Flowers on the sea ~ Holiday greetings 2013!
Ahoy! Ships’ ahoy! Land ahoy! Wildflowers'
ahoy! Happy Holidays’ ahoy! World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University -has
grown over the course of the year, but WUaS’s skiff is only just floating, and
not yet running before the wind, in full sail.
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Flower ~ World University and School is seeking its
first high school applicants this autumn 2013 to matriculate online next autumn
2014, first in English, for free, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric (e.g.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - not
endorsed by MIT), undergraduate, online, accredited, bachelor degrees. WUaS is
planning for our students to be up to speed, should they wish to apply to MIT
for a year, for example, during their studies. Please let high school students
know, who can use the MIT application information here -
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/11/applying-to-worlduniversity-and-school.html - as we
develop applications further. See, too: http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html.
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Flower ~ And thanks to Creative Commons’
licensed, wiki (editable web pages) World University and School, with its wiki-openness,
and C.C. MIT OCW as Academic standard, basis and content, - and eventually for
all 7,105+ languages and in all 242+ countries - WUaS is seeking to generate a
flourishing, people-to-people, teaching and learning conversation, with an
invitation to edit a page, and teach to your web camera. Wikipedia is in 287
languages, by way of comparison, and we all created this.
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Flower ~ World University and School continues
to hold electronically-mediated, hour-long open, monthly business meetings on
the second Saturdays of the month at 9 am PT, in the manner of Quakers, and
having been doing these in Google + group video Hangouts for more than a year
now. You’re invited to participate in these and contribute to World University
and School’s burgeoning conversation as well as development of WUaS, decision
making-wise. The Google + Hangouts remarkably facilitate international
communication. WUaS welcomes you to participate, via - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts -
and via this email address - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - and via this
WUaS blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/.
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Flower ~ In seeking to become a MIT / Harvard
of the internet, WUaS’s free, C.C., online, university degrees in many
languages will benefit so many people, - and is also a fascinating conversation
and process to develop.
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Flowers ~ WUaS is also planning a Music School
(in all instruments in all languages) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School.
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Flower ~ Editing of the 400 manuscript pages
of my actual / virtual Harbin ethnographic book proceeds apace ~ http://harbin.org. I'll send out a book proposal to Yale
University in the New Year, as I continue with anthropological fieldwork at
Harbin, with potentially 3 or 4 more Harbin books planned – see the Harbin
labels beginning with this one -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Hot%20Springs. I
find Harbin inspiring and fascinating, emerging from the 1960s and 1970s as it
does, and especially its pools-centric milieu and influences therein.
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Flower ~ I taught again the
"Information Technology and the Network Society" course, on Harvard's
virtual island, as well as in a Google + group video Hangout this autumn, with
participants across 14 time zones, - a remarkably diverse group of course
participants.
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Flower ~ I also continue to teach yoga - http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm - but
not yet online; I'm curious to explore teaching {and learning} yoga via in something
like Skype or in a Google + Hangout with a large screen.
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Flower ~ I continue to
give bagpipe lessons to a young piper in the SF Bay Area, about half
of this in Skype or Google + Hangouts, as well as take Skype bagpipe
lessons from a teacher via the College of Piping in Scotland.
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Flower ~ And I continue to blog daily,
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ - which
I've been doing now for nearly 5 years, and which is a way to share ideas, even
as a kind of conversation, and which I find inspiring in a variety of
ways. Read some poems in the ‘Poetry’ label here, for example.
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Flower ~ And in a variety of ways, I continue
to explore thinking out of the box ... with a focus of inquiry
on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, here, for example
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) -
and here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss ...
I haven't yet found the 'on/off switch,' the 'cello bow stroke,' or the dial,
but listening to music is a beginning.
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Flower ~ My home in the east bay hills of the
San Francisco Bay Area, and in the city of Oakland's watershed, in the
community of Canyon, above a redwood forest, continues to be
inspiring in so many ways.
Canyon, California
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Flowers ~ Here are a few of the poems I've written this year, which I think you'd enjoy ...
Resplendent Quetzal: Light lumens illuminated lightly
Blue Bird-of-Paradise: Harbin Waters’ Cosmic Consciousness
Green sea turtle: Light, Float, Sit
Swimming iguana: Email to Cynefin and "Light Float Sit," as well as 12, "Blackberries: Harbin Haiku-ish" poems
Young tapirs: "Harbin was alit in mid-evening," Complete recording of "Hair"
Sea Turtle: Jim Morrison of "The Doors" ... wow ... "The Doors --- Liquid Nights," So potent, this poem-video, how to rif as I listen, with - but don't watch, because I write - this here now? Jim sings a powerful energy ... I rif back with.
Scarlet Begonias Firefly: Let's re-write, re-rif a poem with this pipe major - Jim Morrison - here now which poem of mine? http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry These? ... read and sung with nature in the video behind for what serendipity and Grateful Dead, moving toward Jim Morrison energy to open the doors of perception? "The blueness of the sky at night: I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding," "Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale," Drove into town … to write my book and explore putting my poetry to song …
St. Helena Gumwood: 'Great Gatsbys' in film, Loving Bliss Generation, ... Inspiring inscription to Gatsby, Audio text online for free but not in mp3 file format, WUaS Library Resources, English literature courses that focus on loving bliss, or even generate such courses vis-a-vis WUaS over the years, and to inform, over time, WUaS's English Department's focus?, (Yay for the invention/synthesis of ecstasy {MDMA} :), We/I/WUaS may have to write this 'loving bliss' subject into the academic discipline English literature, There's certainly a beginning of this in my poetry, How to get to these loving bliss neurophysiologies, and related, bodymind qualities of experience, and for 9 hours per day (e.g. over the next 40 years, not to belabor a quest of mine), for example, when and as one wants them (where is the metaphorical on-off switch / 'bliss' dial / cello bow stroke? :), and vis-a-vis WUaS, as well - e.g. this wiki, loving bliss subject, and even in Quaker ways?
Big, green, iridescent forests speak to me in Oregon, on the road to Reed
Blackfin cisco: Blackberry blossoms blush Purple softly, at Harbin, Fruit soon to come
The Gazebo Light Show at Harbin
Turkish condor: Powerful poetry from Alysia Harris (who's doing a Ph.D. at Yale in linguistics) ... "Cab Rides and the Morning After" and a duet "Harris and Jasmine Mans "Black and Blue"" ...
Yellow corolla: Monsieur Nikhil Bannerjee, master raga player, moved me along the way
Water lily flowers: In warm pool chez Harbin
... Accessible here at the 'poetry' label ...
And here's the link to my Holiday Greetings' 2012 letter from last year, with more poems ...
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Flower ~ World University and School is becoming a warm ocean (Caribbean?) of flourishing, learning conversations ... enjoy the waters and the free, MIT OCW-centric diplomas.
All the best to you all in the New Year and beyond,
Scott
Scott MacLeod
PO Box 442,
Canyon, CA 94516
415 480 4577
sgkmacleod@gmail.com
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