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    January 2010! Play as Being sees a new number at the end of the date, and a new chronicler. This is a continuation of the story of Play As Being... and there are many voices that I hear from the Play as Being group, both in and out of the logs. I am one of many participants… It's like I'm standing on one surface of a prism: I am one point of view among many viewing points. I wish to refract as many views here as possible.

    This is Your chronicles for your experiences Playing as Being.

    Anything you want to see here, any suggestions you’d like to make, please email me at sophiasharon@comcast.net. You can send this to me via email or as a notecard/IM in second life... any text, thoughts, poems, comments that have to do with Play as Being as a whole, and I will add it to the monthly chronicle.

    Your suggestions can enrich this experience for us all.

    ~Sharon

     

    January 2010

     

    Theme Sessions

    The month of January started with Theme Sessions…

    The third installment of YS, ES, BS: January 4 More on YS, ES, BS

    The fourth installment on Facilitation: January 5 Space In Tension Ality

    The fifth installment on Struggle: Struggle theme session 5

     

    Opening of the Five Bells

    On January 17, Storm sent out an email announcing the new Five Bells Village Pub in Bieup.

    Storm writes:

    ...I chose the Five Bells to match the number of meditation bells at the start, end and during a one hour PaB session. Inside the Five Bells, you will find seating for 10 people around a cozy fireside. There are games to play: traditional pub darts, mini-go, and a chess table with an additional two chairs. To drink there is Greene King India Pale Ale or Guinness from the bar, or there is a Moroccan tea service by the fire. If you need to freshen up before leaving, there is even espresso coffee at the bar. There are two candles always lit inside, and two torches at the doorway that light only in hours of darkness....In email #2: ...the pub is now set in a small apple orchard - and we've already gone wassailing to ensure a good harvest for cider later in the year - and there are grasses and more flowers on the garden outside; there's a new traditional inn sign outside the door, on a pole with five bells as part of it (in addition to the existing one on the south wall) and you may hear a distant chime every 15 minutes; the fire now crackles invitingly and you may also hear an occasional distant flurry of birdsong.

    The Five Bells also comes with it's own Cat-In-Residence. A  “Name that Cat” competition commenced in January (which was not really a competition). The cats name was announced in February. ;)

     

     Malta Retreat January 25 - 29

     

    The biggest event for the month of January was the Malta Retreat January 25 - 29. I'd like to include every single wonderful thing that arose as topics as a result from the Malta theme session. Rather than repeating what has been documented quite extensively here in the wiki, please see the following links for rich, detailed accounts of the Malta retreatants experiences.

    About Malta:

    2010-01 Malta
    PaB_Retreats/2010-01_Malta/2010-Malta-Accounts

    Retretants accounts of the experience:

    2010-Malta-Accounts

     

     

    Guardian Meetings

    2010.01.03 08:00 - Guardians Seeing PaB

    2010.01.10 08:00 - Guardian Retreats

    2010.01.17 08:00 - Guardian Session: Sticking to the Topic

    2010.01.24 08:00 - Guardian Session: Ways of Sharing

     

    Working Group 

    2010.01.12 14:00 - Working Group Meeting

     

    The working group took a break January 19 and 26, which was well deserved!!!

    January Guardians

    The new guardian for January was Liza Deischer. At the end of January, there were 70 guardians.


    January Scribes

    The scribes for January were Storm Nordwind, Eliza Madrigal, Vendy Walpole, Calvino Rabeni, Gaya Ethaniel, Arisia Vita, and SophiaSharon Larnia.



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