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.

Sunday, March 1, 2009, 12:05-12:20 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Johannes Brahms Symphony #1 in C minor, Op. 68 (1876) (Listen) (CD) (YouTube) Brahms took twenty years to write his First Symphony some called Beethoven's Tenth.	Sunday, March 1, 2009, 1:50-2:30 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Long's and Fiesta Market Cauliflower, green onions, vine tomatoes, garlic and onion powder.
Sunday, March 1, 2009, 2:35-3:20 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Safeway (California Street) Red grapes, raisin bran, clam chowder, instant oatmeal, angel cake, skim milk.	Sunday, March 1, 2009, 8:00-10:10 pm Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks: Gus Van Sant directs "Milk" (2008), starring Sean Penn and Josh Brolin No wonder he won Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Harvey Milk.
Monday, March 2, 2009, 8:00 am Home in Mountain View: Waking up and recalling a strange Dream of woman resembling Statue of Liberty Her hair sparkled red golden rays— Statue of Liberty— and she hugged me!	Monday, March 2, 2009, 12:40-12:50 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Joseph Haydn Symphony #101 in D "The Clock" (1798) (Listen) (CD) (YouTube) The clock tells us time— the earth rotating each day in twenty-four hours.
Monday, March 2, 2009, 7:30-9:15 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto Fritz Lang directs "Scarlet Street" (1945) starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett & Dan Duryea Each painting is a love affair as artist is crushed by a femme fatale.	Monday, March 2, 2009, 9:25-11:10 pm Stanford Theatre: Roy Rowland directs "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" (1945) with Edward G. Robinson & Margaret O'Brien Selma gives her calf to farmer who lost livestock— heart of tender grapes!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 12:38-12:44 pm Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Andante Cantabile, String Quartet #1 in D, Op. 11, (1871) (Listen), CD, YouTube Tchaikovsky's tenderness comes through when hearing this beautiful music.	Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 3:10-3:18 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony #5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1807) (Listen) (CD) (YouTube) These four notes wake us up to do something grand while we live on this earth.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 12:43-12:55 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Antonio Vivaldi, Guitar Concerto in D major, RV93 (Listen), CD, YouTube (circa 1725) After Vivaldi's Four Seasons, listeners love this piece the best.	Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 8:00-8:55 pm Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall, Mark Doty, 2009 Visiting Mohr Poet Poetry Reading to packed audience Doty read ten poems full of passion and pathos— some brought much laughter.
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 12:06-12:15 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach (1749) Cantata Chorales: Sleepers Awake, BWV 645 (Listen), CD, (YouTube) If our deep sleep is more real than the waking state, why wake up at all?	Thursday, March 5, 2009, 12:15-12:18 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Felix Mendelssohn (1845) Songs Without Words: Bee's Wedding, Op. 67, #4 (Listen), CD, (YouTube) Spinning song of bees buzzing as they gather nectar for honeycomb.
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 12:26 pm Home in Mountain View: Watching a hummingbird at eye level from my kitchen window as it flies from flower to flower clusters on eucalyptus tree Fluttering of wings— a hummingbird gathering nectar from the tree.	Thursday, March 5, 2009, 4:00-5:30 pm Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University Julian Bell, Painter & Critic: Verbal Bubblewrap; Or, The Contradictions of Art Writing" An artwork fascinates him when he feels punches in his solar plexsus!
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 6:00-6:55 pm Art Library, Stanford University Reading about gorosoe in NY Times (3-5-2009) "In South Korea, Drinks Are on the Maple Tree" Doseon got enlightened meditating for months under a maple tree.	Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:00-9:30 pm Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford University Japanese Anime films: Mamoru Hosoda directs "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" (2006) She leaps back in time to change events that happened for a better outcome.
Friday, March 6, 2009, 1:06-1:40 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony #7 in A, Op.92 (1812) (Listen) (CD) (YouTube) Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra— Bravo!	Friday, March 6, 2009, 7:30-9:00 pm Friends' House, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading— Read poem "Hymn to the Sun" The Real Sun is seen when our eyes are sunlike— its beauty is everywhere!
Saturday, March 7, 2009, 3:00-5:00 pm Art Libray, Stanford University Found "per" words in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, 26.1, 26.19, 26.20-21 The pure perfection... performed upon thee... whose coming is unknown.	Saturday, March 7, 2009, 5:00-6:00 pm Art Libray, Stanford University "Per" words in Emily Dickinson's Poem 79 and Poem 650 Perhaps you're going too! Who know?— enlightened to perceive New Periods.
Sunday, March 8, 2009, 3:00-7:50 pm Art Libray, Stanford University Reading Bayley's "Lost Language of Symbolism" on Perun, Sun God worshipped by the Slavs Perun the Slavic Sun God, Peru, Children of the Sun, Paris, the City of Lights.	Sunday, March 8, 2009, 8:00-9:50 pm Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks: Marc Forster directs "Quantum of Solace" (2008), starring Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko Most violent car chase I've seen in James Bond films with tons of action.
Monday, March 9, 2009, 2:15-2:35 am Bus #22 Palo Alto to Mountain View Forgot to get off bus at Ortega Ave, and 20 minutes walk home from El Monte Ave. This walk did me good— Found a surprise ending for poem "Paris Opera".	Monday, March 9, 2009, 2:27-2:30 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Dmitri Shostakovich, Jazz Suite #2: Waltz, Op. 50b (1938) (Listen), CD, YouTube I love to dance to this tune with my true love around a rose garden.
Monday, March 9, 2009, 7:30-9:15 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto: William Wyler directs "Wuthering Heights" (1939) with Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald Emily Bronte's novel— a tragic romance adapted for the screen.	Monday, March 9, 2009, 9:25-11:05 pm Stanford Theatre: Alexander Korda produced "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1935) starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon & Raymond Massey Leslie Howard— so brave compared to his role in Of Human Bondage.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 11:00 am-12:07 pm Stanford Margaret Jacks Hall, Terrace Room Mark Doty's Colloquium: Using Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space to read C. P. Cavafy's Poetry Cavafy writes about rooms, houses, spaces in "One Night" and "Afternoon Sun".	Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 1:30 pm-1:00 am Stanford Art Library & Green Library Reading Virgil's Aeneid, Eclogue, Georgics on bees & typing passages for notes on beekeeper As bees drink the air they draw in divine essence that fills all of space.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 10:51-10:56 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op. 43 (1801) (Listen) CD, YouTube Anagrams for Prometheus: Supreme Hot, Purest Home, He Most Pure, Puts Om Here.	Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 2:30-3:00 pm Stanford Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 212 Conference with Mark Doty before class: Discussed latest poem "Paris Opera" My prose poem format made it too dense to read— write it in stanzas.
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 4:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Completing Notes to Poem: "Paris Opera" Bach's "Sleepers Awake", Beethoven's Symphony #5 Beethoven's four notes in his Fifth Symphony tell us to "Wake up!"	Thursday, March 12, 2009, 11:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM George Noory interviews David Sereda (video) on "Zero-Point Energy & Harmonic Codes" Secrets coded in stones if we could read them like films in DVDs.
Friday, March 13, 2009, 2:00-5:00 pm Stanford Humanities Center: "Music and the Brain" Symposium "Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts" Jonathan Berger, Daniel Levitin, & Stephen Hinton Levitin talks on expectation and surprise in music. We listen to composers who surprise us and propel us upward.	Friday, March 13, 2009, 5:00 pm Stanford Humanities Center: "Music and the Brain" Jonathan Berger, tells me of Minsky's "Music, Mind, and Meaning" (Computer Music Journal, Fall 1981, Vol. 5). I tell him Beethoven's 4th note is "turiya" Beethoven's fourth note in his Fifth Symphony is Enlightenment!
Friday, March 13, 2009, 7:30-9:35 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto: Frank Borzage directs "Seventh Heaven" (silent, 1927) starring Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell From the sewers and streets Chico and Diane climbed up to Seventh Heaven.	Friday, March 13, 2009, 9:45-11:45 pm Stanford Theatre: Henry King directs "Seventh Heaven" (1937) starring James Stewart & Simone Simon (photos) She looks luminous— her eyes and smiles so much like angel in heaven.
Saturday, March 14, 2009, 10:10-10:20 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Evgeny Kissin plays Ludwig van Beethoven Rage Over a Lost Penny, Op. 129 (1795) (Listen) CD, YouTube (Dylan Thomas poem) Rage against losing sight of the One in our pursuit of the many.	Saturday, March 14, 2009, 12:04-12:30 pm Riding Shopping Express Bus to Stanford Today is Einstein's 120th birthday. Quote: "Imagination is everything. Imagination is more important than knowledge" Einstein's leap across space-time in one bold stroke— Imagination!
Sunday, March 15, 2009, 2:00-2:30 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Fiesta Market (San Antonio Rd.) Green grapes, blueberries green onions, red radishes, and large tomatoes.	Sunday, March 15, 2009, 2:40-3:30 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Safeway (California Street) Eggs, granola bars, nacho corn chips, orange juice, stringed cheese, and skim milk.
Monday, March 16, 2009, 7:30-10:05 pm Stanford Theatre: Laurence Olivier directs "Hamlet" (1948) starring Laurence Olivier, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Jean Simmons Shakespearean classic that won Academy Awards for Best film & actor.	Monday, March 16, 2009, 10:15-11:50 pm Stanford Theatre: Anthony Asquith directs "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1952) starring Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison Edith Evans Funny comedy of Oscar Wilde's play— women in love with Ernest.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 12:30-12:34 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexandre Tharaud plays Erik Satie, Gymnopedie #1 (1888) (Listen), (CD) YouTube Relaxing music in a Paris salon where ideas are discussed.	Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 1:03-1:32 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844) Listen, CD, YouTube, 1st performed: by Ferdinand David, Leipzig, March 13, 1845 Guarneri violin used by Ferdinand David went to Jascha Heifetz.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 7:30-8:00 pm Mountain View: WebMapSocial Meeting, Google Building 42: Ali Moiz, COO, Peanut Lab Media "Virtual Goods & Virtual Currencies" $2 billion spent last year on virtual goods on the Internet.	Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 8:10-8:50 pm Mountain View: WebMapSocial Meeting, Google Building 42: Gary Geller, Deputy Manager, NASA Ecological Forecasting, "TerraLook: Model Web" Satellite images for park rangers and ecology studies.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 12:39-1:00 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1919) (Listen), (CD) YouTube Inspired by music from three centuries ago he wrote this fantasia.	Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 1:03-1:37 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Joseph Haydn Symphony #101 in D "The Clock" (1798) (Listen) (CD) (YouTube) Haydn had no children so they called him "Father of the Symphony".
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 2:15-6:25 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Finished Notes to Poem: Paris Opera Editing texts so no images are cropped in printing. Opera contains three Sun Gods Op— Apollo of the Greeks, Per— Perun of the Slavs, Ra— Ra of the Egyptians.	Thursday, March 19, 2009, 7:30-9:45 pm Stanford Pigott Hall, Bldg 260, Room 113 Mutluluk (Bliss) (Turkey, 2007) directed by Abdullah Oguz, starring Özgü Namal, Talat Bulut, Murat Han Beautiful seascape and landscape— flock of sheep spiraling like stars.
Friday, March 20, 2009, 1:11 am The Oval, Stanford University Waiting for Shuttle Bus to CalTrain Depot Spring Equinox (3-20-2009, 11:44 UT) Flowers in the fields will all bloom in good time into the source of spring.	Friday, March 20, 2009, 3:00-5:00 pm Art Library, Stanford University Writing Poem: "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" Interpreting the opening four notes Waking-Dream-Sleep-Turiya— the fourth state chanting OM— "Be Awake!"
Friday, March 20, 2009, 7:30-8:50 pm Stanford Theatre: Mitchell Leisen directs "Death Takes a Holiday" (1934) starring Frederic March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing If you're not afraid of going to sleep, then you'll have no fear of death.	Friday, March 20, 2009, 9:00-10:05 pm Stanford Theatre: Edgar G. Ulmer directs "The Black Cat" (1952) starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Jacqueline Wells Frankenstein and Dracula stars paired in their first film on satanic worship.
Saturday, March 21, 2009, 10:11-10:25 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach (1749) Cantata Chorales: Sleepers Awake, BWV 645 (Listen), CD, (YouTube) Our ego ties us to Plato's Cave of Shadows— O Sleepers Awake!	Saturday, March 21, 2009, 11:55 am-5:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Notes to Poem: "Beethoven Fifth" Learning of Beethoven in Space Music on Voyager Probes, Crater on Mercury, and Beethoven Burst Supernova!
Sunday, March 22, 2009, 12:01-12:13 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast: The Moldau (1874) (Listen), CD, (YouTube) Two small streams flowing through woods and meadows merging into one river.	Sunday, March 22, 2009, 2:00-3:00 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Safeway (California Street) Frozen food specials still available Grilled salmon fillets, frozen fish sticks, fillets, and Swedish meatballs.
Sunday, March 22, 2009, 4:50-5:45 pm Los Altos Library: Chance meeting with Greg Reppen. He enjoys Notes to my poems. Recommends drinking raw juices for health. Juice your vegetables— No sense talking of enlightenment when you're dead.	Sunday, March 22, 2009, 4:50-5:45 pm Los Altos, Los Altos Library: Photo: Worm Moon Over the Sierra the March Full Moon (3-11-2009, 2:38 UT) Over the Mountains, the Worm Moon rises while earthworms stir the soil.
Monday, March 23, 2009, 11:10-11:19 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony #6 in F, Op. 68 "Pastoral" (1808) (Listen) (CD) (YouTube), Analysis In the countryside he felt at home with Nature's bounty and grandeur.	Monday, March 23, 2009, 12:20-12:29 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Tomasso Albinoni, Adagio in G minor (Remo Giazotto, 1958), (Listen), CD, YouTube Whatever was found he made it better writing this soulful music.
Monday, March 23, 2009, 7:30-8:45 pm Stanford Theatre: James Whale directs "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, and Ernest Thesiger Triggered by lightning, two men making a woman— Bride of Frankenstein.	Monday, March 23, 2009, 8:55-10:00 pm Stanford Theatre: Phil Goldstone directs "The Sin of Nora Moran" (1933) starring Zita Johann, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Dinehart, and John Miljan Hallucinatory film with flashbacks and dreams making it unique.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 12:20-12:34 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Strauss, Jr. "Roses from the South Waltz", Op. 388, (1880) (Listen), CD, YouTube Waltz with the Four Winds— North & South spinning faster than East & West Winds.	Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 1:50-1:56 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Emmanuel Chabrier, Habañera (1885) (Listen), CD, YouTube Tranquil music calm for reading and relaxing by the lake or park.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 11:10-11:30 am KDFC 102.1 FM: George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (1924) (Listen), CD, YouTube Mood music for those drinking to drown their sorrow— Rhapsody in Blue.	Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 3:00-5:00 pm Music Library, Stanford University Reading books on Beethoven copying quotes on Oriental metaphysics I am that which is. I am everything that is, that was, that will be.
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 10:48-11:05 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Maurice Ravel, Boléro (1928), (NY Times, 4-8-2008) (Listen), CD, YouTube Monotony or innovation or perhaps case of dementia.	Thursday, March 26, 2009, 2:00-2:40 pm Gentle Dental, Palo Alto— Dr. John R. Glerum glued back crown from tooth #21 back on Tooth 21 crown fell off while flossing— now it's cemented back on.
Friday, March 27, 2009, 7:30-9:30 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Andr‡s Schiff plays Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata #14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 #2 "Moonlight" (1801), (Listen), CD, YouTube Moonlight's first movement "must be played alla breve" to keep it moving.	Friday, March 27, 2009, 2:00-5:00 pm Music Library, Stanford University Typing notes from Beethoven books on his philosophical & religious beliefs. Letter #408 (1809) on his readings Beethoven loved learning— surveyed the best and wisest minds of every age.
Friday, March 27, 2009, 7:30-9:30 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto King Vidor directs "The Crowd" (1928) with James Murray & Eleanor Boardman Struggles and setbacks of family in New York trying to survive.	Friday, March 27, 2009, 9:40-11:00 pm Stanford Theatre: King Vidor directs "Our Daily Bread" (1934), starring Tom Keene, Karen Morley, & Barbara Pepper A theme from Sunrise— City gal tries to seduce farmer from his wife.
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 10:48 am Home in Mountain View— Looking out of kitchen window watching giant crow chasing bluejay Eucalyptus branch swaying in the wind— No, it's crow chasing bluejay!	Saturday, March 28, 2009, 11:08-11:15 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D major (1680) (Listen), CD, YouTube Monk's meditation made this music majestic for us to enjoy!
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 12:22 pm El Camino Real, Palo Alto Riding Shuttle Bus to Stanford Seeing a pine tree inspiring me The sap of gold in the tree is the same river that's flowing through me.	Saturday, March 28, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm Green Library, Stanford University Typing notes from Beethoven books— Beethoven's Conversation Book of 1820 The moral law within us and the starry sky above us— Kant!!!
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 6:09-6:13 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Harold Arlen, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1939) (Listen), CD, YouTube Kansas scene with this song in Wizard of Oz directed by King Vidor.	Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8:15 pm Showers Drive, Mountain View Waiting for Bus #35 to Palo Alto Seeing New Moon in the Northern sky Crescent New Moon sails in the sky like a ship or eyelid half asleep.
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 11:08-11:12 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro: Voi che sapete (1786) (Listen), CD, YouTube This peppy music is great for a minuet dance in the palace.	Sunday, March 29, 2009, 11:10-11:17 am Yo-Yo Ma plays Antonio Vivaldi (1725) Four Seasons: Winter, Largo, Op. 8 #4 (Listen), CD, (YouTube) His cello playing sounds more jagged than this piece on the violin.
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 2:10 pm San Jose, Bernal Road Santa Teresa County Park, Hidden Springs Trail (Hike Photos) Red-tail hawk flies by as we begin our hike on the Hidden Springs Trail.	Sunday, March 29, 2009, 2:38 pm San Jose, Bernal Road Santa Teresa County Park, Hidden Springs Trail (Hike Photos) North wind blows on grass as if it's brushing the hair of Mother Nature.
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 5:50 pm San Jose, Manila & Camino Verde Drive Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, Folklore of Santa Teresa Spring (Photo) Chief shot feathered arrow up the sky— a prayer to heal his dying tribe.	Sunday, March 29, 2009, 6:00 pm San Jose, Manila & Camino Verde Drive Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, Legend of Santa Teresa Spring (Photo) Black robed woman from storm clouds unveiled spring water that healed his people.
Monday, March 30, 2009, 10:22-10:44 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Robert Schumann Kinderszenen, Op. 15 (1838) (Listen: 1, 2) (CD) (YouTube) Dreams and reverie from childhood bring back many pleasant memories.	Monday, March 30, 2009, 1:04-1:33 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony #1 in C major, Op. 21 (1800) (Listen) (CD) (YouTube), Analysis Beethoven's First Symphony— an acorn that grew to a mighty oak.
Monday, March 30, 2009, 7:30-9:35 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto: Billy Wilder directs "The Apartment" (1960) with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, & Fred MacMurray He stood up at last to his boss as love is more important than his job.	Monday, March 30, 2009, 1:04-1:33 pm Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs "It Should Happen to You" (1954), starring Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, & Peter Lawford She made a name for herself renting the billboard at Columbus Circle.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:42-11:48 am KDFC 102.1 FM: George Frideric Handel Serse, HWV 40: Ombra mai fu "Largo" (1738) (Listen) (CD) (YouTube) Never has there been a tree shade more dear and lovely or more gentle.	Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 1:00-2:15 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Milk Pail (2585 California Street) and Safeway (2580 California Street) Green onions, green grapes, radishes, strawberries, salmon fillets and milk.

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