On the Roof # 20

Pearl: North Keswick Press has a great location

Klaus: Definitely, and a leopard on guard

Pearl: Indeed

Klaus: Albeit a lazy one

Pearl: A flighty leopard too

Pearl: Snoozes while avatars loot the place

Klaus: Stealing all our ink and paper and frightening the spiders

Pearl: Teasing the Clean-o-mat

Klaus: I have this weird thing whenever I am standing next to the sink in my kitchen in RL

Klaus: I get a flash in my mind of that paper mill we have visited a few times in Caledon

Pearl: Trilby’s

Klaus: Yes it just sneaks in every single time I am standing there running the tap

Klaus: Maybe it’s the running water or something

Pearl: Something like that happens to me in reverse, locations inworld connect me with a moment in RL

Klaus: Whenever I am chopping garlic I replay the same conversation I had with someone 30 years ago and it’s random

Pearl: Those connections

Pearl: That’s why I’m particular about my things…so many have whole dimensions attached to them

Klaus: Yes, that makes so much sense

Pearl: Touching or looking at them is like a doorway to a portal

Klaus: And I guess the doorways are subtly increasing in number all the time

Pearl: Some are fading away…the things that don’t matter

Pearl: Or no longer resonate, like real life “old websites”

Klaus: There’s an interesting bit in the book I’ve been reading about embodied knowledge that describes the theory of our spaces being an extension of our brains

Pearl: Some decluttering books touch on that, and how working with the spaces can help heal our brains

Klaus: I have learned to use visual organising to work with it as much as possible

Klaus: Oh yes

Pearl: It’s territory that humans haven’t always consciously accessed

Klaus: I think it’s why I have found diaries and calendars and to-dos – specially if they are digital – don’t work very well for me

Pearl: Same for me

Klaus: It needs to be something more tangible

Pearl: Instead of being a lost sand grain on the digital beach

Klaus: hehe exactly

Klaus: I’ll tie a sock around a door handle if there’s something I need to remember when I leave the house

Pearl: I was intrigued by the ideas put forth by the man talking about NLP and spaces. Maybe he was saying something different and my imagination was working overtime about the possibilities.

Pearl: Oh, that works?

Klaus: Oh well I’m sure that’s valid

Klaus: Yes as long as I can then remember what it’s supposed to remind me of hehe

Klaus: Yeah I leave visual prompts for myself all the time

Klaus: I know a bit about NLP but I never heard about the spaces thing

Pearl: I find it helps me get things done when I don’t want to do them….to visualize them a few times and let them go so it isn’t a heavy thing I carry around

Pearl: The little I know of NLP seems mostly to be about word usage.

Klaus: Right

Pearl: This came about in the context of the subject of Feldenkrais

Klaus: I notice the difference in my mood whether I look upwards at or downwards when I am walking – that’s an NLP thing

Pearl: Movement and space

Klaus: It makes sense there would be an overlap

Pearl: Oh yes, makes me wonder about all the folks looking down at their phones

Klaus: Yes

Pearl: Heads bowed in submission

Klaus: When there’s a whole sky up there that they seldom see

Klaus: Skies have always been really important to me – the more sky I can see the happier I feel

Klaus: Which is why I like flat land

Klaus: Or mountain tops

Pearl: When my human lived near the Rocky Mountains, it was good to be actually in them, but being on the plains next to them. it felt like such a barrier.

Pearl: I was often feeling like I needed to get past them.

Klaus: Having the horizon compromised

Pearl: Although their ancient existence when 9-11 happened was comforting

Pearl: Indeed

Klaus: Oh I bet – yeah

[Editing this a day later, I notice the software prevents me from easily spacing the images and text the way I wish.]

dialogue ~ edited chat log 9 – 22 – 22

photos ~ snapped at Grauland several years ago in Second Life, created by a shop brand several years ago, neglected to be labeled at the time. altered in Fotosketcher software