Haikus: Bly's Class May 2008

HAIKUS: Bly's Stanford Poetry Workshop

May 1—May 31, 2008

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in Robert Bly's
Stanford Poetry Workshop (May 1—May 31, 2008)
inspired by his lectures and poets he read to us in class.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)

Dat Rosa Mel Apibus: "The rose gives the bees honey"
from Robert Fludd, Summum Bonum, Frankfurt, 1629
inspired May 1 haikus & link to Emily Dickinson's alchemy

Thursday, May 1, 2008, 5:00 pm
Art Library, Stanford University
Scanning "Dat Rosa Mel Apibus" (Fludd, 1629)
in Alexander Roob Alchemy & Mysticism (1997)
Commentary: "The rose gives the bees honey"

The cedar rosebud
from my poem looks just
like this Alchemical rose. Thursday, May 1, 2008, 6:30 pm
Art Library, Stanford University
Notes to poem "Deodar Cedar Rosebud"
Unveiling its sacred alchemical mysteries,
the Rose takes me on a spiritual journey.

Deeper and deeper
I delve into the sacred
mysteries of alchemy.

Friday, May 2, 2008, 4:20 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Insight from Emily Dickinson, Letter #618
to Forrest F. Emerson (circa 1879)
on the "philosopher's stone"

Philosopher's stone—
not to make gold but
in making others happy. Saturday, May 3, 2008, 9:27-9:30 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Symphony #6 in B, Op.74 "Pathetique" (1893)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: Karajan, 1st movement)
("Pathetique" in Russian means "passionate")

Christ is a poet—
14 Stations of the Cross:
his passion sonnet!

Saturday, May 3, 2008, 6:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Found "alchemy" in Emily Dickinson's, Letter 799
to Susan Gilbert Dickinson (1883) exhanging a
Hyacinth for "more Alchimy: Mere— Sol, Hahn"

Here's a Hyacinth in
trade for a rooster calling
up the Mother Sun. Sunday, May 4, 2008, 3:30 am
Home in Mountain View: Reading Ann's gift of
"Poetry" May 2008 issue: Eavan Boland's essay
"Islands Apart: A Notebook" (pp. 135-144)
Kenneth Rexroth on primary function of the poet

Rexroth says: "function
of the poet— to give life
convincing meaning."

Sunday, May 4, 2008, 6:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Composing The Rose in Alchemy and
Notes to "Deodar Cedar Rosebud"

Rosebud awakens
me to Dante's vision
and Emily's alchemy. Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 11:15 am
Latham Street, Mountain View
Tiny sparrow runs down the block
keeping pace with me as I walk.

Are you racing me?
Each step I take you make ten—
Why don't you just fly?

Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 1:00-2:00 pm
Art Library, Stanford University
Writing poem "The Aha Moment"

Breathe in the Ah, but
keep the outbreath Ha
in your heart for a long life. Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 429, Stanford University
Robert Bly's Poetry Workshop

Look inside yourself—
See what's shining in there
and write with your heart.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 4:00-7:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Web page of Mary Oliver poems

Attention— the start
of devotion to details
to the soul of things. Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 8:00-9:05 pm
Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center,
Robert Bly's Stanford Poetry Reading

Stealing a grain of
sugar by translating great
poets— that's real joy.

Sunday, May 11, 2008, 4:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Found Robert Bly's books
"Honey of Words: New & Selected Poems" &
"My Sentence Was A Thousand Years of Joy"

Just two Bly books here—
but exactly what I need
to complete my page. Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 10:00 pm
Stanford Green Library, Reflection on book:
Jack Kornfield's "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry"

Enlightenment is not
retirement but working
with even more joy.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 1:40-3:00 pm
Art Library, Stanford University: Reading
Robert Bly's Interview by Francis Quinn
"Paris Review" (Issue 154, Spring 2000)

Balzac's Louis Lambert
plunged the infinite—
living the vertical life. Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 1:40-3:00 pm
Art Library, Stanford University: Reading
Robert Bly's Interview by Francis Quinn
"Paris Review" (Issue 154, Spring 2000)

How fascinating that
Louis Lambert inspired
Bly as well as me.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 1:40-3:00 pm
Art Library, Stanford University: Reading
Robert Bly's Interview by Francis Quinn
Admires Tomas Tranströmer's poetry

Things not here are coming—
they slip in one by one,
and I'm the turnstile. Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Eavan Boland: Robert Bly's Poetry Workshop
Bly's "A Wrong Turning in American Poetry"

Our wrong turn is going
outward instead of inward
where the treasure dwells.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Eavan Boland: Robert Bly's Poetry Workshop
Bly's "A Wrong Turning in American Poetry"

Bly championed poets
of the soul— Rilke, Lorca,
Neruda and Machado. Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 10:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Inspired by Bly, wrote first ghazal
"Eureka Moments of Joy"

This is Buddha's bliss—
wherever he turns, he sees
all things full of joy.

Friday, May 16, 2008, 8:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Typing Robert Bly poems from his books

The peony blossoms—
the tree trembles when fifty
blackbirds leave at once. Saturday, May 17, 2008, 6:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Found in Bly's "The Morning Glory" (1969),
this Basho haiku— truly a gem of gold!

The morning glory—
Another thing
that will never be my friend.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 9:10-9:20 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 (1786)
Listen, CD, YouTube

Married to my work—
Lady Wisdom never failed
to nourish my soul. Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 11:00 am-Noon
Margaret Jacks Hall, Terrace Room (4th floor)
Robert Bly: Stanford Poetry Colloquium
(Tranströmer, Mirabai, Neruda, Rumi, Hafiz)

Talk on translation—
finding the right words to make
the poem come alive.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 2:30-2:45 pm
Building 460, Room 418, Stanford University
Meeting Robert Bly in his office, I give him
"What Nicodemus Came to Learn by Night"

Tranströmer says
Nicodemus is asleep—
Doesn't know where to go. Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Robert Bly's Poetry Workshop
Writing a ghazal poem in class

If enlightenment
is so good, why sages don't
spread it around more?

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 6:00 pm
I ask Bly to lend me his Blyth book
"Genius of the Haiku" to type haikus.
Bly gives me his Notebook instead.

Magnanimity—
Bly shows it, giving me
his Notebook for a week. Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 7:00-11:55 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Deciphering Bly's miniscule handwriting,
I complete web page Bly's Haikus

I feel the spirit
of Basho, Issa, and Bly
helping me with this.

Thursday, May 22, 2008, 6:00-7:25 pm
Pigott Hall, Room 113, Stanford University
Paul Losensky, "To Revere, Revise and Renew:
Sa'eb Tabriz reads the Ghazals of Rumi"

Sa'eb inspired by
Rumi wrote 60 response
poems that were just as good. Thursday, May 22, 2008, 8:00-9:00 pm
Art Library, Stanford University
Scanning my Bible marginalia
on "Gospel of John", 3.14

Snake on its belly
rises on the caduceus
to the Eternal.

Thursday, May 21, 2008, 7:00-11:55 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Typing poem inspired by Tranströmer
"What Is the Address?"

Go ask Giotto— he knows!
Einstein will also guide you
to this holy place. Friday, May 23, 2008, 10:06-10:14 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Joseph Haydn,
Symphony #101 in D major "Clock" (1794)
Listen, CD, YouTube

The clock is ticking—
Rumi, Sa'eb, and Kabir
are shouting "Don't sleep!"

Friday, May 23, 2008, 3:14 pm
Riding Bus #22 on El Camino, Palo Alto
Digital Time Display on Bus— 3:14 pm
reminds me of Shakespeare "Sonnet 3.14"

It's where we all go
as Shakespeare writes in
his last line of Third Sonnet. Friday, May 23, 2008, 4:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Request two co-eds sitting by Red Fountain
to move so I could take unobstructed photo.

The Red Fountain with
a circle of musical
water looks like π.

Saturday, May 24, 2008, 11:32 am
Green Library, Stanford University
Meditating in front of the Red Fountain,
noticed 3 red strokes resembling a Torii
and 14 rings in a circle on the ground.

The Red Fountain sings
3 strokes of Torii,
14 rings in a circle. Sunday, May 25, 2008, 3:30 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Reading "A Superhighway to Bliss"
(Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke led her to euphoria)
(New York Times, May 25, 2008)

Her body and space
around her were one—
all part of one energy.

Monday, May 26, 2008, 2:00 pm
Galvez Street, Palo Alto
"Can't Be Beat" sign near Stanford Stadium

You can't beat the wind
or space that is empty
or the Mind that is still. Monday, May 26, 2008, 3:00 pm
Archway between Buildings 30 & 250
at Stanford (Language & Literature)

Nine palm tree tops seen
from this archway— Apollo
plays for these Muses.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Robert Bly's Poetry Class: Bly gives us a copy
of his "The Thousands" (2001) as parting gift,
He leaves Stanford tomorrow for Maine to the
"Great Mother and New Father Conference"

We're surprised and saddened
it's our last class with Bly
who has shared so much heart. Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Robert Bly's Poetry Class: When I ask Bly
to lend me his Hafez book to copy Ghazal #34
"What Do We Reaaly Need?" that he read,
Bly gives me the book for keeps as a gift.

For Peter— with thanks for
his many gifts and gestures
and joyful thoughts. —Robert Bly

Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Robert Bly's Poetry Class: Bly reads
Tranströmer's "April and Silence"
that was written just before his stroke.

He has not spoken
in fifteen years after his stroke,
but his mind is still sharp. Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Robert Bly's Poetry Class: I read my poem
"What Is The Address?" inspired by Tomas
Tranströmer's "The Scattered Congregation"

Class is surprised that
the Red Fountain is sacred
gateway to Green Library.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Robert Bly's Poetry Class: Bly reads Machado's
poem "The wind one brilliant day"

I said to my soul—
"What have you done with
the garden entrusted to you?"
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Robert Bly's Poetry Class: A student
asks Bly how to judge "soul weight"

How to judge soul weight—
"Someone who laughs all the time
is probably soul-less."

Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm
Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University
Bly caught his 10-year olf daughter Mary Bly reading romance novels & made a deal with her.
Now, she'a a professor in English literature
and romance novel author Eloisa James.

For each romance novel
you read, you must read
a classic book as well. Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 6:40 pm
After Bly's last class I walk with him
and two Stegner poetry fellows to the
Stanford University Oval: Good-bye hug
with Robert Bly after he tells me about his
Sufi master in London Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

"He's 81 same as me—
but I'm just a mosquito
compared to him."

Friday, May 30, 2008, 1:32 pm
El Camino & San Antonio, Mountain View
I tell teenager how much I liked
his T-shirt with Emerson quote.

"To be great is to be
misunderstood." How true—
Just follow your bliss! Friday, May 30, 2008, 4:00 pm
Los Altos Public Library, Los Altos
Reading "Lotus Therapy: Mindfulness Meditation"
& Jon Kabat-Zinn (NY Times, May 27, 2008)

Mindfulness Meditation—
Being aware as each
moment moves by you.

Thursday, May 1, 2008, 5:00 pm Art Library, Stanford University Scanning "Dat Rosa Mel Apibus" (Fludd, 1629) in Alexander Roob Alchemy & Mysticism (1997) Commentary: "The rose gives the bees honey" The cedar rosebud from my poem looks just like this Alchemical rose.	Thursday, May 1, 2008, 6:30 pm Art Library, Stanford University Notes to poem "Deodar Cedar Rosebud" Unveiling its sacred alchemical mysteries, the Rose takes me on a spiritual journey. Deeper and deeper I delve into the sacred mysteries of alchemy.
Friday, May 2, 2008, 4:20 pm Green Library, Stanford University Insight from Emily Dickinson, Letter #618 to Forrest F. Emerson (circa 1879) on the "philosopher's stone" Philosopher's stone— not to make gold but in making others happy.	Saturday, May 3, 2008, 9:27-9:30 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony #6 in B, Op.74 "Pathetique" (1893) (Listen), CD, (YouTube: Karajan, 1st movement) ("Pathetique" in Russian means "passionate") Christ is a poet— 14 Stations of the Cross: his passion sonnet!
Saturday, May 3, 2008, 6:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Found "alchemy" in Emily Dickinson's, Letter 799 to Susan Gilbert Dickinson (1883) exhanging a Hyacinth for "more Alchimy: Mere— Sol, Hahn" Here's a Hyacinth in trade for a rooster calling up the Mother Sun.	Sunday, May 4, 2008, 3:30 am Home in Mountain View: Reading Ann's gift of "Poetry" May 2008 issue: Eavan Boland's essay "Islands Apart: A Notebook" (pp. 135-144) Kenneth Rexroth on primary function of the poet Rexroth says: "function of the poet— to give life convincing meaning."
Sunday, May 4, 2008, 6:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Composing The Rose in Alchemy and Notes to "Deodar Cedar Rosebud" Rosebud awakens me to Dante's vision and Emily's alchemy.	Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 11:15 am Latham Street, Mountain View Tiny sparrow runs down the block keeping pace with me as I walk. Are you racing me? Each step I take you make ten— Why don't you just fly?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 1:00-2:00 pm Art Library, Stanford University Writing poem "The Aha Moment" Breathe in the Ah, but keep the outbreath Ha in your heart for a long life.	Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 429, Stanford University Robert Bly's Poetry Workshop Look inside yourself— See what's shining in there and write with your heart.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 4:00-7:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Web page of Mary Oliver poems Attention— the start of devotion to details to the soul of things.	Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 8:00-9:05 pm Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center, Robert Bly's Stanford Poetry Reading Stealing a grain of sugar by translating great poets— that's real joy.
Sunday, May 11, 2008, 4:00-5:00 pm Los Altos Library: Found Robert Bly's books "Honey of Words: New & Selected Poems" & "My Sentence Was A Thousand Years of Joy" Just two Bly books here— but exactly what I need to complete my page.	Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 10:00 pm Stanford Green Library, Reflection on book: Jack Kornfield's "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry" Enlightenment is not retirement but working with even more joy.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 1:40-3:00 pm Art Library, Stanford University: Reading Robert Bly's Interview by Francis Quinn "Paris Review" (Issue 154, Spring 2000) Balzac's Louis Lambert plunged the infinite— living the vertical life.	Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 1:40-3:00 pm Art Library, Stanford University: Reading Robert Bly's Interview by Francis Quinn "Paris Review" (Issue 154, Spring 2000) How fascinating that Louis Lambert inspired Bly as well as me.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 1:40-3:00 pm Art Library, Stanford University: Reading Robert Bly's Interview by Francis Quinn Admires Tomas Tranströmer's poetry Things not here are coming— they slip in one by one, and I'm the turnstile.	Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Eavan Boland: Robert Bly's Poetry Workshop Bly's "A Wrong Turning in American Poetry" Our wrong turn is going outward instead of inward where the treasure dwells.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Eavan Boland: Robert Bly's Poetry Workshop Bly's "A Wrong Turning in American Poetry" Bly championed poets of the soul— Rilke, Lorca, Neruda and Machado.	Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 10:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Inspired by Bly, wrote first ghazal "Eureka Moments of Joy" This is Buddha's bliss— wherever he turns, he sees all things full of joy.
Friday, May 16, 2008, 8:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Typing Robert Bly poems from his books The peony blossoms— the tree trembles when fifty blackbirds leave at once.	Saturday, May 17, 2008, 6:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Found in Bly's "The Morning Glory" (1969), this Basho haiku— truly a gem of gold! The morning glory— Another thing that will never be my friend.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 9:10-9:20 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 (1786) Listen, CD, YouTube Married to my work— Lady Wisdom never failed to nourish my soul.	Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 11:00 am-Noon Margaret Jacks Hall, Terrace Room (4th floor) Robert Bly: Stanford Poetry Colloquium (Tranströmer, Mirabai, Neruda, Rumi, Hafiz) Talk on translation— finding the right words to make the poem come alive.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 2:30-2:45 pm Building 460, Room 418, Stanford University Meeting Robert Bly in his office, I give him "What Nicodemus Came to Learn by Night" Tranströmer says Nicodemus is asleep— Doesn't know where to go.	Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Robert Bly's Poetry Workshop Writing a ghazal poem in class If enlightenment is so good, why sages don't spread it around more?
Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 6:00 pm I ask Bly to lend me his Blyth book "Genius of the Haiku" to type haikus. Bly gives me his Notebook instead. Magnanimity— Bly shows it, giving me his Notebook for a week.	Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 7:00-11:55 pm Green Library, Stanford University Deciphering Bly's miniscule handwriting, I complete web page Bly's Haikus I feel the spirit of Basho, Issa, and Bly helping me with this.
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 6:00-7:25 pm Pigott Hall, Room 113, Stanford University Paul Losensky, "To Revere, Revise and Renew: Sa'eb Tabriz reads the Ghazals of Rumi" Sa'eb inspired by Rumi wrote 60 response poems that were just as good.	Thursday, May 22, 2008, 8:00-9:00 pm Art Library, Stanford University Scanning my Bible marginalia on "Gospel of John", 3.14 Snake on its belly rises on the caduceus to the Eternal.
Thursday, May 21, 2008, 7:00-11:55 pm Green Library, Stanford University Typing poem inspired by Tranströmer "What Is the Address?" Go ask Giotto— he knows! Einstein will also guide you to this holy place.	Friday, May 23, 2008, 10:06-10:14 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphony #101 in D major "Clock" (1794) Listen, CD, YouTube The clock is ticking— Rumi, Sa'eb, and Kabir are shouting "Don't sleep!"
Friday, May 23, 2008, 3:14 pm Riding Bus #22 on El Camino, Palo Alto Digital Time Display on Bus— 3:14 pm reminds me of Shakespeare "Sonnet 3.14" It's where we all go as Shakespeare writes in his last line of Third Sonnet.	Friday, May 23, 2008, 4:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Request two co-eds sitting by Red Fountain to move so I could take unobstructed photo. The Red Fountain with a circle of musical water looks like π.
Saturday, May 24, 2008, 11:32 am Green Library, Stanford University Meditating in front of the Red Fountain, noticed 3 red strokes resembling a Torii and 14 rings in a circle on the ground. The Red Fountain sings 3 strokes of Torii, 14 rings in a circle.	Sunday, May 25, 2008, 3:30 pm Green Library, Stanford University Reading "A Superhighway to Bliss" (Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke led her to euphoria) (New York Times, May 25, 2008) Her body and space around her were one— all part of one energy.
Monday, May 26, 2008, 2:00 pm Galvez Street, Palo Alto "Can't Be Beat" sign near Stanford Stadium You can't beat the wind or space that is empty or the Mind that is still.	Monday, May 26, 2008, 3:00 pm Archway between Buildings 30 & 250 at Stanford (Language & Literature) Nine palm tree tops seen from this archway— Apollo plays for these Muses.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Robert Bly's Poetry Class: Bly gives us a copy of his "The Thousands" (2001) as parting gift, He leaves Stanford tomorrow for Maine to the "Great Mother and New Father Conference" We're surprised and saddened it's our last class with Bly who has shared so much heart.	Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Robert Bly's Poetry Class: When I ask Bly to lend me his Hafez book to copy Ghazal #34 "What Do We Reaaly Need?" that he read, Bly gives me the book for keeps as a gift. For Peter— with thanks for his many gifts and gestures and joyful thoughts. —Robert Bly
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Robert Bly's Poetry Class: Bly reads Tranströmer's "April and Silence" that was written just before his stroke. He has not spoken in fifteen years after his stroke, but his mind is still sharp.	Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Robert Bly's Poetry Class: I read my poem "What Is The Address?" inspired by Tomas Tranströmer's "The Scattered Congregation" Class is surprised that the Red Fountain is sacred gateway to Green Library.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Robert Bly's Poetry Class: Bly reads Machado's poem "The wind one brilliant day" I said to my soul— "What have you done with the garden entrusted to you?"	Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Robert Bly's Poetry Class: A student asks Bly how to judge "soul weight" How to judge soul weight— "Someone who laughs all the time is probably soul-less."
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 3:15-6:00 pm Building 460, Room 334, Stanford University Bly caught his 10-year olf daughter Mary Bly reading romance novels & made a deal with her. Now, she'a a professor in English literature and romance novel author Eloisa James. For each romance novel you read, you must read a classic book as well.	Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 6:40 pm After Bly's last class I walk with him and two Stegner poetry fellows to the Stanford University Oval: Good-bye hug with Robert Bly after he tells me about his Sufi master in London Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh "He's 81 same as me— but I'm just a mosquito compared to him."
Friday, May 30, 2008, 1:32 pm El Camino & San Antonio, Mountain View I tell teenager how much I liked his T-shirt with Emerson quote. "To be great is to be misunderstood." How true— Just follow your bliss!	Friday, May 30, 2008, 4:00 pm Los Altos Public Library, Los Altos Reading "Lotus Therapy: Mindfulness Meditation" & Jon Kabat-Zinn (NY Times, May 27, 2008) Mindfulness Meditation— Being aware as each moment moves by you.