'Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering and the Poetry of Loving Bliss' (2018) by Scott GK MacLeod should be available here within 72 hours:
https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity



Hi M,

Amazing photo, M, of the Painted Dessert (Arizona) -


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Another_White_Pocket_Sunset.jpg
- which I've added to this blog post today (an interesting one, I
think) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/arizona-painted-desert-navajo-belief.html
...

Had to tether my MacBook Air lap computer top to my smartphone cell phone today, since the wi-fi thru the satellite dish on roof seemed to go off, while I was in the middle of watching a Stanford materials' science talk online - https://events.stanford.edu/events/815/81569/ - my first time attending an online Stanford talk. Hadn't used tethering on smart phone since Cuttyhunk, and again it worked well, so now I've confirmed having a back up internet connection here in Canyon, - and the wi-fi on dish has now started working again. Good to have a back up computer in my smartphone, and a back up internet connection here in Canyon now confirmed, and for traveling world-wide even (and to know how to use these - fairly easy, but it's helpful to have known my phone has this capability, and to have used it on Cuttyhunk).

Car-maintenance scheduled on Monday ... will have put second complete pint of oil in today ... a first in the 5k scheduling. Would be interested in getting a Toyota Proace -

  https://youtu.be/7FD0QgtAJ7k -
at some point, but they aren't available in the US yet, while they are available in the British Isles. It can sleep four!, can have 6 seats in it, and if it's a hybrid, would get more than 40 mpg too ... good
for having a family as well ... and it's pretty small for getting around in a city. ... cool. It would also de facto add a 3rd room to my little house-let ... kind of amazing.

Just completed the World Univ & Sch Monthly Business Meeting Minutes:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2018/12/minutes-for-world-univ-schs-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/painted-turtle-minutes-for-world-univ.html

Now to send them out, work on my upcoming book, and maybe head to Stanford to hear Chanticleer. Seeking to connect for family in an ongoing way ...

How's your week going? Talk with you soon.

One fun thing about blogging is adding the photos from the natural world. :)

L, Scott


You can see the 2nd upper 'kids' bed better in this video - 

https://youtu.be/sizWkamE9Xk - at 2:41 in the Toyota Proace Lerina available in the British Isles, than in the video I sent in the previous email in this thread. :) 

Merry Christmas from The Renaissance

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Hi M,

Someone in Canyon is getting my Harbin book (2016) in paper (for $65) I think ... I have only one copy on hand ... and just ordered 2 new ones, one of which is for Dick who asked for a copy last June, which I may give him next June.

Am hopeful after meeting a partner and starting a family to teach a course on my "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" (2016) Harbin book - with actual field work with a class potentially of Stanford students - reading it together with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" ... and beginning too to create a realistic virtual Harbin via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy. Curiously, not many anthropologists or people have engaged this big idea yet.

Was glad that Dutch Yoga teacher Victor van Kooten (who teaches with Angela Farmer) mentioned recently that his first grade teacher in the Netherlands was a woman called Mrs Annie Boon ... (William Penn's mother was Dutch, as I understand this, for example).

Here's the Jordans Quaker Meeting House in Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England in video -

https://youtu.be/Z4pfFJKKhyA ... William Penn was from around here and was buried near here. It was built in 1688 (and Quakers date from about 1652) ... and here's their web site - http://www.jordansquakercentre.org/.

And in Google Street View, you can see that it's a beautiful rural area, and pretty close to London too -

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jordans+Quaker+Centre/@51.6101239,-0.594094,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x6f7f7e8ec351aa8!8m2!3d51.6101239!4d-0.594094 - in Jordans, Buckinghamshire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordans,_Buckinghamshire.

About William Penn ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn ... Angela Farmer interestingly comes from Buckinghamshire ... but "the future is a head" as George Alexander used to quip ... (and Quakers can have a focus on the path ... whereas Harbin, which burned down dramatically in Sept 2015, has a focus on the "Now" and also on 'Living the Future,' as in the title of this document and a kind of Harbin vision - http://www.harbin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Harbin_40th_anniversary.pdf - and Harbin should open again in 2019). "Heart Consciousness Church 1975-2015: 40 Years of Living the Future" - http://www.harbin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Harbin_40th_anniversary.pdf - is one of the most inspiring Harbin texts I know of. And Angela teaches a retreat at Harbin Hot Springs regularly as well. ... many disparate 'spiritual' threads here ... re Dutch background, am curious where Dutch Reformed Church - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Reformed_Church - re Calvinism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Calvinism - and related spiritual memes have all floated around in the background, along with other similar traditions and religious ideas).

Just recalled a SF City Innovate get together in SF this evening, which Jay Nath of SF City Innovate, whom I met in a Stanford Law CodeX meeting, and with Cornell engineering degree (and American but with roots in India) ... hoping to reach out to them re a possible coding team for WUaS - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/painted-turtle-minutes-for-world-univ.html - so heading out soon.

On with book writing. Am settling in on this title "Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss" for my next book, have the cover photo, and with this book, I'll 'print' NEWLY from Amazon's subsidiary Kindle Direct Publishing, since they're closing down CreateSpace (with which I 'printed' my last two books), and I just today made the transition to KDP. All of these are published under the IMPRINT of the Academic Press at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - thus allowing me to create a brand new academic press, planned with machine translation in all 7,097 living languages. And I'll get the ISBN/copyright from the main ISBN place, and not get the Amazon/KDP ISBN (once again) ... and should have my 3rd book coming soon in the mail.

How was your day, M? Bye for now.

L,
Scott

- https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity






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Hi M,

Well, I uploaded a fairly complete 8.5 x 11 manuscript of "Winding Road Rainbow" as PDF to the new and improved KDP book publishing system, and it went smoothly, made a cover that I like with new features in this updated software (from CreateSpace), but I wanted a 6
x 9 size book. So I just reformatted the book in a 6x9 World Doc template, added page numbers, and re-uploaded. My book is now 100 pages long ... and on to reviewing.

It's a pretty amazing publishing process :)

L, Scott


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Hi M,

Nice to read in the middle of the night ... woke up unusually for an hour or two. Read. 2 books "Creative Computing" (by Harvard GSE's Karen Brennan +) and "How Scots Invented the Modern World" and a magazine - the Reed College quarterly magazine. In it in class notes, where sone Reedies mention books they've written, it invites mention of my new book, and potentially all 3.

Took a good walk at 9pm down the winding road in Canyon and up ... the winding road in the title of my book is partly this Canyon road, partly a road in life I've taken, partly traveling to and from Canyon, Harbin and to Rainbow Gatherings and more.

And my book is at the 'printers' - the WUaS Press has published it - and my book is a song, per this email thread.

The cover photo of a Woman Walking in Meadow at the Rainbow Gathering in 2008 in Wyoming with Tee Pee in background, and people under a little rainbow umbrella + (will email it from a different email), isn-t wearing a top so touches on the theme of nudity running through my books, esp re the title of my first big book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" and is attractive and interesting as photo too compositionally. She's also wearing a kind of hippy patchwork long dress.

The pink color in the top half of the cover could somehow reflect the loving bliss ideas of the title and related neurophysiologies explored in the book. The woman walking in meadow photo is both on the bottom half of the front, and on the whole back of the cover newly under the text. (The previous software for my two books - CreateSpace - didn't allow for putting a photo on the back cover while KDP software does).

Just writing some thoughts about the cover of my new book which itself is a song.

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What are you up to this weekend? Christmas Scottish Country Dance party this evening in Berkeley at which I'm music-making and not dancing ... and seeking too a friend and partner potentially.

Your son, writer of song. :)

L,
Scott

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Hi M,

Here's the cover photo ... glad to have found it on my computer's hard drive some months ago, and from the Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming in 2008.

Just read through my "Winding Road Rainbow" manuscript again, italicized some foreign words, found 2 blank pages in the middle, so removed those, and re-paginated the book. Tried to upload it again to KDP, but can't since it's 'in review' for 72 hours, so I asked KDP to call me, and will seek to upload this last and improved version, after talking with them. The book is now 98 pages long, and not 100. :)

L, Scott





Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018) 978-0-578-43518-3
Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry (2017)
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin (2016)
http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity~

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018) 978-0-578-43518-3
Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry (2017)
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin (2016)https://t.co/nQF9Iok4F9~

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) December 15, 2018

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Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss ('18) 978-0-578-43518-3
Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry ('17)
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin ('16) @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch ~

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss ('18) 978-0-578-43518-3
Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry ('17)
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin ('16) @WUaSPress@WorldUnivAndSch ~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) December 15, 2018

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1074046195864023041