Gorse: Sunheart at Harbin Hot Springs passed away ... ('Heartsong' is his name in my book "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin") * * * WUaS's planning for online IB diplomas in 200 countries' languages, and Fettes College IB high school, Edinburgh, Scotland, collaborations? ... but WUaS would probably do best in these endeavors if we could be 'UNDER THE WING' of an established IB school. Thank you. * The quest for this 'holy grail' of "realistic virtual place" goes on ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ Am giving a talk about creating an actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs / earth for ethnographic & STEM research on 12/18/2020 at UC Berkeley, in the Anthropology department. :)

Can we bring Sunheart 'alive' again in 'avatar bot' form even, and articulating his Harbin knowledge and memories interactively with you or me, so talk and interact with him, as a first example of what might be possible in these regards? (See this "The Desidaerata" example - 

Max Ehrmann "Desiderata" - "Desired Things" Poem animation (3:07 minutes)

poetryreincarnations

https://youtu.be/lH72Quc9NmI

as well as this Stanford philosopher Richard Rorty example - blog link: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/verreauxs-eagle-moving-digital-objects.html)

Remembering you, Sunheart! 

Sunheart passed away ... 

Thanks so much for letting me know, Eric Richardson (at Harbin HR) ... wishing him all the best on his journey. Hope you are well as well, Eric. My condolences to you and to his Harbin friends. He made a ginormous contribution to my Harbin ethnographic book, "Naked Harbin Ethnography," for which I am very grateful. I blogged about him and meditation very recently (11/22/20) here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/cairngorms-national-park-virtual-harbin.html (and he's much in this blog - search on Sunheart or Heartsong) - "Sunheart, a Harbin friend (& main informant in my actual-virtual Harbin ethnography - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ visit a realistic virtual earth here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  ~)  ... " I'll explore his FB page with the memories you shared, Eric - thank you for telling me. 

Jaima, SunheartSunheart Sunheart !

There are lots of memories and observations of Sunheart in my "Naked Harbin Ethnography," and among Harbinites. 

Here are 10 references to audio interviews with Heartsong in my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ book, which if synthesized digitally somehow could allow one to start to re-create an interactive Sunheart Avatar Bot even - (and eventually in Google Street View even?):

Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2008. Heartsong - Interview with Scott MacLeod. April 10, 2008.

Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2008. Heartsong GST - Interview with Scott MacLeod. April 17, 2008.

Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2008. Heartsong and Scott in Blueroom - Interview with Scott MacLeod. November 22,

2008.

Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2009. Heartsong and Scott in Blueroom - Interview with Scott MacLeod. January 1, 2009.

Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2009. Heartsong Poly - Interview with Scott MacLeod. January 8, 2009.

Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2009. Heartsong Spirituality at Harbin - Interview with Scott MacLeod. February 21, 2009.

Heartsong, Hunter and Scott MacLeod. 2009. Heartsong, Hunter and Scott - Interview with Scott MacLeod. April 19, 2009.

Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2010. Heartsong and Scott in Blueroom - Interview with Scott MacLeod. February 11, 2010.

Heartsong, Hunter and Scott MacLeod. 2010. Eric and Scott - Interview with Scott MacLeod. April 11, 2010.

Himanen,

I never knew his birth last name, although I think Colin  was his first name, (and he may have had some Scottish ancestors), and he grew up in Ohio, where his father was a medical doctor, and his mother was involved in the Presbyterian church. He was in crypto in the army in the mid-1960s and stationed in Germany, and traveled in the late 1960s partly interested in Transcendental Meditation teachings of the Maharishi ... he came to Harbin Hot Springs around 1980 ... Sunheart, SunheartSunheart was his name. I never knew his birth last name, and this as an anthropologist, or as a line from a novel even ... and is somehow fitting of possibly Sunheart's humbleness ... missing him ... I last saw him in the town of St. Helena, in Napa, at his invitation to meet there and not in Middletown, about 6 months after the major Valley Fire of September 12th and 13th 2015. Sunheart was brilliant, and good and navigated the challenges of Harbin culture remarkably! 

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Max Ehrmann "Desiderata" - "Desired Things" Poem animation (3:07 minutes)

poetry reincarnations

https://youtu.be/lH72Quc9NmI 

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JOINING - 30th November – Fettes virtual events – St Andrew’s Day

Fettes College (IB) high school in Edinburgh, Scotland (1977-78) ...

WUaS's planning for online IB diplomas in 200 countries' languages, and Fettes College IB collaborations? 

Karen (Houston) Jones: 

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   I will speak to the Head, Helen Harrison regarding your questions below. Please give us some patience with the provision of a reply. 

• Are there any plans to move Fettes further online  due to Covid-19, and post Covid-19?
• And might there be opportunities between Fettes and World University and School to collaborate at the I.B level in this in a parallel way?

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>	Thu, Dec 3, 9:17 AM (3 days ago)
to George, Andrew, enquiries, Janie, MacLeod, Mok, Scott, Fettes.Community

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Message from old Auld Reekie (Edinburgh)

Scott

I received a message "Do not reply" from cyber space last night thanking me for arranging the virtual 150 celebrations. These thanks I have filed away for posterity, but I let you know that I can't Zoom, never twitter and shudder at the thought of showing my Face in any book.

Great to know that you pipe on the cliffs of Santa Barbara every morning.

Although I introduced computing in the year after you left (with an 8 Kb Commodore PET in my study in Ki) and continued until 3 years ago for the OFs, I am radidly losing the ability to keep up with the present complexities. I keep asking the Development Department if they cannot make a one click entry to their wonderful, informative ever changing web site! I can only go in circle around their maze!

At any rate bagpipes are not yet computerised! Those were the days - good to know you thrive.

Good wishes. GDCP

George Preston, my old Kimmerghame House Housemaster at Fettes College (1977-78)

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Glad you enjoyed it! Am beginning to extend Google Meet video conference meetings to old friends - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/bluebell-barleria-barleria-cristata.html - like the Ehrmanns from 1966-1972 in New Haven, Connecticut (Hamden) when both of our fathers were on the faculty at Yale University, and it would be indeed great to see you again, somehow! 

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Sadly these days my use of email is only for communication. I don't twitter or tweet; I shuuder at the thought of facing a book; Zooming is quite beyond me! But good to know you thrive! GDCP

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George,

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The very beginnings of Scotland World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland 

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Gorse, or bee emergency food

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

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

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