Mountain avens (Dryas octopetala): Happy Birthday, Patti! ~ Wondering about riffing with this amazing concert on Scottish Small Pipes :) ... "The Allman Brothers Band Featuring Jerry Garcia ‎– Live at the Cow Palace, 1973" * * * A bit of a trip, here's the Scots' language, Miss Punny Pennie, newspaper article - "‘They went absolutely mad for it’ - Scottish poet overwhelmed by online response to her latest Scots poem A Scottish poet said she feels touched by an overwhelming response to a poem she wrote in Scots in a bid to keep the minority language alive" * Am wondering regarding the brilliant MIT Professor of English and Shakespeare, Diana Henderson - if she could, in collaboration with MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, take on a Miss Punny Pennie (if she applied to WUaS) in a WUaS Ph.D. English program, and even with a focus on the Scots' language eg somehow related to the MacBeth play

Happy Birthday, Patti!

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

12:25 PM (9 hours ago)

to Patti, Bruce, Barbara, Heather, David, Taylor, Janie, Scott, Alex, Sioux

Happy, happy Birthday, Patti! ... from all of us! :)

Here's an amazing Allman Brothers' concert from 1973 - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - birthday present, which I think you may not have heard live, since it was in SF and you may have been in LA-area - n'est-ce pas? :)

I'm also wondering about riffing with it :) ...

The Allman Brothers Band Featuring Jerry Garcia ‎– Live at the Cow Palace, 1973

https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I

... in part with Piobaireachd (classical Scottish bagpiping music) inspirationally, with at least 2-two Scottish smallpipes -

and at the
2:38:00 mark forward for about 30-40 minutes especially is close to what I have in mind for a piping-blues' conversation with Piobaireachd, - and what about this rhythm (and other instruments)? And isn't Piobaireachd a kind of piping the Scottish Blues? :) ...

and at the
2:56 for tone and rhythm - this may be a lullaby folk song , with lyrics, and which I'm wondering about riffing with too, with Piobaireachd, with Cantaireachd even in a creative way ...
Hush Little Baby lyrics
https://www.considerable.com/entertainment/songs/hush-little-baby/

This concert is really 'together' for me - and kinda amazing, even a kinda trip :) Hoping it may be for you:)

Happity, hippity hoppity Birthday, Patti!

Musical cheers,

Scott

Happy New Year 2021 to you ~

~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/twinpods-physaria.html (but with nothing yet about eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology explorations - see this blog label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss) ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping

Song Key Finder

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.ncoreappservices.KeyFinder&hl=en_US&gl=US

(where none of the keys for my A, D, and B flat Mix chanters seemed right - where the A Mixolydian SSP chanter seems to work well in playing Scottish Country Dance sheet music in the key of D major, for example - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand !)

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Fri, Jan 22, 5:34 PM (1 day ago)

to Tym, Pin, lillianbthomas, Thomas, Hank, Scott, Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex, Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, David, Rob, Lyle, Scott, Susan, s, Hugh, Betsy, Andrew, George, Bruce

Hi Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex (& Salina), Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, Susan, Hugh, Betsy, George, Andrew, Bruce, David, Rob, RSCDS teachers, All,

A bit of a trip, here's the Scots' language,

Here's a poyum, in Scots, about Scots. It's called 'I'm no havin' children' and it's for ma wee mammy. X pic.twitter.com/0EEtc8PUTm
— ✨ Miss PunnyPennie ✨ (@Lenniesaurus) October 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/Lenniesaurus/status/1314675641527275521?s=19

from Punny Pennie (Len Pennie), a student at St. Andrew's University, whom I heard first on Twitter ... Is this the voice of Robbie Burns? She's old and young, there's a bit of a hippy in her, and a witchie too:), and she's from Airdrie a few miles east of Glasgow ... Talk about identity & culture ... She's a voice from the depths of Scottish time (to my ear:) ... Took me awhile in 1977 - '78 (my first full year on Scotland to learn what Scots were saying in English) ... she sings Robbie Burns too:

The Year, by Len Pennie

https://youtu.be/plgAhFDQTA8 (a bit sad ... Seems to be speaking of old Scots' struggles & losses & gains ... Another year :) ... I googled searched to see if this poem was written by Robbie Burns:) (is it?) ... and what year is she referring to even?

Linda, Alex, do you speak Scots? Do you consider it to be a separate language from English (hope I'm not asking a question which is insensitive or unknowing:)

You'll find here my (simple) take on what makes a language a language ('mutual intelligibility') - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/black-winged-stilt.html?m=0 (and check out Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church here too, here, too

George @geochurch, @ZernickaGoetz, @JShendure, THANKS for great CalTech talk. Blogged:https://t.co/uLKh8cyFfd HOW BEST TOO to Create 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for EDITING genes' CELL & ATOMs> #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #StreetView w #TimeSlider https://t.co/Q8ZtLaPlqK ?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 21, 2021

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1352388867412750336?s=20 ... who could have Scots' heritage as well:)

With an invitation to keep an eye on Punny Pennie's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/Lenniesaurus - which is a bit of a trip even:)

Scott

Happy New Year ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods-123120-see-122320-too-seasons.html ~

- https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ -

Miss Punny Pennie doesn't say much (so far that I've heard) about the Scottish Gaelic language, but here's a blog label for this language in Scotland too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Scots%27%20Gaelic ...

Len Pennie aka Punny Pennie

from

Airdrie (east of Glasgow, kind of Robbie Burns' country)

newspaper article -

‘They went absolutely mad for it’ - Scottish poet overwhelmed by online response to her latest Scots poem

A Scottish poet said she feels touched by an overwhelming response to a poem she wrote in Scots in a bid to keep the minority language alive.

By Katharine Hay

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/they-went-absolutely-mad-it-scottish-poet-overwhelmed-online-response-her-latest-scots-poem-3012554?amp

Len Pennie -

http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/news/scottish-twitter-has-a-proud-hero-in-puntastic-poet-pennie/52252

Another poem

The Dragon- A Poyum by Len Pennie

https://youtu.be/d1vCHDAz-_4

More recent poems from Miss Punny Pennie here -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNtTXIIxnGPPi8r1JlIbJgQ :)

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- http://scottmacleod.com

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

6:36 PM (3 hours ago)

to Sandy, Mark, Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex, Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, David, Rob, Lyle, Scott, Susan, s, Hugh, Betsy, Andrew, George, Bruce, Tym, Pin, lillianbthomas, Thomas, Hank, Scott

Hi Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex (& Salina), Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, Susan, Hugh, Betsy, George, Andrew, Bruce, David, Rob, RSCDS teachers, All, ...

Am wondering regarding the brilliant MIT Professor of English and Shakespeare, Diana Henderson -

'Women & Shakespeare' Ep.1 (series 2) just dropped! The utterly wonderful @DianaHe23732776 talking about Woolf, the need for more collaborative models in academia, @Colombarinews
Merchant, and Shake-Shifting...Want to know more? Have a listen at https://t.co/1GfUjXv0OJ. Do RT!! pic.twitter.com/nzc9qnGFHQ
— Dr Varsha Panjwani (@EarlyModernDoc) January 23, 2021

https://twitter.com/EarlyModernDoc/status/1352949690199846913?s=20 - https://twitter.com/DianaHe23732776 - if she could, in collaboration with MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, take on a Miss Punny Pennie (if she applied to WUaS) in a WUaS Ph.D. English program, and even with a focus on the Scots' language eg somehow related to the MacBeth play. At the same time, and as a WUaS PhD candidate in Scotland, could Punny Pennie develop the Scots' language in Scots at World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scots_language (accessible from Scotland World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland)?

In a similar vein, the prospective online WUaS PhD student in Cognitive Science / EECS in Madurai, south India, is very interested in developing a Tamil Language World University and School in Tamil (ie re the power of mother tongue / identity / culture) ... and could Prasanth even work with MIT EECS Professor Anant Agarwal, also CEO of edX, with which WUaS is in the process of partnering? Here's Prasanth's beginnings of translating Anant's Circuits and Electronics' CC-4 MIT OCW course in the Tamil language - on Youtube! :) https://twitter.com/Prasanth3Nature/status/1352961386343788546?s=20

WUaS is exploring the possibility of our PhD students applying through MIT departments themselves - a new possible collaboration for WUaS with MIT founded projects (OCW, edX) - and even regarding insurance for our WUaS students (ie doing field work at Harbin Hot Springs) and in India, Morocco, Indonesia and possibly Scotland per this MIT Medical insurance Tweet - .https://twitter.com/MITmedical/status/1351548738909728775?s=20 - and the benefits of insurance organizations having large numbers of insurees paying into the system or pool!

Scottish Country Dancers how might we dance together, in 1608, in Scotland (from home in Covid-19 pandemic time) far north of the Globe Theater in Stratford upon Avon - in a realistic virtual earth for History - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - and with avatar bots, also in the year 1610 - in lowland Scotland, with artificial human (Samsung Neons?) Avatar Scots speaking Scots and as a single realistic virtual earth for everything iterates in digital masks, on the screen, in holograms, in robotics for the theater, and with the benefits of AI and machine learning and MACHINE TRANSLATION?

And in what way could WUaS also seek to recruit Amanda Gorman, a recent Harvard graduate, who read her great poem at the Biden/Harris inauguration, and here's the whole poem in Obama's Twitter - https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1351995663475728386?s=20 - and also at top here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/black-winged-stilt.html.

Seeking to grow our Ph.D. student applicants for this autumn 2021 beyond the 2.5 we currently have, and that WUaS will be in people's homes where all 7117 known living languages are spoken will help generate the Scots' language (and Tamil, and Moroccan dialect + :)

Cheers, Scott

Merry, Merry and happy, happy, too ~

Happy New Year ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods-123120-see-122320-too-seasons.html ~

- https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ -

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