Haikus: May 2011

HAIKUS: May 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.

Sunday, May 1, 2011, 12:20-5:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
Ian Punnett interviews David Elkington,
Biography, "Jordan Codices",
Books: "In the Name of the Gods"

First century BC
metallic books in lead
found on Christ's teachings. Sunday, May 1, 2011, 3:00-7:50 pm
Stanford University: Green Library
"Getting over J.D. Salinger"
(By Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2011)

Call it God or grace
or enlightenment— every
story breathed something larger.

Sunday, May 1, 2011, 3:00-7:50 pm
Stanford University: Green Library
"All About Invidious Irritants That Irk Individuals"
(By Abigail Zuger, New York Times, April 26, 2011)

Car alarms, baby wailing,
flies buzzing overhead,
and loud gum chewing. Sunday, May 1, 2011, 3:00-7:50 pm
Stanford University: Green Library
"Frowning Flower Girl, an Internet Sensation"
(By Nick Carbone, Newsfeed.time, May 1, 2011)

Grace van Cutsem—
3-year old covers her ears
when royal couple kissed.

Sunday, May 1, 2011, 8:00-9:50 pm
Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium
Stanford Flicks: Ivan Reitman directs
"No Strings Attached" (2010) with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Greta Gerwig, Kevin Kline

She wants sex without
emotional attachment—
but then it backfires. Sunday, May 1, 2011, 10:00 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University: Green Library
"Osama Bin Laden Death Prompts USA Chants At Phillies-Mets Game" (Huffington Post, May 1, 2011)
Video: "Chants of USA at Mets-Phillies Game"

9th inning 1-1 tie—
Chants of USA when
Osama was killed.

Monday, May 2, 2011, 2:15-5:10 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 260, Room 008
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, "René Girard's Mimetic and Sacrificial Theory": Class #6— Camus "Stranger"; Sacrifice & "Gran Torino"; Girard vs. Lévi Strauss

Testing Girard's theory
of violence and sacrifice
in novel, film, and myth.
Monday, May 2, 2011, 5:30 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University: Green Library
Andre Eithier's 27-game hitting streak;
Situation Room: 'We've IDed Geronimo'
Web page: "Egret at Lake Lagunita"

Lake Lagunita egret—
caught it flying across
the lake and away.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 3:45-4:15 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Strawberry yogurt,
supreme pizza, orange juice,
bananas, angel cake. Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 7:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Annenberg Auditorium
HOWL— Special Screening: Q&A with film
directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman

James Franco as Allen Ginsberg
and Eric Drooker's art
made Howl alive!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Lab: Bill Morrison
emailed "Obama took SIXTEEN HOURS to make up his mind about Bin Laden mission" (By Daily Mail Reporter, MailOnline, May 3, 2011)

Obama waited 16 hours
before telling Navy Seals
to raid Osama's compound. Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Could this couple's Bible 'codices' tell the true story of Christ's life?" (By Olag Craig,
The Telegraph, UK, 4-3-2011)

Copper and lead books
found in Jordanian caves
shed light on life of Christ.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"The Students with Bush on 9/11: The Interrupted Reading": (By Time Padgett, Time, May 4, 2011)
Classroom students reflect 9/11 ten years later

President Bush reading
"The Pet Goat" to second-graders
when Twin Towers struck. Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"A riveting photo, a moment still undefined"
(By Ben Feller, Associated Press, May 3, 2011)
Video feed didn't show when Osama was shot

Obama leans forward,
Hillary covers her mouth—
worried when helicopter fell.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote 25 haikus with links (April 26-May 4, 2011)

Caught up writing haikus
for the last nine days
with links to news items. Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Dupuy's "Crisis & The Sacred" converted to HTML

16-pages Word file
"Crisis & The Sacred"
formatted in HTML.

Thursday, May 5, 2011, 2:15-4:30 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Intense interest surrounds dog who may
have participated in bin Laden raid"
(By Liz Goodwin, The Lookout, May 5, 2011)

German shepherd attack dog
in goggles used in mission
to capture Osama bin Laden. Thursday, May 5, 2011, 2:15-4:30 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
“An extra guest in the royal wedding photos:
A neon-pink toy 'wiggly worm'”
(By Lylah Alphonse, Shine staff, May 5, 2011)

3-year old Eliza Lopes
holds a bright pink wiggle worm
Prince Harry gave her.

Thursday, May 5, 2011, 5:15-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Stanford Humanites Center
Frank Klaassen, University of Saskatchewan
Space, Time, & God Workshop: "Medieval Magic"

John of Morigny's
Liber Visionum
on ritual magic rites. Thursday, May 5, 2011, 8:25-8:30 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Janine Jansen plays Gabriel Fauré,
"Après Un Rêve" Op. 7, #1 (1877), YouTube

You shone like the dawn sky—
Return, radiant, return,
O mysterious night!

Thursday, May 5, 2011, 7:30 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"On bin Laden, Buddhists More Cold-Blooded Than Christians" (By Alex Moore, deathandtaxesmag.com, 5-5-2011), Vatican: do not rejoice in Osama's death

Dalai Lama says
Osama's murder justified
because of karma. Thursday, May 5, 2011, 7:30 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Registered for free conference— BiblioTech:
Bringing Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley (Bechtel Center, May 11, 8 am-7 pm)

Good to learn from CEOs
that humanities is
useful for innovation.

Friday, May 6, 2011, 1:45-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Happy 80th Birthday, Willie Mays"
(By Daniel Brown, SJ Mercury News, 5-6-2011)

As rookie Mays went
0 for 12 before first hit—
home run off Warren Spahn. Friday, May 6, 2011, 1:45-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"I Am": Can a documentary save the world?
(By Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star, 5-5-2011)

Mansions and success
didn't make Tom Shadyac happy
till his search for enlightenment.

Friday, May 6, 2011, 6:55-7:19 pm
Stanford University, Lake Lagunita
Water in the lake has dwindled
but ducks are still swimming

Mother Duck with ducklings,
seven Canadian Geese and
Egret returns to Lake. Friday, May 6, 2011, 7:40-9:50 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading—
Featured Reader: Keith Ekiss

Former Stegner Fellow
read Pima Road Notebook
poems on Sonoran Desert.

Friday, May 6, 2011, 7:40-9:50 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Reading— Tom Digby read
"On Being Asked Advice By Another Poet"

I say follow your heart.
It is the only lamp
that shines true here. Friday, May 6, 2011, 7:40-9:50 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading—
"Enlightenment to Enlightenment" & "Kiss of Bliss"

Arrived ten minutes late
and was 32nd of 33
poets reading tonight.

Saturday, May 7, 2011, 11:00-1:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Formatted 30 photos of birds from yesterday's
trip to Lake Lagunita, Stanford Univeristy

Krause Center closing at 2 pm
so came here to format bird
pictures in Adobe Photoshop. Saturday, May 7, 2011, 3:00-5:15 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Composed web page of 24 photographs
of "Photos: Egret at Lake Lagunita II"

While photographing
Canadian Geese, Egret returns:
"I am King of the Lake".

Sunday, May 8, 2011, 3:30-7:50 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Secrets of a Salty Survivor"
(NASA Science News, September 10, 2004)

Halobacterium
from the Dead Sea repairs
damaged DNA. Sunday, May 8, 2011, 8:00-9:42 pm
Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium
Stanford Flicks: David Guggenheim directs
"Waiting For Superman" (2010)

Combine rap music
with math so kids can learn
better in the classroom.

Sunday, May 8, 2011, 10:00 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"Morphine Apparently in Your Head"
(By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired, 9-23-2004)

Morphine occurs naturally
in the human brain
to reduce our pain. Sunday, May 8, 2011, 10:00 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Found philatelic cover postmarked May 8, 2010
as gift for 11th anniversary of meeting friend

Today is a special day—
my friend's Dad's birthday
and the first day we met.

Monday, May 9, 2011, 11:00 am
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Got here when Computer Lab opened at 11 am
and found my 8 GB USB drive in the computer

Left USB drive in computer
Thursday. Lab was closed Fri-Sun,
so lucky it's still here where I left it. Monday, May 9, 2011, 12:10-1:20 pm
Stanford University, Encina Hall, 3rd floor
Daniel A. Bell, Tsinghua University (Interview),
"The Revival of Confucianism in China" (Story)

Perform rituals for the dead
so the rich can empathize
with farmers and workers.

Monday, May 9, 2011, 2:15-5:05 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 260, Room 008
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Girard Seminar #7: Greg: "Girard vs. Dawkins— Religion & Christianity";
James Kaltreider: Peter A. Thiel: "Optimistic Thought Experiment" and Jean-Pierre Dupuy:
"On the Certainty of Being Surprised"

Two insightful reports
on Girard, Dawkins,
and financial bubbles.
Monday, May 9, 2011, 6:45-9:10 pm
Stanford University: Old Union
The Circle Sanctuary, Third floor
Venerable Shi Huifeng, Visiting Research Fellow,
Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford,
Meditation & "Between Faith & Knowledge"
Poem (2-4-2009): "What Is Belief?" (Notes)

Practicing loving kindness
diffused tension in kitchen
and made his boss calmer.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 1:15-4:55 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote four haikus for Monday Dupuy's Seminar
and lectures on Confucianism & Buddhism

Read Daniel Bell's story
"The Last Visitor" on getting
lost in Beijing backroads. Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 6:00 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 260, Room 008
Dupuy's Class Film Showing of Fritz Lang's "Fury" (1936) with Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney

Undergrads didn't come
so Dupuy cancelled film
showing as we've all seen it.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 7:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Stanford hosts Google & Silicon Valley executives"
(By Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News, 5-10-2011)
Google buys Aardvark for $50 million (2-11-2010)

Damon Horowitz, Google's
In-House Philosopher connects
with people to get answers. Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 7:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
BiblioTech Keynote Speakers: Vivek Ranadivé,
Patrick M. Byrne, June Cohen, Marissa Mayer, Damon Horowitz, Michael Moritz, John Hagel III

Seven leaders share ideas
in bringing Humanities Ph.D.
innovation to Silicon Valley.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 8:30 am
Stanford University, Encina Hall
Bechtel Conference Center: "BiblioTech: Bringing
Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley"

Got first row right aisle seat—
better to take notes and see
the speakers and panelists. Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 9:00-9:05 am
Stanford Encina Hall: Bechtel Conference Center
"Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley"
Anaïs Saint-Jude, Organizer's Welcome:

There's so much brain power
now in this room that we
may blow out the lights.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 9:05-9:15 am
Stanford University, Bechtel Conference Center:
"BiblioTech: Bringing Humanities Ph.D.
Innovation to Silicon Valley", Stanford President
John L. Hennessy, Opening Remarks

Stanford alumni told his son
to come to Stanford instead of MIT
to learn about Thoreau & his thinking. Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 9:15-9:50 am
Stanford Encina Hall: Bechtel Conference Center
"Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley"
Vivek Ranadivé, Chairman & CEO of TIBCO
"How the Right Brain Helped Me Make a Billion, Win a Basketball Game, and Land This Gig"

Using a full court press
Vivek coached his daughter's
basketball team to victory.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 9:15-9:50 am
Stanford Encina Hall: Bechtel Conference Center
"Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley"
Vivek Ranadivé asked audience two questions:
(1) 7x8 = ? (2) Write two lines of rhyme

Left brain: 7x8 = 56
Right brain: Vivek is so calm
under the Stanford palm.
Left brain answer of 56 is the same.
Right brain answer is different for all. Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 9:00-9:50 am; 10:50 am
Stanford Encina Hall: Bechtel Conference Center
"Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley"
Vivek Ranadivé had lunch with Roger Craig.
Saw pretty blonde sitting alone at next table and introduced himself. She was Anaïs Saint-Jude who invited him to be Keynote Speaker at this Conference

After Vivek's talk, shook hands with Roger Craig. Told him I enjoyed his touchdowns
with SF 49ers. What a strong handshake!

Sunday, May 15, 2011, 4:00-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Milk Pail Market (2585 California St.)
and Trader Joe's (590 Showers Drive)

Bananas, red-leaf lettuce,
orange bell pepper, wheat bread,
apple cider vinegar, and eggs. Sunday, May 15, 2011, 8:00-8:45 pm
Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium
Relief Effort for Rikuzentakata earthquake
and tsunami; Skype phone call to Eiki Kumagai

80% buildings destroyed,
2300 died, 70,000 pines toppled,
45 firefighters swept to the sea.

Sunday, May 15, 2011, 8:45-10:15 pm
Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium
Tetsuya Nakashima directs "Kamikaze Girls" (2002)
with Kyoko Fukada & Anna Tsuchiya

Momoko in frilly
Lolita dress rescues
Ichigo from motorbike gangs. Sunday, May 15, 2011, 10:20 pm-12:20 am
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium
Joel & Ethan Coen direct "True Grit" (2010)
with Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld

14-year old girl hires
Marshall Cogburn to find
outlaw who killed her Dad.

Monday, May 16, 2011, 2:15-5:10 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 260, Room 008
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Girard Seminar #8: Emanuele Antonelli, "Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre" (Girard & "Silvio Berlusconi")

Italian Prime Minister
Berlusconi plays King,
Fool, and Scapegoat.
Monday, May 16, 2011, 5:30-7:10 pm
Stanford University, Building 200, Room 02
Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia,
"The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)", Googlization, Book, Review

Google makes things faster—
that's why we love it while
they invade our privacy.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 2:15-3:02 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Dole fruit juices,
broccoli, green beans, peas,
pizza, toothpaste, liquid soap. Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 4:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted 27 photos of BiblioTech Conference

Photos of Keynote speakers
and the BiblioTech panelists
came out well as I sat in the front.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 3:50 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Area 51 'Uncensored': Was It UFOs or the USSR?"
(Annie Jacobsen Interview, Fresh Air, 5-17-2011)
New book says USSR was behind Roswell UFO
(By Claudine Zap, Yahoo! News, 5-18-2011)

1947 Rosewell crash
was not alien UFO
but Russian spy plane. Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 6:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted Professor Jean-Pierre Dupuy's
90-pages Word document "Jealousy and Triangular Illusion: A Reformulation of the Theory of Mimetic Desire" into a 20-pages HTML file (70% printing)

Jealousy corrodes the heart
and ruins the brain— saved
only by divine grace.

Thursday, May 19, 2011, 3:00-5:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"René Girard scrutinizes the human condition from creation to apocalypse" (By Cynthia Haven,
Stanford Magazine, July/August 2009)

Girard is the new Darwin
and Heinrich Schliemann
of modern anthropology. Thursday, May 19, 2011, 5:30-6:50 pm
Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center Auditorium
Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
"Some Pages from Michelangelo's Life, with Reflections on Some Other Lives", Book

David with his sling shot
And I with my bow
— Michelangelo

Friday, May 20, 2011, 3:00-6:00 am
Home in Mountain View: Collecting quotes
on "Bow" from the Bible (Genesis, Psalms),
Dante's Paradiso, Mundaka Upanishad, and
books on symbolism for Michelangelo poem

The Bow is sacred Om,
shooting the Soul's arrow
to merge with the Spirit. Friday, May 20, 2011, 5:30-7:08 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
"Leonard Barkan's Michelangelo: A Life on Paper"
(By Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 3-18-2011); Michelangelo's David

In every marble
he hews away the stone
to release the beauty within.

Friday, May 20, 2011, 5:00-5:30 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College
Professor Mike Murphy calls to me
& we chat on demise of CTIS Divison

CTIS had largest enrollment
but is now absorbed in
math and business departments. Saturday, May 21, 2011, 11:40 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Format 4 photos from 5/19 Michelangelo Talk and 20 photos from "Illustrated Title Pages" Exhibit

Alice in Wonderland,
Chaucer by William Morris
and Virgil's Aeneid.

Sunday, May 22, 2011, 2:30-3:40 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street)

Cinnamon streusel cereal,
shrimps, strawberry yogurt,
barbecue sauce, toothpaste,
Mt. Olives pickles, ice cream. Sunday, May 22, 2011, 5:25 pm-12:50 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"Need Therapy? A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
(By Benedict Carey, New York Times, 5-22-2011)

Men don't seek therapy
so most psychotherapists
are women, only 10% men.

Sunday, May 22, 2011, 5:25 pm-12:50 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"Harold Bloom: An Uncommon Reader"
"The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life"
(By Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times, 5-22-2011)

On first hearing Merwin's
"Departure's Girlfriend"
Bloom memorized the poem. Sunday, May 22, 2011, 5:25 pm-12:50 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"Harold Bloom: An Uncommon Reader"
"The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life"
(By Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times, 5-22-2011)

Poems collide with other
poems in his skull and
from enigmatic patterns.

Monday, May 23, 2011, 1:30-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Knapp interviews Shirley MacLaine
& Paul Von Ward, "Paranormal & Reincarnation",
Books: "I'm Over All That"; "The Soul Genome"

Stephen Hawking confides
he's the reincarnation
of Sir Isaac Newton. Monday, May 23, 2011, 2:15-5:30 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 260, Room 252
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Girard Seminar #9:
Atticus reports on Prof. Jean-Pierre Dupuy's
paper "Jealousy & Triangular Illusion"

Infant is jealous
when mother is more
attentive to live-size doll.

Monday, May 23, 2011, 2:15-5:30 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 260, Room 252
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Girard Seminar #9:
Prof. Joshua Landy defends his April 15th paper
"Valentine's Day" on Girard's Mimetic Desire

Theories should give us wisdom
whether it's Girard or Xenu's
thetans in Scientology. Monday, May 23, 2011, 6:00-7:03 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 200, Room 002
Abdolkarim Soroush, "Rumi, the Prophet of Love"
Soroush's official website, Flyer of Talk,
Rumi's Poetry, Rumi's Love Poems

Koran harbors fear
but Rumi's poems are about
love that lets you fly.

Monday, May 23, 2011, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Sidney directs
"Kiss Me Kate" (1953) with Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, James Whitmore, & Tommy Rall, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Review)

Cole Porter's backstage
musical version of
The Taming of the Shrew. Monday, May 23, 2011, 9:35-11:23 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs
"Brigadoon" (1954) with Gene Kelly,
Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson, Elaine Stewart,
Barry Jones, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Review)

Two hunters found a
Scottish village that comes
to life every 100 years

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 10:00 am-12:05 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 260, Room 225
Paul Dumouchel, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Girardian Seminar: "Political Violence";
Book: "Le Sacrifice Inutile" (2011)

Humanity crimes victimize
women, blacks, Jews, Armenians—
always groups against groups. Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 1:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote 8 haikus (May 23-24) with web links;
Correct typos: "Jealousy & Triangular Illusion";
Web page: Michelangelo & Illustrated Title Pages

Computer too slow at Green
Library, so came to Foothill
Lab to get more work done.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 1:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Peter Milton Updates: "Eclipse";
Peter Milton's Notes on: Sight Lines III: Eclipse;
Solar Eclipse of April 17, 1912; Eugene Atget;
Two days after Titanic's sinking (April 15, 1912)

Solar eclipse of 1912
from Eugene Atget
inspired this print. Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 1:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Center for Consciousness Studies
with link to "Cosmology of Consciousness";
(Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff, Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 14, April-May 2011)

Did consciousness emerge
from evolution or was
it always out there?

Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 6:30 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Kavous Barghi overheard me telling
Jose at Bing Wing Checkout turnstile
about Souroush on "Rumi: Prophet of Love"
He's going to Souroush's Rumi talk in Farsi

Shared with Barghi story
of Coleman Barks on Rumi
and will send him my Notes. Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 6:30 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"PUTTAPARTHI JOURNAL: A God Is Dead, but It's Business That May Suffer Most" (By Jim Yarley, New York Times, May 25, 2011)— On Sathya Sai Baba who died on 4-24-2011 at age 84

Sai Baba held audiences
with as many as 30,000
people every day.

Thursday, May 26, 2011, 3:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Reading 1697 French fairy tale "Puss in Boots"
(Image) by Charles Perrault (1628-1703). Cited in
De Larouche & Labat, "Secret Life of Cats" (p. 91)

Lunar magic celebrates
alchemical marriage
of Sun and Moon. Thursday, May 26, 2011, 3:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Images: Felix the Cat; Garfield; Garfield Comics;
Cocteau's Cat; Dali's Cats; Andy Warhol's Cats;
Hokusai's Cat; Leonora Carrington's "Tuesday"

Bruce Fogle's book
Encyclopedia of the Cat
helped me find cat images.

Friday, May 27, 2011, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Robert Z. Leonard directs
"Maytime" (1937) with Jeanette MacDonald,
Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore, Herman Bing,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Marries voice coach
out of gratitude but
falls in love with crooner. Friday, May 27, 2011, 9:50-11:35 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ludwig Berger directs
"The Vagabond King" (1930) with Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth, Warner Oland, (YouTube), (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Poet François Villon
made King for a day
by King Louis XI.

Saturday, May 28, 2011, 1:30-6:05 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Etymology for "sufi"— purity, wool, wisdom (sophia)
Could spinning wool be connected to wisdom?

I do the Sufi spin
and wisdom mudra
while dancing the hustle. Saturday, May 28, 2011, 8:45-11:50 pm
Palo Alto: Cubberley Pavilion
Ballroom Dancing: Tim Michaels
taught Intermediate Cha-Cha

Cross body lead to fan,
Cha-Cha's forward and back
with hands alternating.

Sunday, May 29, 2011, 3:00 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"A Biblical Blueprint Meets the Fire Code and the Neighbors" (John Tagliabue, NY Times, 5-30-2011)

Johan Huibers builds
Noah's Ark— 450x75 feet
and 45 feet high. Sunday, May 29, 2011, 3:00 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"For Those With Diabetes, Older Drugs Are Often Best" (Walecia Konrad, NY Times, May 28, 2011)

One in ten Americans
are diabetic and spent
$12.5 billion in medication.

Sunday, May 29, 2011, 3:00 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
"Good Night's Sleep Isn't a Luxury; It's a Necessity"
(By Jane E. Brody, NY Times, May 31, 2011)

Eight hours of sleep
improve short-term memory
and productivity. Sunday, May 29, 2011, 3:00 pm-12:10 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Two hours search by Irish airport fields
to find 4-leaf clover for Queen Elizabeth II.

Four seasons, archangels,
Clematis tangutica,
four-leaf clovers.

Monday, May 30, 2011, 6:00 pm
Mountain View, 550 Ortega Avenue
Walking to El Camino for Bus #22;
photographed sidewalk chalk drawings

Six cats meow
and play while a tiny
bunny hides behind a bush. Monday, May 30, 2011, 7:00 pm
Stanford University, Galvez Street
Memorial Day Moment of Remembrance
to thank 2 million who died to give us freedom

Memorial Way at Stanford
and Memorial Auditorium
honor those who died in war.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 12:00-5:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews William Henry,
Biography, "Secret Door XII:The Anointed",
Books: "God Making", "Freedom's Gate"

Archangel Michael used
anointing oil on Enoch
that made him immortal. Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 4:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Brooke Shields addresses Princeton grads, recalls atypical college years": 1987 Princeton Alumna
(By Sophie Schillaci, Pop2It, May 31, 2011)

Excused from Midterm
exam to meet with
the Emperor of Japan.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 4:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Scanned birthday card for grandniece Sophia;
Four-Leaf Clover; 4-petals Clematistangutica; California Poppy; Four Elements; Four Winds

Four directions of space,
four seasons of time,
and a four-leaf clover. Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 4:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Scanned birthday card for grandniece Sophia;
Four Cardinal Points; Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"; Four Heart Chambers; Four Bases in DNA

Four chambers of the heart,
four bases in DNA,
and the four seasons.