Sunday, April 7, 2019

Purple-throated carib hummingbird: Great Telemann (and Vivaldi did you say?) music + ... Great musicians playing great pieces can transport to a kind of freedom * * * "Hamilton the musical" - Revolutionary and radical? * * * Whither American culture ahead, I wonder (for each of us re ongoing individuation)? Am taking a kind of constructionist approach in these regards with both World Univ & Sch, as well as with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project - and esp. the making of a realistic virtual Harbin / earth / universe * * * Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down every morning at home - Non-theist Friend (atheist Quakers-wise) * * * Collecting in one place my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' UC Berkeley talks' videos in the Gifford Room in Anthropology department

Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down every morning at home - Non-theist Friend (atheist Quakers-wise) ...

Was exploring this morning saying "non-theist Friends" "atheist Quakers" as I sat in home-Meeting : ) re

Arc: Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response:

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html

NtF cheers,

Scott

- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nontheist%20Friend -

Barbara Forrest-Ball

10:28 AM (1 hour ago)

to nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com

Walking out the door in a few minutes to go to Meeting for 11 AM worship. I have this link open on my phone and will re-read when I get seated and settled. Thank you for posting, Scott.

Barbara

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Hi Barbara, and NtFs,

Greetings to Corvallis Monthly Meeting from the Nontheist Friends' email list:

http://quaker.org/legacy/corvallis/

(Are you in Corvallis or Salem or? ... Oregon? (I used to live in Portland OR:) )

NtFriendly cheers, Scott

Posted the previous "Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down" email here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/purple-throated-carib-hummingbird-great.html - plus more. :) How's the surfing in Corvallis Friends Meeting these days? :)

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Please give NtF greetings to Friends at Corvallis Monthly Meeting in North Pacific Yearly Meeting (NPYM) as well, Barbara.

(I attended I think the very first NPYM gathering in around 1981, while actively being involved in Multonomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, Oregon).

Re your theology questions, Angelo, I'm finding the Corvallis Monthly Meeting's welcoming website http://quaker.org/legacy/corvallis/welcome_pamphlet.htm a familiar expression of Friends' testimonies / understandings. (Am also appreciative of this NtF email's list potential freedom from such Friendly 'theology,' or conversation about non-theology / non-theism or a-theology ... and, for me, even re words like 'worship' while NtFs continue to remain loosely in the stream of Quaker un-programmed Meetings' practices (I'm an anthropologist re the 'practices' word here, but also re the word in the F&P titles of many yearly meetings). While the Monthly Meeting (due to Business Meeting convening monthly) is kind of a drum beat or hearth place for un-programmed Friends, the Yearly Meeting might be metaphorically the Swarthmoor Hall (Margaret and Judge Thomas Fell's great house / hall with many rooms, in England - https://www.swarthmoorhall.co.uk/ - where early Quakers met - now a retreat house / guest house - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarthmoor_Hall). Swarthmore College in Philadelphia takes its name from this hall. Re a defining kind of Quaker 'theology,' here too is Barclay's Apology in full - https://books.google.com/books/about/An_Apology_for_the_True_Christian_Divini.html?id=FtsRAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false - first published in 1676.

Here too is the Corvallis Meeting House in Google StreetView - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Friends+Meeting+House/@44.5738429,-123.2880619,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x99b0ee58d7599b20!8m2!3d44.5738429!4d-123.2880619 .

Re NtF meditation and the inner releasing action link you'll have open in Meeting, Barbara -

Arc: Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response:

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html

- I'm curious in what ways re my research into actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs for soaking meditation in the Harbin warm pool from home in one's bathtub may be differentially explored (i.e. putting a smartphone into Google Cardboard and seeing the Harbin warm pool in StreetView). I think the warm waters at Harbin's warm pool ~ Visit the Harbin Gate in StreetView here ... http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg~ deepen the relaxation response with many, many parallels to centering down in Quaker meeting per where I think a de facto relaxation response centering down occurs. If we can sit at home and visit the Harbin warm pool visually, but not be in our bath tubs (re eliciting the neurophysiology of the relaxation response thanks to the warm pool), how could we begin to understand how, for example, the visual aspects of being in the Harbin warm pool might facilitate a f/Friendly centering down, comparable with the visual aspects of sitting in a Quaker Meeting room (not inquiring anthropologically or brain science-wise about culture here, just about effects of warm water and visual aspects of "centering down" / Friendly meditation in Meeting). And similarly, if we could be at home and in a Quaker Meeting house on a Sunday morning, could we do so too from our bathtubs for deepening centering down / Friendly meditation? (All of this could become academic research studies even:).

Happy surfing of the inner releasing action of centering down in friendly Corvallis Quaker Meeting, Barbara. :)

NtF cheers,

Scott

~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~

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Hi David,

Nice to talk yesterday, and glad you heard some great Telemann (and Vivaldi did you say?) music + ... Great musicians playing great pieces can transport to a kind of freedom (pour moi:)

I learned a little more about "Hamilton" the musical's producer Thomas Kail (with Miranda), who went like you to Sidwell Friends (Quaker school) and Wesleyan, per - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kail +

And exploring a little further:

"Why is Hamilton so revolutionary?"

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/15-things-heard-ice-cream-scooper

"Hamilton is Innovative, But Not Quite Revolutionary"

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/hamilton-innovative-not-quite-revolutionary/

"Hamilton is creative and radical – in the proud tradition of musical theatre"

Mark Lawson

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/26/hamilton-radical-musical-theatre-groundbreaking

Perhaps it's retro in its ongoing expression of "revolutionary" memes ('replicating cultural units' per my def. - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/12/tanagers-meme-as-cultural-replicating.html - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/08/chimpanzee-pant-hoot-dancing-meme-in.html) since the American Revolution circa 1776 - but H expresses kind of tamed revolution envisioning (& esp. without the violence) ... and while art in some countries can bring about socially just change for the better, I think "Hamilton" may not be as far-reaching as other musicals ....

Sylvia Earle's worth hearing but she may be based partly in the SF Bay Area / Oakland - https://twitter.com/SylviaEarle - possibly

... just Tweeted here about Sylvia here:

Monterey, CA, near Stanford Hopkin's Marine Center (where I @scottmacleod too heard yesterday the amazing oceanographer '@SylviaEarle, Mission Blue, Exploring the Deep Ocean Frontier'

https://events.stanford.edu/events/829/82938/ … ML Map oceans in #RealisticVirtualEarth at StreetView cell/atom levels?

Monterey, CA, near Stanford Hopkin's Marine Center (where I @scottmacleod too heard yesterday the amazing oceanographer '@SylviaEarle, Mission Blue, Exploring the Deep Ocean Frontier'https://t.co/tVNKUt7XEx ML Map oceans in #RealisticVirtualEarth at StreetView cell/atom levels? pic.twitter.com/5BRdS6ahWN
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) April 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1114589930506711040

The film she was talking about only in part at Stanford Hopkins' Marine Center is "Mission Blue" (2014) ... not sure if this is it or a precursor:

Mission Blue: Protecting the Blue Heart of the Planet with Sylvia Earle (2012)

https://youtu.be/bINLU-wWQmE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Earle

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Earle

http://www.oceanelders.org/dr-sylvia-a-earle/

https://mission-blue.org/about/

More about Google's Bach Doodle here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/western-meadowlark-world-univ-sch-live.html

Whither American culture ahead, I wonder (for each of us re ongoing individuation)? Am taking a kind of constructionist approach in these regards with both World Univ & Sch, as well as with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project - and esp. the making of a realistic virtual Harbin / earth / universe.

Would be wonderful to see you on July on Cuttyhunk, David ...

Cheers, Scott

Just doing a major revision of my CV

- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4vXG-QoGZkMWqK6Y5WbuNqdDihPyUVqMAgp2HS6hpU/edit?usp=sharing -

& at top here:

http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

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Just found this re "Hair" which was kind of revolutionary for me:

Hair: The musical that 'changed theatre for ever' - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-45625785

Sep 27, 2018 - The musical Hair was a revolution for London theatre, breaking taboos around nudity and drug-taking.

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April 3, 2019

Hi M,

Have a great trip to see 'Hamilton!' Sounds fun.

Successfully saved and posted about half of G+ posts into my web log blog posts, and then archived all of my Google Profiles thanks to Google's impressive I.T. & archive planning for this. Here's an example - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/sunflower-5-helianthg-scott-macleods-g.html?m=0 . Maybe a different infoformation technology will develop to re-post these social media profiles and posts in the future.

Hi to Sandy and Peg! And happy travels!

L,
Scott

March 31, 2019

Hi M,

What are you up to today? Here's a picture of you and Chris in Schenley Park - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1078334929631625216 - from possibly Dec 2017 which I just found. What are you up to for your birthday besides seeing 'Hamilton' in NYC? - What a great trip and celebration!

Figured out an approach to saving about 8 of my Google+ Profiles' posts to my blog but this will take time before 4/2 (most of which are currently listed here - scottmacleod.com ... eg here's my Yoga Mac Flower G+ profile - https://plus.google.com/u/0/114745337283538691852 - and I created ~22 blogspot posts from thee dated March 24, 2019 from 'Yoga Mac Flower' and here's the first one - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/ashoka.html - in the 'Yoga' label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga ).

BPPE licensing App is looming large and a gigantic job and Larry is probably available for some phone calls re language ... but it feels like a nightmare.

Just saw the amazing film "Apollo 11" landing on the moon and return to earth in Berkeley last night - worth seeing (here's 28 minutes of related - https://youtu.be/B6Na63NNxFY - but the movie in a theater is cool). I think we MacLeods as a family might have been watching this together in the den TV room in Hamden, Connecticut, in July 1969. What do you recall? Check the film out for your birthday. :) Some highlights for me: - how well it was documented, how relatively little hippy stuff there is in it (but it's there), the amazingly successful planning and execution, the incredible technology that was made, the lack of mention of MIT which grAduates played a significant role I think, the virtual experience of traveling to the moon because of the film, that the audience in Berkeley wasn't very politicized in their reception of it, the excellent narrative and production of the film, seeing the people involved (who were somehow familiar - including the styles of clothes - for ex. I remember thinking that "I wore a striped shirt like that 10 year old" and you wore dresses like those women), the simple computers, the teamwork and organization and knowledgeable people.m - such an amazing knowledge and learning, the tie in with Massachusetts in part - so a lot! of cultural familiarity (and Florida and Texas). A Lovell is mentioned with his name displayed (Jim Lovell's brother?) The momentousness and significance of this achievement.

Glad to say, I was just informed I automatically borrowed the audio eBook 'Hamilton' from the SF Public Library - so will begin to listen to it before seeing Hamilton on 4/10. Looking forward to hearing from you what I should look for when you see it on 4/5.

Re Canyon water, about 2-3 weeks ago I wrote something judiciously and circumspectly to about 3 people ('just adding my 2 cents' worth') about the 'calcite' - white mineral stuff (eg in my egg pan and on the dish drainer board, and on the wine glasses after they dried) - in the Canyon water (Canyon can have a kind of agonized Critter 'male primal dominant' strong arm roar in response to some such public discourse - and I only sent my email to 3 people / friends ) ... And Canyon got a new water pump system a few years ago as well. Well, now when I look at my just washed wine glasses - on their new rack too - I can't see any more 'calcite' - light colored mineral powder ... so now it seems possibly wise to drink the water here, because this 'calcite' was the main reason I began buying water fairly recently. There's no public health service in Canyon, and not really anyone I could ask ... so I get to decide ... :) Maybe someone added a module to the water system, and flipped a switch to activate a filter, for example, in recent weeks. (It's not easy to know).

Blog continues to be generative from yesterday, I like this Tweet, and the other two related Tweets, from item 1 :

Seeking to get virtual TRAVELING experience down - like an actual trip to Harbin with movement - in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for the freedom, physicality, refreshment of journeying, wandering, (dancing too) & from home in bath tub, on incline walking machines, or walking outside in #VR mask?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis-china-rose.html?m=0

Have a great day! And Happy Upcoming Birthday, M!

L, Scott

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Wanted to collect in one place my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' UC Berkeley talks' videos in the Gifford Room (but can't seem to find the one in Google from 2017, and the one from 2015 didn't work out):

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