Friday, October 4, 2019

Tea (Camellia sinensis): Bring Eric Dodson's 10 indicators of wisdom - one after the other - to the creation of a musical album (like 'upcoming' "Honey in the Bag" bagpipe album? :) (Do I hear these in YO YO MA playing Bach cello suites? A bit) * * * American Revolution - Boston Tea Party ship * * * Selling my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book in the Harbin Hot Springs' bookstore itself?



barbsalisbury@ ...
Thu, Oct 3, 12:31 PM (19 hours ago)
to me

Nice visit with interesting conversations and walk , Scott.  So glad I can get out a bit and meet a few friends now.  I hope our musical discussions were stimulating towards your cd goals.  You have some interesting ideas.  Good luck with it.  Hope to see you some Monday night soon.


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Oct 3, 2019, 12:36 PM (19 hours ago)
to Barbara
Thanks too so much the chocky, Barbara! ;) And great to talk about many different related musical ideas. Glad you're out and about and that your back is improving. (I'm having a party in Canyon 94516 on Saturday the 19th to which you're very welcome). More about beauty and music anon.

Warm regards,
Scott


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Barbara,

Eric Dodson on 10 indicators of wisdom -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html.


Liking Eric Dodson's 10 signposts of wisdom (at 21 minutes):


Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson:


10. Kindness, compassion & generosity

9. Appreciation and gratitude

8. The ability to hold things loosely

7. Balance

6. Playfulness, humor and laughter

5. Spontaneity and creativity

4. Adventure, verve and passion

3. Curiosity and openness

2. Inhabiting the moment fully

1. Panoramic awareness and holism

(in his "Wisdom and Education" video - https://youtu.be/hBa7rGQXupU)

What do you think? You might enjoy his videos to get a sense of where
he's coming from.

Cheers, Scott


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Hi Barbara,

Nice to visit today.

When I mentioned that my tutor at the University of Edinburgh, Gary West, in ~2004 in making his beautiful CD 'The Islay Ball' (around 2001) said something like - it was the only thing that gave him meaning, ... and that Edinburgh has a lot of alienation or anomie in my experience in 2003-2004, I mean by anomie this:

"Anomie, also spelled anomy, in societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals." (Brittanica.com)


There's a different ethos there than what gave rise in the 1960s and early 1970s to Jethro Tull, Steeleye Span and Rolling Stones, Cream ... (and Angela and Victor in a sense too - Angela and Mick Jagger sharing some things in common). (And the ethos of the 1960s was still a little in the air in Edinburgh, Scotland, when I lived there my first full year in 1976-77, or '77-78, studying at Fettes College in the 1st year 6th form, a kind of junior year abroad from high school).

Ethos, beauty and wisdom of 2019-2020? ... what have we in Berzerkeley, one of the birthplaces of the Grateful Dead in that time too in the SF Bay Area?

And how to think of ethos in giving rise to music - consciously ?

Eric Dodson is hippy minded, plays rock guitar, is philosophical, and very conscious (embodying aspects of panoramic awareness and holism in the way he talks) ... and is a professor. I learn from him.

Seeking to bring a kind of panoramic awareness to my Honey in the Bag album on Scottish Small Pipes too (possibly with some influences of the 1960s and 70s even ... hmm ... how?) ... am finding beauty and wisdom in this :) check out this 'consciousness' label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/consciousness?m=0 - and related posts. (Alasdair Fraser is of the 1960s and this time touches his music too:).

I guess Kathryn Tickell playing borderpipes too comes closest for me of pipers I know to infusing her music with the spirit of the 1960s & 70s. Check out this blog post as well http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/pistachio-how-how-to-move-toward-more.html?m=0 and it's 'bagpiping' label too.

Cheers, Scott

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In what wAys could one bring Eric Dodson's 10 indicators of wisdom - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/consciousness?m=0 - one after the other, to the creation of a musical album (like 'upcoming' "Honey in the Bag" bagpipe album? :) (Do I hear these in YO YO MA playing Bach cello suites? A bit).


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Barbara,

Methinks the '60s - and Berkeley too - were revolutionary ... you were there ... had revolutionary ideas in the air .... how to be-ing (bring) this spirit into the creation of my Scottish small pipes' cd? And is my actual-virtual Harbin ethnographic book in this vein? :)
Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology



Ants and Koh were asking about the Twitter feed photo of this Boston Tea Party ship -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1151451898194681856
 - which photo I took this past summer 2019, and I replied, perhaps with the beginnings of a song to be accompanied on Scottish Small Pipes:


The Boston Tea Party ship
Is a symbol now
Of freedom from oppression
By the English whose crown was
Taxing tea they were selling
To young Americans -
Exorbitant outrageous taxes,
With no political representation -
In that monarchy.
What of democracy?

Taxation without representation
Is wrong Americans cried,
And they doth protested.
The British red coats, these
Mercenary turncoat toadies
Of an unjust regime, a monarchy,
sought to repress further these early
Citizens-to-be of a nation,
The United States' Americans.

So Americans-to-be went onto
This ship, the Beaver,
and 2 other ships too,
Dartmouth and Eleanor
In Boston harbor in 1773,
Right about where the Beaver floats now
And threw this tea,
these British owned chests of tea
Into the sea, and spoiled it,
and its profits for the crown,
Proclaiming taxation without representation is wrong, -
With their actions, their activist freedom-seeking actions.
(https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party)

Further struggle broke out,
Further futile British attempts at controlling the
Freedom-seekers from oppression.
Red coat mercenary British soldiers
With arms, & martial law, seeking
to put down these
Young AMericans.

A war broke out,
and the tea party was its beginning.
A revolution broke out, and Americans cried:
One if by land - a lantern in Old North Church signaling British red coats on the road raid marauding
Two if by sea, - 2 lights in the Church, signaling those heinous red coats arriving by sea.
The young Americans
Could have thrown these red coats into the sea too, like the tea.
This knowledge, signaling, and v thinking, helped set us free.

So a freedom seeking struggle grew,
And Americans eventually won, -
The British turned tail, went back over the sea,
And my ancestor, actually, General Benjamin Lincoln,
2nd in command to George Washington,
accepted their sword of surrender
At Yorktown VA in 1781
(https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/remembering-the-other-important-lincoln-in-american-history/)
And in 1787, Lincoln won Shay's Rebellion in MA leading to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lincoln)

This in a nutshell - will do some further fact checking - is the significance of the Boston Tea Party ship, the Beaver in the photo in my Twitter feed, and which replica of that very revolutionary symbol of a ship I pass by every summer near South Station in Boston Massachusetts on my way to Cuttyhunk Island (where my family has a home), via New Bedford, a home of Herman Melville. But that is another tale of this nation and its growth - once set free - free from the yoke of British oppression - the crown - which indeed bound the embryo of a nation since Jamestown VA in 1602s and Plymouth MA in the 1620 with Pilgrims on the Manpower (http://sites.austincc.edu/caddis/new-england-1620-1692/)

Turn this poem-let into a folk song of revolution to be? An anthem? A ballad? We'll see ... folk rock perchance ... sung with Scottish small pipes ... c'est possible ... (the French were young Americans' allies in our early growth, with their ideals too of throwing off the yoke of the aristocracy in 1789 their revolution).

To be revisited idea-wise :)

Boston Tea Party ship I think does not sail ... but people go aboard it - a vessel on the sea, and symbol of democracy -  to re-live this birth of a democratic freedom - & re the heinous taxation without representation  :) ... a call for freedom! 

Much more in blog post today to come :)

Cheers, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/1960s






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Boston Tea Party ship (Beaver)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1151451898194681856


Scott, Takeshi, Tarun

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1165042456317980672


Hi Ants and Koh, and All,

Happy Birthday, Ants! And thanks for the nice invitation! Will let you know on the 15th (since I have a couple of balls in the air).

I'd also like to invite you and All to another birthday party for you on Saturday the 19th chez moi (in Canyon 94516).

There's a picture of Tarun, Takeshi and myself from the last party chez moi, next to the picture of the Boston Tea party ship here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch (and above) - currently on the main WUaS Twitter feed. (Are you both still in the Bay Area?:)

Happy upcoming birthday, Ants!

Cheers,
Scott


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Ants
Oct 3, 2019, 9:13 PM (11 hours ago)
to me, Koh

Thanks very much - I think we can make it on the 19th. If you can manage the 15th you'll be most welcome! Boston Tea Party ship? Does it go on tour or is it moored at its historic fixed location? (I'm clearly ignorant on the matter). Because of the maritime theme and the presence of ancient ships (I recall a mention of the local Balclutha) it reminds me of our quest for fireworks the night before I went into labour (the 4th of July) - good job we managed a wee outing on the final day of having only one child! Well technically sprog2 was born on the 6th of July but it was just after midnight - nine minutes after midnight, after I'd gone into labour on the 5th. So you witnessed the very last gasp of the one-child scenario and the beginning of bi-sprogular configuration!


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Scott MacLeod
Oct 3, 2019, 11:15 PM (9 hours ago)
to Antonia, Koh

Happy Birthday!

The Boston Tea Party ship
Is a symbol now
Of freedom from oppression
By the English whose crown was
Taxing tea they were selling
To young Americans -
Exorbitant outrageous taxes,
With no political representation -
In that monarchy.
What of democracy?

Taxation without representation
Is wrong Americans cried,
And they doth protested.
The British red coats, these
Mercenary turncoat toadies
Of an unjust regime, a monarchy,
sought to repress further these early
Citizens-to-be of a nation,
The United States' Americans.

So Americans-to-be went onto
This ship, the Beaver,
and 2 other ships too,
Dartmouth and Eleanor
In Boston harbor in 1773,
Right about where the Beaver floats now
And threw this tea,
these British owned chests of tea
Into the sea, and spoiled it,
and its profits for the crown,
Proclaiming taxation without representation is wrong, -
With their actions, their activist freedom-seeking actions.
(https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party)

Further struggle broke out,
Further futile British attempts at controlling the
Freedom-seekers from oppression.
Red coat mercenary British soldiers
With arms, & martial law, seeking
to put down these
Young AMericans,

A war broke out,
and the tea party was its beginning.
A revolution broke out, and Americans cried:
One if by land - a lantern in Old North Church signaling British red coats on the road raid marauding
Two if by sea, - 2 lights in the Church, signalling those heinous red coats arriving by sea.
The young Americans
Could have thrown these red coats into the sea too, like the tea.
This knowledge, signalling, and v thinking, helped set us free.

So a freedom seeking struggle grew,
And Americans eventually won, -
The British turned tail, went back over the sea,
And my ancestor, actually, General Benjamin Lincoln,
2nd in command to George Washington,
accepted their sword of surrender
At Yorktown VA in 1781
(https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/remembering-the-other-important-lincoln-in-american-history/)
And in 1787, Lincoln won Shay's Rebellion in MA leading to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lincoln)

This in a nutshell - will do some further fact checking - is the significance of the Boston Tea Party ship, the Beaver in the photo in my Twitter feed, and which replica of that very revolutionary symbol of a ship I pass by every summer near South Station in Boston Massachusetts on my way to Cuttyhunk Island (where my family has a home), via New Bedford, a home of Herman Melville. But that is another tale of this nation and its growth - once set free - free from the yoke of British oppression - the crown - which indeed bound the embryo of a nation since Jamestown VA in 1602s and Plymouth MA in the 1620 with Pilgrims on the Manpower (http://sites.austincc.edu/caddis/new-england-1620-1692/)

Turn this poem-let into a folk song of revolution to be? An anthem? A ballad? We'll see ... folk rock perchance ... sung with Scottish small pipes ... c'est possible ... (the French were young Americans' allies in our early growth, with their ideals too of throwing off the yoke of the aristocracy in 1789 their revolution).

To be revisited idea-wise :)

Boston Tea Party ship I think does not sail ... but people go aboard it - a vessel on the sea, and symbol of democracy -  to re-live this birth of a democratic freedom - & re the heinous taxation without representation  :) ... a call for freedom!




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Ants
12:40 AM (8 hours ago)
to me, Koh

Indeed, we were of course aware of the general story of the Boston Tea Party, but we didn't know there was a physical ship to be seen in our time! Also of course we didn't know that one of your ancestors was involved. Most intriguing! We hope to see you at the other party, which isn't Bostonian but may involve tea and will certainly involve liberty unless the neighbours call the police on us for disturbing the peace.



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Scott MacLeod
7:21 AM (1 hour ago)
to Antonia, Koh

Was myself born in Lexington, that most revolutionary city, in 1960, at its 12/31 close, a revolutionary US decade itself, the  battle of Lexington taking place in 1775 -

"What happened at the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord)

- well, physically in Cambridge, MA, in Mt. Auburn hospital, and am not sure whether my parents brought me home to Lexington where they lived on 12/31/60 or 1/1/61 or soon thereafter. My US passport says Lexington as place of birth.

Why is 1776 considered the us birthday?
"We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776)."
(https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/fourth-of-july/)

Why was the Boston Tea Party important?
"The Boston Tea Party was a raid that took place in the Boston Harbor in 1773 during which American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea. This event was important because it fueled the tension that had already begun between Britain and America."
(https://study.com/academy/lesson/why-was-the-boston-tea-party-important-lesson-for-kids.html)

Circling around to the ship the Beaver, which began this tale, Americans-to-be made tea in the sea of the British crown's profits ... in the name of the revolutionary cry that taxation without representation is NOT democratic, - and proceeded to create a constitutional democracy, the longest continuous one in the world in 2019.

And after the Boston tea party on Beaver, Eleanor and Dartmouth ships in 1773, to the 4th of July in 1776, Americans returned to their farms, - and now could vote, and choose their governments - of the people, by the people and for the people :)

Scott

And how will Scotland proceed with the English in the 2020s re freedom and democracy? To be seen ... in the voting in part, as well as in the writing.






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10:14 am, Thursday, October 3, 2019


Hi Deirdre,

Thanks for your call from Harbin Hot Springs at 707-295-6698 this morning, Deirdre. I can't call you back, but let's email. Am including Sunheart, Sajjad and Eric here, in case your email address isn't correct. What is the best email address to communicate with you, Deirdre? Sunheart, Sajjad and Eric, - what please is Deirdre's email address?

Namaste, Scott


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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Oct 3, 5:49 PM (14 hours ago)

to deirdre, Scott, Sunheart, sajjad, Eric, bcc: Barbara

Hi Deirdre,

Thanks again for you call today.

Am wondering if I could possibly explore selling my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book -

Naked Harbin Ethnography:                
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - through the Harbin book store. It retails for 64.95, and Sunheart is central in it (and Sajjad suggested self-publishing it), and years ago I was in touch with Eric in the 3D virtual world of Second Life, which also plays a role in my book re developing a virtual Harbin in VR.

Best,
Scott
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to me, sajjad
Hi Scott, 

I’m sorry we couldn’t speak on the phone in person.  Currently, we do not have the room in our front office to sell any books.  It will be a number of years before we rebuild our facilities.  

Best Regards, 

Deirdre Davis
Managing  Director
Harbin Hot Springs
Heart Consciousness Church
PO Box 782
Middletown, CA 95461


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Hi Deirdre, (and Sajjad),

Thanks for your email, and thanks again for your call from Harbin. If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels - 



Or a bookstore on wheels - 


- then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now.

For example, my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold. (The 60%/40% split for booksellers is standard, where retailers - like Harbin in this hypothetical case - would make 40% but where retailers also pay for shipping and handling and other related non-wholesaler/distributor/publisher costs which split the 60%). 


And my other two books of poetry - also Harbin-centric - could sell well in such a Harbin Bookstore on Wheels: 

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss
which lists for $9.99
(would bring in about $4.00 per copy sold to Harbin)

Haiku~ish: and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry 
which lists for $5.50
(would bring in about $2.20 per copy sold to Harbin)


And I'm planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: 

"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality"


(All these books are published in the NEW Academic Press at World University and School as well - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned with machine translation in all 7111 known living languages).

Best Regards, Scott







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