Hi Annie, (Ma,
Nice to talk the other evening Annie (from Indiana)!
GREETINGS from North Dakota! Am just west of Bismarck ND and could arrive at the ranch on Monday evening ... Looking forward to seeing you! Anything I can do to help? Anything I can bring from parts east?
Warmly, Scott
Ma,
How did you sleep last night? Slept pretty well here camping in car in north Dakota ...
Am wondering if somehow I could meet my wife to be in your beautiful home in Pittsburgh some holiday (Xmas?) ... A MD resident in Pgh who went to college (undergraduate) elsewhere at a high achieving University, possibly active in the UU Church or Quaker Meeting in Pgh, and seeking a husband (daughter or granddaughter even of MDs you know in Pgh?)
I could arrive at Annie's tomorrow evening in eastern Oregon.
Google Maps says I'm ~18:45 minutes from Union Oregon ... North Dakota and Montana are big being states to drive through ahead ...
How to think about Beethoven's 9 symphonies on CD which I'm playing much of - as thinking pieces (as masterpieces too)? I used Google Voice to ask about the 9th, the 1st and the 2nd and learned interesting tidbits which I had heard decades ago (and new ideas too ... "mark it uniquely as Beethoven's work, notably the frequent use of sforzandi, as well as sudden shifts in tonal centers that were uncommon for ..." ... Something about fate too! )
... But coming back to PM Stuart Liddell's listening and feeling idea, and not thinking, I'm listening and feeling them ... Takes me too to my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project ... And listening and feeling therein in the Now moment :)
Love, Scott
Text message yesterday :)
Nice to talk Ma! Drove on abt a mile from the North Dakota rest area with lightning flashing, EXITED on Eldridge Road exit 251, turned R, found a side road on R immediately with tree wind break that said Dead End .. drove along a corn field a ways back toward rest area, turned around, and now by the tree break, will camp here probably :) Sleep well :)
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Hi Ann & Ma,
Whoeee ... Just past thru the Badlands of North Dakota, and Theodore Roosevelt National Park of a truck stop too as overlook over The Badlands
Soon after on the road, came to the hole on the wall exit called 'Home on the Range'
Asked Google Voice to read aloud the lyrics (below) to this folk song from childhood, but it couldn't (yet), remembering
"Where seldom is heard a DISCOURAGING WORD and the skies are not cloudy all day ..."
AND this gave me further insight into frontier psychology and freedom, - and so close to the Badlands ... Hmmm
Curious how 'Frontier Psychiatry' online will differ now from City Psychiatry .... Talk therapy with Smart Phones ??? :) (Appreciating family friend George L Alexander MD re smart talk therapy for his clients) ... And would online psychiatry with Avatar bots be potentially free ? ... Yes at WUaS :)
Warmly, Scott
O give me a home where the buffaloes roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Where the air is so pure and the zephyrs so free
And the breezes so balmy and light
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light of the glittering stars
I stand there amazed and I ask as I gaze
Does their glory exceed that of ours?
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
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- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
1) non-profit World University and School - http://
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@
(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
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| Sun, Aug 8, 4:28 PM (2 days ago) | | ||
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Ma, Ann,
Greetings from Montana where I just crossed over the state line from ND on I-94 ... 100F hot - but no western Forest Fires yet :) ... 15 hours' drive left to you, Ann, to Wisdom Creek Ranch :) See you soon
Fondly, Scott
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Driving UP to Continental Divide and not getting the 44.0 +avg gas mileage otherwise ... Leaving Glendives MT up up up :)
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Hi Ann and Ma,
Greetings from industrial western Billings Montana (pop. 109,000 - and fairly central in the state) as I near Oregon. Hoping to get to the ranch tomorrow evening Annie! Maps says it's 12 hours from here. Will likely car camp again this evening. (Driving west Massachusetts across the USA has been fun). How are you? I may head back to the SF Bay Area Wednesday Aug 11 :) will seek too to call later this evening :)
Warmly, Scott
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Hi Ann and Ma,
Drove into Idaho - through amazing Craters of the Moon national park, a rift or fissure of volcanoes spewing forth beginning about 15000 years ago, with an astounding charred landscape - eastern Idaho. Gas prices increased from about 3:09 avg to 3.99 avg, roughly ... And fuel efficiency jumped from around 35 mpg to low 50s mpg ... Must being going downhill after North Dakota and Montana's rise to something like the Continental Divide ...
'rode hard and long' yesterday ... Camped in western Montana, in what turned out to be agricultural land with many large irrigation systems, somewhere between Silver Star and Twin Bridges not too far from Dillon ... 5+ hours to the ranch ... Wisdom Creek Ranch in NE Oregon ... How did it get it's name Annie ? :) See you soon!
Warmly, Scotty
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Ann (& Ma),
Just turned off I-84 in Oregon onto the road for Medical Springs /Haines (near Baker City) coming from the east and Idaho ...
See you in about 30 minutes Annie! :)
Warmly, Scotty
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Greetings, Ma, from the porch at the ranch, in beautiful NE Oregon ... just woke up from sleeping (pretty well) outside (in my car, which was open) ... walked up with Annie to check the water flow near the upper field beyond the main barn, with its own cut lumber wood shelter, then into the garden with Annie (a bit overgrown, but with many many vegetable), where I got some delicious raspberries (a week past their prime, but ever so good), then went over to talk with Annie as she was picking kale (but not green beans since when wet with morning dew, they get a rust, so she picks them in the afternoon when they are dry) ... then back to the ranch house and we cleaned the kale in a blue bucket of water from insects, and brown spots too, ... so nice to visit with Annie in this ranch which is teaming with life - genetics - from the moment I drove in up the driveway. Connecting with my cousin, Annie - Yay! Yesterday evening, we walked down across the road to see a stand of trees where 2 or 3 had evidence of bark beetles ... the Red Turpentine beetle, the western bark beetle (but couldn't find any in their larvae or maggot form), their different sized males and females, and ips (a related disease producing insects), also ants, and similar ... and Annie with hammer and chisel, and naturalist-wise, peeled away bark to find these insects, ... in such a beautiful and otherwise very healthy stand of Ponderosa pines ... quite a treat to be in this stand of magnificent trees that your brother had the vision to cultivate and create ... the whole Wisdom Creek Ranch property is bursting forth with these large beautiful trees and stands ... thanks to Ted's planning, and now Annie's tree ranching (and almost, my word, Taoist - non-action - ie she and Ted didn't really want to cut these trees ... so they are so abundant and healthy and flourishing). It's a different awareness of reality, natural reality, evolutionary biological reality ... that Annie lives intimately in and with ... working all the time, so knowledgeable about everything here on this ranch ... ... So good to see her, and Tim (who seems ... somehow ... and has often seemed so), ... and they seem however to get along well, having been married since 1998 or 1999 ... The ranch is beautiful and flourishing, (the house is a bit messy) ... and it's so nice to talk with my cousin, and connect ... Will we continue to connect in generations to come, if aging reversal genetic drug therapies are developed? I think so 
How are you? How's Cuttyhunk? What are you planning after Peg leaves on the 14th? Will you stay on on Cuttyhunk? Sending love, Scott
How are you? How's Cuttyhunk? What are you planning after Peg leaves on the 14th? Will you stay on on Cuttyhunk? Sending love, Scott--
- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
1) non-profit World University and School - http://
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@
(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: Oregon
To: Ann Brown <anniebrownbrown@excite.com>, Jane MacLeod - V <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>
From: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: Oregon
To: Ann Brown <anniebrownbrown@excite.com>, Jane MacLeod - V <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>
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