2019.06.17 07:00 - Impermanence

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

 

Critters and varmints

 

Eden Haiku: Good morning Adams!

Adams Rubble: Good morning Eden :)

Eden Haiku: Thanks for waving, I was lost in my phone and my twtitterline :)

Adams Rubble: soon will be summer

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku: You look beautiful in this light blue :)

Adams Rubble: I was kind of lost in figuring out what to do next :)

Adams Rubble: Thank you, I like your outfit

Adams Rubble: I may have to leave early if the car gets back; it needs to go to the shop

 

--BELL--

 

Adams Rubble: Hello Riddle :)

Eden Haiku: I came in here around 10:01, looked at my phone for one instant I swear and I realize it's 10:14... Sorry I made you waiting :)

Adams Rubble: I just got here

Eden Haiku: Phew!

Eden Haiku: Good morning Riddle:)

Riddle Sideways: Morning All

Riddle Sideways: devices not working so good today

Eden Haiku: ahhh, devices ...

Eden Haiku: Still trying to take snapshots even though I still have problems posting them

Adams Rubble: Our internet was out for 24 hours last week but the squirrel had a dandy wire chew

Eden Haiku: Oh!!!

Eden Haiku: Squirrels do that?

Adams Rubble: yes, four houses were out next door and across the street from each other and the technicians checked everything first before the box that serves the four houses

Riddle Sideways: yes, similar story here

Riddle Sideways: the problem MUST be in your house

Riddle Sideways: and all the houses on this block

Riddle Sideways: have heard this story last week

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku: Hungry squirrels in the US. Here they are frozen most of the time. But today is bright and rather warm:)

Adams Rubble invisions all the frozen squirrels

Eden Haiku: yeek...

Riddle Sideways: Bring Out Yer Squirrels

Eden Haiku: Freaky image for a Monday morning, sorry Adams :)

Eden Haiku: Typos typos typos...

Adams Rubble: When we look out on our small backyard Eden, one sees at least 8 squirrels running around chewing on everything they can find. It was nore like a dream Eden :).

Adams Rubble whacks herself on the side of the head for her evil thoughts

Eden Haiku: gentle gentle Adams :)

Riddle Sideways: there  is a critter called a Vole that has invaded the area and eats insulation off wires more than mice, rats and squirrels

Eden Haiku: Oh!

Riddle Sideways: more ground level wires

Adams Rubble: is that the first time we have meditated on pesky varments?

Riddle Sideways: perhaps

Eden Haiku: perhaps and most certainly :)

 

--BELL--

 

Riddle Sideways: have meditated on turkeys before

Eden Haiku: yes!

Riddle Sideways: and deer

Eden Haiku: Learning an abundance of new words: critters, varmints...

Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: haha

Eden Haiku: Can't wait to meet the deer again in a few weeks ;)

Adams Rubble: good to know those words if you ever want to watch "Beverly Hillbillies"

Riddle Sideways: wonders about the drawn out drawl 'Critters' (like said in Olde West Movies) with a French accent

Eden Haiku: Have to finish up poetry book, meet the publisher, do laundry, have nails done and pack before. And also check all  the places I use my credit card online because I got the new one. Such a long day ahead...

Adams Rubble: I am going to have to go. The car is back

Adams Rubble: bye for now.

Eden Haiku: Bye for now Adams :)

Riddle Sideways: by Adams

Riddle Sideways: was little one today?

Eden Haiku: Have 14 days to do that :)

Riddle Sideways: most of those online CC accounts are good to leave as the old card and watch them complain ;)

Eden Haiku: But when I reach for PayPal, SecondLife, WordPress, Vimeo and so on where I use my online credit card, it takes ups a whole day...

Eden Haiku: Right, I just enjoy that maybe :)

Eden Haiku: Tha't a point of view :)

Eden Haiku: I always feel it's dangerous, but I guess it's not...

Eden Haiku: They started sending emails 3 weeks ago but I was too busy to start the process. Old card is good until the end of June.

Riddle Sideways: of course when you want to impulse buy a trinket riding in the car, it is hard to enter the new card info

Riddle Sideways: Whoops, meant "an important addition to your Life"

Eden Haiku: smiles

Eden Haiku: I sweat a lot about small stuff, do you?

Riddle Sideways: some times

Riddle Sideways: have a 'designated worrier' in the house

Riddle Sideways: it is our Partnership

Eden Haiku: Remembering a time when I was so much in love I had no care in the world :)

Riddle Sideways: ah

Riddle Sideways: see that is movies now :))

Eden Haiku: yes :)

Eden Haiku: Or when I was living in a meditation center in India, merging with sanskrit chants and incense fragrances, lost to the world

Riddle Sideways: such a nice place

Riddle Sideways: to be lost to the world

Eden Haiku: Yep, living like a child

 

--BELL--

 

A sick friend

 

Eden Haiku: Everything being taken care of by the guru (and her disciples)

Riddle Sideways: visiting a sick friend saying the same things. People taking care of everything for him, busy around him, get him to hospital, poke and prod him, dress him, take him home. Childlike

Eden Haiku: oh, that's a sad thing for him though I guess...

Eden Haiku: is he very sick?

Riddle Sideways: think so. we'll see what the Great Doctors can do.

Riddle Sideways: 4th cancer in 6 years

Eden Haiku: Sorry to hear....

Riddle Sideways: is so sorry for the rest of us, but he has that attitude

Riddle Sideways: of ok

Riddle Sideways: very much like the sanskrit student

Eden Haiku: Good for him, but it must be sad to witness...

Riddle Sideways: yes. Yet, there is the witnessing the Others around him

Eden Haiku: Yes

Riddle Sideways: and their hand-wringing

Riddle Sideways: the mood swings of his wife

Eden Haiku: Feeling so powerless

Eden Haiku: Hard for his wife for sure...

Eden Haiku: My mother-in-law started taking morphine pills, a baby dose, but still...

Eden Haiku: She's 92... and we worry she will have to take that till the end of her life.

Eden Haiku: She's still living in her apartment in a home and has lots of help and a social life but the doctor detected a growing mass...

Eden Haiku: Impermanence

Riddle Sideways: yes

Riddle Sideways: and the affects it has on Others

Riddle Sideways: usually looking at the impermanence of the sick person

Riddle Sideways: but, all those others attending that person

Eden Haiku: it reminds us of our own impermanence though

Eden Haiku: yes, the people around the sick ones are always very affected

Eden Haiku: Hope your friend feels better Riddle. Is he a close friend?

Riddle Sideways: pretty close. played music, raised kids, celebrated holidays

 

--BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: Oh yes, a long-term friendship, so many memories together...

Riddle Sideways: a son wondering how he and his new wife can do their NY jobs from Cal to be here

Riddle Sideways: the other son, saying that he should have gone to med school instead of law to help his dad

Eden Haiku: How nice of them... a man your son have known for all his life I suppose. It feels important to be near his father and his friend.

Riddle Sideways: his son

Eden Haiku: oh you meant his sons, sorry, I imisunderstood

Riddle Sideways: a couple of years ago, he spent a lot of time with a mutual music friend that was dying of cancer

Eden Haiku: Nice

Riddle Sideways: and so many are trying to be there now for him

Eden Haiku: That's wonderful

Riddle Sideways: yet, he has been ready for death a couple times already

Eden Haiku: 6th cancer you said?

Riddle Sideways: 4th cancer in 6 years

Eden Haiku: Oh yes, a terrible ordeal...

Riddle Sideways: and different places in his body

Eden Haiku: Metastasing probably

Riddle Sideways: he like knows that place, mindset, space

Eden Haiku: He's been preparing his death but still...

Riddle Sideways: but still, the others around him are not ready

Eden Haiku: remembers her father "bracing" to face his death, months before doctors found out what he had

Eden Haiku: Must be hard for the wife and the sons yes.

Eden Haiku: They will need your support

Riddle Sideways: and another friend, who had been very sick and not mentally there for a year or more, died last week

Riddle Sideways: he had married his nurse several years before

Eden Haiku: oh, Riddle, that's a lot...

Riddle Sideways: she finally brought in a hospital bed for him to stay at home

Riddle Sideways: and he was put in it. something made him decide it was the end

Eden Haiku: My father decided to go two days before the hospital bed was going to be brought in by the nurse...

Riddle Sideways: there are others that seem to stay barely alive until their great grand child is brought to see them

Eden Haiku: Yes, everyone has personal ways of handling their death. I realize I want my own death in a far-away future... But who knows?

Eden Haiku: What about you Riddle, do you feel ready to even envision your own mortality?

Riddle Sideways: yes! the plan to drive off a mountain road at 111 years old

 

--BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: Beautiful! Will you give me a lift?

Eden Haiku: onigokko

Riddle Sideways: or shot by a jealous husband at 114

Riddle Sideways: Joy

Eden Haiku: stop

Eden Haiku: onigokko

Riddle Sideways: there

Riddle Sideways: always gives a smile

Eden Haiku: A jealous husband at 114 that's a niceone too!!

Eden Haiku: Dancing makes us so happy doesn't it?

Riddle Sideways: yes

Eden Haiku: stop

Riddle Sideways: (need to check) hope you heeded the advice that you should NOT listen to the MOTH

Eden Haiku: Was a street fair in my neigborhood yesterday. A cafe had a singer playing old songs and people were dancing. We joined for a while my companion and I and it wasw so much fun!

Eden Haiku: I did listen to one of the stories but I wasn't thrilled. Will try again.

Riddle Sideways: ah, young love dancing

Eden Haiku: I love listening to podcasts as I walk

Eden Haiku: Well, not exactly young love :)

Riddle Sideways: careful, they are addicting when they get you

Eden Haiku: smiles

Eden Haiku: I wanted to get addicted

Riddle Sideways: Adams said something weeks/months ago

Eden Haiku: But I guess some stories are better than others

Riddle Sideways: yes

Eden Haiku: What did Adams say?

Riddle Sideways: about remembering to be so grateful for those around us that love us

Riddle Sideways: that we share life with

Eden Haiku: Oh that is so true.

Eden Haiku: I do have this gratefulness

Eden Haiku: And I do tell him

Eden Haiku: And buy him flowers :)

Riddle Sideways: it is hard, during the moments and daily little things

Eden Haiku: Give him hugs

Riddle Sideways: GREAT

Eden Haiku: And thank him for listening to me

Riddle Sideways: so great

Eden Haiku: And I'm grateful to YOU Riddle, for being here on Monday mornings, sharing thoughts and feelings, stories

Eden Haiku: Links and typos :)))

Riddle Sideways: ah so love typos

Eden Haiku: You made me love them. As a former teacher I was a little on my high horses about typos

before

Eden Haiku: now I make them with joy myself

Riddle Sideways: oh Great

Riddle Sideways: Joy and laughter

Eden Haiku: typos do bring joys and windows into words and other realities as well, unexpected twists and turns

Riddle Sideways: oh look! what this brain did this time

Eden Haiku: yep!

Eden Haiku: and fingers on typepads doing their own thing

Riddle Sideways: yes, have that now too

Eden Haiku: Stretching and looking at the time

Eden Haiku: typoeing awayà

Riddle Sideways: Well, today's recycling and garbage is larger than usual. Need to sneak some into the neaghbor's cans

Eden Haiku: Sneaky Riddle :)

Riddle Sideways: and still starter stuff for next week

 

--BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: Wishing you a great day. Hope everything goes well with your friend and his family, whatever they have to go through...

Riddle Sideways: oh! probably not here next Monday

Eden Haiku: have a wonderful day and a great week Riddle., Ah ok, no problem Riddle.

Riddle Sideways: going to a festival and maybe not home until late Monday

Riddle Sideways: and you pack, nails, and CCs

Riddle Sideways: a nice fun day

Riddle Sideways: enjoy it

Riddle Sideways: sorry beel

Eden Haiku: A festival where you are playing? Have fun! Oh, I will be here. Maybe missing on July 1st though, if it's a Monday.

Eden Haiku: Soory beel :)))

Eden Haiku: Take care dear Riddle :))

Riddle Sideways: take care