Tennessee Valley, Marin, CA: Tennessee Valley hiking, Cardenas market, with mask, and bell, Sunday ~ 8/29/21

'Things are picking up,' you said Ed, as our phone call came to a close, and I heard your family in the background, regarding dinner time too I think ... (while I was talking from the parking lot of the closed UU Church overlooking downtown Oakland in the distance on a cloudy evening) ... ..  I remembered the song, "Donna,' from Hair the American Tribal Love Rock Musical," and found it here - 

https://youtu.be/BiTQSxfwTRU :) - from "Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" even?) What things are picking up, Ed? :)

...

Am wondering too if Brookline MA has the kind of warm friendly smart human connecting community (albeit in a big old city, with cold winters, humid summers, and not so many amazing natural areas) I'm kind of looking for, in a way that I haven't found in California. Turned onto Brookline St in Marin, and which made me wonder (and I think D may have lived in Brookline too, although it seems unlikely we'll meet, re realism). Poison Ivy song came on iHeart Radio here in Marin, making me kinda smile - 

https://youtu.be/ZRfRITVdz4k .... an ocean at Cuttyhunk with coast(ers), and get lots of calamine over the counter :) ...

And the Tennessee Valley hiking staging area had a community of 20,000 people (hippies & vagabonds?:) living on its slopes until the local community nixed the idea, I read and took a picture of. And the Miwok people (and their living languages re WUaS) in the area became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Indians_of_Graton_Rancheria and https://gratonrancheria.com/ ... Interesting!

Scott

These 3 songs - 'Donna' and 'Poison Ivy' and 'Peggy-O' - ...

My goodness, another related song just popped up that speaks to me in these regards

 - https://youtu.be/cPJOmkDOFcQ - and in the very old ballad form, sung and played  beautifully in '77 by the Grateful Dead in Englishtown NJ :)

Just walked up the new Tennessee valley trail for me to a major Tennessee Valley trail junction where you put on many layers after our walk from Muir Beach, then taking a fairly sharp turn, then seeing those two ravens (that somehow reminded me of Nicola Crayon Cambridge Univ Prof who studies their intelligence and communication too ... We didn't stop, but now setting for a bit I see the Pacific below and white caps around shoreline rocks, and a little power boat too seemingly at anchor on a quite foggy day. Just texted you. Hoping you're having a good day. Found this AllTrails' App Trail at the last minute - Tennessee Valley, Muir Beach, Coastal and Fox Trail on AllTrails

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/tennessee-valley-muir-beach-coastal-and-fox-trail - and curious to see what communications might come from Covered CA for example, and somehow AI wise ... 

security wise too  check out the pictures and perhaps we will eventually be able to hike virtually in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking :) ... 

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1341133190308610048?s=19 :)

Fondly 

Scott

Just texted you - 

Ed was able to take a screenshot of the blue dot where I sit and write you concurrently an email :) Scott

Professor of Genetics and a Director at the Broad Inst (of Harvard & MIT) Elinor Karlsson who's in her mid-40s I think, and studies disease processes in dogs, hasn't focused on aging reversal explicitly very much at all - but vaccines, genetics and diseases in dogs could be at the forefront of the aging reversal field is interesting. ...  but if somehow aging reversal genetic therapies emerge, - ... 

Searched on 'aging reversal post covid-19 pandemic' ... Which made me wonder whether the Covid-19 pandemic was a kind of 'Manhattan project' partly conceived of by Harvard Prof of Genes' George Church to catalyze aging reversal Genetics' research ... 

And found ... 

"Active and Healthy Aging After COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal and Other European Countries: Time to Rethink Strategies and Foster Action" 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.700279/full 

... I note the words 'frontier sin' in the publication.

Being 'selfless' is a familiar way of being in my experience in women - but how SF California might change this is a question. I'm recalling Susan a bit in these regards, a previous mutual-love (from Washington state too). 

I sent the membership check in to Quaker FAHE - and emailed about 5 Friendly men in the process ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/pine-creek-pennsylvania-quaker-fahe.html - a Friendly little garage band of men perhaps network wise and regarding my whistle-blowing too.

Here's geneticist Elinor Karlsson's Twitter feed -

https://twitter.com/eenork/status/1374216872384724993?s=19 (is that the word Spa in her painting?) - and with the interesting online talk I attended in January. What if aging reversal genetic drug therapies could make her - or anyone else - 28 years' old again ... While I appreciate Elinor's thoughtfulness and female understanding/caring and thinking, I don't think we'd become more than colleagues.

Circulating, seeking natural connection (somewhat old fashioned or traditional too?) and could well start traveling again potentially ... as individual seeking life partner on my own to begin too to give birth to my children :) with a loving talk friend (not findable in California)? 

Scott

From text chat last night -

Hi Ma - on the 2.89 kilometer journey up to the UU Church again ... The 5.78 km journey roundtrip MEANING-WISE ... in terms of mathematical translation of 3.6 mile ... walk often to a somewhat familiar cultural destination :) 

How was your walk today? Creating more meaning here - than re religious identity questioning (UU-WISE) - re creativity http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/allegheny-national-forest-create.html and Pgh too :)

Interesting that this UU Church is not showing much sign of opening whatsoever ... Wonder what it means 

Meaning and identity ~ group identity re Friends or UUs or Yoga or Hindu or not Harbin Hot Springers, all with religion-tones ... or hippies ... or scientists, or social scientists or anthropologists or sociologists, all with knowledge generation-tones, medical doctors, with knowing-caring tones too ... or poets, writers or bloggers ... Or presidents it professors or presiding clerks or CEOs or founders, all with leadership-tones ... Father or grandfather to be tones ... How could genetics even change some of these things? Is genetic engineering already changing identity and meaning questions ?