*** You have entered BlueHerons_PreGameCircle. Be respectful. The room is a vessel. ***

*** Topic set by AuraCoachMeera: "tonight we open the seventh seal of the strike zone ~*~ alignment circle 6:45p sharp ~*~ no shoes on the carpet of the mind" ***

[6:42p] SkipMancuso_Root: ok team and team-adjacent souls i am HERE and i am ROOTED. i can feel the carpet of the visiting bullpen through nine floors of bedrock and three layers of asbestos and i am NOT mad about it

[6:43p] AuraCoachMeera: ~*~ welcome welcome welcome ~*~ we have until 7:00 sharp before chuck has to go put his socks on in the prescribed order

[6:43p] ChuckHerronOF: meera i ALREADY put them on in the prescribed order

[6:43p] ChuckHerronOF: left foot. breath. right foot. breath. intention

[6:44p] AuraCoachMeera: 💜 beautiful chuck 💜 your heart is so green tonight i can see it from the parking lot

[6:44p] Sparrow_Auralight: ~*~ HI EVERYONE ~*~ i brought the crystals!!! they're under home plate ALREADY

[6:44p] Sparrow_Auralight: rose quartz at the back tip, citrine at 1st, amethyst at 3rd, smoky quartz at 2nd bc that's where the team karma KNOTS, we all agreed

[6:45p] DustyPalomar3B: meera. meera. meera my windup went lavender again in warmups

[6:45p] DustyPalomar3B: i was reaching for indigo and it went LAVENDER

[6:45p] AuraCoachMeera: dusty sweetheart lavender is FINE. lavender is the breath BETWEEN indigo and violet. you are not stuck you are PAUSED

[6:46p] DustyPalomar3B: ok but skip said last week lavender means im not COMMITTING to the curveball

[6:46p] SkipMancuso_Root: i did say that. i stand by it. but meera is also right. lavender CAN be the breath. as long as you don't move IN. don't unpack the suitcase in lavender. visit only.

[6:47p] DialTone_Deena: hi everyone sorry brb my mom needs the phone for like 4 minutes 😭

*** DialTone_Deena is away. Auto-message: "mom needs the line. love you. think yellow." ***

[6:47p] KaiBenavides_22: guys my root is wobbly tonight i can feel it

[6:47p] KaiBenavides_22: i had a tuna melt for lunch which i KNOW. i KNOW.

[6:48p] AuraCoachMeera: kai. KAI. the tuna is not the problem. the tuna is a vehicle. what did you THINK while you were eating the tuna

[6:48p] KaiBenavides_22: about my dad

[6:48p] KaiBenavides_22: he's coming to the game tonight. first time. he drove down from Coquille.

[6:48p] AuraCoachMeera: ~*~ there it is ~*~ that's not a wobble kai that's a HUM. your root is HUMMING. that is the most beautiful diagnostic i have done all season

[6:49p] AuraCoachMeera: you are going to play the shortstop of your LIFE tonight. your dad is going to see exactly the son he hoped he had and you are going to FEEL him see you

[6:49p] Sparrow_Auralight: 🥺💕 KAI 💕🥺

[6:49p] ChuckHerronOF: kai my heart is so green for you rn it is fully PINE

*** BatBoy_Cosmo has entered the room ***

[6:50p] BatBoy_Cosmo: hi everyone i just woke up from my pre-game nap and it was a real one. dream was a REAL ONE

[6:50p] AuraCoachMeera: cosmo TELL US RIGHT NOW

[6:50p] BatBoy_Cosmo: there was a heron. obviously. it was wearing skip's hat

[6:51p] BatBoy_Cosmo: it picked up a baseball in its mouth and it said with the ball still in its mouth "the seventh inning is the ONLY inning"

[6:51p] BatBoy_Cosmo: then it ate a frog and flew into the press box and the dream ended

[6:51p] SkipMancuso_Root: cosmo. that's. that's the dream. that's THE dream

[6:51p] AuraCoachMeera: every dream cosmo has is THE dream and i need everyone in this room to fully internalize that. cosmo is a CONDUIT. cosmo is twelve years old and a CONDUIT.

*** DialTone_Deena is back ***

[6:52p] DialTone_Deena: back!!! what did i miss!!!!

[6:52p] Sparrow_Auralight: cosmo had THE dream again

[6:52p] Sparrow_Auralight: the heron one. with the hat.

[6:52p] DialTone_Deena: THE HERON ONE??? oh my GOD. ok. ok we are WINNING tonight. i'm getting goosebumps in my elbows which is where my premonitions live

[6:53p] AuraCoachMeera: deena what is your solar plexus reading at the moment

[6:53p] DialTone_Deena: bright bright BRIGHT yellow. like school bus yellow. like the inside of a lemon bar that's been sitting in the window

[6:53p] AuraCoachMeera: ~*~ PERFECT ~*~ the bus is on time

[6:54p] ChuckHerronOF: ok i need to put my hat on next which means three breaths first. brb breathing

*** ChuckHerronOF is away. Auto-message: "earned-run-average / lower with each soft exhale / the moon does her work" ***

[6:55p] KaiBenavides_22: chuck wrote ANOTHER haiku in his away message

[6:55p] KaiBenavides_22: meera he keeps doing this. he's done one for every away message since april.

[6:55p] AuraCoachMeera: i KNOW. i have them all printed out. let him. it's how his throat opens.

[6:56p] SkipMancuso_Root: ok 4 minutes til carpet check. before we break — does anyone have anything to PUT IN THE CIRCLE

[6:56p] DustyPalomar3B: i have something

[6:56p] DustyPalomar3B: i forgave my high school coach this morning at 8:11 am in the kroger parking lot

[6:56p] AuraCoachMeera: 🌅🌅🌅 DUSTY 🌅🌅🌅

[6:56p] Sparrow_Auralight: DUSTYYYYY 💜💜💜 oh my god 💜💜💜

[6:57p] DustyPalomar3B: i drove past the field on the way to the team bus and i didn't yell anything. i just kept going. i didn't even slow down. i think that counts

[6:57p] SkipMancuso_Root: that counts. that COUNTS. that counts so much my eyes are wet on the inside

[6:57p] KaiBenavides_22: i want to put my dad in the circle. just for tonight. not forever yet. just tonight.

[6:57p] AuraCoachMeera: ~*~ kai's dad is in the circle ~*~ welcome kai's dad. we honor your drive down from Coquille. the road from Coquille is a sacred road.

[6:58p] BatBoy_Cosmo: my dream heron is in the circle

[6:58p] DialTone_Deena: the moth that's circling my desk lamp rn is in the circle. she's working SO HARD. her name is Patricia.

*** ChuckHerronOF is back ***

[6:58p] ChuckHerronOF: hat is on. socks are on. soul is on. i can hear the field humming from the clubhouse and the hum is in B-flat which is a HOME RUN KEY

[6:59p] AuraCoachMeera: ok beautiful souls. final breath. on three. one.

[6:59p] SkipMancuso_Root: two.

[6:59p] KaiBenavides_22: three.

*** EVERYONE: ~*~ GO HERONS ~*~ ***

*** AuraCoachMeera has set away message: "in the dugout. radiating. do not page unless someone's chakra is on fire LITERALLY." ***

*** SkipMancuso_Root, KaiBenavides_22, DustyPalomar3B, ChuckHerronOF, BatBoy_Cosmo have left the room ***

[7:00p] Sparrow_Auralight: ok i'll keep this window open in case anybody comes back between innings 💙💙💙

[7:00p] DialTone_Deena: me too. patricia and i are on the case.