Appreciating Ursula K. Le Guin's creativity, listening to other voices, her writing skills, that her father was a UC Berkeley Anthropology professor (Kroeber), all in these 3 videos ... and esp. re the recently released "Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin" film about her life.
Ursula K Le Guin
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1136111315963899906
Ursula K Le Guinhttps://t.co/pjdxJXAO6Khttps://t.co/2DzVdflHds— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) June 5, 2019
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1136108511249649664
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Appreciating these 3 Ursula K Le Guin interviews ...
Ursula K. Le Guin: Listening to the Unheard Voices
https://youtu.be/3_vzSgkjBEI
Exploring Creativity with Ursula K. Le Guin
https://youtu.be/M73cyc9lhhI
Ursula K LeGuin Interview with Bill Moyers About The Lathe of Heaven
https://youtu.be/dPmLhIzyAXE
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Good morning, M,
Found these newspaper articles about the "King Lear" Shakespeare play you saw -
Dad, as having his "Lear" 'moments' in Pittsburgh, comes to mind and even too re 319. I'm glad you're making these big steps ...
I still recall Dad's anger - his rage and furious tirades in the 1970s at the dinner table in the old kitchen of that house (before the Sun Room remodel), and toward you in your bedroom, which I heard on the 3rd floor above you, - quite negatively. Writing about this here I hope comes into conversation with your email a little, and re thinking about 319 Juniata Court emotionally somehow (for me), and in terms of your imminent potential departure. And then after Dad was impaired, in around 2007, when he fell on the driveway coming out of the garage, almost dramatically - re Lear again - still linger. Dad was so smart, even after his 2 injuries (subdural hematomas). And yet even with Dad's rage, and what I'd call too his 'prickly pearness,' and the injuries he sustained in 2004 in Belize on Semester Sea, he was able in 2006 and 2007 (when I was living in Pittsburgh), with restorative Yoga poses, modified to what he could do, was able too to elicit the relaxation response, - a kind of meditation, or inner releasing action - in that house. All thinking and writing a bit psychoanalytically here, and loosely informed by a Lacanian use of language.
If you were to move anywhere near to where C.M. lives (although ... ), i.e. near the Unitarian Church, you'd also be near the Carnegie Museum, C.M.U., Pitt, and with great bus lines to get downtown to hear symphony music, for example. All this area is kind of in a center of culture for Pittsburgh, on Pittsburgh's 5th Avenue, and both very social, and interestingly urban, with many students and young people not far away and around. And I think Grandpa Sandy Brown worked in that building across from Heinz Chapel for a while when he was at Carnegie Tech (in the 1920s?), or similar.
Glad you "Saw a wonderful performance of King Lear at the now defunct Carrie Furnace site, a remarkably impressive place to stage that play. Inspired..." and glad you're thinking through ... , M!
L, Scott
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Leod (Scottish Gaelic: Leòd; Old Norse: Ljótr) (c. 1200 – 1280) is considered the eponymous ancestor ... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leod) ...
Leod in old Norse is Ljótr - https://www.geni.com/people/Leod-1st-Chief-of-Clan-MacLeod/6000000002188078500 … & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leod > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic … (& in modern Norwegian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lj%C3%B3t%C3%B3lfr …?) Could Ljótr also mean light https://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/norwegian … & shining, bright, in add. to ugly https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Li%C3%B3tr ? @sgkmacleod ~
Leod in old Norse is Ljótr - https://t.co/zOizEOxe8V & https://t.co/gXU4V98C6g > https://t.co/QmVKta82Up (& in modern Norwegian https://t.co/cJ8kUl3bTE?) Could Ljótr also mean light https://t.co/nESFlbNK8n & shining, bright, in add. to ugly https://t.co/VXjWzu1FCo? @sgkmacleod ~— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) June 2, 2019
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1135243283850915840
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