Serenity's "The Fantastic Future of Health"

 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

At SLB Fabulous (213, 221, 23), there's an exhibit "The Fantastic Future of Health," by Serenity (SerenKitty). It's also called "My Adventuredom's Hedge Maze."

The first part of the exhibit was what Serenity felt were the greater problems with the current US health care system, notably working-class people sometimes having trouble getting adequate treatment for illnesses and conditions due to a system "that focuses on sick people equaling profit."

 

"The current model causes the sick to go without care and medicine unless they can afford it."

 

 

 There, I ran into Serenity, and Kamden (KamdenFoxHyde) who Serenity introduced as her real-life son. Serenity told me the exhibit, "nutshells our two LLCs. I head one and Kam the other."

Serenity showed me the other parts of the exhibit, "This area highlights the wellness center that we're working to build."

 

"The purpose of our businesses is to fund no-cost wellness and urgent care centers across the US and Canada. We opened our My Adventuredom LLC in 2020, and Kam opened his this year.

Part of the exhibit was for "animal-assisted therapy to help with physical and psychological needs." Serenity would tell me, "Kam works with horses. He volunteers and trains at a stable near our house. He's working toward training therapy horses and dogs."

We then got to the next part of the exhibit, "This area represents how we do it. Some of these businesses are currently running and some we're working to build. We offer both physical and virtual products through our various companies, all under the My Adventuredom LLC umbrella. Kam's LLC has his own brands and lines. Typically horse focused."

We went up an elevator to the treehouse part of the exhibit.

Inside were a few gifts, and a couple graphs about My Adventuredom and Sen Michaelson LLC, "These graphics display how it all works. So now you know what I do in RL, besides school. This is why Kam and I are working towards our medical doctorates so that we can work in our own clinics."

Serenity mentioned her real-life trouble on her profile's First Life page, "You also know about my autoimmune disease. That is why my focus is diagnostics and rare diseases.

"Kam is my primary caregiver. He's my right-hand man in business, school, and my health. Well, my husband helps us too. I've been with him for 25 years, so can't leave him out (laughter)."

 

When I asked about her time in Virtual Ability, Serenity answered, "Oh, goodness. I can't remember how long I've been there. I believe it was 2012-2016 but then I left for a few years after a friend passes away. Kam moved the class I was teaching over to Whole Brain Health and added Spanish to the Nutrition classes he intends to teach. I'm only holding Building Hour on Wednesdays at VAI at the moment.  I also volunteer with Virtual Worlds Education Consortium. I'm on the comm team, events team, and networking team."

Our conversation soon drifted to other subjects, and Serenity soon had to take care of other matters. Her exhibit at the Second Life Birthday will be around until the sims close to the public on Tuesday July 11.

More information can be found on her website at: https://www.myadventuredom.com/

 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Fabulous/238/226/23

Bixyl Shuftan

Funky Junk

By Gemma Cleanslate

Recycling is great. However, have you considered what it might be like if it were overdone? I really had not thought about it until I visited LEA22 When I landed I thought I was in a hobo land, or perhaps a dump. The winding rickety wooden path leads to many areas that are so indicative of what could happen, perhaps in the distant future when all our recyclables take our place in the universe. Wow! As a blogger I saw my replacement! That was scary. Not me as a person or an avatar but as a canned creation.

At the orchard I saw that rolls of toilet paper and books have taken the place of leaves on the trees. I stopped off at the medical center to check out the help in case I fell off the walkway and to be honest I was not thrilled with the help there. I love computers and their capabilities but wonder if they can put on a bandage!

 I worried about the water there which was sucking all the boats into a whirlpool! School was not fun either! The teacher, known as a funkyjunkian did not look as if he, or she, it had any compassion for humans, and the students, well. You will come across other funkyjunkians as you traverse the sites.  

The creative thinking that went into creating this sim was fantastic. The thought into the possibilities of overdoing a good thing is really something to explore in real life and in Second Life.  I wonder how someone could come up with this concept and all the work that went into it. There is so much to see and explore that I cannot do it justice. Just go have fun, but be careful where you walk!

There is an archeological dig going on at “junkpeii” for the former inhabitants of the region. You will see it. Here is the entrance. Have fun!  

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA22/235/34/22

Gemma Cleanslate

"Flesh Dreams" at Burn2 by Ub Yifu

By Gemma Cleanslate

I have been working as a ranger on the playa at Burn2 for several weeks now , helping builders get settled and assisting with any problems. Since the gates opened to the public I have been even more busy, too busy to write much and left that to the other reporters. One build that has intrigued me for weeks ,and I find myself going back to it over and over is that of Ub Yifu in the sim Frog Pond. Cargo Cult is the theme of the Burn2 in real life and in SL this year. But this is a unique interpretation from many of the others on the playa. The name of the plot and the build is “Flesh Dreams.” For a while I had a hard time deciphering the meaning of it all.

The description by Ub finally gave me the meaning, “My vision of the cargo cult but from another point of view..... Here on Earth in 3247 humankind is no more than a dream in survivors mind: the robots we built. Humans have been gone a very long time, and our machines survived as they could without us. But, now wishing for our return, they build human-like figures with the rare memory they have of us to convince their creators to come back.” 

The sad machines lie in a set of destruction in the are future as you can see. You can become part of their dreams by finding a place to sit . The strange robots circle the human creature they are trying to create. The devestation all around shows the remnants of our demise. I wonder why we are gone? So many images for thought. 

Be sure to visit this amazing build in Frog Pond sim on the playa.  SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-Frog%20Pond/211/56/24   Remember the playa will still exist all next week so you can go back and visit all the marvelous builds before they disappear. 

Gemma Cleanslate