These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness— an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks, while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life. (Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.) This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Monday, January 1, 2007, 12:00 am Home in Mountain View The clock strikes midnight— not dancing New Year Day but reading Rumi's poems.	Tuesday, January 2, 2007, 2:30 pm Totem Pole Grove, Serra Mall, Stanford New Year at Stanford— Say my prayers to Boo-Qwilla: Bless all with wisdom.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007, 9:20 pm Palo Alto CalTrain Depot Wolf Moon high above— the first Full Moon of the year. Catch my bus in time.	Thursday, January 4, 2007, 2:15 pm Showers & El Camino, Mountain View My feet are freezing. Dark gray clouds cover the sky. The storm is coming. [See Rilke]
Thursday, January 4, 2007, 10 pm Latham Street, Mountain View Walking home to my apartment Full moon shines tonight. Something sparkles on sidewalk— It's a mint penny.	Friday, January 5, 2007, 8:45 pm Waverley Writers Poetry Reading, 957 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto Len reads poem "Mirror"— mirror neurons in the brain dancing Flamenco.
Friday, January 5, 2007, 9:15 pm Waverley Writers Poetry Reading Ron reads poem on "Death"— It is life's greatest mystery. That's why it's the last.	Saturday, January 6, 2007, 10 am Home in Mountain View A surprise phone call— She's going to a wedding. Won't come to the dance.
Saturday, January 6, 2007, 3 pm Stanford University Green Library Epiphany Day! Where are the Wise Men today? Find them within you.	Saturday, January 6, 2007, 11:50 pm Cubberley Pavilion, Palo Alto A new dance partner— She's from my hometown Sichuan. We dance the last waltz.
Sunday, January 7, 2007, 4 am Home reading John Canaday's book "What Is a Painting?" Cot and Kokoschka— Compare The Storm, The Tempest, Kitsch art and good art.	Monday, January 8, 2007, 1 pm Shopping at Milk Pail, 2585 California St., Mountain View Green pepper, onions, Alfafa and Brussel's sprouts, and fresh blackberries.
Monday, January 8, 2007, 8 pm Foothill College, Palo Alto Got my assignment— Lab Consulting on Thursday to help students' work.	Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 3 pm Stanford University, Palo Alto Cloudless azure sky— Green Library closes midnight. More time for my work.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 1:52 am Bus #22 did not show up for an hour at Palo Alto Caltrain Depot No stars in the sky— Just half moon tilting like a ship in the Black Sea.	Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 3:15-6:05 pm Stanford University, History Corner Robert Pinsky's "The Occasions of Poetry" What joy to be in Pinsky's Poetry Workshop— a blessing indeed!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 4:00 pm Robert Pinsky tells the poetry class to read Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" There's no singing school— To be good in art, study monumental things!	Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 4:30 pm Robert Pinsky on tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon in finding inspiration Find something you love— Recall that joyous feeling and share it with all.
Thursday, January 11, 2007, 1:00 pm After losing a glove this morning A friend buys me a 6-pack of large garden gloves— "You won't lose them all!"	Thursday, January 11, 2007, 2:00 pm After losing a glove this morning Another gives me a pair of hand-sewn mittens— "These will keep you warm!"
Thursday, January 11, 2007, 10:00 pm Foothill Middlefield Lab, Palo Alto An email story from a friend— Fifty egrets fly onto an African tree— like candles they glow!	Thursday, January 11, 2007, 10:00 pm Foothill Middlefield Lab, Palo Alto Jack comes to give me a ride home— My good friend is here! We talk baseball for an hour. I learn much from him.
Friday, January 12, 2007, 9:35 am Home listening to KDFC Radio 102.1 FM Henry Purcell, "Abdelazar: Suite" Wake up to music— Purcell's In the Garden Green: English Country Dance!	Friday, January 12, 2007, 4:00 pm Stanford University Green Library Insight from Haiku of January 10— Half-moon in Black Sea beckons me to come aboard— "Sail to Byzantium."
Saturday, January 13, 2007, 6 pm Stanford University Green Library Reading Goethe's Italian Journey This marble statue Apollo Belvedere sweeps Goethe off his feet!	Saturday, January 13, 2007, 6 pm Stanford University Green Library Reading Goethe's Italian Journey Goethe's amazing! I'm always learning from him about art and life.
Sunday, January 14, 2007, 10 pm Stanford University Green Library Reading Pinsky's "An Explanation of America" Brutus dies happy— Yet Dante toss him in hell deep in Satan's ice!	Sunday, January 14, 2007, 11 pm Stanford University Green Library Reading Pinsky's "An Explanation of America" Horace joins Brutus in fighting Mark Antony— yet lives happily.
Monday, January 15, 2007, 10 pm Home listening to KDFC Radio 102.1 FM Franz Schubert, "Violin Sonata #1 in D" "The Little Mushroom"— Composer Schubert climbs from 20th to 4th place!     [Listener's Poll]	Monday, January 15, 2007, 4 pm El Camino & Ortega, Mountain View Waiting for Bus #22 Six sparrows chirping— wings flapping, pecking away at seeds on a tree.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 12 noon Home listening to KDFC Radio 102.1 FM Today's trivia quiz— Country with the most redheads? Scotland, then Ireland.	Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 5 pm Showers & Latham, Mountain View There's a giant hand in the sky made of fluffy clouds colored by sunset.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 10:15 am Home listening to KDFC Radio 102.1 FM Mozart, Piano Concerto #21 in C, K467 Mozart's melody— idyllic, serene, sublime, makes my mind at peace.	Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 11 pm Stanford University Green Library Boris Christov's Bulgarian poetry Pinsky's translations in Window on the Black Sea— "Body" and "Spirit".
Thursday, January 18, 2007, 9 pm Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab I'm writing a poem on "The Maguari Stork"— how I learned from him!	Friday, January 19, 2007, 10:30 am Home listening to KDFC Radio 102.1 FM Tchaikovsky wakes me up Violin Concerto in D— yanks me out of bed.
Friday, January 19, 2007, 11:05 am Home listening to KDFC Radio 102.1 FM Bach's "Keyboard Concerto in g minor" Beethoven is right— Bach's name means a tiny brook, but he's an ocean!	Friday, January 19, 2007, 12:30 pm Foothill College Los Altos Campus walking from Library to Computer Lab Land of cotton clouds cover half of the blue sky— soft enough to sleep.
Friday, January 19, 2007, 3 pm Barchas Room, Stanford Green Library John Mustain, "Big Books Folios" I'm touching history— Leaf from Gutenberg Bible Ah— 42 lines!	Friday, January 19, 2007, 3:33 pm Barchas Room, Stanford Green Library John Mustain, "Big Books Folios" The Hand of God in The Nuremberg Chronicle by Albrecht Dürer?
Friday, January 19, 2007, 4:00 pm Barchas Room, Stanford Green Library I touch J. F. Handel's autograph Handel's Messiah: first edition of the score— a leaf in his hand!	Friday, January 19, 2007, 4:30 pm Barchas Room, Stanford Green Library Engraving of two doves on Golden Bough I find two doves in John Dryden's translation of Virgil's Aeneid.
Friday, January 19, 2007, 10:25 pm Palm Drive, Palo Alto Walking to Caltrain Station Hitchhiking, Palm Drive— Fourteen cars pass by but none stop to give me ride.	Saturday, January 20, 2007, 10:05 pm KDFC 2006 Top Classical Piece #9 Beethoven, Symphony #5 in C minor, Op. 67 Most famous four notes: Beethoven's 5th Symphony— Dun Dun Dun DUNNHH!.
Saturday, January 20, 2007, 11:15 am KDFC 2006 Top Classical Piece #8 Beethoven, Symphony #3 in E-flat, Op. 55 Did Beethoven know his Opus 55 sang Soul of the Universe?	Saturday, January 20, 2007, 12:15 pm Riding Stanford Shopping Express and seeing a student's grocery shopping Three bags from Safeway another from Trader Joe's— his both hands are full.
Saturday, January 20, 2007, 7:07 pm KDFC 2006 Top Classical Piece #1 Beethoven, Symphony #9 in D-minor, Op. 125 I come home in time to hear Beethoven's 9th and his song Ode to Joy!	Sunday, January 21, 2007, 6:40 pm Stanford Green Library— reading Selma Lagerlöf's Nobel Speech "There is poetry in hard rocks and black forests" and in Selma's heart!
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 9:00 pm Stanford Green Library— reading Selma Lagerlöf's trip to Ströstad Selma sees the Bird of Paradise— and she's healed. She can walk again!	Sunday, January 21, 2007, 11:00 pm Stanford Green Library— reading Keats' letter to James Rice (3-26-1818) I see my stork in Keats' Philosophical Back Garden— both at peace.
Monday, January 22, 2007, 11:30 am Home reading "Mercury News" (1/22/07, 5c) "Body art canvas"? asks Asimov's Super Quiz— Largest is the "back".	Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 11:15 am Home thinking of the Maguari Stork Touching his back with his head, he was teaching me— "Go back to your home!"
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 3:00 pm Shopping at Safeway in Mountain View Sign: "Due to frost, 10 lbs limit on oranges" Navel oranges: 3 lbs for 99¢— Everyone's buying!	Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 5:00 pm Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Panda Seeing surprise Yahoo! Video Mother panda chews on candy. Baby sneezes. Both tremble in shock!
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 7 pm Reading "Talks with Ramana Maharshi" Youth complained he came far to be enlighened The sage tells the youth— "Go back to where you came!" He's not rude but right.	Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 7:15 pm Wordsworth's "Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" "But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home."
Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 3:33 am Home: Finding "stork" in the Bible Zechariah 5:9— "wind was in their wings— wings like the wings of a stork."	Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 3:45 am Home: Finding "stork" in the Bible Jeremiah 8:7— "the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times."
Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 4:00 am "Stork" in Psalms 105:16-17 (King James) Cedars "where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, fir trees are her house."	Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 4:15 am "Stork" in Psalms 104:16-17 (Jerusalem Bible) "Birds nest in cedars and, on the highest branches, the stork has its home."
Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 4:44 am Bayley "Lost Language of Symbolism", p. 10 Symbol of wisdom— The ouroborus surrounds pair of storks in flight.	Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 6 pm Pinsky's Stanford Poetry Workshop Pinsky reads Frost poem: "An Old Man's Winter Night"— mastery use of rhyme.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 10 pm Stanford Pigott Hall, Room 113 Silent Film: Feyder's "L'Atlantide" (1920) Evil queen romps in lost continent found in the Sahara desert!	Thursday, January 25, 2007, 4 pm Stanford Continuing Studies, 482 Galvez Buying last $95 ticket to Rumi's Event Bly will be reading Rumi with Persian dinner— Ah! Celebration!
Friday, January 26, 2007, 2:20 pm Stanford Humanities Center Lobby Prof. Albert R. Ascoli tells me: He's not enlightened to judge Dante's cosmic sight. Recommends Moevs' book.	Friday, January 26, 2007, 3 pm Stanford Green Library Email from Peter Robinson: Remember Rilke— "one must live a whole life to write a few good lines."
Saturday, January 27, 2007, Noon Long's, El Camino & San Antonio, Mtn View Fuji Developing lost my photos for 52 days They found my photos— beautiful clouds in the hills and Ah!— the crowned crane!	Saturday, January 27, 2007, 12:50 pm Stanford Kresge Auditorium Lobby Nevit O. Ergin, translated 22 books "Masnavi" When's your talk today? "I'm not a Rumi scholar, just Rumi lover."
Saturday, January 27, 2007, 1:30 pm Dr. Camran Nezhat, Stanford Medical Surgeon Rumi's 800th Birthday Celebration Rumi inspires him— 14,000 surgeries and each a success.	Saturday, January 27, 2007, 2:03 pm Music of Mahmoud Zolfonoun at Rumi's 800th Birthday Celebration His face— ecstasy while chanting Rumi, playing on his violin.
Saturday, January 27, 2007, 3:15 pm Bruce Beasley's stainless steel sculpture "Vanguard" outside of Kresge Auditorium Ah!— metallic crane or Maguari stork plunging its beak to the ground!	Saturday, January 27, 2007, 5:00 pm Coffee & Tea Break at Rumi Celebration Chatting with John Malork He and his wife are Sufis just back from Konya— Whirling Dervish dance!
Saturday, January 27, 2007, 6:21 pm Soleyman Vasegh of Liän Ensemble Rumi's 800th Birthday Celebration He sings with passion! Music rises yet higher— Rumi's words on fire!	Saturday, January 27, 2007, 6:48 pm Soleyman Vasegh & Fatemeh Keshavarz Rumi's 800th Birthday Celebration Everyone's clapping to his singing and shaking. She's quiet and still.
Saturday, January 27, 2007, 8:00 pm Stanford's Tresidder Oak Lounge Rumi's Celebration Persian Dinner The food is all gone! We wait and wait— finally Persian lamb is here!	Saturday, January 27, 2007, 9:55 pm Robert Bly reading his & Rumi's poems Rumi's 800th Birthday Celebration These poems zing your heart! Awake to the inner call— Your life is at stake!
Sunday, January 28, 2007, 1:00 pm Mountain View Safeway Checkout Racks Women fashion magazine covers Women unfulfilled— that's why sexy advice sells like hot cakes!	Sunday, January 28, 2007, 3:00 pm Stanford University Clock Tower The sun peeks out behind clouds Tac Toc! Tac Toc!— Ice pebbles hit my umbrella— the clock bells strike three!
Monday, January 29, 2007, 9:00 pm Foothill Middlefield Lab, Palo Alto Writing anonymous poem "Small Talk" She brings me a list of lipsticks and nail polish— Sensual Spice, Star Kissed.	Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 8:00 am Rumi: "I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life" You're so beautiful! Angel Goddess in my dream— We embrace and kiss!
Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 1:57 pm San Antonio Shopping Center, Mountain View On Bus #35 passing Sears Shopping Mall Three pairs of palm trees swaying in the wintry breeze like ballroom dancers.	Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 10:30 am Home listening to KDFC 102.1 FM Schubert's Symphony #5 in Bb It's Schubert's birthday— buried next to Beethoven both spirits in flight.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 11:11 am Home listening to KDFC 102.1 FM Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" (1928) Camel caravan trotting through Sahara sands with no end in sight	Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 6:00 pm Pinsky's Stanford Poetry Workshop Guessing who wrote "Small Talk" Pinsky reads my poem— when they found out I wrote it, they all laughed and clapped!

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