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

     

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    First we deal with the business of next Thursday, Thanksgiving. We decide it would be difficult for either of us to get here so we cancel. Happy Thanksgiving everyone :)

    Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
    Riddle Sideways: Good, Adams ㋡
    Adams Rubble: Thank you for adjusting to my schedule this week
    Riddle Sideways: you got through your busy Thursday?
    Adams Rubble: Yes, sort of
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: np. as those who don't have time to type
    Adams Rubble: busy week
    Riddle Sideways: say
    Adams Rubble: next week will be calmer but Thursday is Thanksgiving day
    Riddle Sideways: oh yes. visitors will be sleeping in this office
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: should be agree to cancel?
    Riddle Sideways: second that motion
    Adams Rubble: Thanksgiving used to be my favorite holiday when i was working
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: a holiday on a Thursday
    Adams Rubble: I still like it but it is much calmer these days
    Riddle Sideways: a non-religious holiday
    Adams Rubble: it was the first chance to take a deep breath in the fall semester
    Adams Rubble: then things would get calmer for me

    Miracle of Young Lives

    Adams Rubble: Your reference last Tuesday of the new life was touching
    Adams Rubble: It has stayed with me all week
    Riddle Sideways: the literally touching a kicking baby part?
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Adams Rubble: I was reading from a Talmud for Dummies book last night
    Riddle Sideways: watching the new mom to be almost always having a hand on tummy. calmness
    Riddle Sideways: oh?
    Adams Rubble: it said that there are three entities making a new life
    Adams Rubble: the father...
    Adams Rubble: the mother..
    Adams Rubble: and God
    Adams Rubble: I was thinking about that from experience and in terms of PaB Being
    Adams Rubble: new life is a miracle
    Adams Rubble: and the child is neither the mother nor the father but its own being
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Adams Rubble: for little ones every day is a new adventure
    Adams Rubble: new surprises
    Adams Rubble: last week we played a track from a CD on or stereo
    Adams Rubble: we had rarely used it
    Riddle Sideways: New Life, for Dummies
    Adams Rubble: it frightened her
    Riddle Sideways: oh dear
    Adams Rubble: ran to the nearest adult for a hug and then searched around perplexed trying to see where the sound was coming from
    Adams Rubble: she soon began to enjoy it and asked for it again :)
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: the adventure of it all
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Adams Rubble: last week we had played a phonograph record
    Adams Rubble: she watched it going round and round
    Riddle Sideways: quite a sight
    Adams Rubble: good to introduce the latest in technologies to young ones
    Riddle Sideways: thingie goes round, music is heard
    Riddle Sideways: how does that work?
    Riddle Sideways: rule #3: make sure ya have a safety net (trusted adult) near when new adventrures pop out
    Adams Rubble: Pema used to talk about kindly parents watching the child play watching for their safety
    Adams Rubble: the role of the teacher
    Riddle Sideways: so basic
    Riddle Sideways: how have we forgotten that
    Riddle Sideways: or it happens without active knowledge now
    Adams Rubble: I think of it often when watching the little one play
    Adams Rubble: watching the explorations
    Riddle Sideways: good for You
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: really... it is Good for You
    Riddle Sideways: and the ability to explore. what a hug available to re-assure one
    Riddle Sideways: *with
    Riddle Sideways: hmmm, thinking that still happens
    Riddle Sideways: like last night

    We go off to a different topic on Riddle's experience volunteering

    Riddle Sideways: But, being a big adult-ish type person, don't need those safety nets?
    Riddle Sideways: opening of a new soup kitchen
    Riddle Sideways: going there to volunteer
    Riddle Sideways: new building, new people
    Adams Rubble: very nice of you :)
    Riddle Sideways: could be scary... but not for a big growed up adult worldly person
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: go in, look around. strange building.
    Adams Rubble: it is our spiritual explorations that need looking after
    Riddle Sideways: AHHH a person that is known
    Riddle Sideways: greet, shake, hug
    Riddle Sideways: Walking into a Baptist Church
    Riddle Sideways: scary
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: funny. Had at least 19 volunteers
    Riddle Sideways: had 4-5 homeless show up
    Adams Rubble: wow
    Riddle Sideways: intellectually realizing we were there for each other
    Riddle Sideways: like you say
    Riddle Sideways: but, intellectually does not sink in very far
    Riddle Sideways: now thinking back
    Adams Rubble: that was not quite what i was saying
    Riddle Sideways: right, took it too far

    Kindly Teachers Watching out for Explorers Playing

    Adams Rubble: It is when one is exploring one's thoughts that one can run into scary things
    Adams Rubble: sometimes they seem overwhelming
    Adams Rubble: that is when one needs a teacher for affirmation
    Adams Rubble: then there is Being watching us play
    --BELL--

    The Quiet 90 minutes sends off reflecting on bells

    Riddle Sideways: Appreciates the bell stopping what was about to be typed
    Adams Rubble: it was time for a bell :)
    Riddle Sideways: to the strict western scientist the bell has a random plus/minus fudge factor
    Riddle Sideways: to some others, it rings when it does
    Riddle Sideways: some find comfort in when it rings
    Adams Rubble: For Whom the Bell tolls
    Riddle Sideways: oooo good one
    Riddle Sideways: 15 minutes to load up the mind on a current adventure. then the bell states "Where are you"
    Riddle Sideways: Beel: the teacher
    Adams Rubble:

    Oh, what will you give me? Say the sad bells of Rhymney
    Is there hope for the future? Say the brown bells of Merther
    Who made the mine open? Say the black bells of Rhonda
    And who killed the miner? Say the grim bells of Lina

    Adams Rubble: Who made the mine open? Say the black bells of Rhonda
    Adams Rubble: so many references to bells
    Riddle Sideways: both of us knowing those lines. One, from the memorizing of a Byrds song
    Adams Rubble:

    I. Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells!
    What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
    How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!
    While the stars that oversprinkle
    All the heavens, seem to twinkle
    With a crystalline delight;
    Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme,
    To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
    From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells—
    From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.


    Adams Rubble: and Phil Ochs setting Poe to music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3FzveBu_34
    Riddle Sideways: how young Phil is there
    --BELL--

    Appreciating Being Alive

    Adams Rubble: gone way to soon
    Adams Rubble: and we stayed on to remember
    Riddle Sideways: a heavy weight
    Adams Rubble: to witness all that has happened since
    Riddle Sideways: oh dear
    Riddle Sideways: yet
    Riddle Sideways: watching that new birth
    Adams Rubble: yes!
    Riddle Sideways: watching the new explore
    Adams Rubble: watching our own continued explorations
    Adams Rubble: all that we have learned
    Riddle Sideways: that is still to learn
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Riddle Sideways: sometimes just hearing a bell and re-learning thos mements just passed
    Adams Rubble: it tols for thee
    Adams Rubble: and me
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: scene: serving rice onto a plate. 6'5" man puts hands on his shoulders and gently says "now you go get in line and I shall serve you"
    Riddle Sideways: *his=the actors
    Riddle Sideways: teachers keep arriving in the oddest clothing

    Adams Dubrovna is preparing a new exhibit on Medieval Iberia. The first of three intallations is Jewish Art. The hour is nearly done so we go off to critique the progress.

    Adams Rubble: would you like to go take a peek at the emerging exhibition Dubrovna is working on?
    Riddle Sideways: oh would like that
    Adams Rubble: let's go then :)
    Riddle Sideways: don't tell the readers
    Riddle Sideways: we will sneak away
    Riddle Sideways: umm, is it scary?

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