2018.12.31 07:00 - New Year’s Eve

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

Eden, Bleu and Adams on December 31st morning session

New Year greetings

Bleu Oleander: 's current display-name is "Bleu".
Bleu Oleander: hi Eden! happy new year!

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Bleu Oleander: hi Adams happy new year!
Adams Rubble: Good morning Eden and Bleu :)
Eden Haiku: Good morning Adams and Bleu :)
Eden Haiku: And Happy New Year!
Adams Rubble: Happy almost New Year to you too :)
Eden Haiku: Almost New Year. yes!
Bleu Oleander: yes getting close!
Adams Rubble: the park was covered with frost this morning. The leaves on the ground were edged in white. The sun, filtered through the heavy cloud cover, was huge as it sat slightly above the horizon. I forgot to bring my camera.
Bleu Oleander: we had frost here of all places!
Bleu Oleander: early morning has been in the 30's brrrrr
Adams Rubble: The park sits low at the edge of the river and I guesss the moisture gathered there and froze over night
Eden Haiku: Your description is so precise and lively, it seems you really LOOKED Adams, that's beautiful!
Adams Rubble: wow Bleu. I was thinking you were roasting
Eden Haiku: Me too...
Bleu Oleander: nope
Bleu Oleander: been a little chilly and overcast today
Bleu Oleander: might even rain tonight
Adams Rubble: we're getting rain today
Eden Haiku: Raining in the desert...
Bleu Oleander: we do need it
Eden Haiku: A big snowstorm is coming our way
Adams Rubble: ouch
Adams Rubble is dreaming of a white New Year at eden's
Eden Haiku: We were so lucky yesterday for our New Year brunch: everybody could drive from Ottawa and Toronto on a chilly sunny day!
Bleu Oleander: nice :)
Adams Rubble: glad they made it ahead
Eden Haiku: You are welcome Adams :) The more the merrier!
Adams Rubble: has anyone heard from Riddle?
Eden Haiku: We celebrated yesterday and now they all are back to my brother's in Ottawa and the others who live in Montreal area are safely at home.
Adams Rubble: ohh, even better. Was thinking of them going back in the snow
Eden Haiku: Oh no, I didn't from him [Riddle] in the last two weeks I think...
Bleu Oleander:I've seen Riddle working on his skating rink
Eden Haiku: Hope it's only computer problems...
Adams Rubble: oh good. He was not at his session last week
Eden Haiku: Ah good, busy building and feasting!
Bleu Oleander: he came by and tested my installation

Movies and books

Bleu Oleander: anyone seen any good movies?
Eden Haiku: Ys, Roma. Loved it!
Bleu Oleander: we saw two very interesting ones ... yes Roma ... loved it too
Bleu Oleander: also saw the lobster
Eden Haiku: Saw it too, didn’t like it m uch
Bleu Oleander: tough film to watch
Bleu Oleander: I think Roma will win some awards
Bleu Oleander: it was beautiful
Eden Haiku: Yes, it already got the Silver Lion in Cannes I think

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Bleu Oleander: it was dedicated to his housekeeper ... very autobiographical
Eden Haiku: Such a compassionnate vision
Bleu Oleander: indeed
Bleu Oleander: just finished an interesting book too ... my year of rest and relaxation ...
Eden Haiku: Is it the title Bleu?
Bleu Oleander: btw, my friend just published a great book about her hike ... Shikoku - the 88 Temple Way ... in Japan
Bleu Oleander: yes Eden
Bleu Oleander: the hike took her 2 months, over 800 miles
Bleu Oleander: and her book is wonderful
Eden Haiku: A second book is it Bleu ?
Bleu Oleander: gorgeous photos
Bleu Oleander: yes
Eden Haiku: She must be a saint by now!
Bleu Oleander: its fascinating to read about her journey
Bleu Oleander: I had never heard of this before, but its well known in Japan of course
Eden Haiku: What an experience, to be walking on a pilgrimage as a way of life!
Bleu Oleander: yes
Bleu Oleander: its an amazing experience to read about it too
Bleu Oleander: she is from Vienna

Nine little elves

Eden and Adams

Eden Haiku: I was so moved seeing my brothers, their children and the nine little ones yesterday. So much joy! I still feel their glow...
Bleu Oleander: lovely
Adams Rubble: :)
Bleu Oleander: I must get going, but just wanted to stop in and say happy new year
Eden Haiku: It always brings up some sadness of not having children on my own after they have left though...
Bleu Oleander: hope 2019 is good for all
Adams Rubble: take care bleu :)
Bleu Oleander: bfn
Adams Rubble: hope things get better
Bleu Oleander: take care
Eden Haiku: Wishing you a year of rest and relaxation Bleu :)
Bleu Oleander: nice ty and you too :)
Eden Haiku: It's like a delighful aftershock Adams, a strange sensation.
Adams Rubble nods
Eden Haiku: I realize how much I missed
Eden Haiku: And yet I have to embrace my destiny as it is.
Eden Haiku: I'm so lucky to have these nine elves in my life, thanks to my brothers and their families.
Adams Rubble: so good that you can appreciate them
Eden Haiku: The five little ones who live in Ontario are being schooled in French now. They can say "Merci" and "Bonne année" and "Joyeux Noel".
Adams Rubble: we all have blessings in our lives--we just need to see them

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Adams Rubble: so English is their first language and French their second?
Eden Haiku: I missed many of your blog's articles Adams...
Adams Rubble: I have not been writing well
Eden Haiku: Yes. My nephew and niece were raised by their mother from [missing word: Newfoundland]. They speak French quite fluently [thanks to my brother who always spoke to them in French] , but with an accent, but their spouses are from Nova Scotia and Ontario, so they speak mainly English at home.
Eden Haiku: Mother is from Newfoundland
Eden Haiku: It's a very canadiana family :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Newfoundland speaks French?
Eden Haiku: no, no: English. But she speaks a bit of French,
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: Only Quebec is a French speaking province, with little pockets of French Canadians across Canada who speaks mainly English in daily lifeé
Adams Rubble: OK, that's what I originally thought :)
Eden Haiku: Yes, you were right.

Ancestors and descendants

Eden Haiku:Ancestors and descendants are intriguing matters aren't they?
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: people move around and it confuses those who come after :)
Eden Haiku: Are you still reading about your ancestors?
Eden Haiku: Can't imagine the storylines from the actual migrant families....
Adams Rubble: I am not reading about Yorkshire right now. I realized that if my grandfather had not emigrated he likely would have died in World War I on the fields of France
Eden Haiku: So many died...
Adams Rubble: so many of the men wiped out in that war
Adams Rubble: meat grinder
Eden Haiku: Yes, a terrible war
Adams Rubble feels a terrible saddness
Eden Haiku: How so Adams?
Adams Rubble: thinking about how the young people were so abused
Eden Haiku: Ah I see...
Adams Rubble: I am working on a history project for my town
Adams Rubble:the past few days I have been scanning the High School yerabooks during the years before and during World War II
Eden Haiku: Oh?
Adams Rubble: thinking that all the men in those photos would have had to fight in that war
Adams Rubble: there was a page of those who had died
Adams Rubble:right from school into the military
Eden Haiku: Sad stories...
Adams Rubble: sorry, it was not my intention to go there

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Eden Haiku: That's fine Adams. I was wonderingwhat is the driving force that makes you do all this research work. 
Eden Haiku: I was asking the same question about the force that drives me to write books :)
Adams Rubble: good question :)
Eden Haiku: So that there are archives of lives lived in our time and in other times maybe?
Adams Rubble: lots of footprints left
Adams Rubble: some of it is like a big puzzle :)
Eden Haiku: But there must be some inner need to create and recreate worlds...
Adams Rubble: the curiosity to learn
Eden Haiku: You both were Mormons in a past life I guess.
Eden Haiku: I know I have been :)
Adams Rubble:heh heh there were geneologists before the Mormons
Eden Haiku: True :)
Eden Haiku:But my inner Mormon is quite close :)
Adams Rubble: the Mormons were very active in England among the coal miners and factory workers inthe 19th century
Adams Rubble:had a pipeland to Utah
Eden Haiku: Hadn't noticed for a while though. She is being awakened by you :)
Adams Rubble: people took them to Liverpool and put them on a boat
Eden Haiku: oh, how interesting!
Adams Rubble: they sailed to NYC where they were met by others who put them on trains west
Eden Haiku: wow!
Adams Rubble: then others met them and took them to the next stop until finally Utah
Eden Haiku: Guess the young Mormon genealogist I have been was ignorant of that. She left her community quite early to become a model in Paris.
Adams Rubble: when the Mormon elders took on multiple wives it was into well received in England and the Methodists won out among the poor
Adams Rubble: ended the pipeline
Eden Haiku: Ah! That was before her time then. She was around 20 in 1926.
Eden Haiku: Got in touch with her during an LSD trip and she stayed with me a looong time, until I wrote a performance about what happened to her when I lived in New York.
Eden Haiku: And then I wrote a radioplay in French.
Eden Haiku:Her visiting me this morning is weird...
Eden Haiku: She was gone "under" for so many years...
Eden Haiku: Like a subterranean river
Eden Haiku: She didn't have children either. There must be a link...
Eden Haiku: The force driving your quest brought her back to me it seems:)
Eden Haiku: Sorry, I shouldn't be talking about past lives...
Eden Haiku: This one is quite enough :)
Adams Rubble: no worries. I was just listening
Eden Haiku: And you are a good listener Adams. Thank you :)
Eden Haiku: As this year is ending I wish to express how much I appreciate you: you bring so much to Play as Being, with your gentle ways and caring. Thank you.

--BELL--

Adams Rubble: awww, thank you but we all bring things to PaB
Eden Haiku: What is it the blessing you would like to receive in 2019?
Adams Rubble: to survive it (giggles)
Eden Haiku: May you live a long life!
Adams Rubble: thank you. You too :)
Eden Haiku: Thank you :)

Become like little children

Eden Haiku: Almost started a conversation with my youngest brother yesterday (the one with the dark pessimistic mind. About the collapse. Then I heard some child burst into an happy laugh and I refrained from that conversation...
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: I'm sure I missed out some very precious scientific information.
Adams Rubble: And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Adams Rubble: Matthew 18:3
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: But I picked up how unhappy my youngest brother is.
Adams Rubble: :(
Eden Haiku: Always felt protective of him, even when he was a little boy.
Eden Haiku: Always afraid he would commit suicide.
Adams Rubble: ohhh
Eden Haiku: But he created a loving family and they surround him with a protective field.
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: My other brother is such a solar being, so loving and so much loved.
Eden Haiku: We come from the same genetic pool but with so different driving forces
Adams Rubble: yes, siblings all have their own personalities from the very beginning
Eden Haiku: Do you notice this in your own family of origin?
Adams Rubble: yes from both viewpoints
Eden Haiku: Do you mean on both sides?
Adams Rubble: yes, looking up and looking down in the family chart :)
Eden Haiku: I see :) Is the little one a little bit of budding genealogist ?
Adams Rubble: she is learning a few words yet :)
Eden Haiku: That is a start!
Adams Rubble: yes, to everything :)
Adams Rubble: shhhhhhhh-oo
Adams Rubble: (the thing we wear on our foot)
Eden Haiku: But for some people, language skills are not so important as to us...

--BELL--

Adams Rubble:language sure comes in handy when one needs to communicate :)
Eden Haiku: It does :)
Adams Rubble: thank you for being here this morning and I hope you have a great day, and year :)
Adams Rubble: with that said, see you next week :)
Eden Haiku: But the driving force to put every experience in neat little boxes of words and to organize that in ordered shelves of sentences so someone in the future will be able to locate whatever info they are looking for....
Eden Haiku: Happy new Year Adams!
Adams Rubble scratches her head
Eden Haiku:Thank you for listening to my morning nonsense :))
Adams Rubble: if one does that, someone someday will enjoy reading it :)
Eden Haiku: Have a wonderful New Year's Eve day and night!
Eden Haiku: Hugs
Adams Rubble: thank you :)
Adams Rubble: hugs
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Eden Haiku: Handing you a handful of leftout candies :)