Twinflower (Linnaea borealis): World University and School's MBM Minutes, POETRY book and PIPING album * To explore first recording my album from home and to Bandcamp (simply by uploading tracks - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscot...

 

Wanna take this free online 'MIT Medical' Yoga class together on Thanksgiving Day Th 11/26 (& maybe beyond)? Register with MIT Medical as an affiliate, for an early 7am class in the SF Bay Area! #AngelaAndVictorsYoga #InnerBodyExplorations Yoga notations https://t.co/M9FbXag4bU ~ https://t.co/zCXREvdV34

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Good morning, Ma, and happy upcoming Thanksgiving!

I invited Ed and his family over for Thanksgiving, but they won't come. Nice to be touch and hear back further from him about N too. In...
A little bit of cabin fever yesterday, am glad to be making headway on my educational project's database for course selection for students for January. Meeting with Houcemeddine in Tunisia again at 10 this morning. 
On with the MBM Minutes (probably around Dec 1 2020), upcoming POETRY BOOK and PIPING ALBUM. I may explore first recording my album from home and to Bandcamp (simply by uploading tracks -https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/
 - before December 4 on which day they waive the 15% they take otherwise when my musical recordings are bought, and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search?q=Bandcamp&m=1. (Then friends could potentially buy some digital recordings, and I'd get all of the money, rather than ~85% of the money).  THIS 12/4 DATE PROVIDES BOTH A GOAL TO POST THESE MY SCOTTISH SMALL PIPING RECORDINGS, AND A RUN THROUGH BEFORE COMMITTING TO THE COST OF STUDIO TIME TO CD RECORDING. (Or maybe even Bandcamp will eventually facilitate creating a CD or recording to other physical media in the future). It's interesting recording as a solo musician, re a kind of isolation - where a sense of fans or CREATING paying  audience could transform this sense of isolation. Can Bandcamp I.T. make such community building for my small piping possible in a brand new way, since it's free otherwise for artists to post? C'est possible! ... And a good dress rehearsal ...
Getting into and thinking through the psychology of being a SSP musician (poetry book writer too) and new possibilities thanks to Web. 
GREAT TO REVISIT MY POETRY FROM 2012-2013 as I bring this my next upcoming book to fruition (and pay for the costs of publishing it in the WUaS Press) ...  recordings per re - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ...
It's lovely poetry of Harbin and Cuttyhunk and India, and so much more + re the experience of being there :)
Do I want to create larger communities as well as (paying) audiences for WUaS, SSP album, next poetry book, re an internal sense of not knowing how? It's all possible newly on WEB and re my own conflicts about this creative process, psychology of goal achievement, and growing (artistic and learning) communities for these - and feeling like I'm connecting in the process  ... (George Alexander's thinking about individualism AND AGENCY - choice or action or intentional causation  - come to mind here too).
APPRECIATING  Ma  your wonderful card saying "you are brave bold kind proud courageous fierce strong determined inspiring loved" :) (with echoes too for me of J.K.) ... As I navigate here in writing too questions of psychology, and fruitfully a bit.
Larger communities for the above? What kinds of communities? What qualities? And newly via the Web I wonder - in what ways? Would a partner be part of this developing community? Hmmm ... :)
See you all - family community :) - at 10 a on Thursday for > 40 minutes. 
Love, Scott

Hi Ed, would you and your family like to come over for a mostly outside, socially distanced, masked  Thanksgiving this Thursday around 2. It looks like the temperature will be around 66 in the afternoon, and I'll have prepared a vegetarian turkey (like last time) but this time with Dutch potatoes and celery, a salad, and maybe some other yummies, including coffee ice cream and pumpkin pie. There are 8 chairs outside too. ...  inside the hospital (which in a very serious epidemic could be one of the worst places on the planet to be:) ... but if this is a coronavirus pandemic, masks and social-distancing could work well. Cheers, Scott


Scott:It might be more sensible too to wait until Covid-19 threat is past, Ed (whatever kind of IN CASE OF EMERGENCY threat it is, I'll posit ... am amazed by the dearth of newspaper articles about US bioterrorism preparedness developments in recent months!) Thoughts? :) Happy Thanksgiving! Fondly, Scott



Ed:I was puzzling over your gracious invitation.   I think it would be awkward.  


Ed: More later.  Nice too to see a picture of N...!


Scott: Sounds good! [image error]