Friday, September 24, 2021

Black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes): Interesting ideas regarding 'countercultural' "Varieties of Religious Experience" (per William James 1902 book, and talks at the University of Edinburgh, and offering first class in Psychology at Harvard) * * * Mental Health ~ Psychiatric Diseases (...developing here some further avenues for MD psychiatry research here too, and re a single realistic virtual earth at the street view, cellular and molecular levels ... with a science focus on consciousness, and even the unconscious, in the future) * * * Life partner? * Here's a very cool cloned ferret from a Harvard MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church Tweet - in a talk given by Ryan Phelan, partner of Stuart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog creation, and of Stanford ... Quite a(nother) genetic success!


Interesting ideas regarding 'countercultural' "Varieties of Religious Experience" (per William James 1902 book, and talks at the University of Edinburgh, and offering first class in Psychology at Harvard) 

 

Tie dye handkerchief, closed UU Church Berkeley bench, Chalice Flame - Scott 

Hi Ma, John, Joan, Sandy, All, 

Freeing of feelings in alternative cultures (see the name of my blog, for ex.), and re the above "Feeling feelings ..." at bottom here presently ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/northern-saw-whet-owl-bodacious-bay.html



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So, 
were Grateful Dead concerts in UU Churches, a real
religious experience
- and even a counter-Unitarian-cultural religious experience (in contrast, for example, to the man dressed in black in the church pulpit idea, and emerging from Puritanism even ?) 

Grateful Dead 9/10/1972



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And is soaking in the Harbin warm pool sanctuary, as it's called, a real
religious experience too 
and counter culturally too re this unaffiliated HCC Church ... (which even as a possible hippy tax dodge, too, ordains its own ministers, or did, prior to the fire of Sep 2015 - and since this seemed to be a Harbin dysfunctional practice prior to the valley fire, which razed Harbin (except of the pools) ... )
(Did Harbin institutionalized the 'party' right of the 1960s, and sociologically - the hippie party that is :)? Cool, and right on! 



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And Yoga-wise, were Angela & Victor's Yoga gatherings, a real
religious experience Yogic-ally too 
and counter-culturally, since A&V are kind of old English and Dutch hippies ... and even because they were visionary, lead to a kind of feeling well, and were creatively unique, since all other Yoga seemed primarily pose oriented (and possibly also cult oriented too), for their transformative experiences 



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And un-programmed Quaker-wise, is 
Quaker Silent Meeting, as de facto meditation, an authentic
religious experience, Friends' wise too? 
And were Friends' and Quaker-witness peace marches, and vigils, of the 1960s, 70s,'80s to the present, as gatherings, complementing
this, - meditation with its de facto relaxation response, creating an inner releasing action, - but socially, and which feels good, as un-programmed Friends' Meetings' 
religious experiences? 
(Friends' Monthly Business Meeting organizational structure)


Am reminded of the creativity of freeing oneself from older staid religious traditions that was around in the 1960s and '70s too ... and re feeling feelings ... :)

Authentic religious experiences created by us in new and creative ways, UU-wise, Harbin-wise, Yoga-wise, Quaker-wise ... (and are you getting free money daily too - in some of these regards, re scarcity questions, and how that may have lead to some of the above networks and practices, idea-wise, and culture identity wise too) ... - https://minepi.com/sgkmac - for FREE MONEY DAILY now!


And further, in calling for abolition of the illegal sex industry internationally,  - and re the social justice and abolition of slavery focuses on UUs and Quakers -I searched on 
'Which countries still have slavery?' and found ...

As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (18.4 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

Seems like WUaS Corp with Stanford Mine Pi might be able to end poverty that could lead to some of the above !


Abolition-ally, and Friendly regards, Scott


(Virtual Harbin may be safer than actual Harbin re even questions of illegality ... until CA and federal law can come to play a role in bringing criminals to justice there even?

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin)



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William James' #VarietiesofReligiousExperience 1902 #counterculturally? 1st Psych class @Harvard #UUChurchBerkeley, "#FeelingFeelings ..." #TieDye   http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/black-footed-ferret-mustela-nigripes_0885055734.html?m=0 1 #UUs 1966 #GratefulDead 2 #HippyYoga 3 #HarbinWarmPool   #RealisticVirtualHarbin 4 #QuakerSilentMeeting -
 





#countercultural "Varieties of Religious Experience" (William James 1902,  Psychology @Harvard) #TieDye #UUChurchBerkeley, "#FeelingFeelings ..."  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/black-footed-ferret-mustela-nigripes_0885055734.html?m=0 1 #UUs 1966 #GratefulDead 2 #HippyYoga 3 #HarbinWarmPool   #RealisticVirtualHarbin 4 #QuakerSilentMeeting ~







Varieties of Religious Experience #counterculturally (William James 1902,  Psychology @Harvard) #TieDye #UUChurchBerkeley, "#FeelingFeelings ..."   http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/black-footed-ferret-mustela-nigripes_0885055734.html?m=0 1 #UUs 1966 #GratefulDead 2 #HippyYoga 3 #HarbinWarmPool   #RealisticVirtualHarbin 4 #QuakerSilentMeeting ~











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Mental Health ~ Psychiatric Diseases


Hi Scott,

Mental health diseases are just like all other diseases. I don’t see them as negative — just a part of the human existence. They occur within all populations everywhere the world, every professional group, everyone in general.  They are largely treatable, thank goodness, just as most other diseases are, for the most part. Nice that Ed shared some of his own experience with you; sounds like he’s a good example of what physicians are trained to do: dx and treat.  And, as with everything between friends, comes the matter of trust - so congrats on earning that trust from him.

Love, Ma



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Thanks, Ma! 

Mental health diseases are socially constructed by the MD medical and insurance, professions, just as biological diseases are socially constructed, but constructed scientifically by different kinds of scientists (than MD psychiatrists) re biology, chemistry, physics inquiry  ... and more research is needed, and newly in the Information Technology age, 

Glad too that E shared some of his experiences with mood medicines (for seizures otherwise) with me. 

Yay for trust, (with analysis or thinking, and innovating too)! 

Thanks for your email!

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://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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Ma, 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/borneo-orangutan-pongo-pygmaeus_072504751.html

( ... developing here some further avenues for MD psychiatry research here too, and re a single realistic virtual earth at the street view, cellular and molecular levels ... with a science focus on consciousness, and even the unconscious, in the future).

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://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 




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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Sep 23, 2021, 10:52 AM (1 day ago)

to Sandy, Mark, Pin, Annie, Jane


Hi Ma, (Sandy, All),

Thanks again for your email on Tuesday. Re E and his severe mental illness (self-reported to me), and 'mental health diseases,' am a bit more worried about nelson graburn's possible psychosis (where I think psychoses are a psychiatric biological fact as disease, different from perhaps Ed's condition for example) - as a psychiatric disease - re graburn's lashing out at me, uncontrollably in recent TSWG sessions last year (and did he seek to try to end my life a number of times, - first perhaps by 'sending me' to the University of California, Santa Barbara, and re that psychiatrically ill ucsb instructor francesca bray ...  ) ... where I think Ed as MD is in a position to manage graburn's illness or disease, - and even while Ed is taking mood medication. Is some of graburn's illness, and violence too (perhaps internationally), related to the international illegal sex industry (and even regarding all 10 campuses of the University of California, tragically ... ) ... regarding ethical 'tumblr-ing' too, affecting the brain into psychosis? 

Thanks too when we talked on the phone last time for mentioning in response to me the words 'illegal sex trade,' when I said illegal sex industry. Distinguishing between such a trade and an industry in these heinous harming practices ... may be place specific (CA, or PA, or MA), or even institution specific (state of CA? 10 university of californias, california state universities, california community colleges???? ... but not too much the state of Pennsylvania?) ... Much opportunity for legal developments regarding the abolition of the international illegal sex industry ahead (and ending too slavery in other countries even), perhaps also via UBI experiments!

Pretty heavy 'stuff'  - so thanks for your email. And I hope all of you are having a great or good day! :)

Love, and abolition-ally, Scott


Have blogged further about psychiatric illnesses, mental health diseases, how WUaS Medical Schools might help with online psychiatry, and some of these people here too here - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/borneo-orangutan-pongo-pygmaeus_072504751.html



The WUaS Corporation is growing step by step ... !



-- 

- 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://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 




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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

11:38 AM (2 hours ago)

to Jane, Sandy, Pin, Annie, Mark, Larry


Dear Ma, Sandy, All, 

Remember when we used to make puns and have fun with the word 'tic' on Cuttyhunk, regarding 'antic,' 'spastic' etc  ... There are lots of ways one can make puns about 'tic' - and Dad was a punster (funny too) and a wordsmith :) ... I think this 'tic' word, in retrospect, may have been an interesting first example of what a mental illness might manifest as, and be recognizable by physically - and as a word in the MacLeod family on Cuttyhunk - and possibly as my first introduction, in a sense, to the idea of mental disease (per your email about Ed's mental disease, Ma ... and potentially others, like graburns' - and could he possibly have called for Dad's subdural hematoma brain injury in Belize, and even the 2nd 'spontaneous' one in Pittsburgh after that ... 'out, damned spot! out, I say' from MacBeth re graburn? ... ), as I recall, and even with Dad as a smart, well-trained, physician MD, and teacher to of Medical Grand Rounds in Pittsburgh, as a quick and skillful diagnostician. And even though, also, the MacLeod family shared an Xmas meal with the Alexander family, and re George L Alexander MD and his family for 22 or 23 years, as a brilliant Yale & McGill-trained psychoanalytic psychiatrist (was he a genius? It's difficult to say what a genius is!), who studied and knew about mental illness, and could talk about it, and understand it in his patients, with great depth of understanding - to help such sufferers of such diseases. Glad psychiatry has been in existence since the mid-1800s - 

"The beginning of psychiatry as a medical specialty is dated to the middle of the nineteenth century, although its germination can be traced to the late eighteenth century. In the late 17th century, privately run asylums for the insane began to proliferate and expand in size" (Wikipedia)

... and that Friends Hospital in Philadelphia is the longest continuously operated mental hospital since 1813 in the USA.  Here is a good photo of the front of Friends' Hospital in Philadelphia, and re the idea of making a realistic virtual Haribn into a home asylum too 

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1306653558264098816?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1306656987816501248?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1306657454478880769?s=20

... per ... 

Asylum at home? re

@WorldUnivAndSch

 with Friends/Quakers, & Psychiatry resources, regarding - https://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Friends_Hospital… (which 'lecture' word I just wiki-edited on their web page). WUaS is seeking to facilitate the development of online psychiatry (language-focused & Quaker / All too) #WUaSPsychiatry ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/kanneliya-dediyagala-nakiyadeniya.html


Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? 


Warm regards, Scott

Jacques Lacan MD - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacques%20Lacan%20MD


Am hoping WUaS's Medical Schools can generate excellent online psychiatry, and readily and easily accessible too, in all ~200 countries and in their main languages.




-- 

- 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://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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Ma,

Re the 'real' (a Lacan word re the 'symbolic' and the 'imaginary' or 'mirror' registers in his tripartite schema "symbolic, real, imaginary" https://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/symbolicrealimaginary.htm ) ... 

What was the number of your nice house, Ma? ...on Belmont Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45224  when you were growing up? ...  Was this the house you were born in? 

Before they moved to Fairview Ave . . and its house number ? 

Interesting timing and medical content of your email, Ma, just now! 

Love, Scott

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history?m=0 :)




Ma,

This Lacan "symbolic, real, imaginary"  by Amanda Loos at University of Chicago 2002 paper is brilliant - and I wonder if it could have been partially penned by George Alexander MD, since Caleb might possibly have been at Chicago around that time.

Kittler is cited, and this is a very funny obituary in The Guardian as well -

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/21/friedrich-kittler - and brilliant in its own ways.

Love, Scott




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Re: Diseases

Dear Ma, Sandy, Pin, Mark, Larry,

More about psychiatric diseases here, and thanks for starting this thread, Ma! - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/black-footed-ferret-mustela-nigripes_0885055734.html

(... 'authentic' religious experiences too!)


Regarding World University and School seeking to develop ~200 online Medical Schools with psychiatry in online teaching hospitals, this French article may highlight an opportunity with its emphasis on whistleblowing about the abuse of physical restraints in psychiatry in France re political concerns -


"Exclusive Abuse in psychiatry: the cry of alarm from doctors"

https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/sante/abus-en-psychiatrie-le-cri-dalarme-des-medecins-25-09-2021-EQRFMTWQOVEC3KW5JESRDCJMZI.php

Psychiatry - 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry

World Univ & Sch Medical Schools (planned online in 200 countries and in their main languages) -

https://worlduniversityandschool.miraheze.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

The issue of abuse of the insurance-oriented psychiatric disease diagnosis only compounds questions of science of such diseases. Online psychiatry however does over remarkable opportunity for avatar Bot talk therapy to help individuals - and its effect will vary from country to country and language to language (in working within these 'systems'). Online psychiatry in 200 countries is also a good initial medical sub-discipline for WUaS to begin with, because it is can be less reliant on the 'physical' compared with other medical specialties ... And may be able to help a lot of sufferers via the extensible internet! 

Thanks, Ma!


Further thoughts questions ideas suggestions?


-- 

- 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://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 




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Diseases (continued)

Dear Ma, Sandy, Pin, Mark, Larry, Ann,


Misdiagnoses from medical MDs could be misused - tragically too - to enslave people, not help them (and how to create a culture of medicine which helps people) ... And I'm living, sadly, in a 'safe house,' from Canyon perps, offs. purveyors, I hypothesize, from the illegal sex industry and its latent cultures of harming and violence  ...

And yet what happens also when everyone (especially the poorest in the poorest countries) has enough money from say, Stanford Mine Pi, so nothing illegal happens, for example, in some open sexual engagements (re no 'trickery' even), which I've explored here a bit - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/utricularia-gibba-humped-or-floating.html - which could be a kind of California shift in an amazing array of legal and economic regimes (in all 200 countries even ) ... but how best to protect people legally and culturally somehow if an illegal sex industry (in contrast to a illegal trade) has already enslaved people, and redress such issues social justice wise, and psychiatrically, and re 'religious experience' of transcendence or wholeness even? ... What do you think? ... And what happens if non-commercial sexual engagements are somehow all legal at state, federal and local levels, and perpetrators were in some form of restraint or jail, and victims and prospective victims could be protected with ever improving psychiatry (talk therapy, drugs even )??? that helps people ... and in many cultures, and that doesn't lead to slavery ... even. Would California go in the direction of a kind of Dutch law rewritten for the internet's information age and CA, and with excellent law enforcement to protect victims, and protective laws and measures? What's the history of psychiatric disease diagnosis in The Netherlands in these regards, and would that suggest that California would not head in such a direction?

A actual-virtual realistic virtual earth, cloning of various mammals, and emerging robotics might offer completely new ways of developing all of this in avatar bot electronic medical records - and for all 7.8 billion people, and to protect the innocent, and shape culture in the ways societies (such as western European societies and nation states, by way of comparison) might choose ... 

Am hoping WUaS Medical Schools can improve on psychiatric disease diagnoses ... and in all 200 countries, and in their languages, esp.

Fond regards, Scott




 


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Life partner?


E, Ma,

Just shared this email below with good old friend T.L., whom I haven't seen very much recently. Am musing about your email, E ...

'Hi Scott!
Happy Fall Solstice.
Days pass.  Lots too do just in family maintenance and routine.  Unloading Val.  Housekeeping.  I've driven Theo to an appointment & am in the waiting area. 

I see your mind goes out toward projects and travels.  I think I will get involved in some activity outside the home, soon ish.  Maybe helping the gardeners at Tilden with plant propagation.  

Lete know when you feel like some companionship on one of your evening saunters.  Even the same day! It is nice having you close by, and I have not taken enough advantage of that.

Fondly,
E'


 ... Re ongoing seeking of a partner ... am reminded of the Gospel song 'Sometimes I feel like a motherless child' & here's Odetta ~ 
https://youtu.be/ZXg9UFUXFXU ... I don't think C.R. MD or D.L. or L. MD are for me ... so am continuing circulating ... & am, agency-wise, thinking about naturally connecting, but am a bit in isolation here ...  So further meditation (even re Yogic asceticism & restraint of sexuality which I construe here as simplicity, and have kids if you like with care or balance - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ) ... ahead ... and perhaps I could meet a life partner through one of these two's circles ... Not seeking to make the same worst choice of my life that George Alexander MD did (who's now passed away, having had children) ... All these kinds of religious experiences (UU, Harbin, Yogic, Quaker, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim,Jewish,Confucian,Taoist per Huston Smith's Religions of Man??? etc. Religion-wise
 ... & Re countercultural thinking - 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/northern-saw-whet-owl-bodacious-bay.html - lead me to think that meditation is a good thing ... But am not clear how to navigate the rogue-like aspects of northern California and all 200 countries ... Ethics matter, and abolition-ally esp ... In a new 'internet ecology' 


Tym, 

Interesting model for a starting family from a piping pupil I give Scottish Small Pipes' lessons to - as I continue to keep focused Desiderata-wise (https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html) on World Univ & Sch as career - as my seeking for a friend and life partner to begin a family continues ... (just emailed T & my mother about this too) ... 


Ma, new idea after giving a good piping lesson yesterday -


"T,

You mentioned

Tim Cummings' 'old hag in the corner' but couldn't find the sheet music ...

which leads me to think of meeting and connecting with a
beautiful woman in my life, and also with a
great father-in-law too, for further connecting {- like T has -} (which you seem to have) all for family ... how to find such out west here or anywhere?

Do you have access to this tune? 

Cheers, Scott"



Ma, T seems well, with growing family, in his move to Columbus, Georgia (of all places), originally from the SF Bay Area ... thanks to his wife A perhaps, who is much in the background (with their baby Em) ... and partly since her parents and sisters are in the area (seems like it's a Celtic 'Irish,' in part, 'thanksgiving' identity-wise for all of them), and with the Ws now living in a big house on 2 acres, having moved from a one bedroom studio in SF this spring.

Interesting, good realized family, with much centered well-being, and social, but as a nuclear family too, with other extended nuclear families as relatives in the area. ... And T is an interested Scottish Small Pipes' learner ...

Love you, Scott


They're far from the madding crowd - is part of it I think - but their family constellation is pretty whole, and with good family nearby 'psychologically' in a sense ... 


Tym, how was your trip? How are you ðŸ™‚?

Where are you with some of these questions of life partner further, especially if aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerge ...

Love, Scott


Here's a very cool cloned ferret from a Harvard MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church Tweet - 
in a talk given by Ryan Phelan, partner of Stuart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog creation, and of Stanford ... 

Quite a(nother) genetic success! 




Fondly, Scott

PS
How to analyze my right ear 'eustachian tube dysfunction' with new developing sophisticated tests and the possibility to heal it with nano-bots' genetic engineering or similar innovation before heading to a safe Harbin Hot Springs for soaking meditation-wise ?

PPS
Like William James, who offered a first psychology course in the USA, can I offer a first Realistic Virtual Harbin / Earth course and with ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy too - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html ~ 

PPPS
An E Carlsson with aging reversal genetic engineering to a 25 yo as life partner (but not necessarily her)??? She's quite cheery and other-thinking a bit like N Larsen was (friend from Reed) who was warm, funny, caring, thoughtful, smart, Quaker too, and a writer too :)




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Hippies explored making pets of ferrets, I recall ... and in quite interesting ways. I don't see many ferrets as pets around these days! 







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