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cloak your soul baby girl
November 2009 
Poke me not
Posted on Oct 28th, 2009
by 
B.B.
B.B.
On and On and On - Wilco
Quiet around here bc the dynamic has changed and books have replaced whatever,and naps...well there are naps everyday
When I want to talk with someone I usually meet up like today for lunch,we'll hang I'll come back and that's the end of that.I often need to digest convos so this requires alone time,I do the phone...rarely,e-mail sporadically and skype to all of one person. I like to be alone,no I luuuurve to be alone,I like people too but in smaller doses,especially now, and not when they are poking me hello if you did that in real life I'd smack ya........really, spiritual babe I am not,unenlightened semi loner who likes to blog,and push her body and mind,lately I have been courting myself and juggling emotions in a rather impressive way thank you very much,I won't go as far as to say how proud I am of myself but I will say that I luuuuurve me,and am doing the TLC ,OCD,DIY approach.
So the girl I'm meeting knows me like the back of her hand,hmmmm would I be able to pick the back of my hand out of a lineup? anyways there is no small talk just right to the point,no holds barred and thankfully no poking,just a little jab here and there and lots of beautiful quirky bold words
We will two cheek kiss and hug,an actual hug and then the prerquisite " I'll call ya tonight" but said in french with a smile and sometimes a wink cuz she's ;like that and knows I am a semi loner who requires a few amazing people in her life,to keep her from biting strangers,to keep her from poking herself
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That is really insightful. You were found by someone freaky on facebook? I knew there was a reason I didn't get one forever.
It is quieter here, hmmm, and different. I am a recluse and like my own company very much and not so much the drama of other people. I very much miss playpod and the games we used to play in our blogs. Most of my playfriends from gaia spend more time at facebook and I don't know how to play there - it just confuses me.
I am on facebook and is nice to see what my family and friends are up to - wonderful to get that quick touch and connection, like our gravevine here. It does not have the depth of gaia nor can one blog. Both are useful, depending upon what one wants. And neither comes close as real life hugglies :)
True. I like how you write it's very beautiful. I prefer gaia too. I like the deeper content and the “real” conversations. Facebook isn't bad it just doesn't seem like you have real contact instead it's replaced by random extracts of thoughts and emotions. I don't know I like solitude too.
i can't do facebook. i tried and it just… i don't know. i am glad so many people enjoy it. it is not for me. i still go into my account from time to time to connect with people a bit. but gaia is my online home.
bisous
I think there are words and then there are words accompanied by the other person's breathing and their gestures. I am fundamentally selfish, I like the illusion of control of space,my space ( I just giggled Myspace….no account there either),FB just felt so very invasive in a superficial creepy way,my beef,my grief and I know so many people disagree and that's cool,it almost felt like a soul eater,here it's small,people leave you alone, no applications to deal with, although there is the god guy who shows up from time to time ” Hi god guy”
I also don't need any interaction,I appreciate it,the comments,am sometimes a little overwhelmed I do it regardless,I think fb is about interaction about communication,about right now, and about money I can feel that a lot no innocent either I know Gaia runs on money too but the difference is palapable,the word integrity fits well,I don't think I would ever use that word to describe fb.
Oh dear I have gone on and on,just to say it is marvelous that you are here
I agree with you. Facebook is very invasive…. You don't feel a connection just superficial things being thrown back and forth without anyone really noticing. IT's more like a million people talking at once without anyone listening then a true forum to get to know anyone…. cept those you already know and even then…
Bridget, Naomi - yes, yes, and yes. Love you
IT's more like a million people talking at once without anyone listening
Yes,and then I listened and not much was said,perhaps I didn't look hard enough but still it felt so unlike me,not recognizing anything that resembled fit,so here I still am,nowhere else here and comfortable and still inspired by so much of what I see and read,it isn't magic but something alot more cooler
I agree. I don't think there really is that much said on facebook. It saddens me to see so fewer blogs here…. Where you can actually have a real conversation and it feels like more connection a feeling of family….
I was here & I'm having a deja vu.
hugs ((())) (the virtual kind)
Really? what was the deja vue?
Maybe I can answer this ,the blog was inspired by a convo I had with Tara,we were talking about this subject,me saying the same thing I said in the blog,how quiet it got here ,how facehook sucks ( that would be me).
But more importantly how about this song by Wilco? it is one of the most beautiful songs ever
Tara and virtual beer
I skipped the tune earlier as I was operating maccrashbabe, now playing on the pc, and yes, it is absolutely beautiful.. fave mode of just the right touch of melancholy.
tara and pt real time choice vino
>…and yes to the wine,a glass shared with a girl from Denmark whose fav costume was Pippi Longstockings.
Okay, so I was sucked into the FB scene, and it's nothing like the Gaia scene. I want to come back here, but it's so quiet, kinda lonely and nothing like it was when I joined 2 years ago. Why is that? I often wonder if it's just me. Gotta get my Gaia groove back!
Hugs!
-Susan
I went away for bit to lick my wounds,I needed to steady the course before I could hang again,solitude has always been like a healing salve for me.
Many many people I know adore Fb,and there is no denying that,I just don't it is not relative to who I am,and lately it has been all about who I am.
Personally I have missed you too,missed the visions of you on your daily communte,the humanity you grace your profession with,the honesty in which you approach all that life has in store,maybe the away time was what was needed,like a calm before the fun storm Susan.
Your comment makes me once again feel how choosing here ( or has it chosen me,some pod is saying the same thing wink wink nudge nudge) is the right choice for me.
I cruise fb with ambivalence rather than adoration & soo wish the gaians in excile would come back here to play. I far prefer well contemplated blog entries to sporadic thoughts of the moment hurled about on the wall. Not to mention the overload of information being uploaded every two minutes.. I'm currently in danger of developing epileptic tics like in the early days of MTV. I'm all for getting the gaia groove back & getting gaians back to groove <3
Perhaps the call of the wild is all that is needed,this place so wild and free,ambivilant about it gaining in size,the anticipation of blogs to come ,the early morning forays,quiet and profound.
This is the place to be for me,right now it is enough you are here and so are the words.
Hi everyone, hugs, waving at tara and agreeing to getting our groove on :) Those who left gaia or prefer to play less here have their valid reasons. I respect their wishes while I miss them so much as some of my dearest playmates are now gone or playing less. And I was pretty much gone myself for a while. Sooooooo,
what do we do now? Exactly, what we are doing, blogging, commenting, playing, connecting those dots once again and also with new peeps :) “If you build it, they will come” (and add a little invitation on a grapevine or inbox to pop by - works wonders :-D )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc&feature=related
I adore that song and here's one for you,a post halloween thingy
I still will miss those who left here to go play on facebook…….. I miss the conversations…
Oh Naomi ,me too
I can understand and feel both sides. I loooove Gaia… it's like a fragrant, shady, vine-covered wonderland, hidden away from the busy city. You can walk around barefooted and bare-emotioned among kindreds - it's kind of like an online commune.
On Facebook, we leave our snug surroundings and include communication with and feedback from co-workers, cousins, our children and their friends, and a whole world of people who could not possibly be less similar to us. We still can Be Who We Are, and communicate on as deep of a level as we wish. We can meet new kindreds, and spread our light into places which we'd never encounter, on Gaia. I, for one, love to look at my FB page and friend list, and see the various people in my life, all mixed together… even commenting together on conversations on my page.
Since I've been participating on Facebook, I've brought many people to Gaia. I love it here - it's my “home town,” and it has no equal, as far as I'm concerned.
Love!
“it's kind of like an online commune.”
filled with funny articulate people. In all fairness I was never that enthuiastic on fb to begin with and logged in once a week or month,most of the people on my list were colleagues,still it just never caught on for me and visually it looked,well,ugly that blue,hmmmmmm.
I am surrounded by people who swear they cannot live without Fb or texting,in someways it's charming and in some ways it's curious.
The mass exodus was so felt,and my selfish inner child ( oh please did I just write that?) wants them back.
Yes to the spreading of light or doom and gloom depending on what day you catch me…insert smiley face here
Here's to home towns and the comfortable inspiring familiar places we choose to inhabit
As well as my inner child… whom I guess is kinda selfish…. I don't understand peoples obsession with fb it seems so much more shallower during this.
Maybe that's the point,or maybe it's not so much shallow as it is quick bytes of connection and info,designed for this life,my son believes that by having deleted my account I will become disconnected,and I think that's my point,inner child blowing raspberry at FB I wanna be disconnected which was a song a long time ago…ahhhh aaaa ahhhh,insert beats here,or maybe Henry where art thou,Rollins that is ,intense to say the least I wonder does he do FB
: ) I like the way you think. I disagree with it keeping you upto date and connected it really doesn't do anything of that sort…….Unless you have friends that that is the only way they communicate… Otherwise it just keeps you up to date on nonsensical noninteresting things… or at least to me it is