Haikus: October 2010

HAIKUS: October 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.

Friday, October 1, 2010, 9:23-9:39 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Nicola Benedetti plays
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lark Ascending (1914)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Meredith Poem)

Boy told police he saw
a spy, but he was writing
The Lark Ascending Friday, October 1, 2010, 12:26-12:38 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
(Listen) (CD) (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)
Symphony #9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral" (1824)

Beethoven honors
the human voice in his Ninth
Symphony— Ode to Joy!

Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:30-9:00 pm
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading—
Tanuja Mehrotra, Ravi Chandra, Maya Khosla, Pireeni Sundaralingam read from "Indivisible"—
Contemporary South Asian American Poetry

Poets from South Asia
living in America writing
on two cultures and faiths. Friday, October 1, 2010, 9:00-10:00 pm
Friends' House, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading—
Open Reading: Read my poem "Aumnivore";
Paul Highby gave me ride home to Mountain View

Aumnivore stone grew
so big that it swallowed
up the whole universe.

Saturday, October 2, 2010, 11:54 am-12:01 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts
Gustav Mahler, Symphony #1 in D major, "Titan" (1888), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Wrote report on this
Symphony for Hatch's
Columbia music class. Saturday, October 2, 2010, 1:20-2:20 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me
to Bank and grocery shopping
at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Raspberries, red grapes,
frozen peas, corn, green beans,
honey ham, and creamer.

Sunday, October 3, 2010, 11:44-11:51 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Christophe Rousset conducts
Henry Desmarest, Venus and Adonis (1697),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube)

Venus fell in love
with shepherd boy Adonis
sleeping in moonlight. Sunday, October 3, 2010, 1:34-1:44 pm
Stanford University, Lausen & Panama Mall,
Barnum Center, Meyer Library, Cubberley
School of Education— photographs of trees

Palm, Eucalyptus,
Ginkgo, Deodar Cedars—
trees I walk by daily.

Sunday, October 3, 2010, 2:00-7:50 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Added four tree photos to Stanford Scenes page;
Formatted photos taken 10/1 on Colorado Avenue;
Composed Web page: Clouds & Magical Garden

Passed by enchanted forest
garden with owls, gnome,
elf, and white angel. Sunday, October 3, 2010, 8:00-9:45 pm
Stanford Flicks, Memorial Auditorium,
Lisa Cholodenko directs "The Kids Are All Right"
starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore,
Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson

Kids bring sperm donor
father to lesbian mothers
and all hell break loose!

Monday, October 4, 2010, 10:51-10:58 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)

Andante Cantabile
of Tchaikovsky woke
me up this morning. Monday, October 4, 2010, 11:57 am-12:04 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alain Planes plays
Johannes Brahms, (Listen), CD, Trailer,
Intermezzo in A, Op. 118, #2, (1893),
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), Lust/Caution Film Score

Brahms' Intermezzo
used by Alexandre Desplat
in film Lust/Caution.

Monday, October 4, 2010, 12:40-12:43 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Leif Ove Andsnes plays
Isaac Albeniz, (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3),
"España, Op. 165, #2, Tango in D (1890)

Great tango music
to practice dancing those
steps learned on Saturday. Monday, October 4, 2010, 3:00-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Fry's Electronics (Portage Ave)
Rudy takes me to Fry's to buy Kingston 4 GB USB
& 4 GB SDHC Chip; Foothill Middlefield Lab

Fry's did not have photo
recovery software for
the Mac in stock.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 9:55-10:02 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

Why are the gods jealous?
Zeus punished Prometheus
for giving mankind fire. Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 4:15-9:45 pm
Los Altos: ClickAway will recover lost photos
for $29 flat fee (Enrique Basulto was friendly).
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Notes to Poem: Spring Geese Are Flying North

Geese flying not in V
but Λ-formation—
Soul of the Universe!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Richard Lawrence (Web site), Book,
"ET Contacts & Communications", 1st Hour Guest:
Judika Illes, "On Witches & Witchcraft", Book

George Adamski and
George King channeled messages
from Space Masters. Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 1:00-1:45 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Dennis Russell Davies
conducts Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 (1880)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Serenade for Strings
has magical mix of
passion and devotion.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 3:15-5:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Stanford University, Art Library (8-10 pm)
Notes to Poem: Spring Geese Are Flying North

Web links to photos
of geese flying in
V and Λ-formation. Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Walk around the Lake with friend looking
for duck feathers & photographing clouds

No duck feathers or
jack rabbit this time
but the clouds were beautiful.

Thursday, October 7, 2010, 11:24-11:27 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yo Yo Ma plays Tan Dun,
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Eternal Vow" (2000), Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), Film

Eternal Vow Theme—
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
sounds sacred and sad. Thursday, October 7, 2010, 3:00-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Typed Poem "You Are the Universe"
composed October 6, 2:00-3:30 am

You are the universe—
a song bird is singing
deep within your heart.

Thursday, October 7, 2010, 10:30-11:55 pm
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Core Love (Sacred Geometry), Book,
"Secrets of Consciousness", (Dimensions of Reality)

Experienced 300 NDEs—
His brain produced DMT
and met higher beings. Friday, October 8, 2010, 12:05-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Erich Von Daniken (Web), New Book,
"Ancient Astronauts", Chariots of the Gods

Ancestors mistook ETs
for Gods, and they will
return in the future.

Friday, October 8, 2010, 10:50-10:56 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Eugene Ormandy
conducts George Frederick Handel,
Xerxes: Ombra mai fu "Largo" (1738)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

King Xerxes finds peace
in the shade of this tree
than the loves of his wives. Friday, October 8, 2010, 11:24-11:33 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Hilary Hahn plays
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Listen, CD,
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, (1878)
(YouTube: Heifetz, Perlman, Chang, Mutter)

Passionate playing
of Violin Concerto
by Hilary Hahn.

Friday, October 8, 2010, 4:00 pm
Los Altos: ClickAway (4916 El Camino Real)
Enrique Basulto will recover photos for $29.
I give him poem Spring Geese Are Flying North

I found lost photos
with Card Rescue— hope
that he'll recover them now. Friday, October 8, 2010, 5:00-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Formatted 27 photos from Oct. 6 walk
Web page: Sunset Clouds at Lake Lagunita

Photographed the sites
where hare hopped out
and geese flew in V-formation.

Saturday, October 9, 2010, 11:43-11:52 am
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—
changing color of leaves,
fresh breeze of autumn. Saturday, October 9, 2010, 1:20-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Nature Walk 2010 Index; Emails to friends;
Added to Poem "You Are the Universe"
written on October 8, 3:55 am—

You are the universe—
mind in Eternal Now
forever afresh.

Sunday, October 10, 2010, 10:06-10:08 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Helen Jane Long,
"Embers: Everything" (2010)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1. 2)

The Enlightened Mind—
to have everything and yet
to desire nothing. Sunday, October 10, 2010, 10:18-10:27 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gordon Hunt plays
Domenico Zipoli, Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2),
Elevazione for Oboe, Cello and Strings (1715)

Listening to Ascension
on this special day—
10:10:10 at 10!

Sunday, October 10, 2010, 1:00-7:45 pm
Stanford Green Library & Cummings Art Library
Emails to friends on 10-10-10 after receiving
Bill Morrison's email at 10-10-10, 10:11 am;
Ten Masterpieces for Decaphilic, Intriguing Dates

Pythagorean Tetractys—
keyholder of all,
holy perfect ten. Sunday, October 10, 2010, 8:00-10:05 pm
Stanford University, Memorial Auditorium
Stanford Flicks, David Slade directs
Twilight: Eclipse (2010), with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene

Vampires and werewolves
join forces to protect Bella
from newborns attack.

Monday, October 11, 2010, 10:52-10:57 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gil Shaham & Göran Söllscher
play Franz Schubert, "Schwanengesang"
Serenade, D 957 #4, Ständchen (1828)
(Listen), (CD), (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, Song)

Schubert's Serenade in D
on violin and guitar—
soft, sweet, serene. Monday, October 11, 2010, 1:30-2:20 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Poppy seed salad dressing,
strawberries, Asian salad,
pizza, cheese, salmon fillets,
crab meat, Black Forest ham,
apple, kiwi, raspberry juice.

Monday, October 11, 2010, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Mervyn LeRoy directs
"Waterloo Bridge" (1940, Poster) starring
Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Virginia Field,
Maria Ouspenskaya (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), Photo

Mom saw this film in China
and hummed the music
Auld Lang Syne often. Monday, October 11, 2010, 9:30-11:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Arthur Crabtree directs
"Madonna of the Seven Moons" (1945), starring
Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc,
Peter Glenville, John Stuart (YouTube), Reviews

Woman with two lives—
married in a mansion and
with street gang of thieves.

Tueday, October 12, 2010, 12:34-12:47 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Itzhak Perlman plays
Carlos Gardel's Por una cabeza (1935)
in Scent of a Woman: Tango (1992)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Tango music stirs
up much passion that all
I wish to do is dance! Tueday, October 12, 2010, 2:00-4:00 pm
Los Altos: ClickAway (4916 El Camino Real)
Enrique Basulto recovered 1358 lost photos from
4 GB Centon chip for $29.99 flat fee. He worked on
it for two days using Card Rescue to retrieve files.

Over a thousand photos
from museums and hikes
restored to two flash drives.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 11:01-11:07 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Chris Botti, Dave Grusin, &
Lee Ritenour play Tomasso Albinoni/ Remo Giazotto
"Adagio for Organ & Strings in G minor", (1945)
(Listen) (CD) (YouTube)

Woke up to Albinoni's
Adagio and feel
like phoenix soaring. Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 3:20-6:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Compiling "Selected Poems for the Dalai Lama"
from 2006-2010 poems; Mercury News story;
Selected Poems 2005 for the Dalai Lama

This is the fourth time
I'm compiling my poems
for The Dalai Lama.

Thursday, October 14, 2010, 11:41-11:51 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Martin Fröst & Roland Pöntinen play Brahms, "Wie melodien zieht es mir", Op. 105, #1 "Contemplation" (1886), Listen, CD, (YouTube)

Contemplation— May
my mind be in a temple
at one with silence. Thursday, October 14, 2010, 2:00-3:30 pm
Stanford Memorial Church: Dalai Lama, (webcast)
2010 Rathun Visiting Fellow, (Stanford Daily),
"Harry's Last Lecture on a Meaningful Life" (Video)

Miracle!— for fifth time
got free ticket to hear
The Dalai Lama.

Friday, October 15, 2010, 7:50-7:54 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Caroline Goulding
plays James Scott Skinner,
"Hector the Hero" (1903),
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

The Hero is within
all of us if we would
just act with courage. Friday, October 15, 2010, 9:15-10:30 am
Stanford Memorial Auditorium: "Scientific Exploration of Compassion & Altruism"; Went to Medical School R291. Julie & Aysha will call Joscelyn, Dr. Doty's secretary to pick up my gift.

Finally found someone
to pass on my Poems
to The Dalai Lama.

Friday, October 15, 2010, 2:00-2:30 pm
Stanford Art Library: Watching Live Webcast of
"Scientific Exploration of Compassion & Altruism"; Dr. Jeanne Tsai reports research that meditators
wrote compassionate letters to murderer in prison

Dalai Lama: "Mind can change
through training, one's more
aware— that's for sure!" Friday, October 15, 2010, 2:30-3:35 pm
Stanford Art Library: Watching Live Webcast of
"Scientific Exploration of Compassion & Altruism"; Paul Ekman, James R. Doty, & Dacher Keltner,
(Emiliana Simon-Thomas), "Compassion Studies"

Dalai Lama: "Inner peace
comes not from material gain
but from limitless mind."

Friday, October 15, 2010, 4:00-4:30 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Conference on
"Language, Literature and Mysticism":
Alessandro Vettori (Rutgers) "Purgatorio X:
Prayerful Ascent in Bonaventure & Dante"

Saint Francis' Stigmata
soul's ascent to God
through prayer & penace. Friday, October 15, 2010, 5:00-6:30 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Conference on
"Language, Literature and Mysticism":
Paolo Valesio (Columbia), Keynote Address:
"On Mysticism and Modern Italian Poetry"

Melted down, immanence
wraps around us with
an absolute well-being.

Saturday, October 16, 2010, 7:41-7:45 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ottorino Respighi,
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite #1 (1917),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Waking up today
to Ancient Airs and Dances—
May this day be blessed. Saturday, October 16, 2010, 9:46 am
Stanford Humanities Center, Conference on
"Language, Literature and Mysticism": Psychology,
Pop Culture, Philosophy, Theology, Poetry, Politics

Lectures on mysticism
at Stanford— walked here
early for breakfast.

Saturday, October 16, 2010, 2:00-2:30 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Conference on
"Language, Literature and Mysticism": Lunch
break with Laura Wittman and Didier Maleuvre

Told them how Bucke's
Cosmic Consciousness
opened my mind to mystics. Saturday, October 16, 2010, 7:24-7:28 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jay Ungar,
Civil War: Ashokan Farewell (1990),
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

This soulful music
keeps my mind aloft after
whole day up in the clouds.

Sunday, October 17, 2010, 11:05-11:10 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934),
(Listen) (CD), YouTube, Greensleeves

Autumn chill is here—
Wore long sleeve flannel shirt
on this drizzling day. Sunday, October 17, 2010, 11:18-11:23 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Helen Jane Long,
"Porcelain: Echo" (2007)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1. 2)

Is this universe
but an echo of the one
that preceded it?

Sunday, October 17, 2010, 1:00-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)
and to Los Altos Library for printouts

Kettle potato chips,
Wishbone salad dressings,
dairy creamer, green grapes. Sunday, October 17, 2010, 3:45-7:45 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Writing ten haikus for last three days;
Greetings for Scheraga's 89th birthday

89— Eleventh
Fibonacci number
in passion flower

Sunday, October 17, 2010, 8:00-9:45 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditoriums
"The Expendables" (2010) with Sylvester Stallone,
Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke

Martial arts team overthrows
tyrant dictator
with skill and brute force. Sunday, October 17, 2010, 10:00 pm-12:00 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Susan's email told me of Tibetan Sand Mandala
from Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery
at Arrillaga Alumni Center: Found Haiku—

"Dalai Lama Sand
Mandala at Arrillaga"—
Say that fast now!

Monday, October 18, 2010, 10:00-10:07 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Wynton Marsalis plays
Johann Pachelbel Canon in D major (1680)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

What a joy waking up
to Pachelbel's Canon
to lift my spirit. Monday, October 18, 2010, 4:20-5:00 pm
Stanford Arrillaga Alumni Center:
Watching four monks from Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery create Tibetan Sand Mandala

This is patient work—
sand granules so small
to depict cosmos so big.

Monday, October 18, 2010, 6:40-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Fibonacci "89" petals: Sunflower, Passion Flower
for Harold A. Scheraga's 89th birthday greetings

Passion Flower for
Scheraga's passion in
protein structure research. Monday, October 18, 2010, 6:40-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Hiroshige, 100 Views of Edo: Woodblock #89
for Professor Harold Scheraga's 89th birthday

The temple Moon Pine
with a circular branch
views the sea at sunset.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 1:30-4:30 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Graham Hancock (Web site), Book,
"Ancient Mysteries & Parallel Dimensions"

Gobekli Tepe:
11,000 years old—
world's "oldest" temple. Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 1:30-4:30 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Graham Hancock (Web site), Book,
"Ancient Mysteries & Parallel Dimensions"

Dimensional beings
from spirit world includes
fairies, elves, UFOs.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 10:19-10:21 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Laurent Korcia plays Nino Rota,
The Godfather: Speak Softly Love, (1972),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), Lyrics

Speak softly love and
hold me warm in your heart
for I feel we are one. Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 11:40 am-1:00 pm
Stanford Arrillaga Alumni Center: Saw beautiful
Tibetan Sand Mandala done by monks in four days.
Now destroyed to teach us about impermance.

This mandala, our lives,
even the universe
are impermanent.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 11:40 am-1:00 pm
Stanford Arrillaga Alumni Center: Camera chip ran out of memory, so missed taking photos of closing ceremony's chanting & defacement of Mandala;
Sand will be dispersed in San Francisco Bay

Monk gave me CD
of their chanting and
packet of Mandala sand. Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 11:40 am-1:00 pm
Stanford Arrillaga Alumni Center: After watching
defacement of Sand Mandala ritual of chanting, bell-ringing, cymbal clashing, I understood at last ancient passage from Confucian Analects 3.17—

Confucius says to Ts'ze:
"You love the sheep,
but I love the ritual."

Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 2:00-6:20 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Writing 8 haikus for today and formatting
photos for Tibetan Sand Mandala taken
at Stanford Arrillaga Alumni Center

Tibetan Sand Mandala
photographs from
balcony came out well. Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 7:00-8:15 pm
Mountain View, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Google Building 40, WebMapSocial Meetup:
Mano Marks, "Google Fusion Tables";
Dedi Shindler, Co-Founder, CEO, "hiDentify"

Learning something new—
embedding Google's Geo
and consumer product search.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 8:48-8:58 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li plays Frederic Chopin,
Piano Concerto #1 in E minor, Op. 11 (1830)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Waking up to Chopin—
soothing music to start
off a serene day. Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 12:15-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab—
Formatting 21 photos of Tibetan Sand Mandala
taken Oct. 18-19 at Arrillaga Alumni Center

Eight hours to compose
web page Sand Mandala
photos to share with all.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Stan Deyo (Web site), Conspiracy Book,
"Earth Changes & New Science", Highlights

Gloom and doom coming—
earthquakes, solar flares,
Planet X, and nucleas war. Thursday, October 21, 2010, 11:04-11:12 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Borodin,
In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Woke up at last to
this haunting tune after
oversleeping for two hours.

Thursday, October 21, 2010, 2:48-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab—
Friend requests photos of Loon: Painting, Loon & Chick, Loon in Water, $1 Canadian Loon stamp

On Eve of Full Moon
found photos of the Loon—
beautiful duck-like bird. Thursday, October 21, 2010, 2:48-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab—
Three days late composing On the Number 89 for
Professor Harold A. Scheraga's 89th birthday

89— 11th Fibonacci number,
24th prime number; numerology:
William Wordsworth's name.

Thursday, October 21, 2010, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Charles Seife, Biography, (Web site),
"Mathematical Deception", Book: "Proofiness"

People, advertisers,
and politicians use
numbers to deceive. Friday, October 22, 2010, 10:15-10:24 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yiruma, "River Flows In You"
from First Love (2001), Lyrics,
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

River flows in you—
not just water and blood
but fire of the Milky Way!

Friday, October 22, 2010, 12:10-12:18 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays Sarasate,
Zigeunerweisen, Op.20 "Gypsy Airs" (1878),
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Perlman, Heifetz, Chang)

Sarasate's Gypsy Airs
weaves winds of love
for passionate lovers. Friday, October 22, 2010, 1:30-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Full Moon (10-22-2010, 6:36 PDT), Hunter's Moon
Checking restored files retrieved by Click-Away

May the Hunter's Moon
let me rest in fullness
and enjoy this autumn day.

Saturday, October 23, 2010, 11:21-11:26 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
plays Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 (1880)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Serenade for Strings—
Tchaikovsky invoked sadness
to stir up the soul. Saturday, October 23, 2010, 12:34-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Passed by Pampas Grass at the door often
and just noticed its beauty (Photos: 1, 2, 3);
Format 90 photos of 8/22 North Leaf Trail hike

Pampas Grass tossed her
hair in the windy breeze
and I sighed "How lovely!"

Sunday, October 24, 2010, 10:10-10:13 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Bryden Thomson conducts
Malcolm Arnold, Scottish Dance #3, Op. 59 (1957)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Scottish Dance woke me
this morning to dance with
forest fairies and elves. Sunday, October 24, 2010, 1:00-1:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)
& catch 2:18 pm Stanford Shopping Express

Quaker Instant Oatmeal,
salad dressings, popcorn shrimps,
eggs, and Roma tomatoes.

Sunday, October 24, 2010, 3:11-7:50 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Finish formatting 90 photos of 8/22 hike
to North Leaf Trail, El Corte de Madera;
Reading "Google program to translate poetry"

These hike photos lost
when camera chip damaged—
nice to have them restored. Sunday, October 24, 2010, 8:00-9:55 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium
Jay Roach directs "Dinner for Schmucks" (2010)
with Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak,
Bruce Greenwood, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch

Screwball comedy
at dinner to see which
one is most eccentric.

Monday, October 25, 2010, 12:00-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Knapp interviews Jacques Vallée, Biography, (Web site),
"Ancient UFOs", Book: "Wonders in the Sky"
Had lunch, dinner, & ride with Doug Engelbart
at Stanford's Accelerating Change 2004 Conference

Vallée learned remote viewing
from Doug Engelbart
while at SRI. Monday, October 25, 2010, 12:00-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Knapp interviews Richard Dolan, Biography, (Web site)
& Bryce Zabel, Biography, (Web site),
"After Disclosure" (unveiling UFO secrets),
New Book: "A.D.: After Disclosure"

Mass panic results
from UFO disclosure
when veil uplifted.

Monday, October 25, 2010, 11:06-11:09 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Itzhak Perlman
plays John Williams,
"Schindler's List: Main Theme" (1993 film),
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, Trailer)

Sad moment indeed—
Can music from strings soothe
the pain of wounded hearts? Monday, October 25, 2010, 12:20-12:25 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Pepe Romero
plays Luigi Boccherini, Listen, CD,
Guitar Quintet #4 in D, "Fandango" (1788)
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Snapping my fingers
to castanets, stomping
my feet to Fandango!

Monday, October 25, 2010, 1:53-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Began web page of 85 photos collage
of August 22 hike to North Leaf Trail

Three days of clouds & rain
and it's sunny today—
blue sky cheers me up! Monday, October 25, 2010, 1:53-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Photos of 8/22 hike to North Leaf Trail:
Three photos depicting "Soul of the Universe"—

Two Goosepen Redwoods,
Redwood to the Sky,
"Platonic Lambda" Redwood.

Monday, October 25, 2010, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Max Ophüls directs
"Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948) with
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians,
Marcel Journet (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), Novel, Photo

A sad love story
by Stephan Zweig made
into film by Max Ophüls. Monday, October 25, 2010, 9:10-10:36 pm
Stanford Theatre: Otto Preminger directs
"Laura" (1944) with Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews,
Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), Film Noir, Raskin, Poster

David Raskin's music
makes this haunting film
even more suspenseful.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 12:13-12:20 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Anne-Sophie Mutter plays
Giuseppe Tartini, CD, Listen, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)
Violin Sonata in G, "Devil's Trill" (1750)

Tunes of Devil's Trill
came to Tartini in dream
written when he woke. Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 2:20-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Finished web page of 85 photos collage
of August 22 hike to North Leaf Trail

North Leaf Trail has more
scenic Redwoods & Madrones
than the South Leaf Trail.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 11:54 am-12:01 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: 12 Cellists of Berliner Philharmoniker
play Gabriel Faure, Pavane, Op. 50 (1887)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Faure's Pavane merges
my mind with Nature
so I feel its grandeur. Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 1:37-1:41 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: John Williams conducts
John Williams, Munich: Prayer for Peace (2005)
CD, Listen, (YouTube)

John Williams' music
shows that his mind spans
all ranges of emotions.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 2:23-2:31 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludovico Einaudi plays
Ludovico Einaudi, Divenire: Primavera (2008)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Einaudi's Primavera—
cascading waterfall
and ringing of bells. Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 3:33-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Haikus on music heard today; Watched video;
Typing Dalai Lama's "Meaningful Life" Lecture

Time Traveller
caught in 1928 film
using a cell phone.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 10:30 pm-12:00 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Found on table near Classics Reading Room—
Esther Leslie (trans.) "Walter Benjamin's Archive"

He collects what's thrown
away, sorts them out, and
shapes them into treasures. Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 10:30 pm-12:00 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Found on table near Classics Reading Room—
Esther Leslie (trans.) "Walter Benjamin's Archive"

Found this treasure
in Benjamin's Archive—
postcards of seven Sibyls.

Thursday, October 28, 2010, 1:00-4:45 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Barbara Y. Martin & Dimitri Moraitis
Biography, (Web site), "Reincarnation & Auras", Books: "Karma and Reincarnation", "Aura & Life"

800 rebirths
through karmic teachings
to reach heaven & perfection. Thursday, October 28, 2010, 11:51-11:55 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yiruma plays
Yiruma, "River Flows In You"
from First Love (2001), Lyrics,
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

River in you flows
from lower to upper
waters— Kundalini!

Thursday, October 28, 2010, 2:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College
By Eucalyptus Trees at Parking Lot 4
saw "Giant Footprint Cloud" (Photos: 1, 2)

Giant cloud covering
an eighth of the sky—
footprint of a large bear? Thursday, October 28, 2010, 2:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College
Krause Center for Innovation (Bldg 4000)
Photographed "Rock and Purple Flowers"

Still life for painter—
Bright purple flowers behind
rock in the garden.

Thursday, October 28, 2010, 2:25-6:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
First photograph of humans discovered (1848);
Earlier 1838 Paris Photo by Louis Daguerre

Paris photo in 1838
preceded Ohio River
photo by ten years. Thursday, October 28, 2010, 2:25-6:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Wrote six haikus for Thursday (10/28) and
typed Dalai Lama's "Meaningful Life" Lecture

Filled gaps to my notes
with webcast of Dalai Lama's
Rathbun Lecture.

Friday, October 29, 2010, 11:04-11:10 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays
Jules Massenet, Thaïs: Meditation (1894)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Joshua Bell playing
Massenet's Meditation
makes my mind peaceful. Friday, October 29, 2010, 1:15-4:00 pm
Stanford Annenberg Auditorium, Special Screening:
Lucas Belvaux directs "Rapt" (2009) starring
Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny; Q&A with Director

Belvaux honors Kurosawa's
High and Low with ransom
delivered on a bullet train.

Friday, October 29, 2010, 4:50-5:30 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Bluebird on tip of bush (Photos: 1, 2)

Bluebird lands on tip-top
of bush— I take photo
before it flies away. Friday, October 29, 2010, 4:50-5:30 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Carved pumpkins at Fraternity House

Row of carved pumpkins—
Profile of Lion, a Bat,
and Happy Smiling Face.

Friday, October 29, 2010, 7:30-8:50 pm
Stanford Theatre: Samuel Fuller directs
"Pickup on South Street" (1953) starring
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter,
Richard Kiley (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), Film Review

Thief steals wallet from
woman's purse that has
communist spy's microfilm. Friday, October 29, 2010, 9:00-10:35 pm
Stanford Theatre: Otto Preminger directs
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" (1950) starring
Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill,
Karl Malden, Tom Tully, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Cop loves model whose
dad was accused of killing
though he was the one.

Saturday, October 30, 2010, 8:00 am
Mountain View: Woke up in bed after dream—
Children are playing Second Life & one kid's
mother taunts me not playing along with them

A boy steps sideways
and says "Second Life"—
I say "Our life is infinite". Saturday, October 30, 2010, 11:40 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Format 15 photos of October 29 taken
at Lake Lagunita & Stanford Theatre

My friend Jack is here—
He gives me a ride to
Los Altos Library.

Saturday, October 30, 2010, 7:08-7:13 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Angèle Dubeau plays
Ennio Morricone, Buona Fortuna Jack (1973),
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3),
"My Name Is Nobody" (Film Trailer)

Music from Western film
My Name Is Nobody
with Henry Fonda. Sunday, October 31, 2010, 12:30-4:30 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett interviews Peter Levenda (Web site), Biography,
"Occultism & Political Witchcraft in America", Journal, Book: Sinister Forces (2005)

Arthur Young was one
of nine in 1952 seance
contacting Super Beings.

Sunday, October 31, 2010, 12:22-12:28 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Charles Gounod, Listen,
Funeral March of a Marionette (1872), CD,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Gounod's Funeral March
used as theme tune in
Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Sunday, October 31, 2010, 12:28-12:37 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Paul Dukas,
Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897)
Listen, CD, YouTube: Mickey Mouse

Sorcerer's Apprentice—
Goethe's poem made famous
by Dukas and Disney.

Sunday, October 31, 2010, 1:22-1:28 pm
Mountain View: Ortega Avenue & Latham Street
Bird Cloud, Halloweeen Lawn, Skeleton, Goblins

Bird Cloud above,
Skeletons & Goblins below
on Halloween Lawn. Sunday, October 31, 2010, 2:00-2:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California St.)

Granola bars, cookies,
Swiss cheese, smoked ham,
cereals, DiGiorno pizzas.

Sunday, October 31, 2010, 3:30-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road)
& Nob Hill Foods (1250 Grant Road)

Vegetarian Chop-Suey,
tofu, bean curd, broad beans,
sesame chips and nonfat milk. Sunday, October 31, 2010, 8:00-9:45 pm
Stanford Flicks: Memorial Auditorium
Vincenzo Natali directs "Splice" (2009), Trailer,
with Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac

Genetic engineered
human-animal hybrid
becomes violent killer.