Padma (Nelumbo nucifera): Dutch Yoga influences ... Dad, in his open-mindedness, was also quite open to my choosing Yoga as a career, Re Yoga ethics and Hindu ethics too, I tend toward the hippy and these - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - Studying biology at a Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham or other Quaker school for my kids as undergraduates could have merit as well ... re a possible path to becoming a medical doctor * * * Harvard Yoga thinking re osteoporosis: "Yoga: Another way to prevent osteoporosis? A dozen yoga poses, performed daily, may increase bone density"

Hi M,

Nice to talk last night. (And happy birthday, Dad - 1/30/29-1/25/07!). How are you, M?

Re the timely power outage (which have gotten fewer in recent years), as I mentioned, I could even take a shower after the power went out, since there's now a fairly newly second passive solar water storage heat tank,  ... and there was enough warm water in both these tanks ... (even though both may
be heated by electricity, at least the passive solar storage tank is, and it being morning, the solar panel on roof probably couldn't do much water heating over night).

There's much Dutch Yoga influence in my life ... both Victor, and Dona Holleman, who self-published the complementary books "Yoga Syllabus for Teacher and Student" and "Asana in Photo," (see: http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm in http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm from http://scottmacleod.com/links.htm and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/07/bird-of-paradise-yoga-benefits-without.html) the practice of which - these books allow independent readers/practitioners to be free of Yoga cultures/communities/teachers in a sense (which I appreciate) - allowed me to go through the Iyengar Yoga Institute of SF in one year instead of two, and thus also to get a certificate unusually fast (in around 1992), because I had a strong Yoga asana practice. Dona is of Dutch background, grew up in Asia - in the Dutch East Indies and in Thailand - (in concentration/refugee camps of one kind or another), and has lived much of her adult yoga life in northern Italy.  She studied with Iyengar very early in his and her Yoga careers, and has one of the strongest Yoga practices around, besides Geeta Iyengar, Iyengar's daughter, who still teaches in Pune, India, at the Iyengar Yoga Center there. I took a course with Dona in Seattle in the mid-1980s, and was impressed with her inner stillness, and her clear and well thought-out teaching.

Back to doing a few standing poses on Mondays and Thursdays somewhat regularly ... and esp. re my left longer leg, tweaked-sciatica-nerve-condition now basically past (left hip and joint issues), but longer left leg still noticeable in a new way, and body is getting a bit stiffer. Standing poses are probably as good as it gets as a kind of therapy for this. :)

Dad, in his open-mindedness, was also quite open to my choosing Yoga as a career, as I recall. And he seemed to benefit from doing a little Yoga from 2004-2007 even in his impaired condition (after his head injury in Belize). Happy birthday, Dad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_K._MacLeod)!

And very nice to talk, M!

Much l, Scott




Since I'm still a bit of a Yoga teacher (even as I seek a partner / wife / friend / girl friend / mom-to-be), and ...

Re Yoga ethics and Hindu ethics too, I tend toward the hippy and these - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - but am cognizant that Hindu and related ethics steer away from the "sex industry" somehow culturally, and possibly over centuries/millennia even - and while I may be wrong about thus - the 'industrial' idea is fairly new to India, so who knows ? And India is pretty different from the West, due to the influence of religions in general, leading me to think I could make this "argument," somewhat coherently.

Ethics are a curious thing in this internet world, the information age, now coming into conversation with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and in all 7,097 living languages potentially ... and possibly re "identity" questions too (am influenced a bit by Quaker, Unitarian Universalist, hippy and Yoga ethics in these regards:) ... re above ... and caring ...

What are you up to today? And what are you up to this weekend?

Love,
Scott
- http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm



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Hi Ma,

Could a son or daughter of mine become a MD at the univ of Edinburgh or Glasgow and then Board certified to practice in the US, and then a Medicine Prof at Stanford? :) ... interesting goals re George's thinking and possible goals for his kids, should they have been interested in becoming MDs too. Yale or Pitt or CMU for undergrad in biology? (Psychotherapy with some specific goals in teen years?)

Whom to marry? Someone I haven't met yet? A 28 yr old medical resident?

Would like to navigate in conversation with my kids all these cultures well too Scotland, Pittsburgh, Palo Alto, Asia, Africa, Australia, for ex. are all very different cultures as discourse with many different languages.

Just some musings :)

Thinking a bit further about DAD in all these regards, post his birthday ...

What are you up to this weekend?

L,
Scott


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Hi M,

Studying biology at a Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham or other Quaker school for my kids as undergraduates could have merit as well ... re a possible path to becoming a medical doctor. Might help to marry a MD for a lot of knowledge about this process from the inside, which I don't have (and re George A as well, since he was a MD ... like father like sons, was a linguistic idea which probably crossed his mind as well ) ... further musings ...

Appreciating Quaker centering in the world (and non-theistic f/Friendly-wise as well) in these regards ...

L, Scott


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Hi M,