Red-necked Tanager: Re a Shruti box hootenanny & Lego Robotics' code-in build out ... * * * Going to Shady Side Academy * * * Klara and the Sun is described as a Masterpiece here with 15 other possible related books - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/09/northern-harrier.html - none of which I've looked into yet 🙂 And "Klara and the Sun" ... is a gentle melancholy though, don't you think?

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Frederic Khayat	Oct 12, 2022, 6:35 PM (3 days ago)
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

8:35 AM (2 hours ago)

to Janie

Good morning, Ma, 

How are you? And how was your week? 

Going to Shady Side Academy yesterday was pretty fun - somehow I felt less lonely than I do at times (to the beginning of Homecoming and a ribbon cutting ceremony for new sports' field) ... But I have some worries about the fund raising relationship ... since I don't feel sometimes like I have enough money, and question such giving of money eg not for tuition (for high school). Yet thanks for the 2/4 deps. this past week again where I do have a few resources now (& in my asylum-seeking move back to Pittsburgh for example). I also wonder about a developing CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki WorldUniversityAndSchool.org relationship with Shady Side Academy, and am thinking donating could help this (eg could SSA become a customer of the WUaS Educational Services' bookstores / robotic stores. And I also think it's possible I'll meet a life partner and wife, and mom-to-be out of Shady Side circles. The 10/15/22 WUaS News and Q&A I sent out yesterday was possibly great and creative and potentially transformative & earth shaking in a positive way, - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/10/owl-barn-sat-101522-agenda-and-news-for.html?m=0& glad too to be able to talk about World University and School with some SSA alumni esp. I also was glad to meet Bart Griffith, SSA's president, whom I liked. I mentioned to a former teacher of Latin there, Alex Howson, through 1973 and then college counselor when I was there, but I don't recall him very clearly, and who taught Latin before my time, about the possibility of living beyond 123 years old and aging reversal genetics too - and World University and School's Wikis for open teaching and learning possibilities to keep 135 year olds' minds active, for ex. - another good SSA-WUaS collaboration focus. 

GLAD to have studied at Shady Side in the 1970s, and to have gone to this maybe 1st Homecoming ever, although, as a bit of a hippy+minded rebel, and questioning of institutions (maybe like Dad, and out of the 1960s & 1970s too), have not always been glad I went there.

Writing about all of this puts some of this SSA thinking in a new perspective or light.

Looking forward to seeing you for lunch this week.

Circulating to meet a life partner who's a great fit continues, newly in Pittsburgh, asylum-wise, too and in whistle blowing & in calling for abolition. 

Good to connect at Shady Side - and thank you for making it possible for me to study there, Ma - in the 1970s!

Love, abolition-ally, warm regards, Scott 

Will Augmented Reality, VR, and similar help make much of Pittsburgh beautiful possibly again (re all the billboards and blight of spreading little businesses, malls etc) - at least in how we see it while traveling around it - 'virtual trees' thru our digital glasses? :) - and from our homes too (traveling anywhere to beautiful places via Google Street View and Smart TV .. and help us find and get out to beautiful places?)

Will Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily with UBI experiments help lessen possible poverty in Pgh?

Could World University and School with Shady Side Academy help educate, and offer an opportunity to 'move up', for the 300,000 people of Pittsburgh, as well as the 2.35 million people in the Pgh metropolitan area - where all these Pittsburghers could also become wiki teachers at WUaS:)?

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From friend T.L.

Hello Scott!  How is life in Pitts?  Settling in ok?  . . .   Read and really enjoyed Klara and the Sun on the trip.  Thanks so much!  Certainly melancholy wasn't it.  Hope all is well!  

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HI T! Great to hear from you, and thank you again for our re-UNION in ...! 🙂 Good to have gone to a Shady Side Academy high school Homecoming yesterday re settling in ok. Thanks for your great peace-work in Yemen! Any budding wiki-teachers of subjects they love to Youtube video, for ex., from the people who have mobile phones - about anything, in Arabic or English, which might also help the peace process along? (eg re Peace - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects or https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies or farming, or literature or ethnographic insights into Yemeni peoples?:) Klara and the Sun is described as a Masterpiece here with 15 other possible related books - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/09/northern-harrier.html - none of which I've looked into yet 🙂 And "Klara and the Sun" ... is a gentle melancholy though, don't you think? How to develop flourishing happy Humanoid Robotics in Pittsburgh at World Univ & Sch is a question that came up in talking with Shady Side folks yesterday. 🙂 Hike one of the weekends before it gets too too cold halfway between Washington DC and Pitts? Love, Scott

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