High Sierra Trail: Checking in to Harbin ? * * * Your poetry reading, Oxford Professor Laura Ashe * * * Checking in * * * Sajjad Wynne's Harbin book "The big bang and the Harbin experience" made me laugh * May email her, and even regarding reading my poetry - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1366814117034557440?s=19 *Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ #Virtually '21 *Honey in the Bag '20 (#ScottishSmallPipes' album) *To the Dance or the Pools? in #wuAsVR '19 *Winding Road Rainbow '18 *Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17 *Naked Harbin Ethnography '16https://t.co/lXdSBzZisL @WUaSPress ~

A poem about love and longing, in case you needed one.

https://twitter.com/AsheLaura/status/1443330848913231878?s=19

my reply - 

Lovely Laura ~ and what if aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerge, and could fire the heart anew, again and again in the other time direction, kindling for love and longing, youthward toward further beautiful poetry of the heart aflame ... 

Lovely Laura ~ and what if aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerge, and could fire the heart anew, again and again in the other time direction, kindling for love and longing, youthward toward further beautiful poetry, of the heart aflame ...

— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) September 30, 2021

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1443449810011320325?s=19

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Your poetry reading  

Dearest Laura,

Thank you for sharing this most lovely poem reading ~

Laura Ashe @AsheLaura

A poem about love and longing, in case you needed one.

A poem about love and longing, in case you needed one. pic.twitter.com/wDlgimAgNv

— Laura Ashe (@AsheLaura) September 29, 2021

https://twitter.com/AsheLaura/status/1443330848913231878?s=19

my reply - 

Lovely Laura ~ and what if aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerge, and could fire the heart anew, again and again in the other time direction, kindling for love and longing, youthward toward further beautiful poetry of the heart aflame ... 

Lovely Laura ~ and what if aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerge, and could fire the heart anew, again and again in the other time direction, kindling for love and longing, youthward toward further beautiful poetry, of the heart aflame ...

— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) September 30, 2021

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1443449810011320325?s=19

Am following up to inquire whether you might even enjoy reading a poem of mine, from one of my 4 recent books of poetry on Twitter - 

~Light, Float, Sit, #Watsu ~#Virtually'21 ~https://t.co/8F7i8x7dSD
~To the Dance or the Pools? in #wuAsVR'19
~Winding Road Rainbow '18
~Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
~#NakedHarbinEthnography'16https://t.co/gyZpRfwu4u ~ @WUaSPresshttps://t.co/n8B2vpYOY5 ~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 2, 2021

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1366814117034557440?s=19

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1366811917956706304?s=19 ?

Greetings from the SF Bay Area (from which I'm developing CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned online in each of all ~200 countries, and in all 7,139 known living languages; and see the MIT OCW courses - ocw.mit.edu - here in the poetry wiki subject, or history, for ex., to get a sense of how WUaS works - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - as WUaS grows). 

Wishing you the best, and hoping we might communicate further in some of these regards (I've lived for 2 full years in Edinburgh, Scotland, studying at Fettes College in 1977-78, and at the Univ of Edinburgh, in 2003-04, so am a bit familiar with British culture, as I see you are familiar with west coast culture from your time teaching at the Univ of Victoria). 

Am curious too at WUaS to facilitate a realistic virtual earth for history - and the related #Hashtags here ... https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1436337341325398019?s=19 - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1431692763884503042?s=19 ... and which would find form in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI, Translate, and even with realistic avatar bots! (And would you happen to know a friend of mine from high school years, and a medieval historian, Hugh Thomas, who is a professor at the Univ of Miami, - and has done much research at Oxford?:)

All the best, Scott

Minutes from the 9/18/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/calendula-officinalis-minutes-for-91821.html (loosely conducted in the manner of Friends or un-programmed Quakers)

Are you at all in communication with the Harvard Medical School, and Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's Laboratory there with his remarkable focus on aging reversal, from your time in Cambridge, Massachusetts? 

Resources for you as Professor - 

https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows/laura-ashe

https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-laura-ashe

https://youtu.be/tvKuDP_Bp5w

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Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

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Checking in to Harbin ?? 

Dear Sajjad, Eric, and Tym, 

Greetings from the SF Bay Area. How are you? I'm writing to follow up on 2 email invitations to come visit Harbin from Deirdre Davis MD a year or so ago, which I decided not to do at the time. Am wondering if it might be possible to check in to Harbin anew, now that it's gotten going again after the valley fire (my condolences!) If my friend Tym Lenderking were in the area, I wonder too if we both might be able to check in together. Sajjad, remember when we 3 met in the Harbin office in 2012 (after I was a Harbin resident for 4.5 months in 2005), you were wearing your yellow-lensed glasses? At the time, Tym was #2 in Pakistan in the US state department, (and now he's special envoy to Yemen, and may be number 2 in Saudi Arabia as well in one way or another).

Tym and I have just been emailing, and he may be in Yemen presently, and I mentioned your funny book, Sajjad, to him -   

"I miss Harbin a bit and hope we can head back there soon (when we might even get an invite). Are you by any chance in touch with Sajjad Wynne, of Harbin, whom we met in the office there, wearing his yellow-lensed glasses? His Harbin book "The big bang and the Harbin experience" made me laugh -

https://www.amazon.com/big-bang-Harbin-experience/dp/0944202101 (and I wrote the Brautigan reference:)."

Tym - 

"The time at Harbin was really memorable.  Is it open for visitors?  I gather not.  

No contact with Sajjad.  I can picture him vaguely.  Did we have a conversation with him?"  

Scott - 

"That was a fun Canyon-Harbin-Canyon trip, and thanks for coming to visit!

Harbin is open apparently, and Sajjad@Harbin.org is/was his email address, which may be buried in your inbox even. With an invite from Sajjad or Eric Richardson, I think it would be safe to visit Harbin again."

Sajjad and Tym, I think we chatted briefly, touching on your Pakistan connections. 

All the best, Scott

https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132

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Checking in

You're inspiring, Tym, and your travels sound great, social, family-oriented, and to be worthy in their peace goals. Yemen and Saudi Arabia are places I'd like to get to know in a realistic virtual earth for traveling, and history ... 

Canyon, CA #Canyon94516 and its #EastBayMUD vast beautiful natural area as playground, & #ScottishHighlandGames#ScottishGames at #PleasantonCalifornia#BritishFoods#SIGN#kilt@TheOpenBand@scottmacleod -in #RealisticVirtualEarth too? #RealisticVirtualEarthForTraveling#wuAsVR~ https://t.co/tltiBkphZ1

— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) September 10, 2021

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1436337341325398019?s=19

:) #RainbowGathering2008 Wyominghttps://t.co/1zfDEvjjQb July 1-7 https://t.co/NeWxdN8t8bhttps://t.co/7c6KR8KLIwhttps://t.co/O2aJHKTUpF (https://t.co/iVYHvbZbli) @WorldUnivAndSch#RealisticVirtualHarbin@HarbinBook#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) August 28, 2021

  - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1431692763884503042?s=19 !

Am missing Harbin a bit and hope we can head back there soon (when we might get an invite even). Are you by any chance in touch with Sajjad Wynne, of Harbin, whom we met in the office there, he wearing his yellow-lensed glasses? His Harbin book "The big bang and the Harbin experience" made me laugh -

https://www.amazon.com/big-bang-Harbin-experience/dp/0944202101 (and I wrote the Brautigan reference:).

May explore hiking much of both the California Coastal Trail and the PCT, thanks to you, with my avuncular Alden (south of SF), and Ed ... Could or might we invite you or friends along if they emerge. A woman who might be interested in beginning a family even? 

All the best, Scott

https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132

Glad to have sent out the Work World Univ & Sch 9/18/21 Minutes just before your email came too :)~ 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/calendula-officinalis-minutes-for-91821.html?m=0

New hiking inspired resources - & maps :)

The California Coastal Trail is a 1,200-mile, multi-use route stretching along the Pacific coastline from Mexico to Oregon. 

https://coasttrails.org/wctprcaliforniatrail.html

California Coastal Trail

2.4 miles - (3.9 ) kilometers

https://www.presidio.gov/trails/california-coastal-trail

California Coastal Trail: Lands End to Golden Gate Bridge on AllTrails - 4.4 miles

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/california-coastal-trail-lands-end-to-golden-gate-bridge

The Pacific Crest Trail is 100-150 miles east of the Pacific ocean, and is 2650 long - 

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/pct/home/?cid=stelprdb5310782#:~:text=The%20Pacific%20Crest%20National%20Scenic,Is%20the%20trail%20finished%3F

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That was a fun Canyon-Harbin-Canyon trip, and thanks for coming to visit!

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

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