Mixed (pick 'n' mix) feelings at solstice

Solstice – in Latin “solstitium” = “sol” (sun) + “statum” (stay motionless)
Welsh word for the solstice is “point of roughness”.
Talmud calls it as “Tefukat Tevet”, i.e. the first day of “striping time”.

Longtime I have not anything written, but as onetime I am sitting on the roof in Bohemia, the hard feelings is pouring on me from the last days. It is due to this season shortly after the solstice, or coming of the Christmas. I do not know.

Time goes so fast that one does not suffice to remember all occurrences from our world and also them from the other world. Maybe only several snapshots that show it. It is this roof, party by Nancy and a resurrection of the disappeared Slovakia at the party of its long-time friends.

Let us stay in coming time, same way as our Sun did it.

Let me allow quote Alan Furst about the solstice:

“…day, when supposedly the sun does a break… Pleasant idea… As if the universe stopped for a moment to think about something and to take a day off. One directly feels how time slows.”

Marry Christmas a Happy New Year 2011

Coral

Autumn Ball

“One says that dance is the only social activity, when you can without any risk to come near to a partner, her or him, within the shortest possible distance, as it is just possible.”

As I have already written last time, summer was ended, but the season of the balls has begun. It was the same as on last Friday. An arbour near the place in Bohemia has welcome several visitors. Even if they have arrived in some small amount, in spite of them, party was nice. The beautiful evening dresses of the present ladies have glared their partners and we, men, have marveled at their beauty under the light of thousand stars. And maybe in the early morning, tired from the long dance in the red light of sunrise, our pace has led to our homes, where we have fallen into the all-hugging armful of our beds.

Meetings

So, do you know such a feeling too that you have been anywhere here? Or do you know her/him? Frenchmen have for that nice collocation, actually it is a literal translation – already seen – déjà vu. So, I still experience such feeling in Second Life. But maybe it is thanks to go to the same places.

However, just there are those right people, you can find there everything you want or everything you long for. Yes, sometimes it is a people crowd. Some other time, you would like to arrange your thoughts an to be alone. Alone and lost in the never-ending space of SL, lost in never-ending time depths.

Nevertheless, then you come back to the same places, you meet same people or you meet some new ones and you enrich your second life. Like me just now. I am writing this contribution now and in the same time I am talking with somebody that I have randomly in my friend list on Facebook and she is from Brazil. First, she has been trying in Portuguese, me in English and finally, she has been talking to me in Czech. But what Czech? Omg, a mad internet translator! Sometime it is sidesplitting, but she is trying hard.

It is not only about that to watch the sunsets or sunrises or a sky studded with stars.

It is not only about that to sit and to meditate somewhere,

It is not only about that to be.

It is about a life

It is about a friendship.

It is about a love.

Just there is no difference between this world and the other one, at least for me.

And what about you?

Jazz Ball

It is some strange combination of the words “jazz” and “ball”, but as I will explain in a moment, it makes sense. So, there is a tradition that once in a moth some ball takes place in Bohemia city. It is always the first Friday of the month. The avatars, who comes to this ball, they dresses their the best ball gowns and in congenial atmosphere dance all night maybe till early morning. Traditionally this Friday evening, Tirsor Benelli is a DJ (same way as every Friday in Beach Club in Bohemia.)

However, yesterday's Friday has been another, because Tirsor is just now on holiday ergo out of Second Life. So it is happened that some another has organized this event called „Jazz Ball“, but it was in some other line. Well, the people were dressed as for the ball, but music was jazzy. Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and others have sung.

The evening has carried in the beautiful line and quite amount of people has come. Oh, I have forgotten to say, where this event has taken place. Well, it was in Café LA FABRIQUE.

So and how has it looked there? See!

P.S. Finally, I have added some video from YouTube. It is not just jazz, but he is a jazzman, even if he says about himself that he plays pop jazz.

Slurl: Café LA FABRIQUE

Quartet

The quartet is some music form, but also, for example, some group of four players in soever music band or group. So and I have recently met such random and beautiful quartet in one club on some sim in our community. Just one planned party, kinda, did not take place, but in spite of this, several people met each other in this club and someone played some music. Then some super constellation had come. Four beautiful girls lined up and than people danced till early morning.

SLurl: Beach Club

Breathe of Life

Uich gwennen na ‘wanath ah na dhín.
An uich gwennen na ringyrn ambar hen.
Boe naid bain gwannathar,
Boe cuil ban firitha.
Boe naer gwannathach, [...]

You are not bound to loss and silence.
For you are not bound to the circles of this world.
All things must pass away,
All life is doomed to fade …
Sorrowing you must go, [and yet you are not without hope].

How the time is fleeting. Recently somebody reminded me that he lives in Second Life for the whole of thousand days. Surprisingly, I am also here more than these thousand days. Is it many or few? It is a question. Definitely, I would not want to do here some recapitulation of my being in SL, rather to remind or to remember the distant and past things that has happened me. I would not want to repeat too much, because I wrote here about many things once yet, so only several notices.

Birth of a city was one big adventure. When Vilem Beaumont gave a space on the sim named after mythic vaporous island Avalon, Bohemia city was born there. Some community of great and interesting guys appeared around this city. In some time, the city was moved to own sim – Czechoslovakia – and The Old City is actually Bohemia’s heart. Only informed people know how it was and anyway for me they have certainly nice remembrances of these days and of Club Paradise, where it really lived. The thematic parties have not repeated anymore.

It is Angara’s fall and then its rebirth. It is Angara that then disappeared in time again. Angara is next catching point of my wandering in SL. Angara, where Club Paradise came back in other look and with other name. Angara, where the most beautiful dragon was made and created (in my private opinion). Angara, where you could buy stylish clothing, which is selling now under PXD Toxic label. Angara broken into a sand of a desert.

The Lost Gardens of Apollo I have not even to introduce. They belong to the most beautiful sims in SL. I never stopped to feast my eyes on its beauty, its high towers, trees, flowers, birds and many other magic things. You can only stay on the bridge above the sea and only to look around and to hear.

Breathe of Life.

(Source: YouTube)

Surprise

As yesterday’s RL shadows have become longer and the world was darker, I have visited just after some time the Beach Club in Bohemia city in SL. But something was wrong. Using LM I have landed on right coordinates, but everything was out. It has looked as if the coastal sands have buried the beach and with it also the whole club under the huge dunes. So, it was not that case.

So, I have started to study the map, where was the higher density of green point, alias the present avatars on sim. Behold one placed has fulfilled this condition and it was bull's-eye. Hooray, I have found it!

The club looks well and it is nice change. Immediately I was invited to dance and then everything went like clockwork. I have danced and around us other dance couples have whirled and also there was one female avatar with the violet butterfly wings. Lights and shadows have made wild colored combination.

Tired I have sat down to one of these comfortable chairs and gave myself fully to meditation and later to some nice discussion with Zuza Rritt.

How it has looked you can see on the pics.

SLurl: Beach Club