2011.09.17 13:00 - Kindness, Fire and Smiling

Archmage Atlantis: All we are, we are
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: WB arch!
Archmage Atlantis: namaste sister
Aphrodite Macbain: How are the animals?
Archmage Atlantis: determined
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Archmage Atlantis: They think this world has a future
Aphrodite Macbain: Good for tham
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Fc
Archmage Atlantis: nasty buggers all
Aphrodite Macbain: Who?
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Aphrodite Archmage
stevenaia Michinaga: hello
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello Stevenaia
FcSeeker Resident: Hello stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Fc, Aphrodite, Arch
Aphrodite Macbain: a day of rest Steve?
stevenaia Michinaga: always, busy day of rest
Aphrodite Macbain: :-) laundry etc?
stevenaia Michinaga: friends, food, nap... and laundry
Archmage Atlantis: God scoped, as they say in the UK....or something like that.....2 ppl seperated by a c ommon language
Aphrodite Macbain: One of my favourite things to do today is go to the farmers market
FcSeeker Resident: hi Korel
Aphrodite Macbain: welcome korel
Korel Laloix: Heya
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, shopped this morning at local farmer's market
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello Cosmic flower
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Korel
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Comiscflower <3
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: Hi Dears ***<3<3<3***
Archmage Atlantis: Sister Cos, long time no see
Aphrodite Macbain: what did you get Steve?
stevenaia Michinaga: hi cosmic, nice to see you after such a long timee
Archmage Atlantis: <*
stevenaia Michinaga: I don't shop, just carry the apples, etc
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: Thanks, same words Dears
stevenaia Michinaga: drink coffee, eat fresh croissants
Aphrodite Macbain: are there musicians singing or playing?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Archmage Atlantis: eat fresh coconuts?
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Aph.
stevenaia Michinaga: think this is one of the oldest continuous Farmers Markets in the country
Aphrodite Macbain: what is that on your head Bruce?
Aphrodite Macbain: Bruce
FcSeeker Resident: hi Zon
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Zon
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Arch.,Fc, Korel, Cos, Zon and steve.
Korel Laloix: Heya
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Bruce, Zon
Aphrodite Macbain: Cosmic - I think you left your arm band over Bruce's head!
Zon Kwan: hi guys and gals
FcSeeker Resident: just got a message which I'd want to share...
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: Hey ;)
Aphrodite Macbain: Please share Fc

Kindness

FcSeeker Resident: Tomorrow, Sunday September 18, is the International Day of Kindness. WISHING YOU HAPPINESS; MAKE SOMEBODY HAPPY. Pass it on.
stevenaia Michinaga: am I a cloud to everyone or just me?
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I see cloud
stevenaia Michinaga: Thank you Fc
Bruce Mowbray: you're a "cloud" to me too, steve.
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes. You can celebrate at perfect paradise
Aphrodite Macbain: by thowing all your unkind thoughts into a bonfire
FcSeeker Resident: I see you also as the cloud steve
Bruce Mowbray: There seems be a large tail-like thingie hanging over Fc
Aphrodite Macbain: I see you perfctly clearly Steve
Aphrodite Macbain: That tail like thingie is Cos' armband
Bruce Mowbray: actually, steve looks more like an egg than a cloud to me.
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm, perplexed, if I rebake, I see me w/o a top clothing on
Bruce Mowbray: How long are Cos' arms, then?
stevenaia Michinaga: what do you see now?
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh! Thou art a beauty, steve!
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
FcSeeker Resident: now I also see you perfectly <3
Aphrodite Macbain: Is there any particular subject people would like to raise?
stevenaia Michinaga: thank you
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: my arms.. hmm
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: long ;)
Aphrodite Macbain: if not, why dont we talk about kindness?
Aphrodite Macbain: often it comes with the adjective "loving"
Aphrodite Macbain: HHDL often talks about loving kindness to all beings
stevenaia Michinaga: usually it is how difficult some people find it to be kind, that is perplexing as there there is little to gain from being unkind
stevenaia Michinaga: Kindness always come back
stevenaia Michinaga: like raining hearts :)
stevenaia Michinaga: and kindness like love, never runs out
--BELL--
Zon Kwan: kindness can be mixed with weakness by those who want to exploit and use pple for their needs and purposes
stevenaia Michinaga: that is not kindness, that is kindness abuse
Zon Kwan: be kind but don't let others exploit you
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm. . . Kindness requires clarity . . . lest it become abuse in the name of goodwill.
stevenaia Michinaga: it only appears as kindness as a deception
Korel Laloix: If you act kind, expecting someone to act back the same way, you are not actualy being kind.
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Korel Laloix: You have to expect nothing in return to have real kindness on you heart.
Zon Kwan: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: what you get back is not payment for kindness, it is the goodness that you were kind
FcSeeker Resident: <3
Zon Kwan: kindness doesnt mean to be a doormat
Archmage Atlantis: I have struggled with those thoughts
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: its in human nature to feel need to love/ be kind and receive
Archmage Atlantis: Nimbus comes to me in my dreams
Aphrodite Macbain is reminded of the phrase "sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind" and wonders what that means
Archmage Atlantis: Yet Chester is here
Bruce Mowbray: You were always kind to Nimbus, Arch, now perhaps he is returning that -- or trying to.
Aphrodite Macbain: I dont think kindness necessarily means "niceness"
Zon Kwan: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: it perhaps means acting with a being's best interests at heart
FcSeeker Resident: yes Aphrodite
Zon Kwan: i am very kind but i am not nice
Archmage Atlantis: aaaaaai think, Aph, it means sometimes feline kind, is felt to another as cruel
Aphrodite Macbain: can you give me an example Zon?
Bruce Mowbray doubts that we are capable of knowing anyone's best interests.
FcSeeker Resident: and sometimes such may feel to be hurting from the receiver
FcSeeker Resident: like it's said that friends tells if somebody does something 'bad/wrong'
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Zen.
Zon Kwan: wow zen
Zen Arado: Hi all
Zon Kwan: hippie ?
Aphrodite Macbain: but perhaps we attempt to consider other's best interests Bruce.
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: Hi Zen ;)
FcSeeker Resident: Hi Zen
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Zen. We're talking about kindness and what it means to each of us
Bruce Mowbray: for sure, Aph.... but what some think is empathy could be projection.
Aphrodite Macbain: Today is the International Day of Kindness
Zen Arado: they are having a kindness day at Perfect Paradise tomorrow
Aphrodite Macbain: yes but then how do we act Bruce. Do we do nothing?
Bruce Mowbray: Better to BECOME the kindness -- and just be that in relation to others.
Archmage Atlantis: I think there may a meditation I am called to....to all of you, I give my love, as I can understand it
Zon Kwan: for example a beggar asks you money, its nice to give him some but is also kind, as you know he is going to drink them ?
Aphrodite Macbain: I dont know what that means Bruce "become the kindness"
Bruce Mowbray: be thee well, Arch. and chester too.
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Arch
Aphrodite Macbain: You could give the beggar a sandwich
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, San!
Zen Arado: Hi Santo
FcSeeker Resident: bye Arch
Aphrodite Macbain: a smile and a sandwich
FcSeeker Resident: Hello san
Santoshima Resident: hey! hello everyone
Aphrodite Macbain: just acknowledging them is kind
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi San
stevenaia Michinaga: hello San
Bruce Mowbray: In a sense, "I" disappers and the kindness takes over.
Aphrodite Macbain: hmmm
Zen Arado: kindness is giving?
FcSeeker Resident: hi Susan
Bruce Mowbray: Giving the sandwich might be wonderful -- if the kindness gives it.
stevenaia Michinaga: giving of yourself
Zon Kwan: if u know the beggar is part of organised business ?
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Sue!
Aphrodite Macbain: I feel that kindness is a form of action taken with good intentions
iwandertoo Resident: hi team
Santoshima Resident: hi coach!
Zen Arado: Hi Susan
Aphrodite Macbain: I can think of times when I have been unkind and those times I acted in some way that hurt another
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Pauw89
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya Susan GTSY
Bruce Mowbray: we all can think of those times, Aph. thanks for reminding us of that.
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I think kindness is to be kind even in those times when there is thunder above the head
Aphrodite Macbain smiles
Zon Kwan: yes kindness is the intention behind the act
Aphrodite Macbain: it's even harder to be kind then
Zen Arado: kindness is not being unkind too
iwandertoo Resident: kindness goes hand--in-hand with honesty
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: and in those times also when there is hard
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: when all seems to be dark
iwandertoo Resident: (it may not feel kind at times....but it is)
Aphrodite Macbain: there are "unkind thoughts" too
Zen Arado: acting for someone's best interest
Aphrodite Macbain: yes zen
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: if then person is capable to keep Ones kindess , I think that is True kindess
Bruce Mowbray: So if kindness gives the money in the church collection plate, but the pastor spends that money on drugs or a prostitute (it HAS ben done!), then I still know that I have been kind, because my intentions were kind.
Aphrodite Macbain: when you say keep, do you mean maintain Cos?
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I mean if You are already kind
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: and when there comes things "unkind" and You still can "be" kind..
Zon Kwan: one shoul also use ones intelligence
Santoshima Resident: yes
Zon Kwan: in act
--BELL--
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: is maintain same than achieve
Zon Kwan: no pearls to swine
Aphrodite Macbain: yes I would think so Bruce, kindness is connected to the person who performs the act of kindness. sometimes the action creates problems or has bad results, but nevertheless the act was kind
Aphrodite Macbain: shh sorry
Korel Laloix: wado
Santoshima Resident: whose blue fishy?
Aphrodite Macbain: Bruces-Blub
Santoshima Resident: ah
Santoshima Resident: thought it might be someone new, kindness welling up ...
Aphrodite Macbain: So tomorrow at Perfect Paradise people are invited to throw all their unkind acts, thoughts etc into a big bonfire...
Aphrodite Macbain: and start again
Zen Arado: would need a daily bonfire I think
Santoshima Resident: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: lol Zen
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: well,
Aphrodite Macbain: I would doubt it
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: what if making a fire daily
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: ;)
Aphrodite Macbain looks around for a fireplace
Bruce Mowbray: That's a wonderful ritual, Aph - - - eerrrrr,, wonderful ceremony and celebration.
Zon Kwan: we need..its called daily mindfulness
stevenaia Michinaga: we can cast them in the fountain here
Aphrodite Macbain: Speaking about kindness, behind me is the fledgling peace poem we are working on
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I was sitting on the fire outside with other scout leaders few days ago, there were full moon and people around. Felt like something "came home"
Bruce Mowbray: I shall begin by throwing in all my illusions of "I" and "other."
Aphrodite Macbain: Please send me two lines if you would like to add to the poem. You can IM me. Since last night I have received three more!
Bruce Mowbray checks out the Peace Poem.
Zen Arado: advertising pays
Aphrodite Macbain: Lovely Cosmic
Aphrodite Macbain: what came home Cosmic?
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: well,
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: that feel
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: You know
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: ?
Aphrodite Macbain: hmmmm, no
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I can`t explain
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: "home" I mean home in heart
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: not my material home
FcSeeker Resident: like for example this thought; 'this is why I was born'
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: ***<3<3<3 thanks <3<3<3***
Aphrodite Macbain: Oh, yes. I understand now Itthink
Bruce Mowbray: Sitting around the campfire is an ancient experience that I allude to in my Profile. That is also what we are doing here -- except the fire is a fountain.
Aphrodite Macbain: Home is where the hearth is..
FcSeeker Resident: <3<3<3
stevenaia Michinaga: Home is not a place but a state of being
Zen Arado: where the heart is?
Aphrodite Macbain: as well Zen
FcSeeker Resident: and people with Cos 'turned to be one heart with the fire and love'
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: ahh, thats true
FcSeeker Resident: it's all over in your spirit, soul and mind
Aphrodite Macbain: warmth, flying heavenward with sparkles
Zon Kwan: where your presence is
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: all those people, I can not explain the feel how I enjoyed to be with them there
iwandertoo Resident: someone has my heart
iwandertoo Resident: ponders
iwandertoo Resident: ;)
Aphrodite Macbain: I think it's in our genes
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: and I saw the "first time" them in this life time
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: it was strong feel
Zen Arado: be nice if everyone had our heart
FcSeeker Resident: <3
Aphrodite Macbain: I get a similar feeling when I sit with people and listen to some kinds of music
FcSeeker Resident: brb

Fire

Bruce Mowbray: You and those around that campfire plugged into an ancient archetype -- we did that for thousands of years before there were cities and General Electric.
Aphrodite Macbain: connected through experiencing some form of beauty
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: ah yes Bruce ;)
Aphrodite Macbain: connected by sight, sensation, sound
Bruce Mowbray: I am so happy for you that you had that experience!
Zon Kwan: connected by the collective presence
Aphrodite Macbain: I think we all yearn for connection
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I love fire
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I have been in scouts when I was a child about 11 years
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: and then there came a pause, and now my own kids started to talk about it
FcSeeker Resident: fire is one form of the spirit in human world
FcSeeker Resident: being also the spirit
Aphrodite Macbain wishes she could build a big bonfire where the fountain is
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: and thought... yessss
Zon Kwan: fire cleanses
FcSeeker Resident: to connect 'our body' which is mostly 'water' and our spirit which is fire
Aphrodite Macbain: fire destroys also
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I felt in love with "fire" when I was about 7 year old
Zon Kwan: and reforms
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I saw a dream
Aphrodite Macbain: it is part of hell's make up
Aphrodite Macbain: a dream?
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: there were house burning me inside and I saw a person who had a clothes of worror
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: this person was "he" in my dream..
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: and felt deeply in love at age of 7
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: I think this person was that spirit of fire
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: when I woke up
FcSeeker Resident: <3
Bruce Mowbray: Both fire and love consume us.
Zon Kwan: and reforms us
Aphrodite Macbain: can be destructive and constructive
Zon Kwan: love ?
Bruce Mowbray: . . . and purifies us.
Aphrodite Macbain: transformative, one way or the other
Aphrodite Macbain: we have come a long way from kindness... or have we?
Zon Kwan: not destrucive ?
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: let'as think about this
Bruce Mowbray "drops" and invites kindness to consume him.
Aphrodite Macbain: shhh
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)

Chosing to Smile

Aphrodite Macbain: I find that simply wearing a smile can fill your heart with kindness
Aphrodite Macbain: I catch myself in windows walking with a frown.
Aphrodite Macbain: Am trying to be present and mindful and change that to a smile
Zon Kwan: lets all smile now and see how it feels
Bruce Mowbray: OH APH! I was just thinking about the window thing this afternoon!
Zon Kwan: ahh..
Aphrodite Macbain: Smile!
Zon Kwan: realxes
Aphrodite Macbain: yes Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray feels GOOD!
Aphrodite Macbain: yayy
Bruce Mowbray: a choice to smile -- and a choice to feel good.
Aphrodite Macbain: Try it walking down the street. People smile back!
Zen Arado: maybe hardest is to be kind to ourselves

Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! Korel
Bruce Mowbray: bye Korel.
Zon Kwan: one can choose
Zon Kwan: to smile or frown
Korel Laloix: Take care all
Santoshima Resident: bye Korel!
Zen Arado: bye Korel

Aphrodite Macbain: Yes it is a choice Zon. I agree
Bruce Mowbray: just knowing that we have a choice, Zon, makes all the difference.
FcSeeker Resident: bye Korel
Aphrodite Macbain: A smile can be an easy form of kindness but a powerful one
Santoshima Resident: being relaxed helps, whether one's facial muscles allow one to smile or not
Aphrodite Macbain: It's true San
Aphrodite Macbain: It takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown apparently
Zon Kwan: but when u deside to smile, your muscles obey
Santoshima Resident: some folks' can and some cannot
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)))))
Santoshima Resident: that's just the way it is
Bruce Mowbray can!
Santoshima Resident: to be at ease and relaxed goes a long way toward extending that outward into the world
Zon Kwan: all can if they will
Aphrodite Macbain: One of the hardest things that people sitting on the street find is that they are ignored. I try and make an effort to smile at them and acknowledge them
Santoshima Resident: well certain conditions do not allow that
Santoshima Resident: we are not all the same
Bruce Mowbray: (btw -- If anyone wants to have a Peace Dove t-shirt like the one I'm wearing, just let me know. I have LOTS!
Zon Kwan: our will is different
Bruce Mowbray: Internation Day of Peace is only four days away.
FcSeeker Resident: I know several people who's got much probs to smile and their mouth and face uses to 'twist' when they try...
Santoshima Resident: parkinson's disease, for example, limits facial mobility

Zen Arado: I have to go
Zen Arado: bye all
FcSeeker Resident: bye Zen
Bruce Mowbray: bye Zen
iwandertoo Resident: tc, zen

Aphrodite Macbain: Yes, also if we are feeling sad, angry, hurt we tend to look inward and not smile or acknowledge strangers but the very act of smiling can sometimes transform that feeling, especially if the other person smiles back
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: By Zen
Santoshima Resident: not to assume that a smile needs to be external
stevenaia Michinaga: brb
Santoshima Resident: of course, that's not what I meant quite
Aphrodite Macbain: San?
Santoshima Resident: a close friend, for example, has great difficulty controlling facial expression
Santoshima Resident: smiles are extended in a full body way
Santoshima Resident: happiness and ease are expressed differently than with a big facial "smile"
Santoshima Resident: does that help?
Aphrodite Macbain: a bit; I'm still trying to imagine what that looks like
Santoshima Resident: ?
Bruce Mowbray: but have you noticed, San, that when you close fiend becomes the kindness, you can still experience that and appreciate it? --- regardless of the facial expression.
Aphrodite Macbain: shoulders back, open palms
Santoshima Resident: of course, that is what I'm saying ...
Aphrodite Macbain: tone of voice perhaps?
Santoshima Resident: brunce
Santoshima Resident: brunce
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Bruce Mowbray: friend* SRY.
Santoshima Resident: yes, it's simple (but typing is not ...)
Aphrodite Macbain: lol interesting typo
Bruce Mowbray: typing is my SL downfall. Need to forgive fingers again and againa.
Zon Kwan: yes againa and againa
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: Dears. I need to go to sleep
stevenaia Michinaga: night Cosmic
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: Good nights
Bruce Mowbray dies from laughing....
Santoshima Resident: good night Cosmic blossom!
FcSeeker Resident: sweet dreams <3
Santoshima Resident: rest well
Zon Kwan: bye all
Aphrodite Macbain: Nite night
Aphrodite Macbain: don't die Bruce (bruce dies of laughing)
Bruce Mowbray: G'night all who leave -- and go with kindness - and AS kindness.
Aphrodite Macbain: Kind Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Mick!
FcSeeker Resident: hi Mickorod
Mickorod Renard: Hi Guys
--BELL--
Mickorod Renard: how u all doin?
Mickorod Renard: oops
Santoshima Resident: hi mickorod ~
Mickorod Renard: hi
Bruce Mowbray is having trouble seeing everyone --- hopes for folks sitting closer together... (but no obligation, of course.)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Mickorod
Aphrodite Macbain: There we all are!
Bruce Mowbray: ty!
Santoshima Resident: maybe we could sit closer to you, susan?
Mickorod Renard: kindness..its quite a deep subject
Aphrodite Macbain: yes we've been talking about it for about 30 minutes
Bruce Mowbray listens for a fresh view from Mick.
Mickorod Renard: well....
Mickorod Renard: I think in my earlier years i thought it was a requirement so that one may receive it in return
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Mickorod Renard: but these days it is something that I prefer to give, if posible, without question or seeking reward
Mickorod Renard: ans oddly, i seem to feel happy being kind and that is reward anyway
Aphrodite Macbain: kindness is its own reward?
Mickorod Renard: I think so
Aphrodite Macbain: Tomorrow is International Kindness Day Mick
Aphrodite Macbain: something new, right Fc?
iwandertoo Resident: seems silly to me
Mickorod Renard: its like choosing a river to flow down and finding it a nice flow anyway
Aphrodite Macbain: why silly Susan - any more than International Human Rights day?
iwandertoo Resident: i think international kindness day is silly (for me)

FcSeeker Resident: just love to sit between :)))

Santoshima Resident: Fc :)))))

FcSeeker Resident: <3

Aphrodite Macbain: an Fc sandwich lol
FcSeeker Resident: giggles

Aphrodite Macbain: yes, but I think the purpose is to encourage awareness and discussions on the topic, and, who knows, new actions taken as a result
iwandertoo Resident: doesnt resonate

Mickorod Renard: I can reveal something I have found about myself though,,re kindness
Mickorod Renard: sometimes when I find things are going wrong,I get frustrated and get the desire to be unkind,to let off steam, but I cant do it now

stevenaia Michinaga: why not? Mick
Aphrodite Macbain: you can't do it now because of a new awareness?
Mickorod Renard: I dont know for sure
FcSeeker Resident: ...steam melting to cool water here ?
stevenaia Michinaga: letting go of frustration is the key
Mickorod Renard: perhaps
iwandertoo Resident: seeing/understanding the contradiction and recognizing the error
FcSeeker Resident: mostly the truth is that frustration is caused by not seeing what's truly happening in one's life...
Mickorod Renard: I dont think you have to pass on your frustrations to others,,you can just drop it
Aphrodite Macbain: yes. awareness
Santoshima Resident: yes
iwandertoo Resident: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: emotional intelligence?
Santoshima Resident: the "leave it alone" approach
FcSeeker Resident: when comes to 'between' people it's to see more of the truth ...
stevenaia Michinaga: the only thing for me worse than unkindness is realizing it after I am unkind, and usually there is no reason for it
Aphrodite Macbain: the "don't stoke the flame' approach
Aphrodite Macbain nods at Steve
Mickorod Renard: I think its relative too,,what a kind person see's as their unkindness may not be that bad anyway,,but just feels it
iwandertoo Resident: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: If it feels bad to them then it's real I guess
FcSeeker Resident: ...deja vu'...
stevenaia Michinaga: how it feels should be the arbitor of kindness/unkindness
iwandertoo Resident: disagree...
Mickorod Renard: I think I am more unkind to myself,,I need to work on that
iwandertoo Resident: just feelings
iwandertoo Resident: ?
iwandertoo Resident: emotions deciding kindness?
iwandertoo Resident: only?
FcSeeker Resident: think not
--BELL--
FcSeeker Resident: it's also the choice
Bruce Mowbray will drop frustration now.
Aphrodite Macbain: you mean rational judgement as well Susan?
Aphrodite Macbain: 90 seconds...
stevenaia Michinaga: shhh
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)

Bruce Mowbray relates closely to Mick's difficulty in forgiving himself.
Mickorod Renard: :)
Mickorod Renard: without knowing how everyone else feels,,inside their heads,,its hard to know how one should feel about things
Aphrodite Macbain: We are our own drivers in the end and act alone

Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! San
Santoshima Resident: bye folks, thank you for this ~ shantih
Mickorod Renard: bye santa
Santoshima Resident: hohoho
Aphrodite Macbain: shantih
iwandertoo Resident: tc, santoshima
stevenaia Michinaga: bye San
FcSeeker Resident: waves to san
Mickorod Renard: I must go too,,just wanted to check Micko the avi out,,he has been resurrected
Bruce Mowbray: Bye, Mick --WONDERFUL offerings today! Thank you!
iwandertoo Resident: tc, Mickorod
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Mick, gtsy
FcSeeker Resident: bye Mick
Mickorod Renard: my pleasure,,thankyou all
Mickorod Renard: byeeeeeee
Aphrodite Macbain: Nice you were able to come Micko
Aphrodite Macbain: Poof
Aphrodite Macbain: I have this 18 lb cat that I keep having to move off my keyboard
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Aphrodite Macbain: Thank you all for your kindness and participation

Aphrodite Macbain: I must go and do a few kind deeds in RL now.
FcSeeker Resident: waves to Aphrodite
stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy
iwandertoo Resident: tc, aphrodite
Bruce Mowbray: Bye, Aph!
Aphrodite Macbain: IM me if you have two lines of poetry to add!
stevenaia Michinaga: toughto fit lines comfortably among for me
Bruce Mowbray: I love poetry -- so I have a bit of a "problem" writing two lines to "ADD" to what is there.
Bruce Mowbray: Nevertheless, I have done so, but they are not in the poster yet.
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
iwandertoo Resident: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: Poetry is new to me, barely can apprciate it let along write it with intent
iwandertoo Resident: love poetry...
Bruce Mowbray: Here is what I wrote for the Peace Poem:
Bruce Mowbray: Peace reveals herself to us as flowers bloom to fields: With hushed - though aching - vivid voice that full acceptance yields.
Bruce Mowbray: (obtuse, no?)
iwandertoo Resident: i like it bruce
Bruce Mowbray: ty! I really should be getting some supper together.
Bruce Mowbray: So, may you all be well and happy and kind!
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Bruce
iwandertoo Resident: tc, bruce
Bruce Mowbray: bye for now.
FcSeeker Resident: waves to Bruce
FcSeeker Resident: here's what I wrote
--BELL--
FcSeeker Resident: ...silence...shh....silence....melody of love
FcSeeker Resident: melody bringing the peace...shh...silence...shh
iwandertoo Resident: :)
FcSeeker Resident: takes a humble bow
FcSeeker Resident: namaste
iwandertoo Resident: tc, fcseeker