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.

Friday, June 1, 2007, 10:48 am KDFC 102.1 FM: George Frederick Handel "Water Music: Suite #2" (1717) (listen) Water Music wakes me from sleep. Sages say dreams and waking are not real.	Friday, June 1, 2007, 12:24 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Jean Sibelius Finlandia (1900) (listen) This is my song that peace transcends in every place— Here's A Song of Peace.
Friday, June 1, 2007, 3:15 pm Looking at Prof. Bukatman's office door— Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis jumping photo from Philippe Halsman's Jump Book Dynamic photo of Dean and Jerry jumping— my favorite book!	Friday, June 1, 2007, 3:15 pm Looking at Prof. Bukatman's office door— Calvin & Hobbes comic strip discussing high and low art. Painting is sublime— high art. Comic strip's vapid and hack work— low art.
Friday, June 1, 2007, 3:30 pm Talk with Prof. Pavle Levi in his office on writing paper for "Cinema-Machine" He suggests reading Jean-Louis Baudry Can yoga stop our desires? Can cinema show us our transcendence?	Friday, June 1, 2007, 9:30 pm Stanford Japanese Film Festival: Shohei Imamura, Hogs and Battleships (1961) Mobsters act like pigs, then get stampeded by them rampaging the streets.
Saturday, June 2, 2007, 11:22 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Antonin Dvorak (listen) "In Nature's Realm Overture", Op. #91 (1891) In nature's realm, man is so small compared to those majestic mountains.	Saturday, June 2, 2007, 12:25 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Georges Enesco Romanian Rhapsody #1 (1901) (listen) I'm spinning faster and faster to this music— Whirling Dervishes!.
Saturday, June 2, 2007, 11 am & 11 pm Rudy brings me case of apricots, Mtn View; Susan & AC bring me a bag of oranges, Cubberley Pavilion dance, Palo Alto Such good friends bring me apricots and oranges— gold gifts of sunshine!	Sunday, June 3, 2007, 12:40 pm Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM Radio: Domenico Zipoli Elevazione (1715) (listen) Ascension— not up there somewhere, but down in here is the real heaven!
Sunday, June 3, 2007, 12:40 pm Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM Radio: Ludwig van Beethoven (Listen) Symphony #3 in E-Flat, Op. 55 "Eroica" (1804) From the ashes of sorrow, the hero rises to give new light, fresh music!	Sunday, June 3, 2007, 12:48 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Joseph Haydn (listen) Symphony #101 in D "Clock" (1793) Card & photo from Emily on her graduation. The Clock— How time flies! My niece learning to walk— now high school graduate!
Sunday, June 3, 2007, 1:01 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Sarah Chang plays Niccolò Paganini (listen) Violin Concerto #1 in D, Op. 6 (1817) They say he played like the devil, but she's playing more like an angel.	Sunday, June 3, 2007, 3:45 pm Green Library, Stanford University Reading Longinus "On the Sublime" (c. 300 A.D.) Chapter VII: Effects of Sublimity of the Soul Our soul's uplifted by the true sublime when we hear what's really great.
Sunday, June 3, 2007, 4:30 pm Green Library, Stanford University Reading Longinus "On the Sublime" Chapter XXII: Hyperbata (c. 300 A.D.) Art is perfect when it seems to be nature which has art within her.	Sunday, June 3, 2007, 9:00 pm Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks Kevin Munroe, "TMNT" (2007), Ninja Turtles: Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael Turtles named after Renaissance masters fighting evil with goodness!
Monday, June 4, 2007, 5:00 am Reading Plato's "Republic" VII, 527e on the Soul's Eye which outweighs 10,000 eyes and realizing Michael Snow's "Région Centrale" film ran for 3 hours or 10800 seconds. Each second an eye, more than 10,000 of them— Our Eye of the Real!	Monday, June 4, 2007, 10:44 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM Radio: Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) (listen) Violin Sonata in G minor, "The Devil''s Trill" (18th century) Inspired by a dream— Devil came to his bed and played the violin!
Monday, June 4, 2007, 11:44 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Frederic Chopin (listen) Fantaisie-Impromptu in C# minor, Op. 66, (1834) Music like a dream— Floating like a cloud, I see fields of daffodils.	Monday, June 4, 2007, 11:58 am Ortega Ave., Mountain View, Following a monarch butterfly to my bus stop. Butterfly leads me to El Camino Reál— flying reel to real.
Monday, June 4, 2007, 1:00 pm When I told Prof. Bukatman that Chinese landscape art is sublime, he replied: Chinese landscape art is not sublime because they don't evoke terror.	Monday, June 4, 2007, 1:00 pm FilmStud 152/352: Scott Bukatman screens Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounter" (1977) The spaceship's sublime— flies over Devil's Tower, overshadows all.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 3:30 am Reading Jean-Louis Baudry on transcendence in the cinema & listening to Dr. Eric Pearl on KSFO 560 AM Radio Coast-to-Coast interview. The use of any gift is in transcending it— Ah, the dynamics!	Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 3:55 am KSFO 560 AM: Eric Pearl says the exorcist believes he's dispelling some evil demon that's real. On his reconnective healing: This healing works as it dispels the illusion that we exist!
Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 4:13 am KSFO 560 AM: Eric Pearl quotes from film "Resurrection" (1980) when Edna (Ellen Burstyn) was told not to have her hopes high on healing the patient since X-rays showed cancer. She said: "You know what? I'm a step ahead of you. Haven't looked at her records."	Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 4:55 am KSFO 560 AM: Eric Pearl says reconnective healing is not about belief or knowledge. Healing is mind over matter. Our bodies are vehicles as learning experience for others. This healing transcends all techniques— not by doing but by the being.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 5:30 am Reading Jean-Louis Baudry, "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus The projector, screen, darkened hall in cinema is like Plato's Cave.	Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 6:15 am Home in Mtn View: Reading Jean-Louis Baudry, "The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema Where's the projector and screen when we dream? Whose show is it when we wake?
Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 2:00 pm Friend takes me to Los Altos Library, then grocery shopping at Milk Pail and Safeway Roma tomatoes, baby carrots, blueberries, milk, salmon fillets.	Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 3:50 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays Jules Massenet (listen) Thaïs: Meditation, (1894) Lush sounds stream out from his Stradavarius strings— and my spirit soars!
Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 5:00 pm Email from my niece Elisa on Sophia Ann Wei-Ching Lubin born Sunday, June 3, 2007 3:35 am Little Sophie's here! Welcome Babe of wisdom— born Sunday like your Mom!	Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 8:00 pm FilmStud 152: Annenberg Auditorium Douglas Trumbull, "Brainstorm" (1983) Michael experiences his wife Karen's feelings When we're aware of other's feelings, we become more compassionate.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 8:30 pm Annenberg Auditorium, Douglas Trumbull, "Brainstorm", Screen ratio expands from 1.66:1 to 2.2:1 during virtual reality scenes Roller coaster ride, ocean surfing, hand gliding and mind expanding!	Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 9:00 pm FilmStud 152: Annenberg Auditorium Douglas Trumbull, "Brainstorm" (1983) Michael experiences Lillian's death via headgear Reliving her death via playback gear— he sees spheres of butterfly light!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 11:40 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Mozart (listen) Symphony #40 in G minor, K.550, (1788) Robert Schumann likes its "Grecian lightness and grace", but storm is coming!	Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 2:30 pm FilmStud 152/352: Pavle Levi screens Joseph Ruben's "Dreamscape" (1984) Trained psychics can come into your dreams and scare you to madness and death!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 3:00 pm FilmStud 152/352: Cinema-Machine Pavle Levi screens John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" (1987) (photos) Evil's not in us, but Satan's in that flask of green spinning liquid.	Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 3:30 pm FilmStud 152/352: Pavle Levi lectures on the Latham loop which reduced strain and prevented film strips from breaking. This loop extended curvature of space so that film strips would not break.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 5:40 pm Stanford Art Library, Cummings Building Reading Laura Mulvey's "Death 24x A Second" "The Index and the Uncanny" (2006) Camera eye captures "the this-was now here" without the human factor.	Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 10:00 pm Reflecting on Woodville Latham and sons forming Lambda Company with patent for Latham loop and Milton S. Latham, California Governor for 5-days Lived on Latham Street for ten years knowing Lambda but not Latham Loop.
Thursday, June 7, 2007, 2:48 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Joseph Haydn (listen) Symphony #101 in D "Clock" (1793) Tick tock, Haydn's Clock tells us time is flying by— so use it wisely!	Thursday, June 7, 2007, 3:33 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Strauss, Jr. Artist's Life Waltz, Op. 316 (1867) (Listen) A pensive waltz tune inspires the artist to paint our wonderful life!
Thursday, June 7, 2007, 5:30 pm "Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells" article in NY Times but not in Mercury News website. Breakthrough science nowhere in the Mercury News— just Paris Hilton fluff!	Friday, June 8, 2007, 1:44 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Robert Schumann Symphony #2 in C, Op. 61 (1845) (Listen) Such a romantic— married to Clara Wieck and mentor to young Brahms.
Friday, June 8, 2007, 10:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Reading Buddha's "Dhammapada" Verse #83 The wise gives up all. The righteous do not desire for sensuous pleasures.	Friday, June 8, 2007, 11:00 pm Reading "Bhagavad Gita" II.55 Krishna speaks on tranquil wisdom When one surrenders all desires, his soul finds joy and peace of mind.
Saturday, June 9, 2007, 4:00 am Reading Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching" 37: "The nameless uncarved block Is but freedom from desire" And if I cease to desire and remain still, then all will be at peace.	Saturday, June 9, 2007, 5:00 am Reading "Signs of the Unseen: Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi" Ch. 31 God asks Bayazid what he wanted. "I want not to want." There is no more agony when you stop wanting.
Sunday, June 10, 2007, 1:11 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Felix Mendelssohn (listen) Violin Concerto in E, Op. 64 (1798) Mendelssohn's music so romantic— reminds me of his grandfather.	Sunday, June 10, 2007, 9:00 pm Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate Stanford students wear their caps and gowns while watching The Graduate film.
Sunday, June 10, 2007, 9:00 pm Director Mike Nichols honors Fellini's "8‡" casting Eddra Gale (La Saraghina) as the woman on the bus in The Graduate La Saraghina and Mrs. Robinson taught young Guido and Ben.	Sunday, June 10, 2007, 11:55 pm Green Library, Stanford University Bookmarking "Sunday NY Times" June 10: The first filly win at Belmont in 102 years. Rags to Riches wins Belmont— first filly triumph since 1905!
Monday, June 11, 2007, 11:44 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Tchaikovsky (listen) Andante Cantabile (1888) Music of sorrow teaches our soul lessons on stillness and silence.	Monday, June 11, 2007, 12:02 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Liszt (listen) La Campanella (1838) Little bells peeling high in the church towers as sparrows chirp along.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 2:26 pm Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM Radio: Ottorino Respighi (listen) Botticelli Triptych "Trittico Botticelliano" (1927) Venus on seashell— born from the waves and west wind, O Goddess of Love!	Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 7:50 pm Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building Stanford MFA Documentary Film Spring Screening John Kane, "B for Break": 5-year old Vashaun Spinning on his head, he is learning break dancing— Big smile on his face!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 8:10 pm Stanford MFA Documentary Film Spring Screening Peter Jordan, "The Champ": 17-year old, Fatima takes up boxing in East Palo Alto to vent out her anger and learn about discipline and life. She's building a life of confidence through boxing— a strong-minded gal!	Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 8:20 pm Stanford MFA Documentary Film Spring Screening Kelcey Edwards, "A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Dog": Film about San Francisco poet, August Kleinzahler with solarisation effects. Is this a dog's world view, seeing with the eyes of Seurat and Monet?
Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 8:50 pm Stanford MFA Documentary Film Spring Screening Emmanuel Dayan, "Looking for 150": Jeffrey Harrison, a sperm donor, who lives in a RV on Venice Beach, and meeting his teenage daughters. He's a free spirit— fathering dozens of kids via sperm donation.	Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 9:20 pm Stanford MFA Documentary Film Spring Screening Nick Berger, on filming "The Legend of Rosalie": Slab City, a desert community where a bubbly woman has built a library from salvaged objects. Can't wait around for the perfect moment— just shoot everyday events.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 11:55 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Schubert (listen) Nocturne in E-Flat, D. 897 (1826) This music soars to heavenly heights— joyous flight to peaceful delight.	Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 12:50 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Frederic Chopin (listen) Waltz #1 in E-Flat, Op. 18 (1830) A relaxing waltz to dance around the ballroom gliding one, two, three.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 10:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University George Noory responds to email about sending healing energy & prayers for Cay George found time to write: "Will do— a great hospital" This was a surprise!	Thursday, June 14, 2007, 1:20 am After Stanford Library closed at midnight, I take Bus #22 home to find Rudy bringing me apricots from his aunt's backyard in Thornton Rudy's at my door— two buckets of apricots from his aunt's backyard.
Thursday, June 14, 2007, 12:22 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven (listen) Piano Concerto #5 in Eb "Emperor" (1811) Beethoven bows to no royalty. We artists are kings of the world.	Thursday, June 14, 2007, 11:55 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (1762) (listen) Orpheus imploring to the Spirits— O give me back my Eurydice!
Friday, June 15, 2007, 10:15 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Tchaikovsky (listen) (1893) Symphony #6 in b minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" Tchaikovsky's swan song— an upbeat march to despair darkness, gloom and death.	Friday, June 15, 2007, 11:05 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite (1920) Picasso's costumes and stage design made this nice ballet a success.
Friday, June 15, 2007, 11:32 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: George Frideric Handel, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (1748) (Listen) Sheba brings King gold— Why six hundred sixty-six? Is she the Temptress?	Friday, June 15, 2007, 12:00 pm Reading San Jose Mercury News, 6-15-2007, B1 Mike Cassidy, "Fertile Ground for Learning" What a way to learn! Teaching kids patience and work— planting a garden!
Friday, June 15, 2007, 1:30 pm Timothy Hopkins Room, Green Library Talking to Sally Treadway, Operating Manager of the Associates of Stanford Libraries Best view on campus! The Timothy Hopkins Room— a breath of fresh air!	Friday, June 15, 2007, 1:30 pm Timothy Hopkins Room, Green Library Sally Treadway tells me on the dissolving of the Associates of Stanford Libraries After four decades— Associates of Libraries gone for lack of funds.
Friday, June 15, 2007, 7:40 pm Foothill College Krause Center, Los Altos Hills I point to Jack Mike Cassidy's "Fertile Ground" but he notices article on "Rape spree in Gilroy" Jack ignores good news and sees bad story instead— that's why he's so mad!	Friday, June 15, 2007, 9:30 pm Home in Mountain View after Jack gives me ride home while ranting on how George W. Bush has wrecked havoc on America and the world. I give Jack a bag of apricots to enjoy with his Mom at home.
Saturday, June 16, 2007, 2:30 am Listening to KSFO 560 AM Radio: John B. Wells interviews Ray Bradbury (age 87), and asks him about love. Write what you love. Love what you write. Love what you do and those around you.	Saturday, June 16, 2007, 2:45 am KSFO 560 AM— Coast-to-Coast.am John B. Wells interviews Ray Bradbury, and asks him about his conception of God We're the audience of this theater universe. We're the flesh of God.
Saturday, June 16, 2007, 3:00 am After Ray Bradbury's live interview (10:20-11 pm), I listen again to repeat (2:20-3 am) to take notes. Ray never responded negatively to any issues. Only positive messages from Ray— he's such an inspiring light!	Saturday, June 16, 2007, 2:10 pm Reading Ray Bradbury's 1932 encounter with magician Electrico who told him "Live forever!" at a carnival after his uncle's funeral. Stream of tears flowing at Ray's illumination by true magician!
Sunday, June 17, 2007, 10:42 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Sarah Chang plays Camille Saint-Saëns (listen) Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 (1863) Pizzicato strings sweep me above the earth and I'm floating in space.	Sunday, June 17, 2007, 2:00 pm Friend takes me grocery shopping at Mtn View Market, Milk Pail, Trader Joe's, and Los Altos Library before hiking Firm tofu, bean curd, water chestnuts, blueberries, broccoli and eggs.
Sunday, June 17, 2007, 4:35 pm Portola Valley: Toyon Trail: Yerba buena (good herb) plant patch with mint scent Seven-year old Adam climbs tree like a chimpanzee while parents watch on.	Sunday, June 17, 2007, 5:30 pm Toyon Trail: After passing by bend with two buckeye trees, one yellow, one green. Big butterfly flies over me as little ones flutter all around.
Sunday, June 17, 2007, 5:38 pm Toyon Trail: Seeing a young bay tree that's straight as a telephone pole An inch-width bay tree shoots up straight as an arrow some twenty feet high!	Sunday, June 17, 2007, 5:40 pm Toyon Trail: Seeing a madrone tree (nick-named "refrigerator tree") I touch your cool bark with heart inscribed "I Love You" and say "I do too."
Sunday, June 17, 2007, 5:55 pm Toyon Trail: Message carved on wooden seat of a swing on an oak tree Whoever sits on this swing is free— free from pain, free to live, to fly.	Sunday, June 17, 2007, 6:00 pm Toyon Trail: Swing tied with two ropes on an old oak tree Climbed on high swing only to somersault down back flip to the earth.
Sunday, June 17, 2007, 7:17 pm Portola Valley: Toyon Trail, On the right side of Old Spanish Trail, an old oak tree that's over 300 years old. Touch my head on old oak tree and pray: "Peace for all. Please peace for this earth."	Sunday, June 17, 2007, 9:00 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Hilary Hahn plays Johann Sebastian Bach (listen), CD (1720) Violin Concerto #1 in A minor, BWV 1041 Heavenly music— nice way to relax after the Toyon Trail hike.
Monday, June 18, 2007, 9:53 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Joseph Curiale (listen) Gates of Gold: Call of the Mountain (1995) Gate of Gold wakes me— Real treasure not metallic but resides in us.	Monday, June 18, 2007, 10:10 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony #7 in A, Op. 92 (1812) (Listen) Richard Wagner danced to this music with Franz Liszt at the piano!
Monday, June 18, 2007, 2:00 pm Friend takes me grocery shopping at Safeway, Mountain View Mozzarella cheese, milk, butter pecan ice cream, potato salad.	Monday, June 18, 2007, 2:45 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Émile Waldteufel (Listen) "Les Patineurs" Skaters' Waltz, Op. 183 (1882) Wonderful waltz tune— Winter skaters spinning at Rockefeller Rink!
Monday, June 18, 2007, 5:05 pm Foothill College Computer Lab, Palo Alto Colleague Bill Morrison tells me about his 12-year old grandson Timmy's question "Grandpa— Have you learned something new today you did not know yesterday?"	Monday, June 18, 2007, 5:15 pm Foothill College Computer Lab, Palo Alto I invite Bill Morrison to my web site and my favorite stamp "Glow" by Albers Learning never ends— Every step leads to learning. Learn something new now.
Monday, June 18, 2007, 11:00 pm KSFO 560 AM— George Noory interviews Howard Bloom: Magic Johnson can spot open man on basketball court faster than IBM's Deep Blue Deep Blue would take days to do what Magic Johnson does in one second.	Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 1:00 am KSFO 560 AM— Coast-to-Coast.am George Noory interviews Alvin Toffler, about the "Fourth Wave" economy Consumers working without pay— ATMs and shopping checkouts.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 10:15 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Frederic Chopin (Listen) Fantasy on Polish Airs, Op. 13 (1834) (midi) Tinkle of tiny bells wake me up to cascade of clear waterfall.	Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 11:42 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Felix Mendelssohn (Listen) Symphony #3 in A minor "Scottish" (1842) Music for chase scene— Galloping horses running after the stagecoach.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 1:00 pm Phone conversation on hero worship to inspire one's work in art & science Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein inspired my research in science and proteins.	Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 2:30 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Billy Joel (Listen) Waltz #1 (Nunley's Carousel) (2001) Classical music written by rock star on his childhood carousel.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 4:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Reading Dana Gioia's Commencement Address Trade easy pleasures for more challenging ones— be active in the arts.	Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 4:30 pm Reading Dana Gioia's poem "Autumn Inaugural" at the end of his Stanford Commencement Address Praise to innocence— let the old be touched by youth's learning something new.
Thursday, June 21, 2007, 10:15 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven (Listen) Symphony #6 in F, Op.68 "Pastoral" (1808) It's summer solstice! Longest daylight of the year— Sun at its zenith.	Thursday, June 21, 2007, 10:30 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Georges Bizet (Listen) The Pearl Fishers: Romance (1863) I'm a pearl fisher— diving in the ocean for the Pearl of Great Price.
Thursday, June 21, 2007, 12:50 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: George Gershwin (Listen) Porgy and Bess: Summertime (1935) Summertime is here— lots of sunlight to enjoy outdoor hikes and sports.	Thursday, June 21, 2007, 2:30-3:30 pm Elephant Pharmacy, Los Altos Tai Chi exercise with Joe Deisher Learn to be supple in body, mind, and spirit, breathing like a babe.
Friday, June 22, 2007, 10:55 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Pablo de Sarasate (Listen) Zigeunerweisen "Gypsy Airs" (1878) Villagers gather around the gypsy fiddler who dazzles them all!	Friday, June 22, 2007, 11:32 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Mozart (Listen) Piano Sonata #16 in C, K.545 (1788) Did Mozart see this Breughel painting Children's Games? Motion everywhere!
Friday, June 22, 2007, 11:47 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Mackenzie Benedictus, Op. 37 #3 (1888) (Listen) This feeling of calm as if angels have come here to give us blessings.	Friday, June 22, 2007, 7:15 pm Friends Meeting House, Palo Alto "Waverley Writers 25th Anniversary Book" Party Company of friends reading poetry together for 25 years.
Friday, June 22, 2007, 8:00 pm April Eiler reads Margaret Mullen's poem "The Fact of Me Angers Him". Later, I tell April what William Stafford told me about this poem at the Foothill Writers Conference, July 1988 William Stafford says "I have the best poem this week here in my pocket."	Friday, June 22, 2007, 8:50 pm Friends Meeting House, Palo Alto "Waverley Writers 25th Anniversary Book" Party Sharon Olson plays tape of Dick Maxwell reading his poem "Begin the Beguine" Artie Shaw jazzing— There is beauty and longing for rhythm and blues.
Saturday, June 23, 2007, 10:27 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Roman Hofstetter Serenade in C (1771) The elves are dancing, prancing around telling me "Wake up to the Real!"	Saturday, June 23, 2007, 10:40 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Gustav Holst (Listen) The Planets, Op. 32: Jupiter (1916) Cascade of drumming— Jupiter, bringer of joy, proclaims peace on earth.
Saturday, June 23, 2007, 11:55 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Tomasso Albinoni Adagio in G minor (1958) (Listen) Magic strings— serene music for meditation— mind beyond space-time.	Saturday, June 23, 2007, 1:10 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Johannes Brahms (Listen) Symphony #3, Op. 90 "Love of My Life" (1883) The love of my life?— Music, poetry, fine arts, and everything else.
Saturday, June 23, 2007, 10:00 pm Cubberley Pavilion, Palo Alto Ballroom dancing foxtrot & two-step Her hair brushes me— golden strands of sunlight rays make my spine tingle.	Sunday, June 24, 2007, 10;42 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Midori plays Max Bruch (Listen) Violin Concerto #1 in G minor, Op. 26 (1866) (CD) Her violin playing wakes me up slowly from sleep to joy of this world.
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 12:20 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Strauss, Jr. Blue Danube Waltz (1867) (Listen) On the Beautiful Blue Danube— my favorite dance— Viennese Waltz.	Sunday, June 24, 2007, 4:44 pm Portola Valley: Coal Miner Ridge, Meeting horses on the Old Spanish Trail White and brown horses pass by on this equestrian and pedestrian trail.
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 5:15 pm Coal Miner Ridge: Arroyo Trail Passing by Bay Tree with 13 trunks Bay Tree with thirteen trunks, one for each colony— Independence Tree!	Sunday, June 24, 2007, 6:15 pm Coal Miner Ridge: Old Spanish Trail Paying respect to 300-year old Oak Tree With my head against this old oak— prayer for peace and harmony for all.
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 6:30 pm Coal Miner Ridge: Toyon Trail Finding Madrone Tree with Heart "I Love You" I've come back for you with hugs and kisses— oh my Madrone Tree— my bride!	Sunday, June 24, 2007, 7:00 pm Toyon Trail: Around the bend, four Oak Trees with hole in the middle Four old Oak Trees like the four elements of air, fire, water, and earth.
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 7:15 pm Coal Miner Ridge: Toyon Trail Raising my arms to the Sun over the hill Thanks to Surya— Lord of the Sun for your warmth and blessings of Light!	Sunday, June 24, 2007, 7:37 pm Alpine Road, Portola Valley Seeing Crow & Coyote on the way home Giant Crow hops by bush. Coyote runs across road. The Trickster is here!
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 9:00 pm Janine Jansen plays Vivaldi, "The Four Seasons: Winter" (1723) (listen) Pizzicato strings bring raindrops down from heaven as they turn to snow.	Sunday, June 24, 2007, 11:00 pm Cathy phones from Las Vegas to wish me "Happy Birthday I tell her Goethe's Elective Affinities to teach chemistry.
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 11:32 pm KSFO 560 AM Radio: Art Bell interviews Dr. Richard Massey, Cal-Tech astronomer Dark matter formed first scaffolding the universe, gluing everything.	Sunday, June 24, 2007, 11:45 pm KSFO 560 AM Radio: Art Bell interviews Dr. Richard Massey, Cal-Tech astronomer Dark energy makes the universe larger by pushing things apart.
Monday, June 25, 2007, 4:44 am Reading Calvin Tomkins's Bride and the Bachelors: John Cage, composer & mycologist was delighted to discover that "mushroom" and "music" are contiguous in most dictionaries Music— found between mushroom and musing— springing from meditation.	Monday, June 25, 2007, 4:55 am After reading about "music" & "mushroom", curiosity made me look up Webster Dictionary to find "art" sandwiched between "arrow" and "Artemis", Greek moon goddess of hunting Between arrow and Artemis (Moon goddess of hunting)— one finds art!
Monday, June 25, 2007, 3:00 pm Crazy Buffet, El Camino Real, Sunnyvale Birthday luncheon with three friends Sweet and sour soup, salmon, shrimp, sesame balls, snow peas, lychee fruit.	Monday, June 25, 2007, 4:00 pm Fortune cookie from Crazy Buffet: "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life" Be mindful always— Marvel and wonder at the beauty of this world!
Monday, June 25, 2007, 10:30 pm Message on my answering machine Cathy phones again "Happy Birthday!" After our hour chat last night, she phones me again on my real birthday.	Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 3:00 am Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass" (1915-1923) "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" Bachelors grinding away— never possessing the Bride beyond them.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 11:05 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Johannes Brahms (Listen) Symphony #1 in C minor, Op. 68 (1862-1876) Notes from Beethoven's Ninth opens Brahm's Symphony #1— how grand!	Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 1:30 pm Friend takes me grocery shopping at Milk Pail & Safeway, Mountain View Bell peppers, garlic, raspberries, sprouts, broccoli, pickles, muesli.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 10:24 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Luigi Boccherini String Quintet in E, Op. 13 #5 (c. 1790) (Listen) Dancing minuets under chandeliers whose lights make everyone shine!	Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 10:48 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Jules Massenet Thaïs: Meditation, (1894) (listen) Relax to this tune— so exquisite that you'll be floating high on clouds!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 11:00 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Amilcare Ponchielli La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours (1876) (Listen) The hours are dancing away— time flowing non-stop to eternity!	Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 12:55 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Hector Berlioz The Trojans: Ballet Music, (1860) (listen) Dance of sooth-sayers after the victory of Aeneas in battle.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 10:22 pm Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto On my way to catch Bus #35, I wander into the Argentine Tango Social Club and with music wafting in my head— I embrace Moonlight as my partner dancing the Argentine tango!	Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 11:55 pm KSFO 560 AM— George Noory interviews polygraph & biocommunication expert Cleve Backster on his research into electrical responses of plant life. Bean sprouts receiving praise grew much faster than those group of sprouts ignored.
Thursday, June 28, 2007, 1:20 pm Latham Street, Mountain View Walking to Showers Drive for Bus #35 A giant crow cawing on the tall eucalyptus calling for its mate.	Thursday, June 28, 2007, 1:40 pm Foothill College Middlefield Campus Passing by girls rehearsing for a play Actress— center stage! Teenage girls practicing lines for play Evil Queen.
Friday, June 29, 2007, 10:35 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven (Listen) Finale, Symphony #5 in C minor, Op.67 (1808) Music crescendo— Spirit triumphant soaring high beyond deep space!	Friday, June 29, 2007, 10:40 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Frederic Chopin (Listen) (midi) Waltz #7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 #2, (1847) Music to dance to— Why it's "Veiled Melancholy"? Behind joy— sorrow.
Saturday, June 30, 2007, 10:22 am Friend phones me and this time I remember it's her birthday and recommend an enlightened poet Sing "Happy Birthday" to my friend. Tell her to read Rumi for dessert.	Saturday, June 30, 2007, 10:45 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto #6 in Bb, (1721) (listen), Bach applies for a job to Christian Ludwig: Can write music with the small amount of talent God has given me.
Saturday, June 30, 2007, 11:44 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Lehar Merry Widow Waltz, (1905) (listen) We're waltzing around the room turning and turning like a carousel.	Saturday, June 30, 2007, 11:55 am Showers Drive & El Camino, Mountain View Advertising sign on the side of Bus #22 Giant sign on the bus— "Life happens. Go with it."— but I prefer to sit.
Saturday, June 30, 2007, 12:20-12:45 pm No Stanford Shuttle Bus on weekends. I walk up Galvez Street to Green Library. Walking up Galvez, I pass the eucalyptus grove and fragrant air.	Saturday, June 30, 2007, 12:42 pm Walking by Bing Wing behind Hoover Tower something on the sidewalk stops me— ∞ Twisted rubber band shaped like "Infinity" stops me to say "Slow Down!"

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