C. Month of October

October 1 was the half year anniversary of Play as Being.

Kira Cafe

At the beginning of the month, Storm was busy putting the finishing touches to the Kira Cafe. It was to use 3000 prims. The Cafe had two main areas: Bar, Fireside and Lounge (to the north) and Restaurant and Gallery (to the south). The rest of the Kira board were busy with preparations for the events that would take place soon. The Kira Cafe opened on October 7 with a happy hour and also language sessions: Japanese, French, German, Dutch and Finnnish. The Cafe also brought together Kira alumni. It was to be a place open 24 hours at which peiople would meet and socialize and talk about science and ways of knowing.

PaB Fest in Princeton

The first PaB Fest was held at Princeton on the weekend of October 17-19. Much of the attention of the group was focused on the event both before and after. In the days preceding those of us, who would be able to attend, anticipated what it would feel like. Two of us visited the area in the preceding weeks and could feel the energy. Many of the attendees had guardian sessions over the weekend. In a wonderful gesture, guardians who were not atending voolunteered to fill very one of those sessions.

A third of the group, thirteen real life avatars met for a series in discussions, walks and meals. It was the first time many of us had met each other and the general feeling was that there were no real surprises. On Sunday morning some of the group joined the rest of the avatars in a session on Second Life. There was great interest afterwards about what it felt like to meet in real life.

Moving Logs to Wiki

Pia, Solobill, Sylectra and Adams moved the chat logs from the blog to the Wiki so all the logs would be at one site. It is easier to go to individual logs and also to search all the logs on the Wiki.

Taste of October:

On October 3 07:00 Quen sat alone at the pavilion and penned this poetical passage about time:

Time flies lately, it seems slowly speeding up every day an unnoticeable little bit to gradually complicate life more. When I was young, an hour was endless, you could play all day, you had all the time in the world. Waiting for nice things, birthdays, the first day of the opening of the municipal swimming pool… it took ages. But advancing to new levels in life, time speeded up. It is like a videogame, every level gets more complicated and time becomes more pressuring. Life like Tetris… Only what is the purpose of the game and what are all the rules? Need to work on 'skills', so the pressure of time is relatively less prominent. Most games you always loose in the end, you cannot play it forever, at some point you loose all your lifes and you get a score. And you try again. Though there are some adventure games which can be played till the end, if you try over and over. So you will discover everything it has to offer. I am not a gamer, I found that I don't really like it. But maybe I am…

Love and Energy (October 11 07:00)

stevenaia Michinaga: there are people who have difficulty with love and the energy it transmit within and without an individual and within a group
stevenaia Michinaga: yet, love of art, people, things is very directed and intense
Maxine Walden: yes, different relationships or perceptions about 'love' perhaps, feeling threatened or imposed upon by it
Pia Iger ponders why people have difficulty with love and the energy?
stevenaia Michinaga: I find it compounds itself, more love creates more love, a chain reaction of intensity
Maxine Walden: But it feels that we all are 'in relation' in some way, whether we accept it or not, feel nourished or bothered by it. How we relate to that 'relatedness' seems important
Maxine Walden: Oh, I can see why some people are bothered by 'love': they feel that their independence and autonomy are being intruded upon...something like that
Pia Iger: then what can help us to accept the relatedness better?
Maxine Walden: When I feel very tired or pre-occupied I can feel that way, 'just want to be left alone'. I think that recognizing the vulnerability to 'wishing to be left alone' is very helpful re accepting the relatedness, and seeing that it is one's own difficulty at the moment and not that of the love/relatedness

New Guardians:

Geo Netizen accepted a guardianship in October bringing the number of guardians to 37.