Haikus: April 2010

HAIKUS: April 2010

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.

Thursday, April 1, 2010, 1:02-1:40 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Simon Trpceski plays
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Listen, CD, YouTube
Piano Concerto #2, Op. 18 (1901)

Tolstoy could not get rid
of his writer's block
but a hypnotist did! Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6:20-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Bought Vantec Card Reader at Fry's ($12.99)
that read 76 photos from 4 GB Centon chip

Photos from California
Academy of Sciences and
DeYoung Museum retrieved.

Friday, April 2, 2010, 11:54-11:57 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Manuel de Falla
La Vida Breve (1913),
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Life is short. Art is long—
Find the eternal so
Art and you are One. Friday, April 2, 2010, 1:45-2:45; 3:30-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library & Stanford Art Library
Printed Coast-to-Coast.am schedules
and poems for Waverley Writers reading.

Missed last month's poetry
reading at Waverley Writers
because of Ikiru film.

Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:40-9:30 pm
Friends' House, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading— Read
"Three Epiphanies of Gold" & "The Golden Bough"

Eureka moment—
three pots of gold found
in atoms, stars, and ourselves! Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:40-9:30 pm
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading—
Jane Kos reads poem "Duality" about sculptor
whose art focuses on the present moment

Sculptor piles one stone
on another till the last
one topples them all.

Saturday, April 3, 2010, 10:51-10:58 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #2 in D, Op. 36 (1802)
(Listen), (CD) (YouTube: Karajan)

Beethoven's Second Symphony—
filled with sunshine
while he was depressed. Saturday, April 3, 2010, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to "Giacometti's Walking Man"
and "Every Step You Make"

Poems published in Fresh Hot Bread—
need to add notes to poems
if they click on links.

Saturday, April 3, 2010, 7:30-7:33 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: George Gershwin
Promenade "Walking the dog" (1937)
(Listen), (CD) (YouTube: Fred & Ginger)

Fred and Ginger walking
their dogs on the ship's deck
in Shall We Dance film. Sunday, April 4, 2010, 12:30-3:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett
interviews Dr. Louann Brizendine (Web site);
"Brain Differences" (Male Brain, Female Brain)

Man uses logic
instead of emotional
brain to solve problems.

Sunday, April 4, 2010, 12:24-12:28 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang, D 957: #4, Ständchen (1828)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Schubert's Serenade
soothes the heart in sorrow
and uplifts the soul. Sunday, April 4, 2010, 2:30-3:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Walnuts, Brussels sprouts,
green beans, potato salad,
canola oil, pickles,
and cranberry juice.

Sunday, April 4, 2010, 5:30-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Reading Easter, Easter myth, Iesus,
Ishtar, Eastre, Easter bunny, Hare,
White Rabbit, Moon Rabbit

Fertility goddess
Ishtar or Eastre came
before Easter Bunny? Sunday, April 4, 2010, 10:10-12:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reading "Thine Is the Kingdom", Book Review
Diarmaid MacCulloch's "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years" (NY Times, April 4, 2010)

Exploring the history
of Christianity
with an open mind.

Monday, April 5, 2010, 12:24-12:28 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ilan Eshkeri
Stardust (2007)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Music, Film)

From dust we came and
to dust we return— not
to earth but to the stars. Monday, April 5, 2010, 6:00-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to "Giacometti's Walking Man"
and "Every Step You Make"

Λ is the 11th
Greek letter— symbol
of rebirth and renewal.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 12:24-12:24 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Mikhail Pletnev
plays Edvard Grieg, Op. 65, #6
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (1897),
(Listen), CD, YouTube

The trolls are romping
and celebrating Grieg's
wedding day in his house. Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 6:30-10:05 pm
Stanford University, Annenberg Auditorium
"La Danse" film; Q&A with director Fred Wiseman,
ballet dancers Muriel Maffre & Pierre-François Vilanoba from San Francisco Ballet (& POB)

Insightful scenes
of dancers rehearsing
before onstage performance.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 2:23-2:33 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jacques Offenbach
Orpheus in the Underworld Overture, (1858)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Orpheus in the underworld
singing his heart out
to claim back his bride. Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 6:30-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to Poem: Every Step You Make
Love that is invisible & Klimt's art

True love is like sunshine
giving us warmth and
illumined freedom.

Thursday, April 8, 2010, 12:14-12:19 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi
"Bella notte" (Beautiful Night) (2003)
CD, (Listen), YouTube

Beautiful night when
the crescent New Moon
is reborn in the night sky. Thursday, April 8, 2010, 6:30-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University
"Picasso, Africa, Pornography, & Darwin:
Les Demoiselles d' Avignon Reconsidered"

Picasso's art based on works
of Carl Heinrich Stratz
and Leo Frobenius.

Friday, April 9, 2010, 1:30-1:32 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Nino Rota
The Godfather, (1972)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Nino Rota composed
music for Fellini films
and The Godfather. Friday, April 9, 2010, 2:30-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
"Easter Bunny Hunt": Images for Peter Rabbit,
Peter Cottontail, Br'er Rabbit, White Rabbit,
Hare in the Moon, and Moon Rabbit

Moon Rabbit pounding
his Elixir understands
the meaning of Easter.

Friday, April 9, 2010, 4:30-5:30 pm
Stanford University, Florence Moore Hall
Daniel Jonas discusses Fernando Pessoa's
"The Reaper" (1914) comparing it with
Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" (1803)

Portugese poet compares
Pessoa's response poem
to Wordsworth's "Reaper" Friday, April 9, 2010, 5:30-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Florence Moore Hall
Shared insights on "School of Athens" poster
on lounge wall with resident fellow Greg Watkins
using Dante's four levels of interpretation

Plato and Aristotle—
Timaeus & Ethics
One and Many.

Friday, April 9, 2010, 7:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre:
William Wyler directs "Dodwsorth" (1936)
starring Walter Houston, Mary Astor,
Ruth Chatterton, & David Niven

Wife flirts in Europe
ignoring devoted husband
who finds his true love. Friday, April 9, 2010, 9:25-11:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Leo McCarey
directs "Make Way for Tomorrow" (1937)
starring Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi,
Fay Bainter, & Thomas Mitchell

Elderly couple
shuffled around homes
of their ungrateful children.

Saturday, April 10, 2010, 1:45 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
"Poet and Anti-Poet" on Charles Bernstein
(By Daisy Fried, NY Times, April 11, 2010)

Elements should have
ended with Nobelium—
NO for negation! Saturday, April 10, 2010, 2:30 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Read Charles Bernstein's April 1999 article
"Against National Poetry Month As Such"

National Poetry Month
seems to be more about
the sponsors than poetry.

Sunday, April 11, 2010, 11:10-11:16 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: George Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow (1913)
(Listen), CD, (You Tube: 1, 2)

Killed at Battle of Somme,
this tone poem made
George Butterworth immortal. Sunday, April 11, 2010, 2:15-3:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me
grocery shopping in the rain at Lucky,
Milk Pail & Safeway (2580 California Street)

Instant oatmeal, nonfat milk,
wheat bread, crab meat, yogurt,
stringed cheese, green grapes.

Sunday, April 11, 2010, 5:00-7:45 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Catch up on haikus and Notes
to poem "Easter Bunny Hunt"

Fertility goddesses
went to Underworld
are linked to Easter. Sunday, April 11, 2010, 8:00-10:15 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium
John Lee Hancock directs "The Blind Side" (2009)
with Quinton Aaron & Sandra Bullock

Mother raises homeless kid
inspiring him to become
a football player.

Monday, April 12, 2010, 11:10-11:16 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays
Antonin Dvorak, (Listen) CD, YouTube,
Rusalka: Song to the Moon (1900)

Christ's resurrection—
metaphor for the Moon's death
before being reborn. Monday, April 12, 2010, 1:48-2:00 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Felix Mendelssohn,
Symphony #2 in B, "Hymn of Praise" Op. 52
(1840), Listen, CD, YouTube

Praise the sun for warmth,
praise the moon for light,
praise the mind for awareness.

Monday, April 12, 2010, 6:45-8:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Read "Does Reason Know What It Is Missing?"
Jürgen Habermas dialogue with four Jesuits
(By Stanley Fish, NY Times, April 12, 2010)

Secular reason
is missing self-awareness,
not knowing itself. Monday, April 12, 2010, 9:00-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to poem: "Easter Bunny Hunt"
Link Easter to Fertility Goddesses
and the Chinese Hare in the Moon

Bill Moyers was shocked
when Joseph Campbell told him
Christianity was based on Isis.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 11:41-11:47 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Aram Khachaturian,
Masquerade: Waltz (1941)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2

Maya masquerades
as reality— Break through
the veil so we may see! Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 2:06-2:09 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: George Gershwin
Promenade "Walking the dog" (1937)
(Listen), (CD) (YouTube: Fred & Ginger)

Ginger's dog leaves her
to follow Fred's pack of dogs
in Shall We Dance film.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 4:15-5:40 pm
Stanford University, Hewlett Teaching Center, 201
Joachim Stöhr, Director LCLS at SLAC
"Birth of the X Ray Laser: Movies of
the Dynamic Worlds of Atoms & Electrons"

X-Ray laser probes
into the dynamic
nature of proteins. Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 11:38-11:41 am
Stanford University, Annenberg Auditorium
Mary Carruthers, New York University,
"Memory: The Engine of Thought"
Ulman Lindenberger, Berlin, respondent

Medieval monks relied
on memory hooks
to recall sacred texts.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 11:41-11:47 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Herbert von Karajan conducts
Pietro Mascagni (Listen, CD, YouTube),
Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo (1889)

Rustic Chivalry—
love triangle ends in
tragedy and sadness. Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4:00-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to poem: "Easter Bunny Hunt"
Links to Isis and Osiris & Moon Rabbit

Pareidolia is image
perceived as animals—
Hare in the Moon.

Thursday, April 15, 2010, 3:00-4:00 pm
Stanford University, Tresidder Student Union
Brought Rudy to Stanford Spring Career Fair;
chatted with Kindle books developer;
picked up free T-shirts and pens

Apple Computers
didn't offer freebies
to attract résumés. Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
Leonard van der Kuijp, Harvard University,
XXXVth Evans-Wentz Lecture:
"Buddhist Tantras on their Origins"

Tantric texts began
in kingdom of Zahor
from King Indrabhuti.

Friday, April 16, 2010, 11:39-11:43 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Lü Wencheng,
Autumn Moon Over the Calm Lake (1930)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Moon over the lake—
image of tranquillity,
a glimpse of the real. Friday, April 16, 2010, 7:15-7:45 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Walk around the lake with friend
seeing Venus below crescent moon

Walk around the lake
seeing ducks and Venus
below the crescent moon.

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 10:45-10:56 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Pablo de Sarasate,
Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 (1883)
Listen, CD, YouTube, Marionette show

Sarasate's Carmen
Fantasy reminds me
of Huber's marionettes. Saturday, April 17, 2010, 5:00-6:05 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Notes to poem: "Easter Bunny Hunt"
Link to Lunar Phases & Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny is
celebrating the birth
of New Crescent Moon.

Sunday, April 18, 2010, 12:05-3:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett
interviews Zen DeBrucke, "Our Internal Guidance System" (Web site; Book: The Smart Soul)

Using your body's
Internal Guidance System
to be successful. Sunday, April 18, 2010, 11:41-11:46 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li plays Franz Liszt,
(Listen), CD, YouTube: Arthur Rubinstein
Liebestraum #3 (1850)

Liszt's Liebestraum—
dreams of immortal love
when you enter heaven's gate.

Sunday, April 18, 2010, 2:15-7:45 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to poem: "Easter Bunny Hunt"
Link Easter to Dark Moon and the
Entombment of Christ for three days

Christ's entombment in
the cave is metaphor for
three nights of Dark Moon. Sunday, April 18, 2010, 8:00-10:10 pm
Stanford Flicks, Memorial Auditorium
Guy Ritchie directs "Sherlock Holmes" (2009)
with Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law,
Mark Strong, & Rachel McAdams

Sherlock Holmes prevents
ritual murder of a girl
by Lord Blackwood.

Monday, April 19, 2010, 12:39-1:00 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #9 in D, Op. 125 "Choral" (1812)
(Listen), (CD) (YouTube: Karajan, Bernstein)

Composed when deaf,
Beethoven concludes last
symphony with human voice. Monday, April 19, 2010, 3:00-4:20 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
"Buddhist Monk enlightens students"
(Sentinel Online, North Idaho College, 4-19-2010)

Geshe Thupten Phelgye—
"Meditation is looking
inside using wisdom."

Monday, April 19, 2010, 5:00-6:05 pm
Stanford University, Memorial Auditorium
Bill Gates, Chairman Microsoft Corp., "Giving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference"
(Got free Bill Gates Stanford Ticket at 4:25 pm)

Went to sold-out event
forty minutes early—
got free ticket and good seat. Monday, April 19, 2010, 5:00-6:05 pm
Stanford University, Memorial Auditorium
Bill Gates, Chairman Microsoft Corp., "Giving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference"
(Photos from Row 8 during Q&A Session: 1, 2, 3)

Bill Gates was relaxed
speaking on center stage
without notes with passion.

Monday, April 19, 2010, 6:30-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
"75 Greatest Women of All Time" (Esquire
selects women who have shaped the world)

Sappho, Esther,
Joan of Arc, Marie Curie,
Maud Gonne, and Judy Blume. Monday, April 19, 2010, 7:00-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Notes to poem: "Easter Bunny Hunt"
Link to Symbolism of Hares & Rabbits

Hare is lunar animal
representing rebirth,
and resurrection.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 12:32-12:45 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Michael Tilson Thomas
conducts Ludwig van Beethoven,
Symphony #3 in Eb, Op. 55 "Eroica", (1803)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Beethoven's Eroica
was composed in despair
but rose to new heights. Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4:00-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Nob Hill Foods, 99 Ranch Market
and Safeway (2580 California Street)

Olives, tofu, bean curd,
bamboo shoots, sea weed, lychee,
dairy creamer, ice cream,
Swiss cheese and pizza.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View, Google Building 40
April Web Map Social Silicon Valley,
Regis Vincent (SRI), "Robots Mapping using SLAM"
David Colleen (CEO, Planet 9) "Ray Gun"

Robots mapping buildings
and AI agents in RayGun
for social networking. Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View, Google Building 40
April Web Map Social Silicon Valley,
Martin Isenburg, "Clucks for Social Change"
Chris Nicholas, "Role of UN-SPIDER"

Funny talk on chickens and
serious talk on using space
data in disaster areas.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 12:45-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Kaiser Hospital Eye Clinic
Dr. Jackie Chao & Optician Angela Pham;
$396 for reading & distance glasses

New glasses prescription
for reading, computer,
and distance viewing. Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 5:30 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
"Superman leap makes Fordham player a viral video hit", (Yahoo Sports Video, 4-21-2010)

Brian Kownacki leaps
over catcher to score
as Fordham wins 12-9.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 5:54-5:59 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Pachelbel,
Canon in D major (1680)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Listened to Pachelbel's Canon
live on computer
for the first time. Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 6:00-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Typed earlier 1977 poem "What Is Easter?"
linking to Notes to poem: "Easter Bunny Hunt"

Easter is homage
to the Sun but also
a tribute to the Moon.

Thursday, April 22, 2010, 2:05-2:08 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi,
The Crane Dance (2010), Poem, Folklore,
(Listen), CD, YouTube, Einaudi Interview

Theseus slew Minotaur
and landed in Delos
doing a crane dance. Thursday, April 22, 2010, 6:30-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Typed compiled list of "IS & ISH Words"
linked to Gods with is & ish in their names

is & ish meant light—
Gods named Christ, Isis,
Ishtar, Krishna and Vishnu.

Friday, April 23, 2010, 12:13-12:22 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: André Rieu conducts
Johann Strauss, Jr. (Listen) CD, YouTube
On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 (1867)

Nice sunny day to waltz
and dance to Strauss's
Beautiful Blue Danube. Friday, April 23, 2010, 4:20-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Found Smooth Lady Rose with 21 petals
for niece Emily's 21st birthday

May Smooth Lady Rose
smooth your days with beauty,
simplicity, and grace.

Friday, April 23, 2010, 7:30-9:05 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Irving Reis
directs "Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (1947)
starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy,
Shirley Temple, & Rudy Vallée,

High school girl has crush
on bachelor who falls in
love with her older sister. Friday, April 23, 2010, 9:15-10:40 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Don Hartman
directs "Every Girl Should Be Married" (1948)
starring Cary Grant, Betsy Drake,
Franchot Tone, & Diana Lynn

Sales clerk stalks doctor
to marry her and succeeds
in film and real life.

Saturday, April 24, 2010, 2:30-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Linked "IS & ISH" to "The Perfect Way" (1890)
by Anna Bonus Kingsford & Edward Maitland

IS & ISH originally
meant light— so the goddess
Isis is "Light-Light". Saturday, April 24, 2010, 8:45-11:55 pm
Palo Alto, Cubberley Pavilion
Ballroom dancing: Learned Bolero
taught by James Kleinrath, (Danced All Night)

I danced all night and
spread my wings with a girl
whose smile lit up the stars.

Sunday, April 25, 2010, 12:28-12:32 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Paul McCartney,
Penny Lane (1967), Lyrics, Essay,
(Listen), CD, YouTube: Beatles, Paul McCartney

Penny Lane is in
my ears and my eyes
in the blue suburban skies. Sunday, April 25, 2010, 2:00-2:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Baby carrots, red grapes,
spinach salad, skim milk,
raspberry danish, coffee cake.

Sunday, April 25, 2010, 8:00-9:45 pm
Stanford Flicks, Memorial Auditorium
Tom Ford directs "A Single Man" (2009)
with Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult,
& Matthew Goode (Christopher Isherwood novel)

Professor plans suicide
depressed by the death
of his long-time gay lover. Sunday, April 25, 2010, 9:50-11:55 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reading "Speaking Jazz: Poetry gets
physical as Pinsky jams with musicians"
(BU Today, April 23, 2010)

Poetry on the page
is like a musical score
is meant to be heard.

Monday, April 26, 2010, 12:17-12:25 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi,
Divenire: Primavera (2007), (Listen), CD,
YouTube; Recalling Botticelli's "Primavera"

Einaudi's music
takes me to Botticelli's
Primavera garden. Monday, April 26, 2010, 2:22 pm
Palo Alto: Gentle Dental visit with
Dr. John Glerum; admiring purple
Phalaenopsis orchid in waiting room (Photo)

Simple elegance—
this Phalaenopsis orchid
curving grace in space.

Monday, April 26, 2010, 5:00-6:40 pm
Stanford University, Building 260, Room 252
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton, "Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras & the Disharmony of the World"

In blacksmith's workshop
Pythagoras found the sound
depends on hammer's weight. Monday, April 26, 2010, 5:00-6:40 pm
Stanford University, Building 260, Room 252
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton, "Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras & the Disharmony of the World"

Oresme's dream vision
of Arithmetic & Geometry
debate with Apollo as judge.

Monday, April 26, 2010, 8:00-9:05 pm
Stanford Humanities Center
Edward Hirsch, Poetry Reading
Read "Wild Gratitude" on his cat Zooey

Love "Wild Gratitude"
honoring his cat Zooey
and Christopher Smart. Monday, April 26, 2010, 8:00-9:05 pm
Stanford Humanities Center
Edward Hirsch, Poetry Reading, Q&A:
Hirsch angry at God for not existing & says:

"I don't believe in God
who eluded me because
I can't find Him."

Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 8:51-9:01 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gretchen Yanover,
Suddenly I Felt Joy (2005), (Listen), CD

Suddenly I felt joy
when a friend phones and
wakes me up this morning. Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 11:00-11:55 am
Stanford University, Building 460, Terrace Room
Edward Hirsch, Poetry Colloquium: Quotes Weil

Simone Weil quotes Malebranche:
"Attentiveness is the natural
prayer of the soul".

Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 11:00-11:55 am
Stanford University, Building 460, Terrace Room
Edward Hirsch, Poetry Colloquium: Mandelstam

Message in bottle
addressed to its finder
as the poem is for you. Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 11:00-11:55 am
Stanford University, Building 460, Terrace Room
Edward Hirsch, Poetry Colloquium: Duende

Lorca's Duende
is dark spirit from below
that inspires your work.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 6:00-8:05 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room
Daniel Heller-Roazen, "Arithmetic, Rhythmics,
and Rhyme: Elements of Pythagorean Poetics"

Poetry is musica
ordered by numbers, but
something can't be measured. Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 8:30-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Reading "Has Noah's Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop?" (FOXNews.com, 4-27-2010)

4800 years old Noah's Ark
found 13,000 feet up on
Mount Ararat in Turkey.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 11:43-11:48 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Helen Jane Long,
"Eclipse" from Porcelain album (2007)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Cascade of water
from Helen Jane Long's Eclipse—
so soft and soothing. Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 1:44-2:03 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #9 in D, Op. 125 "Choral" (1812)
(Listen), (CD) (YouTube: Karajan, Bernstein)

Second movement of
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
from Schiller's "Ode to Joy"

Thursday, April 29, 2010, 11:09-11:16 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ophélie Gaillard
plays Antonin Dvorak,
Rusalka: Song to the Moon (1900)
(Listen) CD, YouTube

Song to the Moon for
Full Moon of April— Frog Moon,
Pink Moon, Planter's Moon. Thursday, April 29, 2010, 11:29-11:44 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Maurice Ravel,
Bolero (1928), (Listen), CD, YouTube
"Ravel's Bolero: Case of Dementia?"
(New York Times, April 8, 2008)

Two melodic themes
repeated eight times
over 340 bars.

Thursday, April 29, 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center: Jean Clottes:
"An Older Lascaux: The Chavet Cave
Chauvet Cave; "Shamans of Prehistory

Prehistoric cave art—
30,000 years old
painted by shamans. Thursday, April 29, 2010, 8:00-9:40 pm
Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium,
Stanford Flicks Pre-screening: Jorma Taccone directs "MacGruber" (2010), Will Forte,
Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, & Val Kilmer

MacGruber tracks down
assassin who had stolen
a nuclear warhead.

Friday, April 30, 2010, 12:34-12:37 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Roman Hofstetter,
Serenade in C (Quartet for Strings) (1777),
(Listen: Haydn Op. 3, #5), CD, YouTube

Idyllic setting
in forest where birds
are dancing to this music. Friday, April 30, 2010, 4:20-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hill, Foothill Krause Center
Chatted with Jack; Added more words
to my list "Words with Is & Ish"

Ibis is a bird
not the mountain goat ibex—
praise to the bison!

Friday, April 30, 2010, 7:30-9:05 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra
directs "Lady for a Day" (1933)
starring May Robson, Warren William,
Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, & Ned Sparks

Frank Capra's first film—
Apple Annie's seed blooms
in It's a Wonderful Life! Friday, April 30, 2010, 9:15-10:45 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Thorton Freeland
directs "Flying Down to Rio" (1933) starring
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Dolores del Rio,
Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Etta Moten (Trailer)

She sings The Carioca
and receives no cast credit
except the "The Black Singer".