Olea europaea: Hello dear Victor (and Angela~Angelina), http://www.angela-victor.com/blogs/victor/yoga-more-pose, Thank you for your recent painting and yogic ideas, Victor, I like this variant of the Dutch flag ... as well as your yoga philosophizing art ... Both are kind of cosmic but wonder if / why there's no mention of liberté (freedom: blue), égalité (equality: white), fraternité (brotherhood: red) in this Wikipedia Netherlands' flag article ... Maybe western democracies have given up on these ideas, ideals and visions, sadly ... Would you and Angela be available please to teach yoga and art online live at World University and School ... perhaps by live-streaming some of your yoga courses from Greece with time? ... and also to help perhaps to make the wiki WUaS beautiful artistically?, My Harbin Book is now in the UC Berkeley Anthropology library, Letter from Victor!

Hello dear Victor (and Angelina), 

Thank you for your recent painting and yogic ideas, Victor ... 

http://www.angela-victor.com/blogs/victor/yoga-more-pose

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I like this variant of the Dutch flag ... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands#/media/File:Naval_Jack_of_the_Netherlands.svg ...

found here ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands ... 

as well as your yoga philosophizing art ... http://www.angela-victor.com/blogs/victor/yoga-more-pose ... recent, and in general ... 

Both are kind of cosmic ... 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Angela%20and%20Victor%20yoga

... but wonder if / why there's no mention of liberté (freedom: blue), égalité (equality: white), fraternité (brotherhood: red) in this Wikipedia Netherlands' flag article ... 

Maybe western democracies have given up on these ideas, ideals and visions, sadly ... 

But I hope f/Friendly-informed World University and School would further these great ideas and Yoga-wise too, and nevertheless ...

Would you and Angela be available please to teach yoga and art online live at World University and School ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ...  perhaps by live-streaming some of your yoga courses from Greece with time? ... and also to help perhaps to make the wiki WUaS beautiful artistically ... and furthermore possibly by helping students and learners and teachers online to be able to make it wiki beautiful in the ways and languages they would like to? (e.g. Wikipedia similarly could become more beautiful interface-wise:) Isn't life one big canvas for painting ... now online and 3D interactively? 

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area, and from Canyon, where I live. 

Love, 

Scotty

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Hello Victor and Angela,

My Harbin Book is now in the UC Berkeley Anthropology library ... http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b23696434 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/loggerhead-sea-turtle-my-naked-harbin.html - I'm glad to say ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/843537776712663040 ! ... not entirely easy getting it out there :)

Continuing to seek a love to begin a family ...

May head to your course, Angela, in October ... :)

How are you both?

Love, 

Scott

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

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http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm

San Francisco Bay Area - East Bay Hills

yogamacflower@gmail.com

World University and Schoo's wiki, 'Yoga,' subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga :) - with an invitation to 'edit this page' and explore yoga. 

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Dear Scott,

Thanks for the contact after reading my latest blog. I am talking about the deeper reality of our being here and going beyond the surface, the Yoga being the connective tissue between all layers of being. Doing poses is one thing but getting stuck into the complexity of some of the poses is a daily process of accurate observations. Observations of what we previously swallowed and regurgitating to be able to make up your mind about their usefulness. The flag is just a symbol for a country. And like I mentioned, I do not even like that country that o grew up in and which felt like a prison wall, rather than a vision into a brighter vision. You have found the meanings of their colors, which are the same colors found in the old Russian, the English and the American flags as in many other ones like the French...

But idealism expressed into colors and patterns mean nothing to a painter and any other person with the exception of some maybe.

The flag is regurgitated and also the cross with Christ still hanging and also dead people, my father, my mother and other family members, my teachers....

So we keep on teaching from that place of wherever our awareness has reached and cleansed the windows of the soul.

We are both not very skilled at computer stuff and only write and receive letters. So you have to understand that we are unable to give out our teaching in that electronic way. We lead people inside into their own world and you can not do that watching a screen. Most of our students have their eyes closed, except for the nervous wrecks that are obsessed with the "One Truth" of idealistic existence.

I experienced Iyengar Yoga as physical communism, trying to all have that perfect aligned body form.

We are living now in the Aquarian mode.

Lots of LOVE, victor.

PS: By the way: our website and that of my watercolors are designed by my son in law, Maurice, who is a website designer by profession. I paid him  to make these websites and he did use me to bring in some drawings.

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

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Protista: World Univ & Sch's (Incorp. Apr 2010) practical idealism of open, high quality teaching & learning, Nontheistic Friendly consensus

Incorporated (April 2010), World University & School's practical idealism of open, high quality teaching & learning conversations - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - will engage (nontheistic Quakerly / Friendly?) consensus decision-making (like ICANN & IETF, too) & Friendly business practices with its goals of a large endowment & becoming a great online, world university & school (all languages), as well as creating jobs.




















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/11/protista-world-univ-schs-incorp-apr.html - November 7, 2010)

Agapetes: Culture, Identity and Love, Peaceable Practices, Nonviolence

I think these nearly 500 blog entries make a case for culture vis-a-vis identity, which isn't often made in the anthropological literature these days. Perhaps I conflate the terms at times, and I don't think I question an anthropological assumption that identity is constructed. To distinguish the terms in one way, I think, however, that 'culture' as identity is very richly confused than simply identity. For example, Scots' culture is very richly nuanced, and quite old, compared, in my mind with Scots' identity.


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If culture plays such a rich role in our lives (as I think it does), and anthropological literature these days doesn't engage the concept that much (perhaps Jim Clifford is an exception), then how might we begin to engage it to elicit or cultivate loving bliss, for example. If culture, as identity, is richly confused, how to tease out those strands as >practice< which one can then build on to actively create something. For example, if hearing, or playing, great piping music (and the experience of celidh [kaylee], i.e. Scottish parties, as well) leads to flow experience, some of which can be akin to experiences of loving bliss, then how can one build on this as practice, to cultivate loving bliss?


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And what about peaceable practices, that culture gives rise to. There's been almost no violence among Quakers in the past 350 years. How to build on this example? And Bonobo chimps? And the 1960s and 70s?













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Agapetes serpens

eol.org/pages/10202976


Agapetes Lugdvan Cross flower










(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/09/agapetes-culture-identity-and-love.html - September 16, 2009)

Rosehip: Gordon K. MacLeod MD's - my father - Memorial Service on Cuttyhunk Island

Gordon K MacLeod MD’s Memorial Service

January 30, 1929 – November 25, 2007
Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts - August 2, 2008

I’d like to honor my father’s passing with a brief history of his life.

My parents met in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Unitarian Church in the mid-1950s. They married there in 1957 on August 17.

My father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and went to Boston Latin School. He came to Cincinnati first to work at Proctor and Gamble as an industrial engineer, and then to go to the University of Cincinnati Medical School in the early 1950s. After marrying, they moved to Boston for my father’s internship in internal medicine at the Boston City Massachusetts General Hospital, and then, after, to a research position at Harvard Medical School.

Sandy and I were both born at Mt. Auburn hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1964 and 1960, respectively. Sandy, my brother, is now a sculptor (see his web site at https://web.archive.org/web/20120620120957/http://www.sandymacleod.com/ - was: sandymacleod.com). Both of our wide-ranging interests reflect my father’s active, open thinking.

My father loved Cuttyhunk Island a lot, where rosehips abound in the summer. He came here first as a school kid in 1943. We started coming to Cuttyhunk in 1966, the year we moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where my father took a position at Yale University, working on the development of group practice and community health plans at the Yale Medical School.

Cuttyhunk Island has been a place of continuity and community for my father and mother, through a number of moves in their lives, prior to their move to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1973.

My father was Cuttyhunk Island’s principal medical doctor during his vacations in August each year in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and provided medical advice for many who needed it for free.

My parents moved to the Washington DC area in 1971 where my father began the federal Health Maintenance Organizations' (HMOs) program, under Elliot Richardson in the department of Health, Education and Welfare. We stayed there until 1973, when he took a position at the University of Pittsburgh, in the Graduate School of Public Health. During the two years we lived in Bethesda, Maryland, we spent 6 months living in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1972-1973, utilizing a Ford Foundation Grant to study the health systems of three European countries in Denmark, Germany and Britain.

While at the University of Pittsburgh, my father (http://www.pitt.edu/~gmacleod - and - http://web.archive.org/web/20080723201931/http://www.pitt.edu/~gmacleod), in 1979, was asked by the then Governor Dick Thornburg to serve as the secretary of health in the state of Pennsylvania. Thornburg picked my father for this position because he had already set up a federal health program, and was recommended by a close adviser of his. Soon after this appointment - 12 days - the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred in central Pennsylvania. My father, the official responsible for managing the health issues, later openly criticized the Thornburg administration’s lack of preparedness for two main reasons. They didn’t have any physicians on what was the equivalent of Pennsylvania’s nuclear regulatory commission to bring forward health considerations in planning for the existing nuclear plants, – it only had engineers. And Pennsylvania didn’t have any potassium iodide stockpiled; potassium iodide protects the thyroid gland from radiation in the event of radiation exposure, such as that which occurred at Three Mile Island nuclear accident. My father resigned a year or so after the accident occurred and continued to speak and write publicly and critically of the country’s preparedness for nuclear accidents.

In the intervening years in Pittsburgh, my father continued to teach about Health Maintenance Organizations, and the U.S. health care system at the University of Pittsburgh, and also taught medicine (grand rounds) for years. My father also continued to speak internationally about health systems and nuclear preparedness issues. And my parents traveled a number of times around the world on Semester at Sea related voyages, once as the academic dean (1999); they also traveled on Semester at Sea in the summer of 2001 around Europe. They continued to travel to other places around the world in the 1990s and 2000s with a group of friends from Pittsburgh, as well.

In the last few years of my father’s life, my parents continued to participate actively in a Unitarian Universalist-related book group. And while very independently minded vis-à-vis religion, especially those religions in sociocultural fabric around him - he was very areligious {he was a nonbeliever} for a number of reasons - my father identified loosely with the open-mindedness, tolerance and freethinking of Unitarian Universalism.

My father, a wit, a word smith, a maverick with a keen political sense, an indomitable fighter, and a punner, with a very quick mind and a sharp, good memory - someone who exercised his mind, almost without thinking about it, like some people exercise their bodies - sustained a subdural hematoma, a head injury from a concussion, during a Semester at Sea alumni voyage in Belize on December 30, 2004. Over the following 3 years, he faced a number of health challenges that are a consequence of this.

In the last 6 months of his life, he started to practice a little yoga relaxation & movement with me - with enjoyment and benefit. We both enjoyed it when he elicited http://www.relaxationresponse.org/steps/. In about the last 5 years of his life, he also reversed his heart disease through life-style changes, with a very low-fat, nutritionally sensible, fruits, grains & vegetables' diet, and exercise, - his angina, or heart pain, disappeared.

My father was wonderful. He was an optimist and an idealist, with a twinkle in his eye, a smile on his face, and an engaged, articulated, intelligent comment about almost every life situation - and, in my experience, an ability to instantiate ideas, - to realize what he envisioned in sometimes complex ways. He also thought about things alternatively; in a way his information technology (his brain) was quite countercultural, - he saw things differently. (He asked the question 'why? a lot, as long as I knew him, and came to his own conclusions about life through this). He could also be very precise with language, very funny, was perseverant or persistent, proud, especially of his accomplishments, principled, and he aspired to excellence. {At his memorial service in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 1, 2007, I almost read Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into that Dying Night," as it reflected an aspect of his character}.

My mother, a remarkable caregiver, with a creative spirit, weathered my father’s challenges in recent years, and helped him in remarkable ways.

My parents in their marriage, and my father with his interesting mind, have created a remarkable world for themselves, Sandy and myself. Although I’m very sad my father has passed away, I find some solace in the perspective that he is an unbroken link in a chain of life that extends back some 3.5 billion years, and that the challenges that he faced in recent years are in the past.

~ Scott MacLeod (scottmacleod.com/family.htm)



Thanks to the following friends who spoke and played music:

Jim Todd
Abby Williams (wife of Ken Williams, MD)
Richard Robb, MD
Reed Hinrichs
Alastair Craig, MD
Smoke Twichell
Nicholas Porter
Seymour DiMare, MD, and Judith Archer, harmonica and voice
Ned Prevost
Lucy Robb, piano
Cuttyhunk Cruisers, singing group

Sandy MacLeod produced a beautiful stone and sundial for our father's grave. The gravestone is inscribed in Latin with "Non Sine Lumine" ~ {"Not Without Light"}.

I also played my bagpipe before the memorial service in the Church, at the Cuttyhunk cemetery, and from the cemetery to in front of the Cuttyhunk Fishing Club.


Here's a video of Gordon MacLeod's memorial service:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRF9ytbh1ac
https://youtu.be/jRF9ytbh1ac


There’s a Wikipedia Encyclopedia entry here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_K._MacLeod) about my father.


Here is the Memorial Service announcement we posted in the Cuttyhunk Post Office:

Memorial Service

for

Gordon K. MacLeod
Saturday, August 2, 2008, 1:00 PM

(at the Church, followed by a brief visit to the
Cemetery and light refreshments at the Fishing Club)

All Are Welcome