender: I wondered in the dream before coming here ...why someone said 9/11 need not be the focus...
druth Vlodovic: excuse me, I've got to go, have fun all
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Calvino Rabeni: Bye Druth
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Druth
Paradise Tennant: nite nite druth
oO0Oo Resident: bye Druth.. tc
Lucinda Lavender: just an interesting dream prior to coming and once here I dream about how to honor the child part of those who have passed on
Calvino Rabeni: I've been wondering that same thing, about the living
Lucinda Lavender: somehow I am thinking that we have such energy as young people...and that is very strong and powerful...not to be forgotten
oO0Oo Resident nods
SophiaSharon Larnia: listens
Paradise Tennant: yes was thinking that today .. too ... spending time with my mom .. she is slowing down.. not the same level of vibrancy l
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: radiance...humor...intensity...beauty...wisdom
Calvino Rabeni: enthusiasm
Paradise Tennant: playfulness
SophiaSharon Larnia: freedom
Calvino Rabeni: guilelessness
SophiaSharon Larnia: (i love that word guilelessness)
Calvino Rabeni:

"I shot an arrow in the air.
It fell to earth, I know not where."

oO0Oo Resident: :)
Lucinda Lavender: luci thinks of removing veils
oO0Oo Resident: ↑ ↓
Paradise Tennant:

For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breath'd a Song into the air
It fell to earth, I know not where.
For who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of a song?

Calvino Rabeni: This was from Longfellow, who was I think at one time the most popular author in the US.

Long, long afterward in an oak
I found the Arrow still unbroke;
And the Song from begining to end
I found again in the heart of a friend.

Lucinda Lavender: lovely ...
oO0Oo Resident: a daughters regard for her mother dear flies for all virtues far and near and in so caring she carries on that one and same flight of a song
Lucinda Lavender: I will carry that with me...
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: must go for now...tomorrow is a big day. sweet dreams to all...
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Luci, have fun :)
Lucinda Lavender: will do/be:)
oO0Oo Resident: thanks for NewYork report and visit Luci... how wonderful you could be here
Lucinda Lavender: you are so welcome...
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Lucinda Lavender: waves back:)
iwandertoo Resident: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: do be do be do
Lucinda Lavender: heehee
Paradise Tennant: nite nite luci
Lucinda Lavender: nite Pardaise:)
Paradise Tennant: will think of you two having fun !
stevenaia Michinaga: so much to do in the big apple
Lucinda Lavender: I get to wander tomorrow as daughter starts orientation...
Calvino Rabeni: Its a wide continent - I was sitting watching a deer walking and eating
Lucinda Lavender: nice cal:)
Calvino Rabeni: All the world's a salad bar, and the bucks and does merely grazers
Lucinda Lavender: bfn...
Calvino Rabeni: Bye Cinda
Paradise Tennant: i was watching a yellow parrot ..in the park with the pigeons .. free and looking very happy about it
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Calvino Rabeni: An escapee, or a migrant?
Paradise Tennant: think an escapee
SophiaSharon Larnia: eep
Paradise Tennant: eating worms in the grass looking very content
Calvino Rabeni: There are some places I've seen them find others and make a colony
Paradise Tennant: yes there is super film called the parrots of telegraph hill
iwandertoo Resident: :)
--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: May I offer my own bird sighting - https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/EwHKeXr4VUiEdfsiB69gsYV7o3ZO15cA3WR7awjzg6k?feat=directlink
Calvino Rabeni: does it work?
oO0Oo Resident: :) yup
SophiaSharon Larnia: yay
Paradise Tennant: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424565/
oO0Oo Resident: nice
oO0Oo Resident: Para :) (pardon the pun) ;)
SophiaSharon Larnia: goodnight everyone, early day tomorrow too :)
Calvino Rabeni: Good nighty SSL
Paradise Tennant: nite nite ssl :)_
SophiaSharon Larnia: have fun :)
Calvino Rabeni: I might have seen those parrots, the ones I saw were in the same area, south of San Francisco
Calvino Rabeni: In a tall tree above the house
oO0Oo Resident: night SSL :)
Paradise Tennant: yes I saw them visiting telegraph hill too :) the film makes you really understand them
Calvino Rabeni: In another area there as a junkyard that was inhabited by many peacocks
Calvino Rabeni: The parrots pass a test of self awareness called the mirror test, that few animals are able to do
Paradise Tennant: listens
Calvino Rabeni: The mirror test is about whether an animal knows the reflection is itself
Calvino Rabeni: I think, by putting a mark on them, they look in the mirror, then try to groom themselves to see what is on their shoulder
Calvino Rabeni: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
Calvino Rabeni: It says there's a smelly version for dogs (relying on scent, not vision)
stevenaia Michinaga: needs a yawn script, time for bed, night all
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: sleepy here too :)
Calvino Rabeni: That might be some consolation for your intelligent pets
Paradise Tennant: nite nite stev :)
iwandertoo Resident: waves
oO0Oo Resident: night stevenia... sleep well
--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: well I think i will take little einstein out for a walk :) by the time pull the sheets out of the dryer .. and shut down the lights - I will be able to look out at the moon and know it is the witching hour :)
Calvino Rabeni: I think "I will wander too"
Paradise Tennant: namaste my friends nite all sweet dreams
Calvino Rabeni: _/!\_
oO0Oo Resident: wb Observerm that's me too... be well friends :)
Calvino Rabeni: everyone
oO0Oo Resident: lol
Calvino Rabeni: Bye all
iwandertoo Resident: nite
oO0Oo Resident: bye then