Haikus: August 2009

HAIKUS: August 2009

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

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.

Saturday, August 1, 2009, 8:15-8:24 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #3 in E-flat, Op. 55, "Eroica" (1803)
(Listen) (CD), Notes, (YouTube:
Van Karajan, Part 1, Van Karajan, Part 2)

Beethoven's breakthrough
to Romanticism— his
Eroica Symphony. Saturday, August 1, 2009, 8:36-8:43 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Liszt,
"Hungarian Rhapsody #6" (1847)
Listen, (CD), YouTube. Repetitive melody
in first part using mostly black keys.

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody
nice melody to
brighten up the day.

Saturday, August 1, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Schulz's Beethoven, Schroeder's Muse"
Writing haikus to match photos on web page.

May this web page on
"Schulz's Beethoven" be interesting
without the strips. Saturday, August 1, 2009, 5:20 pm
Stanford University, Galvez Street—
Hitchhiked ride with Wanda & Bill from
Florida to El Camino & California St.

"First time we picked up
a hitchhiker," she says
"but we felt you looked safe."

Sunday, August 2, 2009, 11:28-11:36 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jules Massenet,
Thaïs: Meditation (1894)
Listen, CD, YouTube:Maxim Vengerov

If meditation
is having a blank mind,
then why not go to sleep? Sunday, August 2, 2009, 11:47-11:56 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata #208: Sheep May Safely Graze
(Listen) (CD) (YouTube) (1713)

What is more peaceful
than a flock of sheep grazing
in the green hillside?

Sunday, August 2, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cantor Art Center
"Pop to Present" Exhibit (1st floor)
Peter Milton, "Interiors IV: Soundings" (1989)
Fish aquarium in front & Whale tank in back?
Colette at table (right); Artist at center drawing.

Hotel Ritz under
water or is Colette
dreaming another tale? Sunday, August 2, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cantor Art Center
"From the Bronze Age of China
to Japan's Floating World" Exhibit" (2nd floor)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "36 Ghosts" (1892)
"Samurai battles Spider Demon" (Print #32)

Samurai battles
Spider Demon who has
a cape like a bullfighter

Sunday, August 2, 2009, 5:30 pm
Stanford University, Cantor Art Center
Outdoors at Rodin Sculpture Garden, Gates of Hell;
Told Nancy about my encounter with Albert Elsen

Debate with "gardener"
on Rodin not knowing
he was Albert Elsen! Sunday, August 2, 2009, 6:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Schulz's Beethoven, Schroeder's Muse"
Haiku for Harper's Beethoven cover

Birth centennial cover
of Beethoven ready
to write more music.

Monday, August 3, 2009, 9:28-9:35 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Adagio from Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66a (1889)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

O Sleeping Beauty—
it's time to leave your world
of dreams and be Awake! Monday, August 3, 2009, 11:47-11:56 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Schubert (1825),
Ellens Gesang III, D839, Ave Maria, Op. 52 #6
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Schubert's Ave Maria—
music so soft and serene
that it melts my soul.

Monday, August 3, 2009, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto
William Wyler directs
"Roman Holiday" (1953) starring
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, & Eddie Albert

Gregory Peck does pancake
flip of Audrey Hepburn
from one bed to next! Monday, August 3, 2009, 9:40-11:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Mitchell Leisen directs
"Midnight" (1939) film comedy starring
Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche,
John Barrymore, & Mary Astor

Out-of-work showgirl
hired to pose as Baroness,
loved by taxi driver.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 11:31-11:44 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Pablo de Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen "Gypsy Airs" Op. 20 (1878)
Listen, (CD), YouTube

Sarah Chang plays
Sarasate's Gypsy Airs
with verve and passion. Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 12:11-12:16 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: John Williams,
Superman: Theme (1978)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Children need heroes
as role models to excel
in their daily lives.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 12:16-12:16 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Xue-Fei Yang
plays Narciso Yepes Romance for Guitar,
Forbidden Games (1952)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Two orphans in war
became friends with this haunting
tune played in this film. Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 1:30-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Cherry tomatoes,
devil egg potato salad,
spinach, salad dressings,
muesli, cheese, red grapes,
nut grains bread, granola bars.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 8:46-8:49 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Wynton Marsalis plays
Jeremiah Clarke, Prince of Denmark's March
(1700), (Listen), CD, YouTube

Wynton Marsalis plays
Prince of Denmark's March
that wakes me up today. Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 12:00-8:30 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Web page on Hexagram #58 of
"I Ching"— Tui: The Joyous, Lake

The Joyous— Success.
Satsang with friends brings
the mind lake in joyous peace.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 12:00-8:30 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Web page on Wang Yang Ming's
"On Harmony and Selfishness"

Original state is in
harmony— our ideas
make them selfish. Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 9:40 pm
Mountain View, Latham Street—
August Full Moon (8-5-2009, 5:55 pm PDT)
shining in the middle of the street

Walk in middle of the street
to keep Green Corn Moon
in view on the way home.

Thursday, August 6, 2009, 10:23-10:28 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #3 in E-flat, Op. 55, "Eroica" (1803)
(Listen) (CD), Notes, (YouTube:
Van Karajan, Part 1, Van Karajan, Part 2)

Eroica— a clarion
call to awaken
the hero in us all. Thursday, August 6, 2009, 9:32-9:46 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Julian Lloyd Webber
plays Giulio Caccini (Vladimir Vavilov),
Ave Maria (16th century/1970)
(Listen) (CD), Notes, (YouTube)

Caccini's Ave Maria—
not as uplifting
as that of Schubert's.

Thursday, August 6, 2009, 12:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, El Monte & Foothill Expressway
Surprise sighting of Giant Blimp heading southwest
News: 246 feet zepplin (YouTube: Landing, Flight)

Bus turns the corner—
sight of giant blimp floating
in sky above the trees. Thursday, August 6, 2009, 1:00-8:30 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Web page on On the Number 58
Typing Sections #58 from Wei Wu Wei

That cannot possibly
be free. This cannot
possibly be bound.

Friday, August 7, 2009, 11:07-11:19 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Itzhak Perlman
plays Ludwig van Beethoven
Romance #1 in G major, Op. 40 (1802)
(Listen) (CD), (YouTube)

Beethoven's romance
music for his immortal
beloved— how sweet! Friday, August 7, 2009, 11:24-11:44 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Marin Alsop
conducts Johannes Brahms,
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a (1873)
(Listen) (CD), Notes, (YouTube)

Brahms' Variations
on Haydn sounds like
wedding march— how romantic!

Saturday, August 8, 2009, 9:20-9:22 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach,
Brandenburg Concerto #1 in F, BWV 1046 (1717) Listen, CD, YouTube

Alarm music playing
for forty minutes before
Bach wakes me up. Saturday, August 8, 2009, 9:53-10:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Pachelbel,
Canon in D major (1680)
Listen, CD, YouTube

Pachebel's Canon—
one-hit wonder music
that always lifts the soul.

Saturday, August 8, 2009, 10:25-10:34 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Tomasso Albinoni / Remo Giazotto
Adagio for Organ & Strings in G minor, (1945)
(Listen) (CD) (YouTube)

Albinoni got
the credit but Giazotto
got the royalties. Saturday, August 8, 2009, 10:44-10:48 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Roman Hofstetter,
Serenade in C (Quartet for Strings) (1777),
(Listen: Haydn Op. 3), CD, YouTube

Benedictine monk
imitated Haydn that
they thought this was his.

Saturday, August 8, 2009, 12:28 pm
Stanford University, Arrillaga Alumni Center
Exercise and the Brain Symposium 2009
Preregistration for this free symposium was full

Dropped by front desk
to pick up a flyer on
"Exercise and the Brain". Saturday, August 8, 2009, 2:30 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Palo Alto Weekly's cover (August 7, 2009)
with cropped Chikanobu's Magic Lantern

Bubbles can't be truncated
otherwise her dream
will not be complete.

Saturday, August 8, 2009, 3:30 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Found my favorite George Santayana
quote on completing the circle

Santayana: "If I see
a circle half-drawn,
I yearn to complete it." Saturday, August 8, 2009, 3:50 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Found "Magic Lantern Comparisons:
Foreign Travel" at Japanese Chikanobu web site

After discovering
her magic lantern intact,
I feel whole again!

Sunday, August 9, 2009, 12:23-12:28 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Aram Khachaturian,
Masquerade: Waltz (1941)
Listen, CD, YouTube

Why is God masquerading?—
face hidden behind
Nature and our lives.

Hero with thousand faces
wears no masks to play gods
in his adventure. Sunday, August 9, 2009, 1:45-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)
$32.60 savings on 10% Discount & free coupons

Cherry tomatoes,
potato salad, spinach,
and salad dressings.

Muesli, wheat bread,
granola bars, ice cream,
orange juice, and skim milk.

Monday, August 10, 2009, 1:00-4:00 am
Mountain View: Reading 22-page article
by Irving L. Finkelstein, “Peter Milton
Revisited: A Decade of "Interiors" Prints”

Exploring interiors
of the mind— dream
drawings in hotel lobbies. Monday, August 10, 2009, 11:32-11:42 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi
"Two Sunsets" (Due Tramonti) (2003)
CD, (Listen), YouTube

Two sunsets double
the sadness as light fades
away into darkness.

Monday, August 10, 2009, 2:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Typing quotes on evil from Roy F. Baumeister's
book Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

Egotism causes evil—
one strikes out at those
who insults them. Monday, August 10, 2009, 7:30-10:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs
"My Fair Lady" (1964) with Audrey Hepburn,
Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, & Stanley Holloway

Wouldn't it be lovely
to dance all night on
the street where you live?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 4:00-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Typing poem An Augustinian Awakening:
Peter Milton's Interiors VI: Soundings"

Augustinian awakening—
Creation's six days and
Peter's seventeen fishes. Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 7:05-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reading Brooklyn Museum's catalogue
"Peter Milton: Drawings to Etchings"

Josef Albers was
his mentor at Yale—
no wonder I love his work.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 10:33-10:40 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Nicola Benedetti
plays Ralph Vaughan WIlliams,
The Lark Ascending (1914)
(Listen), CD, YouTube, George Meredith Poem

The Ark saved us from
the Flood and the Lark gave us
the song from Heaven. Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 1:00-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Retrieved from Art Library stacks
three books on Peter Milton

Scanned Peter Milton's photo
from The Primacy of Touch
for my Notes.

Thursday, August 13, 2009, 10:03-10:07 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Vladimir Ashkenazy plays
Ludwig van Beethoven, "Für Elise"
Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, WoO 59 (1808),
(Listen), CD, YouTube, Commentaries

Beethoven in love—
music so sweet and tender
pouring from his heart. Thursday, August 13, 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm
Stanford University, Cantor Art Center
Peter Milton, "Interiors I, IV-VII" (1984-1991)
Read Irving L. Finkelstein's essay “Peter Milton
Revisited: A Decade of "Interior" Prints”

Architectural precision—
multi-layered planes
for us to explore

Friday, August 14, 2009, 10:32-10:35 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Xue-Fei Yang plays
Narciso Yepes Romance for Guitar,
Forbidden Games (1952), (Listen), CD, YouTube

Music that touches
my heart because the film
was so moving and sad. Friday, August 14, 2009, 11:15-11:34 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Symphony #9 in D minor, Op. 125 (1824)
(Listen), CD, You Tube: Karajan; Bernstein

Beethoven's Choral
Symphony— music to cheer
us up every day!

Saturday, August 15, 2009, 10:07-10:13 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yo-Yo Ma
plays Johann Sebastian Bach,
"Jesu, joy of man's desiring" BWV 147 (1723)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Joy of man's desiring
for beauty, truth, wisdom
that is eternal. Saturday, August 15, 2009, 10:30-10:34 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Robert McDuffie,
plays Fritz Kreisler,
"Liebesfreud & Liebesleid" (1935)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: Kreisler, Joshua Bell)

Joy and sorrow in
the rose's soft petals
and sharpness of its thorns.

Sunday, August 16, 2009, 10:45-10:56 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Maxim Vengerov
plays Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Serenade Melancholique, Op. 26 (1875)
(Listen) CD, YouTube: Jascha Heifetz

Melancholic tunes
from Tchaikovsky who knows
about the heart's sadness. Sunday, August 16, 2009, 10:56-11:01 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi
"Behind the Window" (2003)
(Echoes CD Collection)
CD, (Listen), YouTube

Behind the window
of this world lies another
in dream and deep sleep.

Monday, August 17, 2009, 10:05-10:10 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell
plays Antonin Dvorak,
Rusalka: Song to the Moon (1900)
(Listen) CD, YouTube

Song to the Moon for
waltz with the Earth as they
dance around in space. Monday, August 17, 2009, 3:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to poem "An Augustinian Awakening—
Peter Milton's "Interiors VI: Soundings"
Scanned Colette's cat gazing at fish tank

In the jolly corner
beneath Colette's table
a cat spots a fish.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 10:56-11:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi
"Bella notte" (Beautiful Night) (2003)
CD, (Listen), YouTube

O beautiful night—
moon and stars light up the sky
as we go to sleep. Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 12:00-1:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me
grocery shopping at Safeway
(2580 California Street)

Mandarin mango juice,
macaroni cheese,
fish fillets, honey ham.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 2:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to poem "An Augustinian Awakening"
Scanned photo of Colette & Audrey Hepburn

Colette chose an unknown
actress for her play Gigi—
Audrey Hepburn! Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 9:15-9:40 pm
Stanford Oval: Trudy picks me up
hitchhiking and drives me home
to my apartment in Mountain View

Lucky to hitch ride
not to Cal-Train depot
but home in Mountain View.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 12:00-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
George Noory interviews Nassim Haramein
"Unified Theory & the Universe", Resonace Project

Time for ascension—
quantum leap in consciousness—
new world is dawning. Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 10:35-10:48 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Maurice Ravel,
Bolero (1928),
(Listen), CD, YouTube (Ravel's Dementia?)

Music's Rashomon—
Can reality be seen
from different angles?

Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 7:00-9:40 pm
Stanford University, Building 200, Room 02
Stanford Buddhist Studies presents "Enlightenment Guaranteed" (2002) directed by Doris Dörrie
with Uwe Ochsenknecht & Gustav Peter Wöhler

Two German brothers
got lost in Tokyo but
found peace in Zen temple. Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 9:45-9:58 am
Stanford Oval: James Lewis picks me up
hitchhiking and drives me to Palo Alto
Cal-Train Depot. I run under the tracks
and catch 9:58 pm Bus #22 as it departs.

Hitched a ride with one
from Buddhist movie and
caught the bus just in time.

Thursday, August 20, 2009, 9:52-9:57 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Giovanni Battista Martini
Plaisir d'amour "The Joys of Love" (1775)
Listen, CD, (YouTube), Elvis song

Greater than pleasures
of love is the spiritual
quest that brings us bliss. Thursday, August 20, 2009, 10:04-10:13 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Janine Jansen plays
Antonio Vivaldi, (Listen), CD, YouTube
"The Four Seasons: Winter" (1723)

My favorite piece of
music, Vivaldi's "Winter"
played much too quickly.

Friday, August 21, 2009, 10:55-11:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Schubert
Serenade (1826)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

One summer Sunday
Schubert wrote this after
seeing friend in a garden. Friday, August 21, 2009, 2:30-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Art Library
Reading about Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
and his Moussaieff family from Bukhara

No wonder Jacques Masson
loved reading about Bukhara
in PB's home.

Friday, August 21, 2009, 7:00-8:15 pm
Palo Alto, Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real #74
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson talk on
his book "The Face on Your Plate"

He became a vegan
so there'll be less suffering
for the animals. Friday, August 21, 2009, 8:15-8:30 pm
Palo Alto, Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real #74
Jeffrey Masson told me his Dad Jacques whom
I met at PB's home (10-18-1978) died in 1999.

Told Jeff about meeting
his Dad and hiking
with PB in Vevey.

Saturday, August 22, 2009, 9:27-9:37 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806), CD,
(Listen), (YouTube: Hilary Hahn, David Oistrakh)

Finale of Beethoven's
Violin Concerto wakes
me up today. Saturday, August 22, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Found another cat in Peter Milton's
"Interiors III: Time with Celia"

She's reading Alice
in Wonderland and a cat
is on the staircase.

Saturday, August 22, 2009, 5:15-5:40 pm
Stanford University, Galvez Street
Dr. Yibing Wang picks me up hitchhiking
and gives me a ride home to Mountain View

Got home early today
hitchhiking ride from
Stanford all the way home. Saturday, August 22, 2009, 6:39-6:45 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach,
Orchestral Suite #3 in D major, BWV 1068 (1731)
(Listen), (CD) YouTube

Bach's Air on G-string
sweeps me off my feet into
the heavenly realms.

Sunday, August 23, 2009, 10:17-10:22 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Borodin,
String Quartet #2 in D major (1881)
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (lyrics)
("Kismet" 1955 film), (Listen), (CD), YouTube

Howard Keel sings in Kismet
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"
jing-a-ling-a-ling. Sunday, August 23, 2009, 10:53-11:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Paul Lewis
plays Ludwig van Beethoven
(Listen), CD, YouTube, Analysis, (1801)
Moonlight Sonata #14, Opus 27, #2

Beethoven's homage
to moonlight is a hymn
to the beauty of night.

Sunday, August 23, 2009, 11:15-11:21 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays
Antonin Dvorak, (Listen) CD, YouTube,
Rusalka: Song to the Moon (1900)

The Moon ever faithful
to Earth as they dance
in rhythm through the night. Sunday, August 23, 2009, 11:41-11:46 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Frederic Chopin,
Waltz in A-minor, Op. 34 #2, (1831)
(Listen), CD, YouTube: Horowitz

Chopin's Waltz in A—
full of melancholy
expressing gloom and grief.

Sunday, August 23, 2009, 1:30-6:45 pm
San Mateo Memorial Park, Wurr Trail
Wurr Trail hike by Pescadero Creek
Wurr Trail Sign; Pomponio Bridge

A scenic hike along
Pescadero Creek that's
truly delightful. Sunday, August 23, 2009, 1:30-6:45 pm
San Mateo Memorial Park, Wurr Trail
Wurr Trail hike by Pescadero Creek
Mexican Feather Grass; Babbling Brook

Mexican feather grass,
rocks and water singing
in babbling brooks.

Monday, August 24, 2009, 10:02-10:10 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Eugene Ormandy
conducts George Frederick Handel,
Xerxes: Ombra mai fu "Largo" (1738)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Emperor Xerxes loved
the plane tree in his courtyard
more than his women. Monday, August 24, 2009, 1:30-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Format 40 photos from Memorial Park hike
along Pescadero Creek (August 16, 2009)
1600-year old tree; Y-Tree by the Creek

Photos from last Sunday's
hike along Pescadero Creek
came out well.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 9:48-9:59 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Antonin Dvorak,
In Nature's Realm Overture, Op. 91 (1891)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

In Nature's realm there's
full of wonder if our eyes
are ready to see. Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 9:59-10:02 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: John Powell, Pretty Sally
from "Five Virginian Folk Songs" (1938)
(Listen), CD (song about unrequited love)

Sally loves Linus
who loves his blanket—
there's no joy in Peanuts land.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 12:00-2:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Milk Pail, Safeway,
99 Ranch Market, Nob Hill Foods

Blackberries, cauliflower,
potato salad, milk,
green onions, broccoli,
pumpkin seeds, walnuts. Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 3:30-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Format 50 photos from Wurr Trail hike
along Pescadero Creek (August 23, 2009)
Trees above bridge; Creek below bridge

Trees above the bridge,
meandering creek below—
last views of this hike.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 10:09-10:15 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Nicola Benedetti plays
Franz Schubert (1825),
Ellens Gesang III, D839, Ave Maria, Op. 52 #6
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Schubert's Ave Maria
whisks my mind heavenward
as I wake today. Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 11:06 am
Los Altos: Getting off near Library stop
from Bus #22, I tell bus driver "Thank you"
He says to me something that I realize
is quite Platonic on the Good and One

The bus driver says
"Have a good one"— Is the Good
and One not the same?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Scanned details of "Interiors" prints from
Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996 (1996)

Milton draws Dürer's
polyhedron and knight in
his Interiors prints. Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Scanned details of "Interiors" prints from
Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996 (1996)

Interiors IV's pillar
and sleeping dog found
in Dürer's St. Jerome?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Nancy sends email with three photos
and sketch of Vevey's Lac Leman

Beautiful photos
of Vevey remind me
of meetings with PB. Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 9:17 pm
Stanford Palm Drive: Hitched a ride with
couple from Oregon attending engineering
conference to Palo Alto Cal-Train Depot

Caught bus just in time
as Oregon couple gives
me ride to station.

Saturday, August 29, 2009, 9:33-9:41 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi,
Divenire: Primavera (2007)
(Listen), (CD) YouTube
Recalling Botticelli's "Primavera"

Refreshing Spring music
after temperature
hit 100 degrees. Saturday, August 29, 2009, 2:05-4:05 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Nancy visits and shows me photographs
of Vevey & mudras from her yoga teacher.
Discussed Jiddu Krishnamurti & U. G. Krishnamurit

Vevey is tranquil
for some sages who lived there
had great peace of mind.

Sunday, August 30, 2009, 10:25-10:30 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Schubert
Serenade, D957 #4, Standchen (1828)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Sounded like Massenet's
Meditation, but it's
Schubert's Serenade. Sunday, August 30, 2009, 10:42-10:46 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 (1880)
Listen, CD, YouTube

Serenade for Strings
composed by Tchaikovsky
when he was quite happy.

Monday, August 31, 2009, 9:31-9:49 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Santiago Rodriguez plays
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Listen, CD, YouTube
Piano Concerto #2, Op. 18 (1901)

The hypnotist tells
Rachmaninoff "You will
write beautiful music." Monday, August 31, 2009, 10:34-10:51 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Symphony #6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral" (1808)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Beethoven hiking
in the woods as Nature
pours her music to him.

Monday, August 31, 2009, 12:20 pm
Palo Alto: Clouds in the sky above
Sur Le Table, Town & Country, El Camino Real

White feathers of flame
sweep across the pale blue sky—
Ah— the painter's brush! Monday, August 31, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Formatted 50 photos from camera chip

Fifty photos from
Sunday's hike at Pescadero
Creek came out well.