The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

First we deal with the business of next Thursday, Thanksgiving. We decide it would be difficult for either of us to get here so we cancel. Happy Thanksgiving everyone :)

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Good, Adams ㋡
Adams Rubble: Thank you for adjusting to my schedule this week
Riddle Sideways: you got through your busy Thursday?
Adams Rubble: Yes, sort of
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: np. as those who don't have time to type
Adams Rubble: busy week
Riddle Sideways: say
Adams Rubble: next week will be calmer but Thursday is Thanksgiving day
Riddle Sideways: oh yes. visitors will be sleeping in this office
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: should be agree to cancel?
Riddle Sideways: second that motion
Adams Rubble: Thanksgiving used to be my favorite holiday when i was working
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: a holiday on a Thursday
Adams Rubble: I still like it but it is much calmer these days
Riddle Sideways: a non-religious holiday
Adams Rubble: it was the first chance to take a deep breath in the fall semester
Adams Rubble: then things would get calmer for me

Miracle of Young Lives

Adams Rubble: Your reference last Tuesday of the new life was touching
Adams Rubble: It has stayed with me all week
Riddle Sideways: the literally touching a kicking baby part?
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: I was reading from a Talmud for Dummies book last night
Riddle Sideways: watching the new mom to be almost always having a hand on tummy. calmness
Riddle Sideways: oh?
Adams Rubble: it said that there are three entities making a new life
Adams Rubble: the father...
Adams Rubble: the mother..
Adams Rubble: and God
Adams Rubble: I was thinking about that from experience and in terms of PaB Being
Adams Rubble: new life is a miracle
Adams Rubble: and the child is neither the mother nor the father but its own being
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: for little ones every day is a new adventure
Adams Rubble: new surprises
Adams Rubble: last week we played a track from a CD on or stereo
Adams Rubble: we had rarely used it
Riddle Sideways: New Life, for Dummies
Adams Rubble: it frightened her
Riddle Sideways: oh dear
Adams Rubble: ran to the nearest adult for a hug and then searched around perplexed trying to see where the sound was coming from
Adams Rubble: she soon began to enjoy it and asked for it again :)
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Riddle Sideways: the adventure of it all
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: last week we had played a phonograph record
Adams Rubble: she watched it going round and round
Riddle Sideways: quite a sight
Adams Rubble: good to introduce the latest in technologies to young ones
Riddle Sideways: thingie goes round, music is heard
Riddle Sideways: how does that work?
Riddle Sideways: rule #3: make sure ya have a safety net (trusted adult) near when new adventrures pop out
Adams Rubble: Pema used to talk about kindly parents watching the child play watching for their safety
Adams Rubble: the role of the teacher
Riddle Sideways: so basic
Riddle Sideways: how have we forgotten that
Riddle Sideways: or it happens without active knowledge now
Adams Rubble: I think of it often when watching the little one play
Adams Rubble: watching the explorations
Riddle Sideways: good for You
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: really... it is Good for You
Riddle Sideways: and the ability to explore. what a hug available to re-assure one
Riddle Sideways: *with
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, thinking that still happens
Riddle Sideways: like last night

We go off to a different topic on Riddle's experience volunteering

Riddle Sideways: But, being a big adult-ish type person, don't need those safety nets?
Riddle Sideways: opening of a new soup kitchen
Riddle Sideways: going there to volunteer
Riddle Sideways: new building, new people
Adams Rubble: very nice of you :)
Riddle Sideways: could be scary... but not for a big growed up adult worldly person
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: go in, look around. strange building.
Adams Rubble: it is our spiritual explorations that need looking after
Riddle Sideways: AHHH a person that is known
Riddle Sideways: greet, shake, hug
Riddle Sideways: Walking into a Baptist Church
Riddle Sideways: scary
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: funny. Had at least 19 volunteers
Riddle Sideways: had 4-5 homeless show up
Adams Rubble: wow
Riddle Sideways: intellectually realizing we were there for each other
Riddle Sideways: like you say
Riddle Sideways: but, intellectually does not sink in very far
Riddle Sideways: now thinking back
Adams Rubble: that was not quite what i was saying
Riddle Sideways: right, took it too far

Kindly Teachers Watching out for Explorers Playing

Adams Rubble: It is when one is exploring one's thoughts that one can run into scary things
Adams Rubble: sometimes they seem overwhelming
Adams Rubble: that is when one needs a teacher for affirmation
Adams Rubble: then there is Being watching us play
--BELL--

The Quiet 90 minutes sends off reflecting on bells

Riddle Sideways: Appreciates the bell stopping what was about to be typed
Adams Rubble: it was time for a bell :)
Riddle Sideways: to the strict western scientist the bell has a random plus/minus fudge factor
Riddle Sideways: to some others, it rings when it does
Riddle Sideways: some find comfort in when it rings
Adams Rubble: For Whom the Bell tolls
Riddle Sideways: oooo good one
Riddle Sideways: 15 minutes to load up the mind on a current adventure. then the bell states "Where are you"
Riddle Sideways: Beel: the teacher
Adams Rubble:

Oh, what will you give me? Say the sad bells of Rhymney
Is there hope for the future? Say the brown bells of Merther
Who made the mine open? Say the black bells of Rhonda
And who killed the miner? Say the grim bells of Lina

Adams Rubble: Who made the mine open? Say the black bells of Rhonda
Adams Rubble: so many references to bells
Riddle Sideways: both of us knowing those lines. One, from the memorizing of a Byrds song
Adams Rubble:

I. Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells—
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Adams Rubble: and Phil Ochs setting Poe to music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3FzveBu_34
Riddle Sideways: how young Phil is there
--BELL--

Appreciating Being Alive

Adams Rubble: gone way to soon
Adams Rubble: and we stayed on to remember
Riddle Sideways: a heavy weight
Adams Rubble: to witness all that has happened since
Riddle Sideways: oh dear
Riddle Sideways: yet
Riddle Sideways: watching that new birth
Adams Rubble: yes!
Riddle Sideways: watching the new explore
Adams Rubble: watching our own continued explorations
Adams Rubble: all that we have learned
Riddle Sideways: that is still to learn
Adams Rubble: yes
Riddle Sideways: sometimes just hearing a bell and re-learning thos mements just passed
Adams Rubble: it tols for thee
Adams Rubble: and me
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: scene: serving rice onto a plate. 6'5" man puts hands on his shoulders and gently says "now you go get in line and I shall serve you"
Riddle Sideways: *his=the actors
Riddle Sideways: teachers keep arriving in the oddest clothing

Adams Dubrovna is preparing a new exhibit on Medieval Iberia. The first of three intallations is Jewish Art. The hour is nearly done so we go off to critique the progress.

Adams Rubble: would you like to go take a peek at the emerging exhibition Dubrovna is working on?
Riddle Sideways: oh would like that
Adams Rubble: let's go then :)
Riddle Sideways: don't tell the readers
Riddle Sideways: we will sneak away
Riddle Sideways: umm, is it scary?