Giant Pacific octopus: Atheist 8-Limb Yoga Notations? ... Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations, "Gorilla: Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations, "[NTF-talk] Attitudes about atheists and logic" NYT ...", "Ovule: What would Hippy-anjali write down and sing as key yoga code for the next ...", " Embryonic plant: SEED of A REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH at subatomic levels: Vid>3DApp + AI ..."

Atheist 8-Limb Yoga Notations? ... 
http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html

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Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations *** i ... Yoga is the inner releasing action {relaxation response} of the bodymind/brain for we language-using human primates ii ... ~ Practice Angela & Victor Yoga bodymind explorations including inner movements playfully ~ http://www.angela-victor.com and Underground Yoga  {which will hopefully move online with interactive yoga avatarbots beyond videos} ~ See, too, Angela's Feminine Unfolding ~ ~ Play and learn from these inner releasing actions & listen inside to what comes up ~ Care with compassion, ~ and enjoyably travel to hot springs for meditation in warm pools ...  {I'm thinking here of meditating in the warm pool of Harbin Hot Springs} ... or meditate at home in your bath tub {in a virtual Harbin eventually}, and open your awareness/find benefit in daily travel like walking ~ There's much wellness & scientific evidence for the health benefits, in general, of a low-fat, natural foods diet (e.g. 5-9 servings of fruits, grains, vegetables and legumes per day), as well as 30 minutes of daily movement, some aerobic like dancing; do Yoga, it's healing ** 1. Helpful guidelines for care / love in living? Be ethical? http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Caring_and_Loving In the information age re Hippy-Yoga, am appreciative too of Google's "Don't be evil" philosophy, Creative Commons, and Stanford Law thinking re law in each of all ~200 nation states 2. Positive observances ~ unwind 3. Yoga bodymind explorations including inner movement ~ play  4. Breathing ~ Mmmmm feels so good {Angela-wise} ~ explore 5. Come home inside into your bodymind at times to regenerate yourself 6. Focus in releasing ways to connect in a kind of oneness in neurophysiology (and re Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" experience) 7. Connectedness and "it's just happening" 8. Bring it on home ~ Oneness ~ Cosmic Consciousness 1. ~ Non-harming (yummy vegetarian food with an egg and multi-vitamin a day is a boon) ~ Truthfulness ~ Non-stealing ~ Learning from other species, hippy human primate yogis as potentially free Bonobo chimpanzees revel in sexuality/intimacy/touch, but non-harming and care can be and are significant balances for sexuality that damages; have kids if you like, and raise good families; hippy Yogini earth mother says have lots of babies and raise them well & with much love ~ Adhibit (Engage), troop bond and pair bond with grace and ecological balance with others (re John Money's "Concepts of Determinism" ~ http://scottmacleod.com/anthropology/determinism.htm) 2. ~ Attune yourself through daily exploration of an inner releasing action {relaxation response} as a kind of inner bodymind house cleansing ~ Contentment neurophysiology brain-wise can be facilitated with the harmonizing effect of omega-3 fatty acids (flax seed oil capsules 7-10 per day) ...  ~ Simplicity in Friendly / Quaker / non-theistic F/friendly/NtF / atheistic Quaker senses is great {and all the SPICES ~ simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship ~ too} ~ Cultivate learning consciousness of your own neurophysiology (much more STEM research needed, and at quantum physics' levels too) and actions, and conversation in these regards with a psychotherapist {self awareness therapy} if this would be helpful ... Opening to freedom, be aware of the religious Yogic MEMES (i.e. replicating cultural units) in your bodyminds, - for example, chanting, that may take away your freedom as an individual, even while beneficially focusing the mind and creating "flow" experiences,  {think e.g. hippy-yogi critical thinking} ~ Bond well with your community, tribe, your partner(s), in a contented marriage, your group, your wildness too; lie on your back for the relaxation response daily, and if this emerges as a kind of inner attuning devotion, great 3. Angela and Victor Yoga inner body pose explorations ... Angela Farmer & Victor van Kooten: Opening the Leg Channels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDdMbj23HR8 Angela Farmer, Fluid Frame: "YORGA IS THE JOURNARY OF THE SELF, THROUGH THE SELF, TO THE SELF. The Bhagavad Gita https://vimeo.com/222225267 ... Learning Yoga in partner poses can be wonderful 4. Angela and Victor Yoga inner body breathing explorations ... Angela on breathing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soA-PHxcgbI at about 42 minutes 5. Come home inside into your bodymind at times ~ and re Angela and Victor's Yoga 6. Focus to connect in a kind of oneness (re Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" experience) ~ where you can do this by releasing and explorating especially iii ... Into the Inner Body 7. Connectedness and "it's just happening" "turn on, tune in, drop out" 8. Bring it on home ~ oneness ~   ~ India is eternally fascinating ~holy smoke! ~ holiness ~ serendipity ~ syncrhonicity ~ ~ flow ~ in the zone ~  entheogenically even ~ cosmic consciousness ~ Angela on merging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soA-PHxcgbI at about 43 minutes * Non-theistically friendly Yoga is good ... appreciating friendliness here ... Care with compassion, ~ and enjoyably travel to hot springs for meditation in the warm pools, and especially for positive, serene nakedness and eroticism, such as at Harbin Hot Springs (both on-the-ground and online eventually) ... Cultivate kindness, oneness, connectedness, community, communitas, freedom, care, love, peace, harmonizing and flourishing ... and goodness ... as well as music and art in beautiful nature ... * Cultivate specific kinds of beneficial inner bodymind neurophysiology as if by practicing a musical instrument ~  Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm * Explore how this inner body releasing Yoga feels to connect further, and for self-learning. * We may have to compose the music with which to sing something like this. :) * Angela Farmer's "The Feminine Unfolding" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soA-PHxcgbI * Cultivate Regenerative Yoga where Yoga is meditation ~ the inner releasing action {relaxation response} of the bodymind/brain ~ for we creative language-using human primates *** Hippy~anjali Yoga Notations Imaginative ~ Freeing ~ Easing ~ Integrating Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations (as an alternative to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and as conversation with Angela and Victor's Yoga) Eudaimonia (personal flourishing) is ‘Flow’ & Bliss Eudaimonia is Flow & Bliss

Namaste! Resources  Arc: Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response ~  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html MacLeod, Scott. 2017. Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations (as an alternative to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and as conversation with Angela and Victor's Yoga). See, too ~  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/ovule-what-would-hippy-anjali-write.html. SF Bay Area: scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html Ovule: What would Hippy-anjali write down and sing as key yoga code for the next 3 millennia, coming into conversation with old fat-and-jolly as Yogini Angela has called Patanjali (of the Yoga sutras) ... I wonder? :), Angela and Victor Yoga pose and breathing inner body explorations, Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations (conversing with Yoga Sutras of Patanjali), "Yoga is the inner releasing action {relaxation response} of the bodymind/brain for we human primates" "Cultivate specific kinds of beneficial bodymind neurophysiology as if by practicing a musical instrument" ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/ovule-what-would-hippy-anjali-write.html Yoga wiki subject page at World University and School ~ http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org

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Gorilla: Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations, "[NTF-talk] Attitudes about atheists and logic" NYT about a study on attitudes toward atheists, Appreciate a kind of Richard Dawkins' approach to defining atheism proactively from a reasoning perspective, Who here is familiar with the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - and as a kind of logical system even? Or with Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten's Yoga?, Foundations of logic seem relevant here, and possibly vis-a-vis Quaker's historic peace testimony - and related questions of non-harming and ahimsa, And might NtFs also create new kinds of logic itself?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/hippy-anjali-yoga-notations-ntf-talk.html

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Ovule: What would Hippy-anjali write down and sing as key yoga code for the next 3 millennia, coming into conversation with old fat-and-jolly as Yogini Angela has called Patanjali (of the Yoga sutras) ... I wonder? :), Angela and Victor Yoga pose and breathing inner body explorations, Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations (conversing with Yoga Sutras of Patanjali), "Yoga is the inner releasing action {relaxation response} of the bodymind/brain for we human primates" "Cultivate specific kinds of beneficial bodymind neurophysiology as if by practicing a musical instrument"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/ovule-what-would-hippy-anjali-write.html

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Embryonic plant: SEED of A REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH at subatomic levels: Vid>3DApp + AI, Vid>3DApp + AI = Create a video-to-3D-virtual-earth application/program for live interactivity with avatar bots and for STEM science and then extend this with artificial intelligence, both STEM and human-wise ... "The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios", Louis Malle's two India films ('60s), Getting into Full Lotus Yoga pose

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/embryonic-plant-seed-of-realistic.html

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

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Rosa nutkana: What's different visually about Middletown upon initially driving into the library after the major fire last September 12 & 13, 2015 that burnt down Harbin and a major part of this town seems very little

E,

Nice to talk yesterday. How are you?

Greetings from the Middletown library, where I'm hoping to meet Heartsong around now, and talk with him further about the fire and Harbin - and possibly about the blurb I think he's writing for the back of my Harbin book ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. 

What's different visually about Middletown upon initially driving into the library after the major fire last September 12 & 13 that burnt down Harbin and a major part of this town seems very little. Only when I walked up to the library itself did I see ridges in the distance in the direction of Harbin which were burnt. I thought I would see more effects of the fire from the beginning.

The vineyards in Napa are golden especially near the north end. There's a solid California bridge over a culvert nearing completion too on the Middletown side of the long hill down from Mt St. Helena, where RL Stevenson spent some months around 1879 with Fanny Osborne around their honeymoon. 

Heartsong said we could meet at 3, but this is Lake County time ... and so I'm hoping he'll arrive eventually. 

Fondly,

Scott

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Hi D, R, C, and J,

Some ideas I want to explore further perhaps in the concluding chapters ...

wu wei (non action in a Taoist sense ... "in order to" ... as you suggested logically at Meeting a few weeks ago, David)

serendipity

culture of real virtuality (Castells) re the virtual

How would actual simulacras (physical replicas) be possibly comparable here re my book e.g. Lascaux, Lascaux simulacra and Lascaux online? What kinds of studies might emerge in a three way comparison by say graduate students? (Thanks, Larry MIchalak - another UC Berkeley professor affiliated with Tourism Studies)

Just added a quote from Nelson Graburn in 1977 to the beginning of the book, and he will write a blurb for the back of the book ...

Also, I just inquired of a young French scholar who was at the Tourism Studies Working Group organizational meeting on Friday at UC Berkeley, if he (with Juliet Flower MacCannell, a UC Professor Emerita, and wife of Dean MacCannell who wrote "The Tourist," a seminal tourism studies' book in 1976) if Stéphane would translate my Harbin manuscript in French using Google Translate in part. Juliet just said no, but Stéphane is the native French speaker.

Making progress here. Sprinkling some photos through later chapters (3/chapter) is still something I'd like to do (and then organizing the Figures in the beginning of the book), then tying together the page by page references with the now somewhat complete "Works Cited" and after pagination has begun to settle down further, finishing up the index, particularly in chapers 6-9 are ahead.

Friendly regards, Scott

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

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Flowers on the sea ~ Holiday greetings 2013 !

Flowers on the sea ~ Holiday greetings 2013!


Ahoy! Ships’ ahoy! Land ahoy! Wildflowers' ahoy! Happy Holidays’ ahoy! World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University -has grown over the course of the year, but WUaS’s skiff is only just floating, and not yet running before the wind, in full sail.  

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Flower ~ World University and School is seeking its first high school applicants this autumn 2013 to matriculate online next autumn 2014, first in English, for free, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - not endorsed by MIT), undergraduate, online, accredited, bachelor degrees. WUaS is planning for our students to be up to speed, should they wish to apply to MIT for a year, for example, during their studies. Please let high school students know, who can use the MIT application information here -

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/11/applying-to-worlduniversity-and-school.html - as we develop applications further. See, too: http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html.




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Flower ~ And thanks to Creative Commons’ licensed, wiki (editable web pages) World University and School, with its wiki-openness, and C.C. MIT OCW as Academic standard, basis and content, - and eventually for all 7,105+ languages and in all 242+ countries - WUaS is seeking to generate a flourishing, people-to-people, teaching and learning conversation, with an invitation to edit a page, and teach to your web camera. Wikipedia is in 287 languages, by way of comparison, and we all created this. 




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Flower ~ World University and School continues to hold electronically-mediated, hour-long open, monthly business meetings on the second Saturdays of the month at 9 am PT, in the manner of Quakers, and having been doing these in Google + group video Hangouts for more than a year now. You’re invited to participate in these and contribute to World University and School’s burgeoning conversation as well as development of WUaS, decision making-wise. The Google + Hangouts remarkably facilitate international communication. WUaS welcomes you to participate, via - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts - and via this email address - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - and via this WUaS blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/.

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Flower ~ In seeking to become a MIT / Harvard of the internet, WUaS’s free, C.C., online, university degrees in many languages will benefit so many people, - and is also a fascinating conversation and process to develop.

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Flowers ~ WUaS is also planning a Music School (in all instruments in all languages) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School. 

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Flower ~ Editing of the 400 manuscript pages of my actual / virtual Harbin ethnographic book proceeds apace ~ http://harbin.org. I'll send out a book proposal to Yale University in the New Year, as I continue with anthropological fieldwork at Harbin, with potentially 3 or 4 more Harbin books planned – see the Harbin labels beginning with this one - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Hot%20Springs. I find Harbin inspiring and fascinating, emerging from the 1960s and 1970s as it does, and especially its pools-centric milieu and influences therein. 




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Flower ~ I taught again the "Information Technology and the Network Society" course, on Harvard's virtual island, as well as in a Google + group video Hangout this autumn, with participants across 14 time zones, - a remarkably diverse group of course participants. 

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Flower ~ I also continue to teach yoga - http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm - but not yet online; I'm curious to explore teaching {and learning} yoga via in something like Skype or in a Google + Hangout with a large screen. 





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Flower ~ I continue to give bagpipe lessons to a young piper in the SF Bay Area, about half of this in Skype or Google + Hangouts, as well as take Skype bagpipe lessons from a teacher via the College of Piping in Scotland.  

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Flower ~ And I continue to blog daily,  - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ - which I've been doing now for nearly 5 years, and which is a way to share ideas, even as a kind of conversation, and which I find inspiring in a variety of ways. Read some poems in the ‘Poetry’ label here, for example.





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Flower ~ And in a variety of ways, I continue to explore thinking out of the box ... with a focus of inquiry on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, here, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) - and here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss ... I haven't yet found the 'on/off switch,' the 'cello bow stroke,' or the dial, but listening to music is a beginning. 

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Flower ~ My home in the east bay hills of the San Francisco Bay Area, and in the city of Oakland's watershed, in the community of Canyon, above a redwood forest, continues to be inspiring in so many ways.

Canyon, California

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Flowers ~ Here are a few of the poems I've written this year, which I think you'd enjoy ...  

Resplendent Quetzal: Light lumens illuminated lightly

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/resplendent-quetzal-light-lumens.html

Blue Bird-of-Paradise: Harbin Waters’ Cosmic Consciousness

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/blue-bird-of-paradise-harbin-waters.html

Green sea turtle: Light, Float, Sit

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/09/green-sea-turtle-light-float-sit.html

Swimming iguana: Email to Cynefin and "Light Float Sit," as well as 12, "Blackberries: Harbin Haiku-ish" poems

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/09/swimming-iguana-email-to-cynefin-and.html

Young tapirs: "Harbin was alit in mid-evening," Complete recording of "Hair"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/young-tapirs-harbin-was-alit-in-mid.html

Sea Turtle: Jim Morrison of "The Doors" ... wow ... "The Doors --- Liquid Nights," So potent, this poem-video, how to rif as I listen, with - but don't watch, because I write - this here now? Jim sings a powerful energy ... I rif back with.

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/sea-turtle-jim-morrison-of-doors-wow.html

Scarlet Begonias Firefly: Let's re-write, re-rif a poem with this pipe major - Jim Morrison - here now which poem of mine? http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry These? ... read and sung with nature in the video behind for what serendipity and Grateful Dead, moving toward Jim Morrison energy to open the doors of perception? "The blueness of the sky at night: I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding," "Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale," Drove into town … to write my book and explore putting my poetry to song …

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/scarlet-begonias-firefly-lets-re-write.html

St. Helena Gumwood: 'Great Gatsbys' in film, Loving Bliss Generation, ... Inspiring inscription to Gatsby, Audio text online for free but not in mp3 file format, WUaS Library Resources, English literature courses that focus on loving bliss, or even generate such courses vis-a-vis WUaS over the years, and to inform, over time, WUaS's English Department's focus?, (Yay for the invention/synthesis of ecstasy {MDMA} :), We/I/WUaS may have to write this 'loving bliss' subject into the academic discipline English literature, There's certainly a beginning of this in my poetry, How to get to these loving bliss neurophysiologies, and related, bodymind qualities of experience, and for 9 hours per day (e.g. over the next 40 years, not to belabor a quest of mine), for example, when and as one wants them (where is the metaphorical on-off switch / 'bliss' dial / cello bow stroke? :), and vis-a-vis WUaS, as well - e.g. this wiki, loving bliss subject, and even in Quaker ways?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/st-helena-gumwood-great-gatsbys-in-film.html

Big, green, iridescent forests speak to me in Oregon, on the road to Reed

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/big-green-iridescent-forests-speak-to.html

Blackfin cisco: Blackberry blossoms blush Purple softly, at Harbin, Fruit soon to come

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/blackfin-cisco-blackberry-blossoms.html

The Gazebo Light Show at Harbin

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-gazebo-light-show-at-harbin.html

Turkish condor: Powerful poetry from Alysia Harris (who's doing a Ph.D. at Yale in linguistics) ... "Cab Rides and the Morning After" and a duet "Harris and Jasmine Mans "Black and Blue"" ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/yellow-corolla-monsieur-nikhil.html

Yellow corolla: Monsieur Nikhil Bannerjee, master raga player, moved me along the way

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/02/turkish-condors-powerful-poetry-from.html

Water lily flowers: In warm pool chez Harbin

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/12/water-lily-flowers-in-warm-pool-chez.html

... Accessible here at the 'poetry' label ... 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry ... 

And here's the link to my Holiday Greetings' 2012 letter from last year, with more poems ...  

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/12/flowers-on-trail-holiday-greetings.html

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Flower ~ World University and School is becoming a warm ocean (Caribbean?) of flourishing, learning conversations ... enjoy the waters and the free, MIT OCW-centric diplomas.


All the best to you all in the New Year and beyond, 

Scott




Scott MacLeod

http://scottmacleod.com 



PO Box 442, 

Canyon, CA 94516

415 480 4577

sgkmacleod@gmail.com

  

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Scarlet Begonias Firefly: Let's re-write, re-rif a poem with this pipe major - Jim Morrison - here now which poem of mine? http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry These? ... read and sung with nature in the video behind for what serendipity and Grateful Dead, moving toward Jim Morrison energy to open the doors of perception? "The blueness of the sky at night: I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding," "Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale," Drove into town … to write my book and explore putting my poetry to song …

Building on yesterday's blog entry -

"Sea Turtle: Jim Morrison of "The Doors" ... wow ... "The Doors --- Liquid Nights," So potent, this poem-video, how to rif as I listen, with - but don't watch, because I write - this here now? Jim sings a powerful energy ... I rif back with."
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/sea-turtle-jim-morrison-of-doors-wow.html



Let's re-write, re-rif a poem
with this pipe major -
Jim Morrison -
here now

which poem of mine?
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry

These? ... read and sung with nature in the video behind for what serendipity and Grateful Dead, moving toward Jim Morrison energy to open the doors of perception?


The blueness of the sky at night: I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/01/blueness-of-sky-at-night-i-do-choose-to.html


Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/03/firefly-i-came-upon-feast-of-lights.html


May try on the road to Harbin these days ...


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Drove into town … to write my book and explore putting my poetry to song …

Started reading my recent blog posts  - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ - 

from July 14-July 23, 2013 and liking some of them … 

feeling a kind of lift when re-reading many of them

started rereading these two poems, that I had put in some browser tabs per my July 23, 2013 blog about Jim Morrison and “The Doors” …

 The blueness of the sky at night: I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/01/blueness-of-sky-at-night-i-do-choose-to.html

Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/03/firefly-i-came-upon-feast-of-lights.html

Started, while reading them, listening to the Grateful Dead

And then reading them out loud a little …

But nothing was gelling …

(sitting under the big tree on W street, where I sometimes get an internet connection, about a block from Middletown’s main street called Hwy 29)

started singing these poems a little to different Dead songs

e.g. 

Row Jimmy 

Big River 

Stella Blue 

Scarlet Begonias

Finally turned on 'Scarlet Begonias,' a tune I’ve listened to much, and like and they often get to space with it, often played with Fire on the Mountain, which I also like a lot, and started reading -

Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/03/firefly-i-came-upon-feast-of-lights.html

-       to the very beginning of Scarlet Begonias … 

I’ve had English song tones … modal … ‘merry, merry Robin o’ – kind of in mind, ... When I look at my poetry today, I saw that kind of high toned ‘green wood’ singing in it as poetry, as lyrics … but “Song,” almost “Lieder,” but English Song - which can be quite rarified - and I also had modal harmonies, as well as Steeleye Span and especially Maddy Pryor’s singing, in mind … so I decided to record it ... to turn on my MacBook’s iMovie video recorder and turn on the Dead tune on my smartphone running Android OS with the Dead on it from archive.org and played in Music Player, and sing, in a falsetto with a little funky beat, a little of what works for me musically … may try to video record it on my smartphone as well …

Recorded my singing a little in my MacBook Pro’s iMovie program under “New Event - July 24 2013” and also “Firefly … ” (4 minutes' long) but it wasn’t exactly as I had sung it before recording it, where I saw the potential of the song working musically, and people enjoying the singing and music a lot …

would like to take the idea of the song as I sung it without recording and it was beginning to work, and write it out on notation, in falsetto, as almost “English Song” – but also influenced by Cream and Jethro Tull in addition to folk rock, and Maddy Pryor, and perhaps with counterpoint, and modally … and even J.S. Bach informed, - so quite generative in the music, - and harmonic and regular, as in his "Inventions," and J.S. Bach’s Notebooks of Anna Magdalena (Walter Carroll’s) ... 

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the above is an example of a kind of creative process ... 

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