Haikus: January 2011

HAIKUS: January 2011

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.

Saturday, January 1, 2011, 11:53-11:57 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Pascal Amoyel plays
Camille Saint-Saens, (Listen), CD, YouTube,
Carnival of the Animals: #13 The Swan (1886)

May the swan's beauty,
purity and grace send me
blessings this New Year! Saturday, January 1, 2011, 8:00-11:50 pm
Mountain View: Wrote poem instead of going
New Year ballroom dancing; "We Are the Function"
in response to Jack Gilbert's "We Are the Junction"

Truth is purified—
the poet weaving
hourglasses into story.

Sunday, January 2, 2011, 1:03-1:07 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yo-Yo Ma plays
Edgar Meyer, "First Impression" (1999)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube), Lyrics

First impression— not
always reliable
based on our bias. Sunday, January 2, 2011, 2:15-8:40 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Wrote Notes: "We Are the Junction"
Alex Grey's "Wonder: Zena Looking at the Moon"

Alex Grey's paintings
show the cosmic dimension
of our mind and heart.

Monday, January 3, 2011, 12:35-12:47 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Stefan Ruha
plays Ciprian Porumbescu,
Ballade for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 29 (1880),
(Listen), CD, YouTube, Notes

Ballade for Violin—
romantic Romanian tunes
that makes the heart weep. Monday, January 3, 2011, 4:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote Notes: "We Are the Junction";
Found "Spanish Sahara B59 semipostal
"Winged Wheel & Hourglass" for poem

Poet's imagination
takes flight weaving
space-time into story.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 12:25-12:30 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Stefan Ruha
plays Jean Sibelius,
"Valse Triste", Op. 44
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Woman on deathbed
hears haunting waltz melody
and recalls her youth. Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 4:15-5:00 pm
San Jose: 110 South Market Street
San Jose Museum of Art
"Leo Villareal: "Light Show"
Poem: "Leo Villaresl: Big Bang"

Villareal's light canvases—
mesmerizing and
a bit psychedelic.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 11:07-11:14 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Amilcare Ponchielli,
La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours (1876)
Listen, CD, YouTube

Time is not linear
but exponential— dance spins
into fast frenzy. Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 11:27-11:31 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Xuefei Yang plays
Isaac Albeniz, (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3),
"España, Op. 165, #2, Tango in D (1890)

Albeniz's Tango—
romantic music to stir
the soul for dancing.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 3:15-6:05 pm
Stanford University, History Corner, 260-105
Stephen Dobyns (Mohr Poet)
Poetry Workshop (English 192V)
The Occasions of Poetry

Dobyns tells the class—
poems need to communicate
to be successful. Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 3:15-6:05 pm
Stanford University, History Corner, 260-105
Stephen Dobyns Poetry Workshop: Discussed
Philip Larkin's "Pleasure Principle" (1957),
Poems of Philip Larkin and Mary Oliver

Poem is emotion
written on the page
transmitted to the reader.

Thursday, January 6, 2011, 1:01-1:25 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Sarah Chang plays Max Bruch,
Violin Concerto #1 in G minor, Op.26 (1867),
(Listen) (CD), (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Celebrate birthdays
of Max Bruch and Scriabin—
music from their mind. Thursday, January 6, 2011, 5:10-5:32 pm
Stanford University: Sunset Clouds from Bus,
Blimp over Stanford Oval, Blimp over Memorial Church, Blimp & Memorial Church from Arch

Batteries are dead
while snapping photos of blimp
flying over Stanford.

Friday, January 7, 2011, 3:33-4:40 am
Mountain View: Opened Alan Berkowitz's
6x9 mail of my 1972 letter to Paul Brunton
returned 39 years later on Epiphany Day

What a treasure to find
my letter to PB
now returned to me! Friday, January 7, 2011, 3:33-4:40 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Paul Lewis plays Beethoven, (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2), Lecture (1804),
"Piano Sonata #21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"

Beethoven's music—
always lively stirring us
from sleep to wake up!

Friday, January 7, 2011, 2:12-3:22 pm
Mountain View: Photos of trees & clouds
on Hope Street & Castro Street; Numbers
of buildings (582 & 650), Starbuck Coffee Logo,
St. Joseph Parish, Sun behind Cedar & Church

Y-Tree, a window
to the nest. Cedar tree
soaring up to the Soul! Friday, January 7, 2011, 7:40-9:40 pm
Friends' House, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading—
Read poems "We Are the Function" &
"The Universe Is Made of Stories"

Read last poem written
in 2010 and first
poem of this year.

Saturday, January 8, 2011, 12:07-12:17 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Martha Argerich plays
Franz Liszt, "Hungarian Rhapsody #6" (1847)
Listen, (CD), YouTube. Repetitive melody
in first part using mostly black keys.

The elves are dancing
merrily across the field
and I'm joining them! Saturday, January 8, 2011, 2:30-4:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Typed "I See Joy", my first poem (6-8-1968)
to Paul Brunton (July 1972) asking for meeting.
Alan Berkowitz returned letter on Jan. 6, 2011

PB saved my first letter
with poem "I See Joy"
now mailed back to me.

Sunday, January 9, 2011, 11:16-11:19 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Sharon Isbin plays
John Duarte, "Joan Baez Suite", Op. 144 (2001)
Listen, (CD), YouTube. Joan Baez (b. Jan. 9, 1941)

Joan Baez birthday—
Isbin plays John Duarte's
Suite to celebrate her. Sunday, January 9, 2011, 4:30-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Wrote poem "Nine, Page, Ace of Pentacles"
with link to the star pentacle inside apples

Star-orb pentacles—
Apples of Hesperides!
Soul of the Universe!

Monday, January 10, 2011, 3:15-5:00 pm
Santa Clara, 710 Lawrence Expressway
Kaiser Hospital: Photos of artworks
John Pugh, "Silent Stream" (1999)

A blue pearl inside
the sea shell invites you
in the water garden. Monday, January 10, 2011, 3:15-5:00 pm
Santa Clara, 710 Lawrence Expressway
Kaiser Hospital: Radiology X-ray;
Urology visit with Dr. Yamaguchi

X-ray shows no kidney stone
for the second time—
ultrasound is next.

Monday, January 10, 2011, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli
directs "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944)
starring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien,
Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, & Tom Drake
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Judy sings "Boy Next Door"
as Minnelli paints her
in a picture frame. Monday, January 10, 2011, 9:35-11:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Seaton
directs "Apartment for Peggy" (1948)
with Jeanne Crain, William Holden,
Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Young couple's zest for life
prevents old professor
to commit suicide.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:10-6:00 pm
Santa Clara, 710 Lawrence Expressway
Kaiser Hospital: Optometrist Dept 486;
Dr. Hung Thai examines my red eyes

Prescribed antibiotic
eyedrops and erythromycin
cream for my left eyes. Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 7:00-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Rudy is taking Advanced Photoshop with
Tonya Hough & gives me a ride home

Came home early today
instead of staying till
midnight at Stanford.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:10-6:00 pm
Santa Clara, 710 Lawrence Expressway
Kaiser Hospital: Optometrist Dept 486;
Dr. Hung Thai examines my red eyes

Prescribed antibiotic
eyedrops and erythromycin
cream for my left eyes. Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 7:00-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Rudy is taking Advanced Photoshop with
Tonya Hough & gives me a ride home

Came home early today
instead of staying till
midnight at Stanford.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 1:00-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Wells Fargo Bank
Mary Layno sets up new checking without fees
and gives me "Lightning" stuffed pony

Too late to take this
cute pony home— carried
him off to Stanford class. Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 3:05-3:10 pm
Stanford University, History Corner, 200-113
Said hello to Shari, department secretary
and mom to Angela who danced with me

Told her I'm taking
poetry with Stephen Dobyns
just around the bend.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 3:15-5:35 pm
Stanford University, History Corner, 200-105
Stephen Dobyns, Poetry Workshop (English 192V)
Read Mary Oliver, Tranströmer, & Bill Knott

Mary Oliver's "The Swan",
Tranströmer's "After Someone's Death"
Bill Knott's "Obsolescent". Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 5:45-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Page for First Photos 2011: Stanford Blimp;
Format photos of last hike on Hicks Road

Trees, river, and pyramid
hill on Hicks Road made
last hike memorable.

Thursday, January 13, 2011, 12:38-12:44 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Nicola Benedetti plays
Johannes Brahms, Contemplation, Op. 105: #1
(arr. Heifetz/Reynolds) "Wie Melodien zieht es mir" (1886), Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2) Queries

Inside the temple
a monk enters silent
darkness to find the light. Thursday, January 13, 2011, 3:00-9:40 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Lab
Catch up on writing 14 haikus (Jan. 5-9, 2011)
with links to classical music played on KDFC.
Rudy gives me a ride home.

Better write haikus now
before KDFC takes off links
to "What Was That Piece?"

Friday, January 14, 2011, 10:37-10:51 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell
plays Camille Saint-Saëns,
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso,
Op. 28 (1863), Listen, CD,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Saint-Saëns wrote this solo
piece for violinist
Pablo de Sarasate. Friday, January 14, 2011, 3:15-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Pigott Hall, 260-113
"Philosophy & Film II": Stephen Mulhall, “Countering the Ballad of Co-Dependency:
The Realistic Spirit of David Fincher's
'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'”

Not just marriage between
Benjamin and Daisy
but Body and Soul.

Sunday, January 16, 2011, 11:35-11:38 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Leon Fleisher plays
Ludwig van Beethoven, "Für Elise"
Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, WoO 59 (1808),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2), Commentaries

My niece Elisa played
Beethoven's "Für Elise"
for me as a child. Sunday, January 16, 2011, 11:45-11:54 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Borodin,
String Quartet #2 in D major (1881)
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (lyrics)
("Kismet" 1955 film), (Listen), (CD), YouTube

Howard Keel sang this
song in Kismet film but
Peggy Lee does it better.

Sunday, January 16, 2011, 2:15-3:14 pm
Palo Alto (Walgreens, 4170 El Camino Real),
Mountain View (Safeway, 2580 California St.)
Friend takes me grocery shopping

Cashews, eggs, baby carrots,
Kettle chips, potato tots,
bananas and blackberries. Sunday, January 16, 2011, 4:45-6:45 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Inspired by Scott Bukatman's talk on "Comics",
looked ups Théophile Steinlen's cat drawings

He catches the cat
in motion sketching all its
quick jumps, twists & turns.

Sunday, January 16, 2011, 7:30-8:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: John Cromwell directs
"Of Human Bondage" (1934) starring
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee,
Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, Sr., Reginald Sheffield
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Club-footed Philip
loves cruel waitress Mildred
who taunts him to no end. Sunday, January 16, 2011, 9:05-10:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: William Dieterle
directs "Fog Over Frisco" (1934)
with Bette Davis, Donald Woods,
Margaret Lindsay, Hugh Herbert, Lyle Talbot,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Society girl mixed
up with racketeers in
movie with breathless pace.

Monday, January 17, 2011, 10:04-10:12 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Simon Rattle conducts
Gustav Holst, (Listen), (CD) (YouTube: 1, 2)
The Planets, Op. 32: Jupiter (1916)

Sounds like Beethoven
but it's Jupiter music
from Holst's The Planets. Monday, January 17, 2011, 4:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Friend gives me ride to Art Library just
in time to see Blimp over Hoover Tower

Coming to Art Library—
Farmer's Blimp soars
over Hoover Tower.

Monday, January 17, 2011, 4:00-7:45 pm
Stanford University, Art Library (till 5 pm)
Green Library (5:00-7:45 pm); Rudy meets me
in Classics Room to go to Stanford Flicks film

Typed "Platonic Lambda Sonnet"
and began Notes to poem
with Hebrew Torah scroll. Monday, January 17, 2011, 8:00-9:45 pm
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks:
Rodrigo Cortés directs "Buried" (2010)
starring Ryan Reynolds in coffin

Buried alive in Iraq—
man used cell phone
to get help for rescue.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 11:27-11:34 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934),
(Listen) (CD), YouTube, Greensleeves

Beautiful music
portraying nature's landscape
and flower gardens. Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 2:00-3:00 pm
Kaiser Santa Clara: Ophalmology 490
Dr. David Scott checks my left eye and
says it's not infected but inflammed.

Stop erythromycin cream
but continue eye drops
for ten more days.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 5:22 pm
Mountain View, Showers Drive & Latham Street
Waiting for Stanford Shopping Express Bus;
Orange clouds after sunset & Full Moon

Photographed sunset clouds
and Full Moon rising
over the horizon Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 6:30-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Cummings Art Library
Scanned F.M. Cornford's "Plato's Cosmology" (1952), Platonic Lambda, Timaeus 35b (pp. 66-67)

Checked out Cornford's book
to scan Platonic Lambda
reference to my poem.

Tues-Wed, Jan. 18-19, 2011, 10 pm-1 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Notes to Poem "Platonic Lambda Sonnet"
Searching for Leonardo drawing of faces

Leonardo's Portrait
and Human Face drawing
show nose in the center. Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 1:14 am
Stanford University Oval: Waiting for 1:14 am
Midnight Express Bus to Cal-Train Depot;
Seeing Full Moon right over my head.

Wolf Man above the Quad—
Great Pearl pours its rays
filling me with blessings.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 3:15-6:10 pm
Stanford University, History Corner, 200-105
Stephen Dobyns, Poetry Workshop (English 192V)
Rilke's "Death" & "Corpse"; Bill Knott's "Sonnet"

Rilke's poems take flight
to new dimensions;
Knott puns on his name a lot. Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7:27-8:20 pm
Mountain View, San Antonio Rd near El Camino
Missed 7:22 pm Bus 35; Hitchhiked for an hour
before Arvind Batra drove me to Foothill Campus

Java programmer at Kosmix
knows Swami Chinmayananda—
I give him my latest poem.

Thursday, January 20, 2011, 9:03-9:28 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays
Camille Saint-Saëns, Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)
Concerto for Piano #2 in G minor, Op. 22 (1868)

Presto movement gallops
in fast frenzy with
piano notes in whirlwind. Thursday, January 20, 2011, 2:30-6:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Catch up writing 12 haikus (Jan. 13-17, 2011)
Links: "Of Human Bondage" & "Fog Over Frisco"

Of Human Bondage
film opens with Paris Street—
Platonic Lambda!

Thursday, January 20, 2011, 8:00-9:40 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Rudy gives me ride home; Google's Search Page
celebrates 50th anniversary of JFK's Inaugural

Listened to JFK's
Speech at Columbia
and memorized most of it. Friday, January 21, 2011, 12:00-12:40 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Hilary Hahn plays Brahms,
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (1878)
Listen, CD, YouTube

Passionate playing
Brahms' Violin Concerto
by Hilary Hahn.

Friday, January 21, 2011, 6:59-7:05 pm
Palo Alto, 281 University Avenue,
Restoration Hardware: Cast Iron Horse replicas
from 2000 year-old Han Dynasty (Photos 1, 2, 3)

Patinated horses
suggest the grace and
majesty of the originals. Friday, January 21, 2011, 6:59-7:05 pm
Palo Alto, 281 University Avenue
Restoration Hardware: Aged iron finish
Cast Lion's Head Artifact Lamp

Cast lion's head lamp—
Mom would have loved it
for her lion head meatballs.

Friday, January 21, 2011, 7:30-8:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Robert Florey directs
"Ex-Lady" (1933) with Bette Davis, Gene Raymond,
Frank McHugh, Monroe Owsley, Claire Dodd
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Bette fumed: "A piece of junk—
My shame was only
exceeded by my fury." Friday, January 21, 2011, 8:50-10:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Michael Curtis directs
"Front Page Woman" (1935) with Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns, Wini Shaw, J. Carrol Naish, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Reporters in love
from rival papers always
scooping each other.

Saturday, January 22, 2011, 3:45-3:50 pm
Mountain View: San Antonio Rd & El Camino—
Waiting for 3:50 pm Bus 40 to Foothill College
Photos of clouds spreading out like rays

Clouds spreading like rays,
one resembles a dog
being chased by a bear. Saturday, January 22, 2011, 4:10-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hill, Foothill College Krause Center
Format 12 photos from January 21 taken at
Restoration Hardware & Stanford Theatre

Jack gives me ride to
Los Altos Library; John
gives me a ride home.

Sunday, January 23, 2011, 11:50-11:53 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Julian Lloyd Webber plays
Camille Saint-Saens, (Listen), CD, YouTube, Carnival of the Animals: #13 The Swan (1886)

Rudy's phone call wakes me
in time to listen to
Saint-Saens' "The Swan" Sunday, January 23, 2011, 2:18 pm
Mountain View, Showers Drive—
Waiting for Stanford Shuttle Bus;
Nice clouds in Target Parking Lot

Bus has not arrived yet
so I could take photos
of these cirrus clouds.

Sunday, January 23, 2011, 3:00-7:45 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Email to Jack about tonight's movie;
Finding paintings with dynamic motion

Steinlen's Cat motion
preceded Balla's Dog and
Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. Sunday, January 23, 2011, 8:00-9:35 pm
Memorial Auditorium: Stanford Flicks:
Will Gluck directs "Easy A" with Emma Stone,
Penn Badgley, Amanda Byrnes, Patricia Clarkson

Teen comedy film
inspired by the novel
The Scarlet Letter

Monday, January 24, 2011, 11:48-11:53 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: George Frederic Handel,
Water Music: Suite #1 in F major (1717)
(Listen) CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Handel's Water Music
is last piece of classical
played on 102.1 FM. Monday, January 24, 2011, 12:00-12:10 pm
KFOX 102.1 FM: Classic Rock replaces KDFC,
Chuck Berry, Roll Over Beethoven (1956)
(Listen) CD, (YouTube: 1, 2) (Lyrics: 1, 2)

First piece played after
classical replaced by rock—
Roll Over Beethoven

Monday, January 24, 2011, 2:15-2:53 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California St.)

Brussels sprouts, almond milk,
popcorn shrimp, fish fillets,
garlic bread, supreme pizza. Monday, January 24, 2011, 4:30-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab
Photographed clouds in parking lot

Sharp-beak bird cloud soars
over pine tree ascending
to the azure sky.

Saturday, January 1, 2011, 11:53-11:57 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Pascal Amoyel plays Camille Saint-Saens, (Listen), CD, YouTube, Carnival of the Animals: #13 The Swan (1886) May the swan's beauty, purity and grace send me blessings this New Year!	Saturday, January 1, 2011, 8:00-11:50 pm Mountain View: Wrote poem instead of going New Year ballroom dancing; "We Are the Function" in response to Jack Gilbert's "We Are the Junction" Truth is purified— the poet weaving hourglasses into story.
Sunday, January 2, 2011, 1:03-1:07 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Yo-Yo Ma plays Edgar Meyer, "First Impression" (1999) (Listen), CD, (YouTube), Lyrics First impression— not always reliable based on our bias.	Sunday, January 2, 2011, 2:15-8:40 pm Stanford University, Green Library Wrote Notes: "We Are the Junction" Alex Grey's "Wonder: Zena Looking at the Moon" Alex Grey's paintings show the cosmic dimension of our mind and heart.
Monday, January 3, 2011, 12:35-12:47 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Stefan Ruha plays Ciprian Porumbescu, Ballade for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 29 (1880), (Listen), CD, YouTube, Notes Ballade for Violin— romantic Romanian tunes that makes the heart weep.	Monday, January 3, 2011, 4:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Wrote Notes: "We Are the Junction"; Found "Spanish Sahara B59 semipostal "Winged Wheel & Hourglass" for poem Poet's imagination takes flight weaving space-time into story.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 12:25-12:30 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Stefan Ruha plays Jean Sibelius, "Valse Triste", Op. 44 (Listen), CD, YouTube Woman on deathbed hears haunting waltz melody and recalls her youth.	Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 4:15-5:00 pm San Jose: 110 South Market Street San Jose Museum of Art "Leo Villareal: "Light Show" Poem: "Leo Villaresl: Big Bang" Villareal's light canvases— mesmerizing and a bit psychedelic.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 11:07-11:14 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Amilcare Ponchielli, La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours (1876) Listen, CD, YouTube Time is not linear but exponential— dance spins into fast frenzy.	Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 11:27-11:31 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Xuefei Yang plays Isaac Albeniz, (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), "España, Op. 165, #2, Tango in D (1890) Albeniz's Tango— romantic music to stir the soul for dancing.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 3:15-6:05 pm Stanford University, History Corner, 260-105 Stephen Dobyns (Mohr Poet) Poetry Workshop (English 192V) The Occasions of Poetry Dobyns tells the class— poems need to communicate to be successful.	Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 3:15-6:05 pm Stanford University, History Corner, 260-105 Stephen Dobyns Poetry Workshop: Discussed Philip Larkin's "Pleasure Principle" (1957), Poems of Philip Larkin and Mary Oliver Poem is emotion written on the page transmitted to the reader.
Thursday, January 6, 2011, 1:01-1:25 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Sarah Chang plays Max Bruch, Violin Concerto #1 in G minor, Op.26 (1867), (Listen) (CD), (YouTube: 1, 2, 3) Celebrate birthdays of Max Bruch and Scriabin— music from their mind.	Thursday, January 6, 2011, 5:10-5:32 pm Stanford University: Sunset Clouds from Bus, Blimp over Stanford Oval, Blimp over Memorial Church, Blimp & Memorial Church from Arch Batteries are dead while snapping photos of blimp flying over Stanford.
Friday, January 7, 2011, 3:33-4:40 am Mountain View: Opened Alan Berkowitz's 6x9 mail of my 1972 letter to Paul Brunton returned 39 years later on Epiphany Day What a treasure to find my letter to PB now returned to me!	Friday, January 7, 2011, 3:33-4:40 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Paul Lewis plays Beethoven, (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2), Lecture (1804), "Piano Sonata #21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein" Beethoven's music— always lively stirring us from sleep to wake up!
Friday, January 7, 2011, 2:12-3:22 pm Mountain View: Photos of trees & clouds on Hope Street & Castro Street; Numbers of buildings (582 & 650), Starbuck Coffee Logo, St. Joseph Parish, Sun behind Cedar & Church Y-Tree, a window to the nest. Cedar tree soaring up to the Soul!	Friday, January 7, 2011, 7:40-9:40 pm Friends' House, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading— Read poems "We Are the Function" & "The Universe Is Made of Stories" Read last poem written in 2010 and first poem of this year.
Saturday, January 8, 2011, 12:07-12:17 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Martha Argerich plays Franz Liszt, "Hungarian Rhapsody #6" (1847) Listen, (CD), YouTube. Repetitive melody in first part using mostly black keys. The elves are dancing merrily across the field and I'm joining them!	Saturday, January 8, 2011, 2:30-4:50 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Typed "I See Joy", my first poem (6-8-1968) to Paul Brunton (July 1972) asking for meeting. Alan Berkowitz returned letter on Jan. 6, 2011 PB saved my first letter with poem "I See Joy" now mailed back to me.
Sunday, January 9, 2011, 11:16-11:19 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Sharon Isbin plays John Duarte, "Joan Baez Suite", Op. 144 (2001) Listen, (CD), YouTube. Joan Baez (b. Jan. 9, 1941) Joan Baez birthday— Isbin plays John Duarte's Suite to celebrate her.	Sunday, January 9, 2011, 4:30-10:00 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Wrote poem "Nine, Page, Ace of Pentacles" with link to the star pentacle inside apples Star-orb pentacles— Apples of Hesperides! Soul of the Universe!
Monday, January 10, 2011, 3:15-5:00 pm Santa Clara, 710 Lawrence Expressway Kaiser Hospital: Photos of artworks John Pugh, "Silent Stream" (1999) A blue pearl inside the sea shell invites you in the water garden.	Monday, January 10, 2011, 3:15-5:00 pm Santa Clara, 710 Lawrence Expressway Kaiser Hospital: Radiology X-ray; Urology visit with Dr. Yamaguchi X-ray shows no kidney stone for the second time— ultrasound is next.
Monday, January 10, 2011, 7:30-9:25 pm Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944) starring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, & Tom Drake (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2) Judy sings "Boy Next Door" as Minnelli paints her in a picture frame.	Monday, January 10, 2011, 9:35-11:15 pm Stanford Theatre: George Seaton directs "Apartment for Peggy" (1948) with Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2) Young couple's zest for life prevents old professor to commit suicide.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:10-6:00 pm Santa Clara, 710 Lawrence Expressway Kaiser Hospital: Optometrist Dept 486; Dr. Hung Thai examines my red eyes Prescribed antibiotic eyedrops and erythromycin cream for my left eyes.	Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 7:00-9:40 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Rudy is taking Advanced Photoshop with Tonya Hough & gives me a ride home Came home early today instead of staying till midnight at Stanford.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:10-6:00 pm Santa Clara, 710 Lawrence Expressway Kaiser Hospital: Optometrist Dept 486; Dr. Hung Thai examines my red eyes Prescribed antibiotic eyedrops and erythromycin cream for my left eyes.	Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 7:00-9:40 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Rudy is taking Advanced Photoshop with Tonya Hough & gives me a ride home Came home early today instead of staying till midnight at Stanford.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 1:00-2:00 pm Mountain View: Wells Fargo Bank Mary Layno sets up new checking without fees and gives me "Lightning" stuffed pony Too late to take this cute pony home— carried him off to Stanford class.	Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 3:05-3:10 pm Stanford University, History Corner, 200-113 Said hello to Shari, department secretary and mom to Angela who danced with me Told her I'm taking poetry with Stephen Dobyns just around the bend.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 3:15-5:35 pm Stanford University, History Corner, 200-105 Stephen Dobyns, Poetry Workshop (English 192V) Read Mary Oliver, Tranströmer, & Bill Knott Mary Oliver's "The Swan", Tranströmer's "After Someone's Death" Bill Knott's "Obsolescent".	Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 5:45-10:00 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Page for First Photos 2011: Stanford Blimp; Format photos of last hike on Hicks Road Trees, river, and pyramid hill on Hicks Road made last hike memorable.
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 12:38-12:44 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Nicola Benedetti plays Johannes Brahms, Contemplation, Op. 105: #1 (arr. Heifetz/Reynolds) "Wie Melodien zieht es mir" (1886), Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2) Queries Inside the temple a monk enters silent darkness to find the light.	Thursday, January 13, 2011, 3:00-9:40 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Lab Catch up on writing 14 haikus (Jan. 5-9, 2011) with links to classical music played on KDFC. Rudy gives me a ride home. Better write haikus now before KDFC takes off links to "What Was That Piece?"
Friday, January 14, 2011, 10:37-10:51 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays Camille Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 (1863), Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3) Saint-Saëns wrote this solo piece for violinist Pablo de Sarasate.	Friday, January 14, 2011, 3:15-5:00 pm Stanford University, Pigott Hall, 260-113 "Philosophy & Film II": Stephen Mulhall, “Countering the Ballad of Co-Dependency: The Realistic Spirit of David Fincher's 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'” Not just marriage between Benjamin and Daisy but Body and Soul.
Sunday, January 16, 2011, 11:35-11:38 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Leon Fleisher plays Ludwig van Beethoven, "Für Elise" Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, WoO 59 (1808), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2), Commentaries My niece Elisa played Beethoven's "Für Elise" for me as a child.	Sunday, January 16, 2011, 11:45-11:54 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Borodin, String Quartet #2 in D major (1881) "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (lyrics) ("Kismet" 1955 film), (Listen), (CD), YouTube Howard Keel sang this song in Kismet film but Peggy Lee does it better.
Sunday, January 16, 2011, 2:15-3:14 pm Palo Alto (Walgreens, 4170 El Camino Real), Mountain View (Safeway, 2580 California St.) Friend takes me grocery shopping Cashews, eggs, baby carrots, Kettle chips, potato tots, bananas and blackberries.	Sunday, January 16, 2011, 4:45-6:45 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Inspired by Scott Bukatman's talk on "Comics", looked ups Théophile Steinlen's cat drawings He catches the cat in motion sketching all its quick jumps, twists & turns.
Sunday, January 16, 2011, 7:30-8:55 pm Stanford Theatre: John Cromwell directs "Of Human Bondage" (1934) starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, Sr., Reginald Sheffield (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2) Club-footed Philip loves cruel waitress Mildred who taunts him to no end.	Sunday, January 16, 2011, 9:05-10:15 pm Stanford Theatre: William Dieterle directs "Fog Over Frisco" (1934) with Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Hugh Herbert, Lyle Talbot, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2) Society girl mixed up with racketeers in movie with breathless pace.
Monday, January 17, 2011, 10:04-10:12 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Simon Rattle conducts Gustav Holst, (Listen), (CD) (YouTube: 1, 2) The Planets, Op. 32: Jupiter (1916) Sounds like Beethoven but it's Jupiter music from Holst's The Planets.	Monday, January 17, 2011, 4:00 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Friend gives me ride to Art Library just in time to see Blimp over Hoover Tower Coming to Art Library— Farmer's Blimp soars over Hoover Tower.
Monday, January 17, 2011, 4:00-7:45 pm Stanford University, Art Library (till 5 pm) Green Library (5:00-7:45 pm); Rudy meets me in Classics Room to go to Stanford Flicks film Typed "Platonic Lambda Sonnet" and began Notes to poem with Hebrew Torah scroll.	Monday, January 17, 2011, 8:00-9:45 pm Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks: Rodrigo Cortés directs "Buried" (2010) starring Ryan Reynolds in coffin Buried alive in Iraq— man used cell phone to get help for rescue.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 11:27-11:34 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934), (Listen) (CD), YouTube, Greensleeves Beautiful music portraying nature's landscape and flower gardens.	Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 2:00-3:00 pm Kaiser Santa Clara: Ophalmology 490 Dr. David Scott checks my left eye and says it's not infected but inflammed. Stop erythromycin cream but continue eye drops for ten more days.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 5:22 pm Mountain View, Showers Drive & Latham Street Waiting for Stanford Shopping Express Bus; Orange clouds after sunset & Full Moon Photographed sunset clouds and Full Moon rising over the horizon	Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 6:30-10:00 pm Stanford University, Cummings Art Library Scanned F.M. Cornford's "Plato's Cosmology" (1952), Platonic Lambda, Timaeus 35b (pp. 66-67) Checked out Cornford's book to scan Platonic Lambda reference to my poem.
Tues-Wed, Jan. 18-19, 2011, 10 pm-1 am Stanford University, Green Library Notes to Poem "Platonic Lambda Sonnet" Searching for Leonardo drawing of faces Leonardo's Portrait and Human Face drawing show nose in the center.	Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 1:14 am Stanford University Oval: Waiting for 1:14 am Midnight Express Bus to Cal-Train Depot; Seeing Full Moon right over my head. Wolf Man above the Quad— Great Pearl pours its rays filling me with blessings.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 3:15-6:10 pm Stanford University, History Corner, 200-105 Stephen Dobyns, Poetry Workshop (English 192V) Rilke's "Death" & "Corpse"; Bill Knott's "Sonnet" Rilke's poems take flight to new dimensions; Knott puns on his name a lot.	Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7:27-8:20 pm Mountain View, San Antonio Rd near El Camino Missed 7:22 pm Bus 35; Hitchhiked for an hour before Arvind Batra drove me to Foothill Campus Java programmer at Kosmix knows Swami Chinmayananda— I give him my latest poem.
Thursday, January 20, 2011, 9:03-9:28 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Camille Saint-Saëns, Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2) Concerto for Piano #2 in G minor, Op. 22 (1868) Presto movement gallops in fast frenzy with piano notes in whirlwind.	Thursday, January 20, 2011, 2:30-6:40 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Catch up writing 12 haikus (Jan. 13-17, 2011) Links: "Of Human Bondage" & "Fog Over Frisco" Of Human Bondage film opens with Paris Street— Platonic Lambda!
Thursday, January 20, 2011, 8:00-9:40 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Rudy gives me ride home; Google's Search Page celebrates 50th anniversary of JFK's Inaugural Listened to JFK's Speech at Columbia and memorized most of it.	Friday, January 21, 2011, 12:00-12:40 pm KDFC 102.1 FM: Hilary Hahn plays Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (1878) Listen, CD, YouTube Passionate playing Brahms' Violin Concerto by Hilary Hahn.
Friday, January 21, 2011, 6:59-7:05 pm Palo Alto, 281 University Avenue, Restoration Hardware: Cast Iron Horse replicas from 2000 year-old Han Dynasty (Photos 1, 2, 3) Patinated horses suggest the grace and majesty of the originals.	Friday, January 21, 2011, 6:59-7:05 pm Palo Alto, 281 University Avenue Restoration Hardware: Aged iron finish Cast Lion's Head Artifact Lamp Cast lion's head lamp— Mom would have loved it for her lion head meatballs.
Friday, January 21, 2011, 7:30-8:40 pm Stanford Theatre: Robert Florey directs "Ex-Lady" (1933) with Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank McHugh, Monroe Owsley, Claire Dodd (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2) Bette fumed: "A piece of junk— My shame was only exceeded by my fury."	Friday, January 21, 2011, 8:50-10:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Michael Curtis directs "Front Page Woman" (1935) with Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns, Wini Shaw, J. Carrol Naish, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2) Reporters in love from rival papers always scooping each other.
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 3:45-3:50 pm Mountain View: San Antonio Rd & El Camino— Waiting for 3:50 pm Bus 40 to Foothill College Photos of clouds spreading out like rays Clouds spreading like rays, one resembles a dog being chased by a bear.	Saturday, January 22, 2011, 4:10-5:00 pm Los Altos Hill, Foothill College Krause Center Format 12 photos from January 21 taken at Restoration Hardware & Stanford Theatre Jack gives me ride to Los Altos Library; John gives me a ride home.
Sunday, January 23, 2011, 11:50-11:53 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Julian Lloyd Webber plays Camille Saint-Saens, (Listen), CD, YouTube, Carnival of the Animals: #13 The Swan (1886) Rudy's phone call wakes me in time to listen to Saint-Saens' "The Swan"	Sunday, January 23, 2011, 2:18 pm Mountain View, Showers Drive— Waiting for Stanford Shuttle Bus; Nice clouds in Target Parking Lot Bus has not arrived yet so I could take photos of these cirrus clouds.
Sunday, January 23, 2011, 3:00-7:45 pm Stanford University, Green Library Email to Jack about tonight's movie; Finding paintings with dynamic motion Steinlen's Cat motion preceded Balla's Dog and Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase.	Sunday, January 23, 2011, 8:00-9:35 pm Memorial Auditorium: Stanford Flicks: Will Gluck directs "Easy A" with Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Byrnes, Patricia Clarkson Teen comedy film inspired by the novel The Scarlet Letter
Monday, January 24, 2011, 11:48-11:53 am KDFC 102.1 FM: George Frederic Handel, Water Music: Suite #1 in F major (1717) (Listen) CD, (YouTube: 1, 2) Handel's Water Music is last piece of classical played on 102.1 FM.	Monday, January 24, 2011, 12:00-12:10 pm KFOX 102.1 FM: Classic Rock replaces KDFC, Chuck Berry, Roll Over Beethoven (1956) (Listen) CD, (YouTube: 1, 2) (Lyrics: 1, 2) First piece played after classical replaced by rock— Roll Over Beethoven
Monday, January 24, 2011, 2:15-2:53 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Safeway (2580 California St.) Brussels sprouts, almond milk, popcorn shrimp, fish fillets, garlic bread, supreme pizza.	Monday, January 24, 2011, 4:30-9:40 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab Photographed clouds in parking lot Sharp-beak bird cloud soars over pine tree ascending to the azure sky.