2017.10.09 07:00 - That Time Thang (or Thing:)

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

Mazes and labyrinths

Eden Haiku: Icecream, popcorn?
Riddle Sideways: back. Popcorn
Eden Haiku: Good morning Ridldle
Eden Haiku: Popcorn. Watching a 3D movie?
Riddle Sideways: Had Fun at a Fun House
Eden Haiku: Fun House?
Riddle Sideways: Long story, but Elisa started it! :))
Eden Haiku: Ah ah!!!
Eden Haiku: Funny gal Eliza :))
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: think it was in the SL Destinations blog
Riddle Sideways: as a huge Fun House build of mazes, puzzles, etc.
Riddle Sideways: a lambrythm [ interesting word! ]
Riddle Sideways: sp?
Eden Haiku: Ah, you love those! I remember your tessaract house!
Riddle Sideways: Yes! Love those

Eden Haiku: Had a bad review this week end :(
Riddle Sideways: Enters Leaping Adams
Riddle Sideways: oh dear!
Eden Haiku: Good morning Adams!
Riddle Sideways: call up the retraction crew
Adams Rubble: sorry to hear that Eden but keep your chin up and your eyes closed
Adams Rubble: good morning Riddle and eden :)
Eden Haiku: My publishers were supportive and sweet.
Riddle Sideways: is it like the Theater... and there Must be bad reviews?
Eden Haiku: Yeah. A new journalist who had never read anything it seems.
Eden Haiku: Was enraged and sad at first
Eden Haiku: Well, for two days...
Eden Haiku: She called me "esoteroc" and "hermetic"....
Riddle Sideways: Must make a 'name' for themselves at your's expense
Eden Haiku: "esoteric'
Eden Haiku: I'm certainly not hermetic...
Adams Rubble: yikes
Eden Haiku: Wrote dafts and drafts of replies
Eden Haiku: My publisher asked me to wait 24 hours
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: I did wait 48 hours and woke up this morning with " I don't care' . I'm not sending any reply
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: well, had to look up "hermetic" and can't see how that could ever even be used in a sentence
Eden Haiku: I'm looking forward to my book party on Thursday
Eden Haiku: with family and friends and colleagues
Adams Rubble:when we put ourselves out there, there are always some who will misunderstand

Korel!

Adams Rubble: Hello Korel
Riddle Sideways: Hey, Korel
Korel Laloix: Osiyo
Eden Haiku: Korel, hi! How are you?
Riddle Sideways: long time
Eden Haiku: How is the new mother?
Korel Laloix: Been silly busy, like normal for me. Rl getting in the way or Sl and aall that..
Riddle Sideways: RL Happens!
Riddle Sideways: glad to see ya
Korel Laloix: Well, Annie is almost 7 months old now... But after she was born, I had to hold Sama from going back from work for a bit..
Eden Haiku: And the baby?
Korel Laloix: Lovely, healthy, and sleeps well.... so really blessed.
Riddle Sideways: 7 months? really? not seem that long
Korel Laloix: I know the feeling.
Eden Haiku: Wow! 7 months!!!!
Korel Laloix: Like it was last week it seems sometimes.
Korel Laloix: But all is well.. how is everyone?
Riddle Sideways:whoops, time to turn the calendar page again
Riddle Sideways: baby! so exciting

--BELL--

Construction Spanish in Puerto Rico

Riddle Sideways: the adventure
Eden Haiku: Met a 6 months old baby boy in the park yesterday in his Mom's arms, Such a sweet gentle soul :)
Riddle Sideways: personally, good and not much changed
Korel Laloix: Been a lot of big changes for us of course.. more on the way maybe.
Riddle Sideways: was holding a 7 week old, 2 weeks ago
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Korel Laloix: But we were also blessed to have my mother-in-law stay with us so far. So the extra hands were most welcome, especially when Sama was doingher hurricane relief adventures.
Eden Haiku: My 6 years old grandniece and 3 years old grandnephew will be coming at my book party. I'm delighted :)
Riddle Sideways: yes, great to have extra hands around new baby
Eden Haiku: Hurricane relief adventures?
Korel Laloix: Sama went down to Texas for a bit to help there, and i just put her on a plane this morning going to Puerto Rico.
Korel Laloix: So, missing her already... but she is doing some great good.
Eden Haiku: Oh! What a brave soul! Is it her work?
Korel Laloix: She worked for a shopping mall companay for a while and supervised mall construction and opening... so her skills are what they need.
Korel Laloix:And being fluent in construction Spanish does not hurt either.
Eden Haiku: Ah yes, quite useful...
Eden Haiku: She speaks many languages I gather?
Eden Haiku: Russian, English, Spanish...wow!
Korel Laloix: Sama is one of obnoxious people that speaks a few languages perfectly...
Korel Laloix: lol
Eden Haiku: smiles
Riddle Sideways:and "construction" is a hard language to get across to many
Korel Laloix: I struggle with what I have.
Eden Haiku: LOL
Eden Haiku: to construction language :)
Eden Haiku: My father was a carpenter working on construction sites but he wasn’t that good at the "rough' language
Korel Laloix: Evidently, the vocabulary and terms are so specific, that not a lot of people learn it. But she managed when building her malls to learn from the histpanic workers.
Riddle Sideways:   One can wave hands in the air saying "need power from there to here" and government does not understand  
Eden Haiku: Yes!
Korel Laloix: The woman amazes me really... in new ways all the time.
Eden Haiku: That's great Korel :)

No PaB drama but a dream session

Korel Laloix: So any new BaB drama going on?... smiles
Korel Laloix: Obviously not been on nearly as much as I have been.
Eden Haiku: PaB drama? Anyone?
Korel Laloix: lol
Eden Haiku: There will be a new dreams sessions I think
Riddle Sideways: new books to read (maybe)
Korel Laloix: Oh Ok.. I still have a cople of Sama's dreams that I don't think we got to.
Riddle Sideways: dream sessions, planned and starting Tuesdays 1300
Eden Haiku:On Tuesdays afternoons, yes, 13h00, with Zen
Riddle Sideways: might not be using the same format as before
Korel Laloix: I will pop in if I can.
Eden Haiku: Me too, a bit later in the season...
Riddle Sideways: first one, tomorrow to kinda lay out the format
Korel Laloix: Probably best to sort that out first.

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: will be up (600 or 900) in the park area
Eden Haiku: oh, a sky box...
Korel Laloix: Better view and a nice breeze up there...
Riddle Sideways: Oh! wait... it is at 1200
Eden Haiku: Nice breeze hehe...
Riddle Sideways: by the big tree and in the grass
Eden Haiku: Is it over Eliza's land?
Riddle Sideways: not quite
Riddle Sideways: it is over this place
Eden Haiku: Is Pompom [oups! not quite the right name!] the rabbit allowed to attend dream sessions?
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Eden Haiku: So he could take us into the rabbit hole?
Riddle Sideways: Bunbun ㋡ can because she does not bark or meow
Eden Haiku: How are you this morning Adams?
Adams Rubbleslips away to RL that is calling
Korel Laloix: Ciao
Riddle Sideways: bye
Eden Haiku: Bye Adams!
Eden Haiku: BunBun, sorry for mispelling your rabbit's name Riddle
Riddle Sideways: Often has RL happen this part of Adams' day
Riddle Sideways: is ok, not sure if a SL pet has feelings
Korel Laloix: So I can bring my mute vicious attack chihuahua ?
Riddle Sideways: sure
Eden Haiku: Yes, I'm very curious about that RL interruption, but then Adams is a very mysterious woman :)
Korel Laloix: She likes rabbits...
Eden Haiku: ...
Korel Laloix: lol
Riddle Sideways: lol
Korel Laloix: OK.. off to wander a bit and see some friends... take care all
Riddle Sideways: thanks for visit
Eden Haiku: bye Korel thanks!
Riddle Sideways: see ya
Korel Laloix: do na da go hv i
Eden Haiku: On the good news, I received my novel "The Cygnus Constellation" in English translation :)
Riddle Sideways: oh! good
Riddle Sideways: published
Riddle Sideways: and available?
Eden Haiku: Yes published and available,
Eden Haiku: Ekstasis Press 2017
Eden Haiku: That's in British Columbia
Eden Haiku: Ekstasis Editions rather
Riddle Sideways: Google sure made it hard to find
Eden Haiku: http://www.ekstasiseditions.com/recenthtml/cygnus.htm

--BELL--

The Life of Books

Riddle Sideways: Ah Oh! your real name
Riddle Sideways: is given away there
Eden Haiku: hehe, I have a real name yeah. It's also in my SL profile :)
Riddle Sideways: No, it is just your writing name
Riddle Sideways: never looked ㋡
Eden Haiku: Same same
Eden Haiku: A Jewish friend in Paris was amazed I wrote about a Jewish girl in occupied Paris of 1940. She said it was quite exact, even though I wrote this before Internet. The book was published in French in 1985 and won awards, When in Paris recently, I met a translator who got interested in the book. Strange how books live...
Riddle Sideways: the Life of Books
Eden Haiku: Nice title it would be :)
Riddle Sideways: How did you find out all the Jewish details?
Eden Haiku: A mysterious process of both research and some past lives memories...
Eden Haiku: Worked with a psychologist specialized in regressions after being overwhelmed with memories in early 80s
Eden Haiku: I now think it's only some cells traveling through my body but they were powerful
Eden Haiku: Took me years to sort this out. Writing the book was part of the resilience process
Riddle Sideways: how you can deal with it all
Riddle Sideways: good that you have that 'tool'
Riddle Sideways: way. bag, resource
Eden Haiku: Yes, I'm fortunate
Eden Haiku: And multiple therapies to help me along the way...
Eden Haiku: That's one of the reasons I never had children...
Riddle Sideways: ? thinking it would be passed on?
Eden Haiku: Have memories from India 11th century and so many more...
Riddle Sideways: The India, India book
Eden Haiku: Not afraid of passing it on, afraid of being overwhelmed by the mothering process
Riddle Sideways: yes, can see that
Eden Haiku: No, India India is more grounded. That was The Dancing God about the memories. Not in English yet, But in Italian :) Strange life of books :)

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: ya give birth to a book, but can't rule where and how it will go
Riddle Sideways: grow, be, live
Eden Haiku: Thank you so much for being here this morning Riddle, Had fun at the Book Fair in Saguenay, many many delightful young writers at a Poetry event and the weather on the fjord was gorgeous. Thank you for posting the missed session :)
Riddle Sideways: oh right... we were supposed to talk about the fair
Eden Haiku: No no, I'm just letting you know
Riddle Sideways: and we still have the "when did you know" topic
Eden Haiku: Ah, yes, for another week :)
Riddle Sideways: and there was one other
Riddle Sideways: ok, must do this another week ㋡

That time thang

Eden Haiku: Also met a professor I hadn't seen in 36 years and we felt like it was the day before. And a guy I studied with when I was 18. He now had white hair,,,
Eden Haiku: We took a lot of pictures and had much fun reminiscing;)
Riddle Sideways:Ah, that time thang
Riddle Sideways: did that yesterday, also
Eden Haiku:   Time thing, time thang hehe  
Eden Haiku: With people you had'nt seen in a while?
Riddle Sideways: yes, went to one of those Celebration of Life thangs
Eden Haiku: Speeling delicious typos...
Riddle Sideways: Old people, that resemble some young people once known
Eden Haiku: What are Celebration of Life?
Eden Haiku: Ah, I see... and yourself feeling as young...
Riddle Sideways: instead of a big funeral. Many are have later Celebration of the Life that was
Riddle Sideways: multitudes of people telling their stories of Phil
Eden Haiku: Oh... mourning someone
Eden Haiku: Were you close to him?
Riddle Sideways: did not know that Phil wrote a couple books
Riddle Sideways: and helped Bill write one
Eden Haiku: A discreet writer...
Riddle Sideways: not that close, but worked together for maybe 5 years
Eden Haiku: Still a shock isn’it?
Riddle Sideways: he beat cancer for many years
Eden Haiku: That's how I decided not to send my letter to the newspaper. Life is too short!
Riddle Sideways: Yes!
Eden Haiku: I want my time left to be enjoyable and peaceful :)
Eden Haiku: We do not know how long we have in front of us
Eden Haiku: And it's less and less every year :)
Riddle Sideways: it is cathartic to write the letter, email, tweet, blog, blast
Eden Haiku: We come in with an expiration date :)
Riddle Sideways: not should not hit send
Eden Haiku: Yes, it helped sorting out my rage and my sadness, but I'm glad I waited and did not press send :)
Eden Haiku: What a relief!
Riddle Sideways: hearing of a 7-month old
Riddle Sideways:now on the journey
Eden Haiku: Yes, new beings coming in....
Riddle Sideways: there may be an expiration date
Riddle Sideways: yet

--BELL--

The fondness lives on

Riddle Sideways:the memories live on
Riddle Sideways: like the books
Eden Haiku: That is an happy note :)
Riddle Sideways: like the fondness for Phil
Riddle Sideways: makes Phil live on
Eden Haiku: True, the fondness stays with us
Riddle Sideways: like the fondness and memories of that favorite book read in 1991
Eden Haiku: Today was my parents wedding day. I still feel the fondness for them though they are both gone for years now
Eden Haiku: Books stay with us though time, that's very true, some of them at least.

Riddle Sideways: there is a book shelf upstairs. that contains books that can not seem to be gotten rid of, given away yet or need to still be here
Riddle Sideways: think that today is a good day to spend time with them
Eden Haiku: Have a great Monday Riddle. Today is Thanksgiving Day where I live. Giving thanks to life as it is :)
Eden Haiku: oh is it raining where you are too?
Riddle Sideways: it is a good day to give Thanks
Eden Haiku: Here it's a rainy day...
Riddle Sideways: no rain
Riddle Sideways: not a cloud
Eden Haiku: Lucky beach boy :)
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Eden Haiku: But I like rain today. Sending out a second round of invitations to my book party, a reminder.
Eden Haiku: And then 10,000 steps with an umbrella :)
Eden Haiku: And raincoat
Riddle Sideways: wow
Eden Haiku: And rain boots!
Riddle Sideways: still doing the 10K
Eden Haiku: Still. My publisher was inspired to do the same and he looks healthier! He had athritis and now he feels much better!
Riddle Sideways: you must sooo know the neighborhood
Eden Haiku: Yes, I do. I'm lucky I walk in a little village and a mountain for the summer months....
Riddle Sideways: and now in the fallen leaves
Eden Haiku: But here I can walk in a park, on an island or across the bridge, or to a smaller park...
Eden Haiku: Sometimes i do many little walks and the phone registers them :)
Eden Haiku: Leaping as Adams now ?
Riddle Sideways: seems so
Eden Haiku: Bye Riddle, have a great day!
Riddle Sideways: by Eden
Riddle Sideways: have your best day
Eden Haiku: Always so delightful to chat with you :)