2017.03.27 07:00 - Sita Sings the Blues

Riddle, Eden and Adams on a dark rainy Monday morning

Eden Haiku: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Good Day Eden:)
Riddle Sideways: made it
Eden Haiku: :)
Riddle Sideways: did your plot have radio/TV today?
Eden Haiku: Ah ... no...
Eden Haiku: Wonderful!
Eden Haiku: It's gone!
Eden Haiku: Yours?
Riddle Sideways: not here either
Eden Haiku: Here is fine too
Riddle Sideways: yes, Bunbun is listening to commercials
Riddle Sideways: for baby nose wiping tissues
Eden Haiku: Sometimes things fix themselves by themselves. Oh no, still on your plot?
Riddle Sideways: back on plot, was gone for a while
Riddle Sideways: welcome, leaping Adams
Eden Haiku: Poor Bunbun, he will get all the ads :(
Eden Haiku: Hey Adams :)
Adams Rubble: Good morning Eden and Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: always smiling thinking of Roo and Tigger when Adams leaps in
Riddle Sideways: a most delightful way to travel
Riddle Sideways: made out of spring
Riddle Sideways: ss
Eden Haiku: smiles
Riddle Sideways: with all the fun stuff to do this weekend, listening to news was skipped
Riddle Sideways:in much of a good mood today
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: Skipping the news and leapimg seems to be am excellent idea !
Riddle Sideways: yes, it does
Adams Rubble: We are getting April Showers today but last weeks February weather is still sitting on the ground.
Riddle Sideways: weather seems to not be in March there?
Eden Haiku: Yes, same here Adams. How did you manage in the huge snowstorm?
Adams Rubble: we have had lots of March winds the past couple of weeks :)
Adams Rubble: it wasn't as huge as it could have beem
Adams Rubble: Northwest of here has been getting it worse
Riddle Sideways: the ol "it could be worse"
Adams Rubble: we only had about 8 inches

The Sacrifice of Abraham 

Adams Rubble: Yesterday I was at an interfaith event at an islamic Center
Eden Haiku: In Montreal, it's been worse than it was expected, all over Quebec in fact, Five people die, trapped in their car or hurt by a snow machine....
Riddle Sideways: oh! great Adams
Adams Rubble: A rabbi got up and spoke about the Sacrifice of Abraham
Eden Haiku: listening
Adams Rubble: naturally my ears perked up
Riddle Sideways: :)
Adams Rubble: he had a new twist that I had not heard
Adams Rubble: He went through the story adding that Abraham had to ask which son because he had two
Adams Rubble: God said Isaac, not Ishmael
Adams Rubble: Abraham took his son up the mountain, put him on the "funerary pyre" and lifted up is knife for the sacrifice
Riddle Sideways: that is the trickiest part of translations
Adams Rubble: and God said "You got it"
Adams Rubble: stay tuned

--BELL--

Adams Rubble: (excuse me had a little accident during the mindfulness)
Adams Rubble: back to normal
Eden Haiku: :)
Adams Rubble: The Rabbi went on
Riddle Sideways: :)
Adams Rubble:   he said that what Abraham did was to face his fears--  he would lose the things most important to him; and he would be the instrument for the loss
Adams Rubble: God was telling him that he did it
Adams Rubble: and the Rabbi added that God never spoke to Abraham again--because he did not need to
Adams Rubble: that's it
Adams Rubble: The Rabbi told the story better than I did :)
Eden Haiku: Abraham test is still very very hard to understand...
Adams Rubble can sense bewildered looks
Riddle Sideways: the picking of one of the sons is troubling
Eden Haiku: To kill a child because some voice of God is telling you to....
Riddle Sideways: Torah, reads take "The" son, which you love
Adams Rubble: Did you see the exhibit at the old museum on this story Eden?
Riddle Sideways: or is translated that way
Adams Rubble: oh Riddle, interesting
Eden Haiku: No, not yet Adams:)
Adams Rubble: It is gone unfortunately
Eden Haiku: "The" son that you love, wow, even harder...
Eden Haiku: Oh, sad, can you summarize what the exhibit showed?
Adams Rubble:It looked at the story from the Jewish, Islamic and Christian viewpoints and also from that of Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Sarah, God and the Lamb
Adams Rubble: since the story is troubling, there has been mountains of literature written about it
Eden Haiku: Many viewpoints, wondering what the lamb's point of view was :(
Eden Haiku: Even killing a lamb, I would hesitate...
Adams Rubble is trying to remember
Riddle Sideways: and Sarah trials in all this
Adams Rubble: It was wrapped up with Christian theology
Adams Rubble: the sacrifice of the lamb
Riddle Sideways: and what Ishmael thought in all this story
Eden Haiku: Saw "Battlefield" by Peter Brook last Friday. After the Mahabharata battle, when all the cousins had killed each other
Adams Rubble: Sarah is sometimes a willing participant but other times tells Abraham don’t ake my son up the mountain while you are drunk on God
Adams Rubble: I do not know about that movie
Eden Haiku: "drunk on God",,, loves the expression....
Adams Rubble: Is that part of the big Mahabarata film?
Eden Haiku: It was a play with African actors and one white Bristish one.
Eden Haiku: So amazing
Eden Haiku: Same questioning of "killing"
Eden Haiku: in hindouism too, it's like your duty sometimes to have to kill, even one of your own blood.
Eden Haiku: They call it Dharma
Eden Haiku: Very puzzling too
Adams Rubble: the participants carrying out their roles
Adams Rubble: lots of stuff in that Mahabarata :)
Eden Haiku: Did the rabbi offer an explanation Adams?
Adams Rubble: that was all he said that I remember and I took notes
Adams Rubble: but fear was a topic of an interfaith at a time when Jews and Muslims (and Sikhs) are being attacked
Adams Rubble: so he may have fit the story to the talk about fear
Eden Haiku: Yes, very actual...
Riddle Sideways: so, many twists available that the story can fit so many gathering
Eden Haiku: A friend of mine, who was travelling from France with her students had crossed Westminster bridge 2 hours before the attack...
Adams Rubble: ohhhhh

The same, as seen from the back
 

--BELL--  

Abrahamic Alliance meeting and Hindu epic songs

Riddle Sideways: close
Riddle Sideways: there was an Abrahamic alliance international meeting here also this weekend
Adams Rubble: what is that?
Riddle Sideways: gave my ticket to partner instead of going
Eden Haiku: Did she made a good resume for you Riddle?
Riddle Sideways: had been 3 times before and partner needed to see the kids there
Eden Haiku: remembers that you had a fantastic experience at these meetings Riddle;)
Riddle Sideways: it is the interfaith thing like Adams went to
Riddle Sideways: yes!
Eden Haiku: Did your partner enjoyed it as much?
Riddle Sideways: so L wnanted/needed to do it
Riddle Sideways:from now on, both of us will go :)
Eden Haiku: Great!
Adams Rubble: So many events are being held these days
Riddle Sideways: last couple times, it has been later in day, so evening prayers have happened and is quite something
Adams Rubble: have to make choices
Riddle Sideways: well... one choice was to go to a party and play rock-n-roll for hours :}
Eden Haiku: There was a monologue at the end of Brook's play about the dark age when men are killing their wives and 6 years old girls are giving birth and so on... will try to find it in the ¨Mahabharata:. It was powerful.
Riddle Sideways: not as rightous
Eden Haiku: Rock and roller forever Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: There is a frieze of the Mahabarata at the Ellora exhibit in Cave 16
Riddle Sideways: oh dear, Eden, not happy part
Adams Rubble: The first mention of a female diety in Hinduism is in the Mahabarata
Eden Haiku: Apocalyptic times are part of Hindu culure. Thanks Adams, will check that at the Museum...
Adams Rubble: Krishna tells Arjuna to pray to Uma before the battle
Adams Rubble: Uma is Parvati and many other "divine mothers"
Adams Rubble: Yes, the Hindus believe in cyclical time--close to big bang theories :)
Eden Haiku: At the end of the ¨Ramayana¨, Arjuna is resolved. He will go to battle as Krishna commands that it is his duty, his dharma: "I will do thy bidding".
Adams Rubble: Mahabarata?
Adams Rubble: there is a frieze for the Ramayana there too
Eden Haiku: Well, I'm jumping from one epic song to the other. I know the ¨Ramayana» much better.
Adams Rubble: Have you seen the film "Sita sings the Blues?"
Riddle Sideways: no. is added to the list
Adams Rubble: it is fabulous
Eden Haiku: In fact, I was so inspired by the play this week end, that I wanted to create a solo performance of the ¨Ramayana¨. I have been telling the story in schools for many years, with the students. This time, I would love to create it as a play. But that's very ambitious!
Adams Rubble: http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/ [or: https://youtu.be/RzTg7YXuy34 to watch outside the US]
Adams Rubble: rl interruption - will be back
Eden Haiku: Oh, thanks Adams. I would love to watch this. Thanks for the link!
Eden Haiku: during the pause
Eden Haiku: I watched adrenalin shooting through my body

--BELL--

Life is like that

Eden Haiku: enthusiasm
Riddle Sideways: darn rl. always getting in there and being demanding
Adams Rubble is back
Eden Haiku: :)
Adams Rubble wants to watch Sita again :)
Riddle Sideways: ok, permission granted
Riddle Sideways: :))
Eden Haiku: but I have to put my priorities in dorder
Eden Haiku: *order
Riddle Sideways: like that "dorder"
Eden Haiku: to survive winter
Adams Rubble: putting priorities in disorder
Eden Haiku: and to start last proofreading of my novel
Riddle Sideways: dorder could go either way
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: a little of this, and a little of that
Eden Haiku: loves dorder yes :)
Adams Rubble: life is like that
Riddle Sideways: yes it is
Eden Haiku: life is like that yes....
Eden Haiku: Contraries
Eden Haiku: contrasts
Eden Haiku: this and that
Eden Haiku: black and white
Eden Haiku: yin and yang
Eden Haiku: imperfect and perfect
Adams Rubble: Virtual life and real life
Eden Haiku: yes and no
Riddle Sideways: rl wall behind this monitor's view into virtual, now has a B.Kliban calendar
Adams Rubble: what is that?
Riddle Sideways: March has black and white of cat under a car

Cat under the weather as a monitor view

Riddle Sideways: watching rain drops in puddle
Riddle Sideways: with reflection
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: :)
Riddle Sideways: mona lisa, maybe smile, as cats can do
Eden Haiku: It's raining all over it seems :)
Riddle Sideways: a month of looking at that
Adams Rubble: Outside my window are rain drops on the window and little drops hanging from the branches of the tree
Eden Haiku: does it mean we three are all 'under the weather"?
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: of course it does
Adams Rubble: weather getting very pushy lately :)
Eden Haiku: listened to the rain when I woke up
Eden Haiku: it has a soothing power the rain
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: except when one is bicycling
Riddle Sideways: or playing electric instrument
Adams Rubble: then a different effect
Adams Rubble: hehe Riddle, yes
Eden Haiku: hiiiiiii
Eden Haiku: or resolved to walk 10,000 steps :)
Riddle Sideways: testing if url works: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwiqvPy5-PbSAhVO32MKHdZEBRwQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fcarolnana1%2Fkliban-cats%2F&psig=AFQjCNHTWW7mJndg5qgx5xS5wURe-yOD1A&ust=1490712873153810&cad=[ unfortunately, the link doesn't work ]
Adams Rubble: Can one play an electronic instrument in the rain without fear?
Adams Rubble: link sends me to a redirect page
Eden Haiku: waiting for my desktop computer to heal itself of his Internet access
Riddle Sideways: one can do anything .. without fear :}
Adams Rubble: ohh Kliban cats
Riddle Sideways: but does one
Eden Haiku: my email healed itself magically
Eden Haiku: so I expect as much from computer now :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: try https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a6/6a/15/a66a15bb7b821aff8f9ac68f9614c437.jpg

Fish music

Adams Rubble: we discussed the fish music at the guardian meeting last Saturday
Riddle Sideways: oh! really?
Adams Rubble: it is coming from Eliza's piano
Eden Haiku: oh the fish music...
Riddle Sideways: not read it yet
Eden Haiku: AH!
Adams Rubble: thanks riddle
Riddle Sideways: on Eliza's plot?
Adams Rubble: yes
Riddle Sideways: please editor, fix the links
Adams Rubble: they are working on turning it off
Adams Rubble: I hear the editor is very efficient
Eden Haiku: ok, will try :)
Riddle Sideways: how does one find where the commercials are coming from
Adams Rubble: commercials?
Riddle Sideways: little plot has TV or radio on today
Adams Rubble: oh

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: this time english tissue commericial
Adams Rubble: ah choo
Eden Haiku: and Mexican telenovellas...Not today for me, but used to play for days
Riddle Sideways: yes, had those too
Adams Rubble: you can set the stations on your plot
Riddle Sideways: that setting is blank
Adams Rubble: unless coming from someone else's plot
Eden Haiku: very annoying when you discuss the nature of reality :)
Adams Rubble: I did not know they could carry over
Eden Haiku: Maybe it’s from the same piano?
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: tried to be detective about the case, but did not have the tool set
Adams Rubble: one needs a right clicker on neighboring plots
Riddle Sideways: busy day today: Ishmael, Sita, recycling, SL media/objects/something
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: put Sita at the top :)
Riddle Sideways: ok, thank you
Eden Haiku: Noticed during the pause I'm so much pulled outside of consciousness
Adams Rubble: does a very good job working in South and Southeast Asian art
Eden Haiku: Yes, will check Sita! Thanks Adams
Adams Rubble: Thank you for your presence and inspiration :)
Adams Rubble: have a wonderful day
Eden Haiku: Thanks to you Adams
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: thank you
Eden Haiku: Have a great day you both and thank you for being here :)
Riddle Sideways: and pooh read over the busy todo list ...
Riddle Sideways: must get started on it
Riddle Sideways: fun way to start the day
Eden Haiku: Happy recycling Riddle!
Riddle Sideways: yes