Holiday Greetings, and Poetry from 2014, too!
Dear friends,
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
I hope this finds you well and enjoying this season
wherever you are.
Love in this holiday season in the context of this old world we
live in ...
"Moehringia: "Love" in loving bliss - and generatively? ... Some characteristics of love in its best senses, Here are some wiki schools for this at WUaS - Caring and Loving - and Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology), {And how would agency as intentional causation (in philosophical senses) work vis-a-vis generating the "love" in loving bliss and in contemporary society and with information technology?}" ...
"Moehringia: "Love" in loving bliss - and generatively? ... Some characteristics of love in its best senses, Here are some wiki schools for this at WUaS - Caring and Loving - and Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology), {And how would agency as intentional causation (in philosophical senses) work vis-a-vis generating the "love" in loving bliss and in contemporary society and with information technology?}" ...
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Scottish economic pragmatism over identity?
Scotland voted not to secede this year ... a win for British
Isles' pragmatic economics of the Westminster establishment, now scrutinized
even more closely by its northern neighbor, over Scots' identity and
nationhood? Perhaps ... long complex history there. Glad this was done with a
vote ...
Here are the beginning Scotland World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland -
along with the Scots' Gaelic World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic - and planned as wiki schools for other
languages in Scotland ...
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World University and School – http://worlduniversityandschool.org - has
grown over the course of 2014, but WUaS’s wee craft is still only just
floating, and not yet running before the wind, in full sail.
WUaS’s Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School -
planned for all instruments in all languages, each a wiki subject page to
begin, is exciting to develop ...
And MIT OCW-centric wiki WUaS is excited about
adding A.I. machine learning, and semantic web as WUaS moves from Wikia to
Wikidata/Wikibase {and especially vis-à-vis a Universal Translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator}.
WUaS plans to send in the initial state of
California BPPE accreditation documentation in January 2015. In seeking to
become a MIT / Harvard of the Internet, WUaS’s free, C.C., online, university
degrees in all 7, 106 + languages and 242 + will benefit so many people, - and
is also a fascinating conversation and process to develop.
WUaS is also planning to become a significant
employer worldwide, perhaps double the size of IBM at 426,000 employees, for
example. Online MIT OCW-centric and free (since C.C.) universities and schools
in 7,106 + languages and 242 + countries is a large university.
Quaker-informed WUaS holds open hour-long electronically-mediated
online monthly business meetings on the second Saturdays - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting - and
you are welcome to join in to help make decisions and grow WUaS.
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I’m waiting to hear back from Stanford University
Press about publishing my first actual / virtual Harbin 400 page ethnographic
manuscript. I find Harbin inspiring and fascinating, emerging from the 1960s
and 1970s as it does, and especially its pools-centric milieu and influences
therein, and am planning further books and virtual Harbin in the context of
virtual earth building as ethnographic field site - and as a 3D
interactive movie-realistic build-able world, while planning for MIT
OCW-centric digital linguistic and brain research with brain-wave head sets,
for example.
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I taught again a course, the free, open,
online "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global
University," on behalf of World University and School on Harvard's virtual
island, as well as in a Google + group video Hangouts to participants
in the U.S., Germany and Kenya this autumn.
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I continue to give bagpipe lessons in
video in the SF Bay Area, about half of this in Skype or Google + Hangouts video conferencing, as
well as take Skype bagpipe lessons from a teacher via the College of Piping
in Scotland.
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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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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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And I continue to blog daily - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ - which I've been doing now for about 7 years, and which is a way to share ideas as a kind of conversation, and which I find inspiring in a variety of ways. Read some poems in the ‘Poetry’ label here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry - for example.
Here are a few of the poems I've written this year,
which I think you'd enjoy ...
Abalone: "Deciphery ... Our nest ... your poem writes," Riffing with Angela and Victor's 'Who are we anyway? ~ Who am I?,' "Who am I? I am maker of, we are makers of, World University and School As wiki ... as MIT ... in all languages"
Down feather: Soaked, floated down
Bee orchids: Two most recent poems are kinds of
1) a glow poem and 2) very loosely a potentially parallel with Meeting poem,
Where o where is the generation of abundant love and joy and freedom in the
world (think envisioning in India ... possibly?), Let's all melt into encounter
groups and domes as young 20 year olds in Palo Alto (at Stanford) or talking
with friends, bicycle commuting and living in communal houses Portland, OR
(while studying at Reed), How to generate such neurophysiology abundantly these
days?
Green-winged orchid: Melting in warm water
harmonizing releasing oneness ~ Yes
Grass of Parnassus: Sun glow rose over golden
mounts under blue sky brilliance
Space: Traveling ... to the waters
Rainbow from a desert thunderstorm: Glancing,
rainbow streamers Soared
Cardinalidae: Green starboard night light
Fireflies in the night
Rosehip-honeysuckle: In the Storm the
Honeysuckle Danced
In the Storm the Honeysuckle Danced
Catherine Creek, OR: Forests and grasslands,
Glistening June day, Walking in Oregon dream
Old growth forests: The ones who walked away
from the 7/11 near Reed College, or "Near, To, From"
Manitoulin species: Idea comes to mind
The fruit pickers at Stanford with their
basket-topped long poles ...
spiral stars: Wanting to explore writing a
haiku-ish inspired by the Harbin pools with words from my Dalton Friends'
letter ... which is loving and caring, and about love and care …
supernova: loving Care ... haiki-ish
Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp: Playing with sound
waVes in front of Stanford, tforward unfolding bliss eliciting ... :)
Eastern Great Egret: Sounds in the night in
Kolkata (Calcutta), India, Tagore's "A Moments Indulgence", I lie in
my bed in the home of the parents
Flowers on the sea ~ Holiday greetings 2013 !
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I'm glad too to say I'm teaching a short course about World University and School at Reed College's Paideia in January 2015 as a kind of outreach.
"Pleurotus nebrodensis: Reed College's Paideia in Jan 2015, Teaching a course about WUaS there, WUaS is planning to go the CC free route as a CC MIT OCW-centric wiki, "This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees""
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/pleurotus-nebrodensis-reed-colleges.html
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I'm glad too to say I'm teaching a short course about World University and School at Reed College's Paideia in January 2015 as a kind of outreach.
"Pleurotus nebrodensis: Reed College's Paideia in Jan 2015, Teaching a course about WUaS there, WUaS is planning to go the CC free route as a CC MIT OCW-centric wiki, "This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees""
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/pleurotus-nebrodensis-reed-colleges.html
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Creative Commons' licensed World University and School is becoming a growing
garden of wiki (editable web pages) flourishing learning conversations for open teaching and learning ... Enjoy too the abundance and the
free, MIT OCW-centric diplomas to come, and in many languages and countries.
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All the best to you in the New Year and
beyond,
Scott
Scott MacLeod
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