Haikus: August 2010

HAIKUS: August 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.

Sunday, August 1, 2010, 10:30-10:35 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li plays Chopin,
Nocturne #2 in Eb, Op. 9 #2 (1833), (Listen),
CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3) Complete Nocturnes

I wake up to Chopin's
Nocturne that sweeps me
right back into my dreams. Sunday, August 1, 2010, 2:08-2:17 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Maxim Vengerov plays
Jules Massenet, Thaïs: Meditation (1894), Listen,
CD, (YouTube: Janine Jansen, Yo-Yo Ma, Opera)

Monk converts bordello
girl to become nun
but he is full of lust.

Sunday, August 1, 2010, 2:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at CVS (nuts), Milk Pail (2585 California St.),
and Safeway (2580 California Street)

Mixed nuts, green onions,
red bell peppers, green grapes,
eggs, cheese, shrimp, and pizza. Sunday, August 1, 2010, 5:15-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reply to Jack & Rudy emails (haikus & films);
Typed Edward Hirsch Stanford Poetry Colloquium

The poem is message
in a bottle and reader
is the addressee.

Monday, August 2, 2010, 11:02-11:13 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gustavo Dudamel
conducts Ludwig van Beethoven,
Symphony #7 in A major, Op. 92 (1812),
(Listen) CD, YouTube, Notes

Los Angeles Philharmonic—
wise to snatch Dudamel
for its conductor. Monday, August 2, 2010, 11:15-11:20 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Vladimir Horowitz
plays Robert Schumann, "Scenes from Childhood"
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: #7, Träumerei (1838)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: Horowitz, Lisitsa, Photos)

Music from Schumann
so tender and lovely—
mind in tune with childhood.

Monday, August 2, 2010, 2:15-6:45 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote 10 haikus (7/30-8/2) on Fred Astaire films,
classic music (KDFC), & poetry (Edward Hirsch)

Writing about dance films,
music, and poetry keeps
the spirit flowing. Monday, August 2, 2010, 7:00-11:15 pm
Los Altos, Mariposa & Alta Vista: Invited to dinner
at Toni & Mike with Mukund singing with tambura
& Dr. Jayanath Abeywickrama chanting mantra

Fifteen candlelights
surround music and song—
Your wish is my blessing.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 11:30-11:38 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Imogen Cooper
plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Piano Concerto #23 in A, K. 488 (1786), CD,
(Listen), (YouTube: 1, 2, Horowitz commenting)

Concerto's finale
with Presto tempo
and harder staccato. Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 4:15-6:30 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
"1962 glass could be Corning's next bonanza seller" (Yahoo! News, 8-1-2010), "Corning Puts $180M in Gorilla Glass" (The Street, 8-3-2010), Corning

Gorilla Glass is
durable & light— will protect
mobile phones and TV screens.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Guy Green directs
"Light in the Piazza" (1962) starring
Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Rossano Brazzi (Trailer, Photo)

Fabrizio in love with Clara
who's mentally retarded
while mother hides secret. Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 9:25-11:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Robert Mulligan
directs "Come September" (1961), starring
Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee,
Bobby Darin & Walter Slezak (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Sandra Dee in love
with Bobby Darin when
he sings "Multiplication".

Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 12:07-12:12 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: John Barry conducts
John Barry, Out of Africa (1985),
Isak Dinesen's 1937 book; film trailer,
CD, (Listen), (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Out of Africa—
something serene instead
of savage jungle drums. Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 1:36-1:40 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays
Giacomo Puccini, Gianni Schicchi:
O Mio Babbino Caro (1918), (Listen)
CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Bell) Libretto

Oh my dear papa—
single-hearted love rises
above petty hatred.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 4:00-5:10 pm
Sunnyvale: Sprouts (111 E. El Camino Real)
Mountain View: 99 Ranch (1350 Grant Road)
Friend takes me grocery shopping for food

Deluxe trail mix, radishes,
broccoli, bean curd, tofu,
vegetarian dumplings,
and spinach wontons. Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 6:00-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Three Bright Planets Visible in Night Sky Triangle
(By Joe Rao, Space.com, August 4, 2010)
Mars-Venus-Saturn Conjunction of 2010

Will Love overcome
War and Death as these
three Gods come together?

Thursday, August 5, 2010, 9:55-10:01 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexandre Tharaud plays
Frederic Chopin, Waltz #2 in A-Flat, Op. 34, #1 (1835), Valse brillante; CD, (Listen), (YouTube)

Chopin's Valse Brillante
is beautiful and brilliant
torrent waterfall. Thursday, August 5, 2010, 10:22-10:36 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Tomas Netopil conducts
Antonin Dvorak, In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 (1892), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Dvorak's Trilogy
on Nature, Life, Love—
Which one is the greatest?

Thursday, August 5, 2010, 1:15-5:15 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Rumi's Discourses #59 (God's subtlety);
Emily Dickinson, Poem #59 (A little East of Jordan)
Goethe's rebirth; "Jacob Wrestling the Angel"

Jacob wrestled the Angel—
he would not let go
until he was blessed. Thursday, August 5, 2010, 6:00-9:00 pm
Stanford Green Library, Media Center, King Kong
DVD: Post Production Diaries (Nov-Dec 2005);
1933 King Kong DVD: "I'm King Kong:
Exploits of Merian C. Cooper", Merian C. Cooper

Lived larger than life—
bomber pilot, film maker,
and visionary!

Friday, August 6, 2010, 10:06-10:15 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Kent Nagano conducts
Maurice Ravel, "Pavane pour une infante défunte"
Pavane for a Dead Princess (1899)
Listen, CD, Scores (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Ravel's solemn music
Pavane for a Dead Princess
touches us deeply. Friday, August 6, 2010, 10:54-11:01 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Sol Gabetta plays
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Andante Cantabile,
String Quartet #1 in D, Op. 11, (1871)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Tchaikovsky's sadness
enables him to compose
this poignant music.

Friday, August 6, 2010, 7:15 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Walk around the Lake— Saw giant hare
beyond majestic California Live Oak tree

Two-foot jack rabbit
with ears up stares at us
before hopping away. Friday, August 6, 2010, 8:06-8:09 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: 12 Cellists Berlin Pharmonic
play The Beatles, Norwegian Wood, (1965)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Lennon and McCartney
wrote it, Harrison played
the sitar for this song.

Saturday, August 7, 2010, 9:24-9:27 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Pierre Laniau plays
Narciso Yepes, Romance for Guitar,
"Jeux interdits", Forbidden Games (1952),
Video (Listen), CD, YouTube

Woke up to Romance:
Forbidden Games and my mind
leaps back to this film. Saturday, August 7, 2010, 10:08-10:21 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Erich Kunzel
conducts Ferde Grofé,
Grand Canyon Suite (1931)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Slow paced music for
a donkey or mule trotting
through the Grand Canyon.

Sunday, August 8, 2010, 2:00-3:15 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Walk around the Lake & Photos

Farmers Blimp circled
the Lake at the beginning
and end of our walk. Sunday, August 8, 2010, 3:40-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Typed Ed Hirsch Poetry Colloquium (4-27-2010)

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

Sunday, August 8, 2010, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett interviews Dr. Pim van Lommel (Web site), Bio,
"Near Death Experiences", Article,
Book: Consciousness Beyond Life (2010)

Consciousness is nonlocal—
not in our brain but
survives even death. Monday, August 9, 2010, 2:00-4:20 am
Home in Mountain View: Reading Edward Hirsch
How to Read a Poem (1999) where he quotes
Emily Dickinson's Poem 1331 (1874) at end.

Wonder— is not precisely Knowing
And not precisely Knowing not—
A beautiful but bleak condition
He has not lived who has not felt—

Monday, August 9, 2010, 10:06-10:15 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Maxim Vengerov
plays Ludwig van Beethoven,
Romance #1 in G major, Op. 40 (1802)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Beethoven's Romance
composed when he was in love
so often in his life. Monday, August 9, 2010, 11:38-11:49 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Itzhak Perlman plays
Carlos Gardel, Por una Cabeza (1935),
used in Scent of a Woman: Tango (1992),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Beautiful tango
for dancing from movie
Scent of a Woman

Monday, August 9, 2010, 11:49-11:54 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li
plays Franz Liszt,
Liebesträume for Piano, #3 (1850)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Franz Liszt's Liebesträume
love's sorrow— sad because
human love does not last. Monday, August 9, 2010, 3:15-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Satsang Page (2:00-4:20 am) on knowledge with
Emily Dickinson, Upanishads rishis, Socrates,
Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Zen Master Seung Sahn

In dark hours of night
six sages speak to me
on knowledge and wonder.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 11:30-11:42 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Sharon Isbin plays
Joaquin Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez (1939)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)
Barbara Heninger's Program Notes

Rodrigo composed
this music for his wife
on their honeymoon. Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 3:30-6:45 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Missed photo of giant jack rabbit on walk
around Lake Lagunita (Friday, August 6);
Photos Montage: Oak + Hare = Oak & Hare

Experience of jack rabbit
sighting captured by montage
using Photoshop.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 7:30-9:50 pm
Stanford Theatre: William Wyler directs
"Friendly Persuasion" (1956) starring
Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Phyllis Love, Robert Middleton, Marjorie Main (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Song)

Quakers in conflict
on fighting the Civil War
to defend their home. Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 10:00-12:08 pm
Stanford Theatre: Sam Wood directs
"Pride of the Yankees" (1942), Bio of Lou Gehrig
starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth,
Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, & Ludwig Stössel,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), 1932 World Series Game 3

Lou Gehrig promised
sick boy that he'll hit
two homeruns and fulfilled it.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 12:06-12:13 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: George Butterworth,
The Banks of Green Willow (1913)
Listen, (CD) (YouTube), based on
A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad"

Died in World War I—
his music of Housman's poem
made him immortal. Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 12:40-12:51 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Leonard Slatkin
conducts George Gershwin,
Promenade "Walking the dog" (1937)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Fred & Ginger)

A leisurely stroll to
Gershwin's Promenade will
inspire some good poems.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 1:02-1:30 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: James Ehnes plays
Max Bruch, Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 (1880)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube Heifetz: 1, 2, 3)

Scottish Fantasy
transports me to the dark woods
where fairies and elves dance. Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 3:00-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Composing Satsang Page on knowledge &
wonder with Emily Dickinson and six sages

May my mind be open
wide to wonder inspired
by Emily's poem.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 9:20-9:45 pm
Stanford Palm Drive to Mountain View
After walking two blocks, Vardhan Dani & his wife
picked me up hitchhiking and gave me ride home.

He got PhD at Brandeis,
knows Ramachandran and
the Chou-Fasman Method.
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:57-10:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Erik Satie,
Gymnopédie #3 (1888)
(Listen), (CD), (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Woke up to Satie's
music as if I'm in
a Parisian café.

Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:57-10:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 (1880)
Listen, CD, YouTube

The stars are waltzing
around the galaxies— Should I
not dance with them too?
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 4:00-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Composing Satsang Page on knowledge
with Emily Dickinson and six sages

Knowing and not knowing—
remembering & forgetting,
waking and sleeping.

Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:15-9:25 pm
Stanford Oval to Palo Alto Cal-Train Station
Marty Pistone (Photo) picks me up hitchhiking;
He teaches Stanford's Drama 200 "Shoot Me"
and recommends Christopher Vaughan's "Play"

Friend says I'm bookworm
and she likes to play— He tells
me to read book on Play.
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Prof. Bill Bengston (Web site), Bio,
"Anomalous Healing", Articles,
Book: Chasing the Cure (2010)

Placing hands on cages
of sick mice cured them
of cancer— energy healing.

Friday, August 13, 2010, 9:57-10:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Pierre Boulez conducts
Claude Debussy, (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)
Notes, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894)

Mallarmé's poem inspired
Debussy to write this music
of Faun playing the flute. Friday, August 13, 2010, 1:50-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Composed Knowledge Satsang web page;
Comment on Emily Dickinson's Poem 1331

With wonder comes joy,
with suspense comes pain—
but Mind is yonder beyond the rain.

Saturday, August 14, 2010, 9:30-9:37 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Valery Gergiev
conducts Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Symphony #6 in B, Op. 74 "Pathetique" (1893),
Second Movement, (Listen), CD, (YouTube)

Tchaikovsky's Pathetique—
full of passion composed
just before he died. Saturday, August 14, 2010, 9:41-9:45 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Fionnuala Hunt
plays Astor Piazzolla, Libertango (1974)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Angela Rippon on the tango & desire

Tango— the vertical
expression of a
horizontal desire.

Saturday, August 14, 2010, 10:26-10:32 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi
plays Ludovico Einaudi
"Two Sunsets" (Due Tramonti) (2003)
CD, (Listen), YouTube

Einaudi's Two Sunsets
is so much like Satie—
simple and serene. Saturday, August 14, 2010,11:28-11:35 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gustavo Dudamel
conducts Ludwig van Beethoven,
Symphony #5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1808)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Dudamel, Toscanini)

Plato and Beethoven knew
the world is asleep—
O wake up! wake up!

Saturday, August 14, 2010, 5:00-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Satsang with Nancy on porch
of J. Gilbert Smith House. She gives me book & CD of Dr. Jayanath Abeywickrama's "60 Verses";
I select at random "Verse 16: Questions"

If you see and understand
what is there for you,
you have a goal. Saturday, August 14, 2010, 8:50 pm-12:10 am
Palo Alto, Cubberley Pavilion, Ballroom dancing: James Kleinrath taught Waltz. (Ann gave me ride
home & two Kings River photos. She didn't know
the spot her grandfather fished till her Dad told her)

Confluence of Middle
and South Fork of Kings River—
where her granddad fished.

Sunday, August 15, 2010, 9:40-9:42 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li
plays Franz Liszt,
Liebesträume for Piano, #3 (1850)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Love transcends sorrow
only when we realize
its nature is divine. Sunday, August 15, 2010, 9:40-9:42 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Borodin,
String Quartet #2 in D major (1881)
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (lyrics)
("Kismet" 1955 film), (Listen), (CD), YouTube

My favorite song
in Kismet when Howard Keel
sang it with much gusto.

Sunday, August 15, 2010, 12:50 pm
Mountain View: Before taking off on hike trip,
my friend selects Verse 13: Interconnection II
from Jayanath Abeywickrama's "60 Verses"

All Mind Energy
is coming back home—
then there's interconnection. Sunday, August 15, 2010, 1:35-7:30 pm
Santa Clara Upper Stevens Creek County Park:
Six hours five-miles hike on Saratoga Gap Trail,
Charcoal Road, and Table Mountain Trail (Photos)

Refreshing trails with Oaks,
Madrones, Douglas Firs
and views of East Bay Hills.

Monday, August 16, 2010, 9:40-9:42 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Leif Ove Andsnes plays
Isaac Albeniz, (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3),
"España, Op. 165, #2, Tango in D (1890)

Such a romantic
tango for dancing
as I wake up this morning. Monday, August 16, 2010, 12:15 pm
Mountain View: Janet takes off time
from her lunch break to bring me gift
of six sweet golden apple pears

Ah! Golden apples
from Garden of Hesperides?—
Treasure and enjoy them.

Monday, August 16, 2010, 2:10-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Wrote 12 haikus (August 14-16) with links

Albeniz's Tango
and Piazolla's Libertango—
so full of passion! Monday, August 16, 2010, 5:10-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Friend sent "Cougar vs. Bear" video

Cougar chased Bear
on land and river until
it had no place to run.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 11:57 am-12:04 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Sir Neville Marriner
conducts Christoph Willibald Gluck,
Orfeo: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (1762)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Why are Spirits blessed?—
Because they are undying,
unbound and dancing! Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 12:04-12:06 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: André Previn conducts
Richard Strauss, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Op. 30
(1896), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Monolith is Black Screen—
Silent transformation,
Stargate to Consciousness.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Sidney Lumet directs
"Murder on the Orient Express" (1974)
with Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall,
Wendy Hiller, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave,
Anthony Perkins, Richard Widmark, Martin Balsam,
Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, John Gielgud,
Rachel Roberts, Denis Quilley, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Thirteen suspects— all
with motives for murder
on the Orient Express. Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 9:50-12:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: John Guillermin directs
"Death on the Nile" (1978) starring
Peter Ustinov, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow,
Simon MacCorkindale, Bette Davis, David Niven,
Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith, George Kennedy,
Olivia Hussey, Jon Finch, & Jack Warden,
(YouTube: Trailer, 1, 2, 3, 4)

Giza Pyramids,
The Sphinx, Temples of Karnak,
and death on the Nile.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 10:52-10:57 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Antonin Dvorak,
Slavonic Dance #10 in E minor, Op. 72 (1878),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2 3)

Slavonic Dances
of Dvorak wakes me up
from my dreamy sleep. Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 11:06-11:14 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Samuel Barber,
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Played at funerals
of Einstein & Prince Rainier—
Barber's Adagio

Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 1:30-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Kaiser Permanente Hospital,
Yearly Checkup with Dr. Liteh Diego Chang—
Blood Pressure 115/55, Pulse 88, Temp. 97.5^oF,
Good feet sensitivy test; Washed wax from left ear

Blood pressure dropped
from 156/75 to 115/55
after I relaxed my mind. Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 4:25-9:00 pm
Stanford University: Art Library & Green Library
Checked 4 GB camera chip: 78 photos of 8/15 Hike
at Saratoga Gap Trail; Formatting to USB drive;
Haikus & web links to two Agatha Christie films

Hercule Poirot was better
portrayed by Peter Ustinov
than Albert Finney.

Thursday, August 19, 2010, 8:30-8:34 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Felix Mendelssohn,
Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: Wedding March (1842), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Man heard Wedding March
on my web site and wants
sound file for his wedding! Thursday, August 19, 2010, 10:11-10:21 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
Scheherazade, Op. 35 (1888)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Scheherazade's tale—
Young Prince and Princess
in love with each other.

Thursday, August 19, 2010, 1:15-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
While searching for Bosch's "Ascent of the Blessed"
found Anne Baring's essay "Survival of the Soul";
She quotes Betty C. Kovacs' "Miracle of Death"

Death is as Divine as Life
because it is Life—
there's nothing but Life. Thursday, August 19, 2010, 5:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center:
"Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits of Africa"
& "William Trost Richards: True to Nature"
(Drawings & Watercolors); Satsang with Nancy

Snakes, snakes, and more snakes—
not a word about kundalini
and serpent power.

Thursday, August 19, 2010, 5:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center:
"Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits of Africa"
& "William Trost Richards: True to Nature"
(Drawings & Watercolors); Satsang with Nancy

Mami Wata art
is too gaudy and noisy
while Richards calms the soul. Friday, August 19, 2010, 10:20-10:23 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Pierre Laniau plays
Narciso Yepes, Romance for Guitar,
"Jeux interdits", Forbidden Games (1952),
Video (Listen), CD, YouTube

This guitar music
dives deeply into the heart
and warms up your soul.

Friday, August 20, 2010, 1:23-1:25 pm
Stanford University, Serra Street
near Hoover Tower: Baby bird hops
on sidewalk & grass (Photos 1, 2)

Baby bird— please wait
while I get my camera
to take picture of you. Friday, August 20, 2010, 2:20-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Formatted 74 of 78 photos of 8/15 Hike
to Saratoga Gap & Table Mountain Trails

Grasshopper on ground,
hawk in the air, views of hills
and trees all around.

Friday, August 20, 2010, 6:50 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Walk around the Lake— Near the bench
flock of geese flew overhead in V-formation

Flock of geese flew
overhead in V-formation
or Platonic Lambda. Friday, August 20, 2010, 7:07 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Near the giant California Live Oak
jack rabbit came out & stood still

Giant jack rabbit of the Lake
came out to greet us—
three times in a row!

Friday, August 20, 2010, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Charles Walters directs
"Easter Parade" (1948) starring Fred Astaire,
Judy Garland, Ann Miller, Peter Lawford
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Irving Berlin songs—
Fred in love with Judy
in film Easter Parade. Friday, August 20, 2010, 9:25-11:06 pm
Stanford Theatre: Mark Sandrich directs
"Holiday Inn" (1942) starring Fred Astaire,
Bing Crosby, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abel (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Bing Crosby sings "White Christmas"
and Fred Astaire does
his firecracker dance.

Saturday, August 21, 2010, 11:28-11:33 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Helen Jane Long plays
Helen Jane Long, Eclipse (2006)
"Porcelain" album, (Listen) CD, (YouTube)
Eclipse Miracle, Cobra & Eclipse, Eclipse Poster

Helen Jane Long's
Eclipse is calm & soothing
like Einaudi's music. Saturday, August 21, 2010, 11:33-11:40 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Andrew Manze
conducts Ludwig van Beethoven,
Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43, #18: Finale
(1801), Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2), Prometheus

Prometheus— Bringer
of fire, mankind's teacher
in writing and the arts.

Saturday, August 21, 2010, 1:30-2:20 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Swiss cheese, Kettle chips,
cookies, shrimps, pizza,
pear and tropical fruit cups. Saturday, August 21, 2010, 3:30-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Downloading ten photos of
hummingbirds (1, 2, 3) Susan sent on August 1

What a treat to see
these hummingbirds from
Susan & AC's back porch.

Sunday, August 22, 2010, 10:22-10:27 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
"Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 #2 'Moonlight'" (1801), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata is soothing to
the mind and calms me. Sunday, August 22, 2010, 10:41-10:52 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li plays Chopin,
Impromptu #1 in A-flat major, Op. 29 (1837)
(Listen: 1, 2), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Chopin's Impromptu—
silver bells tinkling
and cascading waterfalls.

Sunday, August 22, 2010, 10:53-10:59 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ophelie Gaillard plays
Antonin Dvorak, (Listen) CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)
Rusalka: Song to the Moon (1900)

Dvorak's Song to the Moon
singing its praise as
it waxes to fullness. Sunday, August 22, 2010, 8:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Watch TV film in friend's apt,
KICU Channel 36: Larry & Andy Wachowski
directed The Matrix (1999), starring Keanu Reeves,
Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss (Trailer)

The Matrix programmed
this world and we are zombies
unless we wake up!

Monday, August 23, 2010, 11:10-11:13 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Karl Jenkins,
Palladio "Diamond Music" (1996)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2), Diamond

Hardest of objects
is diamond that cuts all things
and nothing could scratch. Monday, August 23, 2010, 11:38-11:42 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: John Barry,
The Beyondness of Things (1998)
(Listen), CD, YouTube, Bio, Notes

Beyond things is Spirit—
Dark Matter, Dark Energy
supporting this world.

Monday, August 23, 2010, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Wrote 12 haikus & web links (8/20-8/23);
Formatted 12 photos of Hike (8/15) & Hare (8/20)

On the third sighting—
jack rabbit sat still
so I could photograph him. Monday, August 23, 2010, 5:10-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Web page of Saratoga Gap Hike (8/15)
Collage of 76 photographs

Air, fire, water, earth—
Four elements in hawk,
Sun, creek, and East Bay Hills.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 9:49-9:58 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Anne-Sophie Mutter
plays Johann Sebastian Bach (1723)
Violin Concerto #2 in E major, BWV 1042
(listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), Notes

Oceanic waves
of Bach's Violin Concerto
wakes me up today. Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 10:50-10:54 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Bernard Herrmann,
Vertigo (1958), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)
Wagner's Tristan & Isolde Liebestod (1, 2)
Dupuy's Lecture "Time & Vertigo"

This music was played
each time Scottie kissed
Madeleine in Vertigo.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 1:10-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Format 8 Lake Lagunita Hare photos;
Web links to Hike Photos (8-15-2010)
of Saratoga Gap and Table Mountain Trails

California Broom,
Pearly Everlasting,
Elk Clover, Manzanita. Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 7:30-10:22 pm
Stanford Theatre: William Wyler directs
"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews,
Teresa Wright, Harold Russell (YouTube: 1. 2, 3, 4)

Three servicemen return
from World War II to cope
in finding a job.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 10:06-10:16 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Maxim Vengerov
plays Johannes Brahms (1878)
Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77
(listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Technical demands with
broken chords, rapid scales,
and rhythmic variation. Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 1:10-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Format 8 Lake Lagunita Hare photos;
Creating Standing & Running Hares;
Web page of Lake Lagunita Hare

Jacket Rabbit stood and gazed,
then it leaped away,
finally it sat still.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Josef von Sternberg directs
"The Scarlett Empress" (1934) starring
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Lavish production
with cast of thousands
as Catherine rose to power. Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 9:25-11:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: William Dieterle directs
"Kismets" (1944), starring Ronald Colman,
Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, James Craig,
Edward Arnold (YouTube: 1, 2)

King of beggars pretends
to be Prince while Caliph
masks himself as gardener.

Thursday, August 26, 2010, 10:47-10:54 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Willi Boskovsky
conducts Johann Strauss, Jr.
Künstlerleben Op. 316 (Artists' Life) (1867)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Written after Blue Danube,
Artist's Life honors
the sacred spirit. Thursday, August 26, 2010, 11:00-11:08 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jon Nakamatsu
plays Frederic Chopin,
Polonaise in Ab, Op. 53 "Heroic" (1842)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Chopin's Polonaise
is heroic for it breaks
new grounds in music.

Thursday, August 26, 2010, 12:15 pm
Home in Mountain View: Reading "Constant
Digital Input Can Hurt Mind's Processing"
(San Jose Mercury News, 8-26-2010, C1, C3)
(By Matt Richtel, NY Times, August 25, 2010)

Long-term memory
does not add new info
if the mind does not rest. Thursday, August 26, 2010, 12:25 pm
Home in Mountain View: Reading "Maybe
Our Leaders in Education Are Learning"
(San Jose Mercury News, 8-26-2010, A13)
(By Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times, Aug. 25, 2010)

Education needs
innovative teachers
to inspire minds of kids.

Friday, August 27, 2010, 9:41-9:43 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alison Balsom
plays Manuel de Falla,
Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas: Jota (1915)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Trumpet call yearning
for something higher—
better than worldly desires. Friday, August 27, 2010, 11:09-11:22 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Erich Kunzel
conducts Giuseppe Verdi,
Aida: Triumphal Scene (1871)
(Listen), CD YouTube

Triumphal music
for Aida, Sheeba,
and Queen Cleopatra.

Friday, August 27, 2010, 12:58-1:03 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jon Lord,
"To Notice Such Things" (2010)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube), Title from
Thomas Hardy's poem "Afterwards"

To notice such things—
how happy I am today
just to be alive! Friday, August 27, 2010, 2:30-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
After learning Ann's Mom had stroke, composed
web page of Susan's hummingbird photos with
three Emily Dickinson's hummingword poems

Emily's hummingbird—
a revolving wheel sipping
the ripest rose.

Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10:06-10:16 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Janine Jansen
plays Camille Saint-Saens (1887)
Havanaise: Violin & Orchestra in E major Op. 83
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Heifetz, Gatto, Kogan)

Written in winter—
meditative music
of snowfall and silence. Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10:16-10:19 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Lang Lang
plays Xinghai Xian et. al.,
Yellow River Concerto (1969)
(Listen), CD (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Written by committee—
Yellow River seems weak
compared to Moldau.

Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10:26-10:31 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Karl Muenchinger
conducts J. S. Bach (listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)
Cantata #208: Sheep May Safely Graze, (1713)

Sheep may safely graze
because the sheepherder keeps
them from wolves and harm. Saturday, August 28, 2010, 6:05-6:17 pm
Mountain View: Showers Drive & Latham Street
Cottonball clouds and Eagle-shaped clouds
in honor of Goethe's 261st birthday (Photos)

Photos of cottonball
and eagle clouds to honor
Goethe's birthday.

Sunday, August 29, 2010, 10:42-10:45 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Shigeru Umebayashi
& Abel Korzeniowski, A Single Man (2009)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Trailer)

A slow waltz to dance
with your love or when stars
swirl around each other. Sunday, August 29, 2010, 10:16-10:19 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Joseph Haydn,
Symphony #101 in G major "The Clock" (1787)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

The clock ticks on earth
but not in heaven when
you walk in paradise.

Sunday, August 29, 2010, 1:49 pm
San Jose, Almaden Quicksilver County Park
Mockingbird Hill Entrance, New Almaden Trail
Hawk squeaking by New Almaden Trail entrance

Hawk squeaking above—
circling for its prey
or greeting us today. Sunday, August 29, 2010, 6:50 pm
San Jose, Almaden Quicksilver County Park
Mockingbird Hill Entrance by Parking Lot
Giant tarantula crawling near entrance

At the end of hike—
a giant fuzzy tarantula
crawled slowly by.

Monday, August 30, 2010, 12:09-12:15 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Leonard Slatkin conducts
Alexander Borodin, String Quartet #2 in D (1881)
3rd movement, Andante "Nocturne", Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Chemist Borodin
knows how to mix musical
brew to delight us. Monday, August 30, 2010, 1:30-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Format photos for Eagle clouds (Aug. 28)
and web page in honor of Goethe's birthday
Montage of flying geese and Lake Lagunita

Only a minute
for montage of flying geese
and Lake Lagunita.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 11:06-11:09 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jenny Oaks Baker plays
Robert Schumann, "Scenes from Childhood"
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: #7, Träumerei (1838)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: Horowitz, Lisitsa, Photos)

Both Rilke and Schumann
know how to tap childhood
to inspire their art. Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 11:21-11:26 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Itzhak Perlman
at 20-years old plays Antonio Bazzini,
Dance of the Goblins (1847), (Listen), CD,
(YouTube: Perlman, Heifetz, Menuhin, Garrett)

If Li Po could drink
with a ghost, why can't I
speed dance with a goblin?