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.

Thursday, October 1, 2009, 12:10-12:29 pm 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 Chopins shows genius in this Variations on Mozart's opera.	Thursday, October 1, 2009, 5:00-6:40 pm Stanford Humanities Center: Joan DeJean Trustee Professor, University of Pennsylvania. "What Was the Enlightenment?— The Case of Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes" European Enlightement began with Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes
Thursday, October 1, 2009, 7:30-9:30 pm Stanford Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock directs "Marnie" (1964), (Trailer), with Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, & Louise Latham Is Marnie a sex story, mystery, detective story, or romance? Watch it.	Thursday, October 1, 2009, 9:40-11:30 pm Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs "The Trouble with Harry" (1955), (Trailer), with Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, & Mildred Natwick Vermont fall foliage— three in village claimed to have killed Harry Rogers.
Friday, October 2, 2009, 11:09-11:20 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Borodin, In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880), (Listen), CD, YouTube Camel caravan trekked across the Asian plains trading silk and tea.	Friday, October 2, 2009, 11:46-12:05 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Ralph Vaughan WIlliams, (Listen), CD, YouTube, George Meredith Poem, The Lark Ascending (1914) The Lark ascending— bringing our dreams and hopes up to heavenly realms.
Friday, October 2, 2009, 2:00-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center Finished Haikus for September 6 Hike at Forest Nisene Marks State Park Printed at Los Altos Library (5:50 pm) Took three days to finish haikus with photos of Forest Nisene hike.	Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:30-7:40 pm Friends' House, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto Waverley poet Bob Genevro tells me his deer sighting on Skyline Boulevard. We chat about tightrope walkers Blondin & Philippe Petit This deer walked between traffic balancing on tightrope of yellow lines!
Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:45-9:30 pm Friends' House, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading— Featured Reader: Charlotte Muse read 14 poems from her book & new poems She was like a river, lady sleep, violin woman, bat rhapsody.	Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:45-9:30 pm Friends' House, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading— Read my poem "An Augustinian Awakening: Peter Milton's Interiors VI: Soundings" Augustine found number insights in Bible as I did in this art.
Saturday, October 3, 2009, 11:08-11:11 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays Jean Sibelius Romance, Op. 78 #2 (1919) Listen, CD, (YouTube) How romantic to have Joshua Bell play Romance by Jean Sibelius.	Saturday, October 3, 2009, 2:00-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center Completing September Haikus and reading Alicia de Larrocha who died last week at 86 Her legs were too short to reach the pedals but her fingers played with flair.
Sunday, October 4, 2009, 10:29-10:32 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Xue-Fei Yang plays Narciso Yepes Romance for Guitar, Forbidden Games (1952), (Listen), CD, YouTube My heart melts whenever this Romance tune is played from Forbidden Games.	Sunday, October 4, 2009, 2:00-6:25 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Send emails to friends sharing "Hike Haikus" with "Happy Moon of Falling Leaves" greetings Emailed greetings of October's Hunter's Moon or Moon of Falling Leaves.
Sunday, October 4, 2009, 8:00-10:00 pm Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks Todd Phillips directs The Hangover (2009) starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, & Justin Bartha Four friends go to Vegas for wild party, got drunk forgetting it all.	Monday, October 5, 2009, 12:19-12:34 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony #6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral" (1808) (Listen), CD, YouTube Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony was inspired by walks in the woods.
Sunday, October 4, 2009, 6:12 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Denise responds to "Moon of Falling Leaves" email with her poem "fall is in the air" When I expel, all hesitation is gone. Such is the nature of relief.	Monday, October 5, 2009, 3:30-10:00 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Send response poem "all is in the fair" to Denise's poem "fall is in the air" I dwell inward— meditation is here. Such is the nature of a leaf.
Sunday, October 4, 2009, 6:12 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Denise responds to "Moon of Falling Leaves" email with her poem "fall is in the air" feeling the thickness in the air Do you feel the thickness of it all? My breath draws it all in—	Monday, October 5, 2009, 10:50 pm Stanford Green Library: Reading story "Cards' Pujols stuck on 47 homers since Sept. 9" (San Francisco Examiner, Oct. 5, 2009) Tony LaRussa on less homers in thicker air (data) Worst time to hit home runs, the air is thicker, it's cooler, the balls don't carry.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 8:00-10:00 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony #3 in Eb, Op. 55 "Eroica" (1803) Listen, CD, YouTube (Platonic Lambda=55) Beethoven's Eroica Opus 55 sings Platonic Lambda.	Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 2:00-4:00 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Fiesta Produce Market and Safeway (2580 California Street) Radishes, tomatoes, strawberries, red grapes, fish fillet, cheese, skim milk.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 11:55-11:58 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Dmitri Shostakovich "Jazz Suite #2" (1938) (Listen), CD, YouTube Lovely waltz to dance around the ballroom or perhaps the Milky Way.	Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 12:53-12:59 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach, "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" BWV 147 (1723) (Listen), CD, YouTube The joy of man's desiring— good food and shelter and having good friends.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 3:00-10:00 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Notes on poem "all is in the prayer" Wild idea: What's before the Big Bang? Before the Big Bang was God's praying this universe into Being!	Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 3:00-10:00 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Notes on poem "all is in the prayer" Thickness of Air & Flight of Baseballs Home runs are harder to hit in September except for Babe Ruth.
Thursday, October 8, 2009, 1:04-1:35 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony #4 in A major "Italian", Op. 90 (1833), (Listen), CD, YouTube Felix Mendelssohn's grandfather was Moses— a great philosopher.	Thursday, October 8, 2009, 2:00-3:30 pm Mountain View: Grant Road Friend takes me grocery shopping at 99 Ranch Market & Nob Hill Foods Bamboo shoots, bean curd, lotus roots, jumbo eggs, sesame sticks, peas & corn.
Thursday, October 8, 2009, 4:30-5:00 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Fiesta Market. Nearby is a Redbud tree with various colored heart-shaped leaves Leaves changing colors green to orange to yellow— "quickness of it all"	Thursday, October 8, 2009, 6:00-10:00 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Scanned four Redbud leaves for Notes. Redbud's Latin name: Cercis canadensis Cercis canadennis anagrams— "Scenic airs ascend", "Scenic Airs Dances".
Friday, October 9, 2009, 11:18-11:33 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Gustavo Dudamel conducts Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony #7 in A major, Op. 92 (1812), (Listen) CD, YouTube, Notes: Wagner once danced to Beethoven's Symphony #7 with Liszt at the piano Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven with great verve and passion.	Friday, October 9, 2009, 7:10-7:16 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays Antonin Dvorak, Rusalka: Song to the Moon (1900) (Listen), CD, YouTube Nasa Crashes Rocket Into Moon, Video Serenade to the Moon before NASA rocket blasts a hole in it!
Friday, October 9, 2009, 1:30-5:10 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center Received 4:09 am email from Peter Milton on my poem "An Augustinian Awakening" He sends latest print Dress Rehearsal with another cat I've not seen.	Friday, October 9, 2009, 1:30-5:10 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center Poem: "Mother Bird in the Wild Branches" "Can the Mind Affect Reality?" Did Mother Bird on earth become Bird Cloud in air because I willed it so?
Saturday, October 10, 2009, 11:42-11:46 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Katona Twins play Manuel de Falla, La Vida Breve (1913), (Listen), CD, YouTube Life is short. Art long— Study your craft without ceasing as if in prayer.	Saturday, October 10, 2009, 1:30-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center Notes: "Mother Bird in the Wild Branches" Photos for poets, composers, and birds Mother Bird in the tree is now soaring free higher into the sky!
Sunday, October 11, 2009, 12:14-12:19 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Gil Shaham plays Franz Schubert "Schwanengesang" Serenade, D 957 #4, Ständchen (1828) (Listen), (CD), YouTube, Song (after ballroom dancing, came home & heard this on the radio) Schubert's Serenade in D sweeps me skyward like "The Swan" of Saint-Saëns.	Sunday, October 11, 2009, 2:15 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library "Power of poetry reinforced for Illinois poet laureate Kevin Stein" (Poem: "To Illinois' Gold Star Mothers, Who Lost a Child in Service of Country") (Peoria Journal Star, Oct. 10, 2009) Eyes as lush as June lilies, hair as wild as the river after spring rains.
Sunday, October 11, 2009, 8:00-10:30 pm Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks Michael Bay directs Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Ramón RodrĠguez, & John Turturro Robot rumblings, metallic warriors— fight between good & evil.	Sunday, October 11, 2009, 10:55 pm Stanford University, Green Library After seeing "Transformers 2" film with Rudy, found Peter Milton's 3:37 am email. He wants to post my poem & Notes on his web site. What a joy to connect with a great artist to discuss his life's work.
Monday, October 12, 2009, 1:03-1:34 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Jonathan Biss plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto #21 in C, K. 467 (1785) (Listen), CD, YouTube Elvira Madigan film with Mozart theme made this music famous.	Monday, October 12, 2009, 2:00-2:42 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Fiesta Market & Milk Pail. Another takes me to Fidelity Investments (4:30-5:10 pm) to consolidate two accounts Roma tomatoes, green grapes, radishes, red pepper, red-leaf lettuce.
Monday, October 12, 2009, 1:03-1:34 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Jonathan Biss plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto #21 in C, K. 467 (1785) (Listen), CD, YouTube Elvira Madigan film with Mozart theme made this music famous.	Monday, October 12, 2009, 2:00-2:42 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Fiesta Market & Milk Pail. Another takes me to Fidelity Investments (4:30-5:10 pm) to consolidate two accounts Roma tomatoes, green grapes, radishes, red pepper, red-leaf lettuce.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 1:02-1:38 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony #40 in G minor, K. 550 (1788) (Listen), CD, YouTube Eine Kleine Nachtmusik tunes begin and end symphony of ascending & descending notes.	Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 2:00-4:00 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Target (Showers Drive), Lucky, & 99 Ranch Market (Grant Road) Nonfat milk, red grapes, oack of five garlic bulbs, firm tofu and bean curd.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 7:00-9:00 pm Stanford History Corner, Bldg 200, Room 002 Professor Conrad Rudolph (UC Riverside) "Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela" (Book) 1000 miles pilgrimage from France to Spain to purify the soul!	Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 9:20 pm-1:00 am Stanford Art Library & Green Library Reading about Professor Conrad Rudolph and his medieval scholarship in art (Book) as well as on Santiago de Compostela Hugh of Saint Victor's Mystic Ark helps us find the center point in art.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 11:48-11:58 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Frederic Chopin, Piano Concerto #1 in E minor, Op. 11 (1830) (Listen), CD, YouTube Chopin's music is calming to listen to if you wish to relax.	Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 2:15-5:10 pm Los Altos Hill: Foothill Krause Center Notes: "13 Ways of Looking at Completion" Understanding astrological ages effect on Earth Taurus and Cretan bull, Aries and Moses horns, Pisces and Christ's fish.

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