Haikus: July 2009

HAIKUS: July 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.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 10:11-10:19 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #7 in A, Op. 92, 2nd movement (1812)
(Listen) (CD), Notes, (YouTube:
Van Karajan, Charles Latshaw)

Lugubrious tunes
Beethoven's funeral dirge
for soldiers in war. Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 11:24-11:28 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: John Williams,
Star Wars, Episode 3:
'Revenge of the Sith' (2005),
(Listen), CD, YouTube, film

In battle between
good and evil, music plays
an important role.

Thursday, July 2, 2009, 9:55-10:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li
plays Franz Liszt,
Liebestraum for Piano, S541, #3 (1850),
(Listen), CD, YouTube: Rubinstein, Notes

Love's joy, Love's sorrow—
the enlightened mind of
a sage is beyond both. Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:27-10:37 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936)
Listen, CD, YouTube (played at the funerals of Prince Rainier of Monaco and Albert Einstein)

Request to play this
piece at her wedding—
also played at funerals.

Thursday, July 2, 2009, 11:30 am-1:45 pm
Palo Alto & Mountain View: Friend takes me
shopping at Walgreen's (4170 El Camino Real)
and Safeway (2580 California Street)

Mixed nuts, stuffed olives,
cheese, egg potato salad,
radishes and cherries. Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:15-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Compose Notes to poem
"Platonic Lambda at High Peaks"

Pinnacles means "high peaks"—
how symbolic to find
Platonic Lambda here!

Thursday, July 2, 2009, 7:30-9:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: Delbert Mann
directs "Separate Tables" (1958) starring
David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth,
Burt Lancaster, Wendy Hiller, & Gladys Cooper

Separate tables in
seaside hotel of people
leading lonely lives. Thursday, July 2, 2009, 9:20-11:00 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Jack Clayton directs "The Innocents" (1961)
starring Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin, & Martin Stephens

Innocent children
turned sinister by evil
demonic forces.

Thursday, July 2, 2009, 7:20-7:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Surprised to see Sally here.
She came for "The Innocents" (5:40-7:20 pm).
When she sees me, she moves next to me
and chat before seeing "Separate Tables"

Sally comes and sit
with me, sharing stories
before Separate Tables. Friday, July 3, 2009, 12:00-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
George Noory interviews John Lash
on "Ancient Wisdom & Mythologies",
Gaia Mythos; Book: Not His Image

Two serpents of light
Sophia & Christos unite
to create the Earth.

Friday, July 3, 2009, 10:30-10:39 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Borodin,
In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880),
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Borodin's music
prepares my mind for
hiking at Purisima. Friday, July 3, 2009, 11:01-11:04 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Louis Moreau Gottschalk,
Suis Moi!, Op. 45 "Follow Me!" (1861)
(Listen), CD, Works

Follow me!— if you're
enlightened, I'll follow you
to the end of time.

Friday, July 3, 2009, 3:12 pm
Santa Cruz Mountains, Purisima Creek Redwoods—
Irish Ridge Trail: Giant redwood tree with
dozens of tentacles like Medusa (Hike Photos)

Before looking straight
at this Medusa tree—
swipe it with Perseus' sword!
Friday, July 3, 2009, 4:00 pm
Santa Cruz Mountains, Purisima Creek Redwoods—
Lobitos Creek Trail: Giant towering redwood
that's over 1000 years old (Hike Photos)

This giant redwood must be
a thousand years old—
crown jewel of this forest.

Saturday, July 4, 2009, 9:39-9:48 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: William Boyce,
Symphony #7 in B flat, Op. 2 (1740),
(Listen), CD, YouTube

William Boyce's marching
music Symphony #7
wakes me up today. Saturday, July 4, 2009, 11:48-11:51 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: George Gershwin,
Shall We Dance: Promenade "Walking the dog"
(1937), (Listen), CD, YouTube

Fred tries to get Ginger's
attention as they walk their
dogs on the ship's deck.

Saturday, July 4, 2009, 2:12 pm
Portola Valley, Coal Mine Ridge Trail—
Bay Laurel Trail: Nine spiral steps wind
down to the Arroyo Trail (Photos of Hike)

A horse passed by us—
I would love to see it trot
down these spiral steps!
Saturday, July 4, 2009, 4:30 pm
Portola Valley, Coal Mine Ridge Trail—
Old Spanish Trail: 300-year old Coast Live Oak.
Prayer for blessings (Photos of Hike)

O old coast live oak—
bless this land on its birthday
and peace on our earth.

Sunday, July 5, 2009, 9:49-9:58 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gustav Holst,
The Planets: Venus, Op. 32 (1916)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Van Gogh opens his
window at Arles to
sunshine and apple blossoms. Sunday, July 5, 2009, 11:30 am-12:00 pm
Reading about Huston Smith publishing
his memoir "Tales of Wonder" at 90
(San Jose Mercury News, 7-5-2009, 1D-2D)

Huston Smith— seeker
of Truth, at home with
sacred wisdom everywhere.

Sunday, July 5, 2009, 1:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View & Los Altos: Friend takes me
shopping at 99 Ranch Market (Grant Road)
and Los Altos Library to return books

Broccoli, green onions,
eggs, strawberries— and return
books to library. Sunday, July 5, 2009, 5:00-9:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Write haikus for last four days
and Notes to "Platonic Lambda"

Taoist and Zen notes
on Uncarved Block and
pure emptiness of No-Mind.

Monday, July 6, 2009, 9:37-9:40 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: George Frederick Handel
Water Music: Suite #2 in D major, HWV 349 (1717)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Water Music dance
from Handel will be outdone
by Footlight Parade. Monday, July 6, 2009, 10:12-10:20 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Dmitri Shostakovich,
Jazz Suite #2: Waltz, Op. 50b (1938)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Such lovely music
to waltz around the room
or in galactic space.

Monday, July 6, 2009, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Michael Curtiz
directs "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942)
starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie,
Walter Huston & Richard Whorf,
biographical film of George M. Cohan

Great uplifting film
that makes me sing and dance
all the way down the street! Monday, July 6, 2009, 9:50-11:35 pm
Stanford Theatre: Lloyd Bacon
directs "Footlight Parade" (1933)
starring James Cagney, Ruby Keeler,
Joan Blondell & Dick Powell,
choreographed by Busby Berkeley (YouTube)

"By a Waterfall"
sensational to see—
floral pattern swimming!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 12:30-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
George Noory interviews Dr. Eric Pearl
on "Reconnective Healing", (Pearl's website)
Book: Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself

There is no such thing
as evil, only darkness
when we see not light. Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 12:30-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
George Noory interviews Dr. Eric Pearl
on "Reconnective Healing", (Pearl's website)
Book: Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself

You're whole and complete—
when you rely on others,
your healing becomes weaker.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 12:30-12:49 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jon Nakamatsu plays
George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Rhapsody in Blue
not a sad tune but jazzy—
having a good time. Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 3:00-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Typed passage from Hannah Arendt's book
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Quotes on Evil)

Human wickedness
had taught us on the
banality of evil.

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:12-10:15 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ottorino Respighi,
Gli Uccelli, "The Birds" (1927)
(Listen) CD, YouTube

Bringing birds singing
and nature's symphonies
into the concert hall. Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:15-10:22 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Tchaikovsky, Andante Cantabile,
String Quartet #1 in D, Op. 11, (1871)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Melancholic music
from folk song heard whistled
by a house painter.

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12:15-12:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: 33rd Foothill Writers Conference
Campus Center Lounge: Faculty Noon Readings
Danielle Haysbert reads her ranting poem
"Purple Rain" & story about "Reality"

If in my world birds
can't fly, then you'll question
your sense of reality. Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12:35-12:55 pm
Los Altos Hills: 33rd Foothill Writers Conference
Faculty Noon Readings: Tony Tulathimutte reads
first part of novel about Cory giving parties for social causes (Workshop: The First Draft)

She placed 4000 flyers
under windshield wipers
for her parties.

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12:55-1:17 pm
Los Altos Hills: 33rd Foothill Writers Conference
Campus Center Lounge: Faculty Noon Readings
Marianne Villanueva reads from first 16 pages
her first novel "Anna" set in the Phillippines

The baby's second toe
was longer than the rest—
Carmello would be rich. Sunday, July 12, 2009, 1:45-3:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: 33rd Foothill Writers Conference
Room 3206, Carol Lem, "Writing the Conversational Poem" ("Conversation Pieces")
EzraPound/Li Po's "The River-Merchant's Wife"

Don't believe in gossips
while I'm away. Soon I'll
be coming home to you.

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 1:45-3:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: 33rd Foothill Writers Conference
Carol Lem, "Writing the Conversational Poem"
Exercise: Wrote poem "Scientist & Prayer";
Judith wrote "Contacting the Dead"

We're paired together—
didn't know we each wrote
on the paranormal. Sunday, July 12, 2009, 3:30-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: 33rd Foothill Writers Conference
Room 3203: Barbara Jane Reyes, Poetry Manuscript Workshop: Critiqued my poem "Hymn to the Sun" & Paul Highby's "Sleep and Poetry"

Statue of captain
at Gettysburg College
speaks to him about war.

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 5:30-6:05 pm
Los Altos Hills: 33rd Foothill Writers Conference
Campus Center Lounge: Student Readings—
Read poems Beethoven's Fifth Symphony &
"The Most Evil Man in the Universe"

Beethoven's music
and evil man's serpent
bring us awakening. Sunday, July 12, 2009, 6:05-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: 33rd Foothill Writers Conference
Campus Center Lounge: Music Performance—
Avotcja Jiltonilro & Modupue [Eugene Warren (bass) & Sandy Poindexter (violin)] (Poem)

She reads poems about
Betty Carter while they play
jazz on violin and bass.

Monday, July 13, 2009, 8:48-8:50 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jeremiah Clarke
Prince of Denmark's March (1699)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Procession music
for coronation or a
wedding for royalty. Monday, July 13, 2009, 9:12-9:21 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto Andaluz (1967)
(Listen, 2), CD, YouTube

Spanish guitar music
echoes in the summer air
how romantic.

Monday, July 13, 2009, 12:00-6:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
211th anniversary of William Wordsworth's
poem "Tintern Abbey" (July 13, 1798)

Blue sky, green earth,
mountains and mind of man—
spirit flowing through all things. Monday, July 13, 2009, 12:00-6:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Typed passages from Steven Nadler's book
The Best of All Possible Worlds (Quotes on Evil)

Is evil that dark
patch in painting that brings
out beauty in the whole?

Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Cukor
directs "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)
starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant,
James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, Roland Young,
John Howard, Mary Nash, & Virginia Weidler

The "bronze goddess" got
drunk, dived into the pool
and became flesh and blood. Monday, July 13, 2009, 9:35-11:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs
"Dinner at Eight" (1933) starring Marie Dressler,
Jean Harlow, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore,
Billie Burke, & Wallace Beery. Harlow to Dressler:
"They're replacing workers with machines."

Dressler to Harlow:
"That's something you never
have to worry about!"

Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 10:05-10:12 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Charles Munch
conducts Maurice Ravel
Boléro (1928), (Listen),
CD, YouTube (Ravel's Dementia?)

Repetition need not
be dementia— Is Earth crazy
running around the Sun? Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 11:38-11:48 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell
plays Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806), CD,
(Listen), (YouTube: Hilary Hahn, David Oistrakh)

Work premiered 1806
in Vienna on
Winter Solstice Day.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 10:03-10:06 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johannes Brahms,
Hungarian Dances #5 (1868)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Brahms Hungarian Dances
wakes me up this summer
day steaming with heat. Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 12:15-2:15 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at CVS (Vitamin C), Fiesta
Produce Market, and Safeway

Bananas, cherries,
red-leaf lettuce, fish fillets,
orange juice, skim milk.

Thursday, July 16, 2009, 9:08-9:26 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Garrick Ohlsson plays
Frederic Chopin, Variations on "La ci darem la mano"
from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Op. 2 (1828)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Let me take your hand
to a distant land where
oak trees will talk to you. Thursday, July 16, 2009, 11:17-11:21 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: James Horner,
Apollo 13: The Apollo 13 Mission (1995)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube), 40th anniversary of Apollo
11 mission to the Moon (July 16, 1969), 40 Photos

40 years ago—
Apollo 11 flies
from Earth to the Moon.

Thursday, July 16, 2009, 1:00-7:52 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Notes to poem "Betty Carter Blues"

Squeezed twenty songs of
Betty Carter in last four
haikus of this poem. Thursday, July 16, 2009, 1:00-7:52 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Reading Magic carpet (Nature 450, 138, 2007)

Harvard scientists give
instructions on how to make
a magic carpet.

Friday, July 17, 2009, 7:30-9:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: Preston Sturges
directs "The Lady Eve" (1941)
starring Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck,
Charles Coburn, & William Demarest

Snake expert Pike gets
seduced twice by con artist
Jean and Lady Eve. Friday, July 17, 2009, 9:20-11:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: Billy Wilder directs
"Double Indemnity" (1944) starring
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck,
Edward G. Robinson, & Tom Powers

Phyllis Dietrichson—
voted the 8th most evil
character in films.

Saturday, July 18, 2009, 9:33-9:43 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #40 in G minor, K. 550 (1788)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Mozart's Symphony #40
wakes me up this morning
for transformation. Saturday, July 18, 2009, 10:09-10:20 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Strauss, Jr.
On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 (1867)
(Listen) CD, YouTube

The Blue Danube Waltz
of Strauss always inspires me
to dance free in space.

Saturday, July 18, 2009, 10:48-11:03 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Symphony #9 in D minor, Op. 125 (1824)
(Listen), CD, You Tube: Karajan; Bernstein

The human voice rings
out in glory— Beethoven's
last gift to music. Saturday, July 18, 2009, 12:05-12:35 pm
Palo Alto, Galvez Street & Campus Drive
Seeing picturesque clouds on walk from
El Camino Real to Stanford Green Library

Lion head cloud— mouth
wide open to pounce on a
frightened antelope.

Saturday, July 18, 2009, 5:10-5:30 pm
Palo Alto, Galvez Street: Hitchhiked ride
with Alex & friend (both physics undergrads)
to Los Altos Library on their way to Route 280
Give them reference to "Singularity Resources"

Made it to Library on time
thanks to physics students
who gave me ride. Saturday, July 18, 2009, 6:22-6:26 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Xue-Fei Yang
plays Narciso Yepes Romance for Guitar,
Forbidden Games (1952)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Got home just in time
to hear this haunting music
from Forbidden Games.

Sunday, July 19, 2009, 11:46-11:59 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Stuart Mitchell,
Seven Wonders: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (2001)
(Listen), CD, YouTube (Mausoleum of Mausolus)

Radio played Seven Wonders
while I read about
"Seven Natural Wonders". Sunday, July 19, 2009, 2:25-2:55 pm
Palo Alto, Galvez Street: Slow walk from
El Camino Real to Stanford Green Library
passing crowd to soccer game (Mexico & Italy)

Crowd of people and cars
going to Stanford Stadium
for soccer game.

Sunday, July 19, 2009, 9:10 pm
Palo Alto, Palm Drive— after walking
two blocks hitchhiking, Stanford grad
student Seth gives me ride to Cal-Train depot

Electrical engineering
grad student gives me
ride to Cal-Train station. Monday, July 20, 2009, 1:00-4:00 am
Home in Mountain View: Wrote poem
"Entering the Dark Ark" inspired by
James Merrill's "Book of Ephraim"

Crack! Boom! Flash!— explosion
of the greatest brilliance—
birth of universe!

Monday, July 20, 2009, 10:25-10:33 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Antonio Vivaldi,
Violin Concerto #9 in D, Op. 3, RV230 (1711)
(Listen), CD, YouTube)

Vivaldi's "Harmonic
Inspiration" music
for Moonlanding Day. Monday, July 20, 2009, 3:30-7:52 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Chatted with Jack; Typed up poem and
began Notes on Giorgione's "La Tempesta"

40 and 20 years ago—
Man's walk on the Moon,
my walk at Mount Shasta.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 9:02-9:43 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #40 in G minor, K. 550 (1788)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Overslept 40 minutes
before waking to
Symphony #40. Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 10:05-10:25 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Piano Sonata #14 in C# minor, Op. 27 #2 "Moonlight" (1801)
(Listen), CD, You Tube

Homage to the Moon
that preceded Apollo's
historic Moonlanding.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:27-11:49 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Nicola Benedetti plays
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lark Ascending (1914)
(Listen), CD, YouTube, George Meredith Poem

Blake's 28th Lark
ascends to the angelic
choir with its singing. Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 12:00-2:20 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Kaiser
for test strips and grocery shopping
at 99 Ranch and Nob Hill markets

Bok choy, broccoli,
green onions, garlic, eggs,
soy nuts, and blueberries.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 2:40-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Searching for Google's Moonlanding Logo,
found Holiday Logos & Fan Logos web pages

Lots of talent in
designing all these
whimsical Google Logos. Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 2:40-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Composing web page on Notes for poem:
"Entering the Dark Ark of the Moment"

Learning from the Dead
Spirits in James Merill's poem
"The Book of Ephraim"

Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 10:08-10:19 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Tomasso Albinoni / Remo Giazotto
Adagio for Organ & Strings in G minor, (1945)
(Listen) (CD) (YouTube)

From ruins of Dresden
Albinoni's Adagio
was resurrected. Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 10:31-10:46 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Felix Mendelssohn
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27 (1828)
(Listen) (CD) (Goethe's poems, 1795)

No stormy waves at
Fingal's Cave but calm sea
and good voyage home.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 1:00-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Composing web page on Notes for poem:
"Entering the Dark Ark of the Moment"

Dark Ark of the moment
to Light of Now beyond
presence and absence. Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 1:00-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Composing web page on Notes for poem:
"Entering the Dark Ark of the Moment"

Mona Lisa is still
smiling because Buddha
gave her the flower.

Thursday, July 23, 2009, 1:00-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Notes: "Entering the Dark Ark of the Moment"
Notes on "Christ's Passion in Veronica's Veil"

Veronica means
"the true image" so her veil
shows imprint of Christ. Thursday, July 23, 2009, 8:50 pm
Los Altos Library: While printing out Notes
about Christ's Passion & Veronica's Veil
Ann calls me behind the computer

Ann surprises me
at the Library and
gives me a ride home.

Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:28-10:35 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Georges Bizet / (arr. Pepe Romero)
Carmen: Suite, (1875), (Listen) (CD) (YouTube) Man gored to death by bull (7-10-2009)

Man gored to death in
Pamplona run of the bulls—
first in fourteen years. Friday, July 24, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Scanned Germany #687 "Mona Lisa" stamp
and typed "Mona Lisa" poem (7-22-1979)

Thirty years ago
in Paris, Mona Lisa
graced me with her smile.

Friday, July 24, 2009, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli
directs "Gigi" (1958)
starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan,
Maurice Chevalier, & Hermione Gingold

Maurice Chevalier's
singing cheered everyone
that we all applauded! Friday, July 24, 2009, 9:35-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli
directs "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944)
starring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien,
Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, & Tom Drake

Margaret O'Brien says
morbid things but her smiles
and singing are lovely.

Saturday, July 25, 2009, 11:30 am
Mountain View: Rudy phones and comes
over to my apartment bringing me a bag
of apple pears from his garden in Clovis

I tell Rudy to stop
his mantra "I'm a loser"
so he'd rid his woes. Saturday, July 25, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Newsweek's "Huston Smith's
Wonderful Life" & San Francisco Chronicle's
"Huston Smith: Rock Star of Religions Turns 90"

Huston Smith has lived
Tales of Wonder— the title
of his fourteenth book.

Sunday, July 26, 2009, 10:52-10:56 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Camille Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals: #7 Aquarium (1886)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Aquarium in zoo—
exotic fish swim slowly
in calmness and peace. Sunday, July 26, 2009, 11:47-11:50 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Roman Hofstetter,
Serenade in C (Quartet for Strings) (1777),
(Listen: Haydn Op. 3), CD, YouTube

Dryads, elves, and fairies
dancing to Hofstetter's
Serenade music.

Sunday, July 26, 2009, 11:54 am-12:01 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Patrick Doyle,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Potter's Waltz (Soundtrack), CD, YouTube

The human heart with
all its desires is hotter
than goblets of fire. Sunday, July 26, 2009, 1:04-1:31 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Joseph Haydn,
Symphony #101 in G major "The Clock" (1787)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Slow stroll in garden
then minuet dance in palace
to ticks of the clock.

Sunday, July 26, 2009, 2:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Potato salad,
spinach salad, fish fillets,
shrimp, cheese, and skim milk. Sunday, July 26, 2009, 5:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Notes: "Entering the Dark Ark of the Moment"

Dark Ark is not Noah's
but the treasure chest
containing golden silence.

Monday, July 27, 2009, 10:36-10:54 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Bedrich Smetana
(Listen) CD, YouTube
Ma Vlast: The Moldau, (1874)

If rivers and streams
are the veins of the earth,
is the ocean its heart? Monday, July 27, 2009, 11:00-11:03 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: George Gershwin (Listen) (CD)
YouTube, Promenade "Walking the dog" (1937) from
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers "Shall We Dance"

Fred & Ginger playing
cat and mouse on the ship's deck
walking their dogs.

Monday, July 27, 2009, 1:00-8:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Notes: "Entering the Dark Ark of the Moment"
Notes on poem from physical to metaphysical

From birth of universe
to man's desires and
final illumination. Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 10:06-10:22 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Symphony #7 in A major, Op. 92 (1812)
(Listen), CD, YouTube, Notes

Beethoven's rousing
music wakes up my mind
to work even harder.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 11:30 am
Mountain View: Read about "Merce Cunningham,
choreographer, dies at 90" in "Mercury News"
& NY Times; Stanford Rehearsal (3-10-2005)

Saw him at Cornell
and Stanford— he inspired me
to be poetic in dance. Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 1:00-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Searching for "Divine Mind", found "Sun Yolk"
painting that's surreal and beautiful (Enlarged)

At the crack of dawn—
the egg shell is broken and
sunlight floods the earth.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 1:00-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Found Leonardo's quote on divine mind
to add to Jorge Luis Borges' definition

The painter's mind is a copy
of the divine mind since
it can create freely. Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 1:00-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Focused on Notes: "Entering the Dark Ark"
and fell behind with past week's haikus

Typed twenty haikus
that I fell behind writing
during the last week.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 10:34-10:50 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Pablo de Sarasate
Carmen Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 25 (1883), Listen, (CD), YouTube
Phillip Huber's Manuel D'Exterity played it.

Phillip Huber played
this piece in his puppet show—
simply amazing! Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 1:52-2:45 pm
Mountain View to San Jose: Ride Bus #522
to Santa Clara St. & 4th Street; Reading book
"Mind & Life: Discussions with Dalai Lama
on the Nature of Reality" by Pier Luigi Luisi

Western scientists discuss
the nature of reality
with Buddhist monks.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 2:56 pm
San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (Ad),
"Schulz's Beethoven, Schroeder's Muse" (Photo)

Schroeder at the piano—
Snoppy stands up tall
when Beethoven is played. Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 3:00-8:00 pm
San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
"Schulz's Beethoven, Schroeder's Muse" (Photo)

Beethoven's music
heard while viewing Schroeder
in Schulz's comic strip.

Thursday, July 30, 2009, 12:09-12:20 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Paul Dukas,
Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897)
Listen, CD, YouTube: Mickey Mouse

Don't dabble in sorcery
if you don't know how
to control their effects. Thursday, July 30, 2009, 3:00-8:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Formatted 44 photos from yesterday's visit
to "Schulz's Beethoven, Schroeder's Muse"

Schulz, Schroeder & Beethoven#151;
music and art to
inspire mind & heart.

Friday, July 31, 2009, 10:07-10:09 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K525 (1787)
Listen, CD, YouTube

Little Night Music
cheers us up with ascending
and descending notes. Friday, July 31, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Scanned Schulz's Beethoven Ad and arranged
Peanuts comic strip horizontally in Photoshop

No photos at Exhibit
but found Peanuts comics
in newspaper ad.