Haikus: November 2011

HAIKUS: November 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.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 3:45 pm-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Web page honoring Steve Jobs— Last Words
"OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."

Steve Jobs and Edison,
Steve Jobs and Buddhism,
Steve Jobs and Om. Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 3:45 pm-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Near Death Experience, NDE and the Tunnel,
During a NDE, Raymond Moody, Cosmic Vision

Dante's vision (Paradiso XXXIII)—
Beside the mighty vision that I saw!
O Light Eternal, in Thyself contained!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews neuropsychiatrist Dr. Vernon Neppe,
Biogaphy, "Consciousness & Reality",
Book: "Reality Begins with Consciousness"

Consciousness— physical,
psychological, & metaphysical—
the last one is outside the brain. Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 5:00-10:00 pm
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews physicist Dr. Edward Close, Biography,
"New Model of Space-Time", Book

Three dimensions of Space—
line, square, cube; Time—
past, present, future; Consciousness—
waking, dream, deep sleep.

Thursday, November 3, 2011, 1:00 pm-10:15 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Lunging humpback whale nearly swallows up surfer, kayaker (Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com, 11-3-2011)

Humpback whale with mouth
wide open almost swallows
up surfer and kayaker! Thursday, November 3, 2011, 1:00 pm-10:15 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"11022011 is a very rare eight-digit palindrome day" (By Deborah Netburn, LA Times, 11-2-2011)

11022011 is a palindrome,
read same forward & backward—
only 12 palindrome days this century.

Thursday, November 3, 2011, 1:00 pm-10:15 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Notes to Poem— Steve Jobs: Last Words
"Zero" relation to Death & Emptiness

All arises from the One
which comes from Zero—
This is a sacred mystery. Thursday, November 3, 2011, 1:00 pm-10:15 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Notes to Poem— Steve Jobs: Last Words
"Zero" relation to the Unmanifest

Unmanifest is the Unmoved Mover,
pure and formless ground of being
from which creation arise.

Thursday, November 3-4, 2011, 11:00 pm-1:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews Gavin Menzies, Biography, Web site
"Lost Atlantean Empire", Book: "Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed"

Volcanic eruption on
Santorini wiped out Minoans
on Crete that was Atlantis. Friday, November 4, 2011, 2:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Didn't write "Baseball's Greatest Moment & 23";
Chatted with Mimi Will in her office 4104 on "Steve Jobs: Last Words", protein research, and creativity

Mimi taught me the Internet—
Gave her "Mind: Questing or Resting?"
and essay "Steve Jobs: Last Words".

Friday, November 4, 2011, 7:30-9:25 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading— Tom Digby
(read "Winter Construction") gave me ride home;
Richard Lawson read poem "About Maps"
(comparing Shopping Mall to Dante's Inferno)

Showed Time cover and photo
in lotus posture before reading
my poem "Steve Jobs: Last Words". Friday, November 4-5, 2011, 11:00 pm-1:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews Richard Freeman, (Bio, Web) & Lionel Fanthorpe, (Bio, Web); "Japanese Monsters / Numerology & Spring-heeled Jack", Books: "Great Yokai Encyclopaedia"; "Satanism and Demonology"

Spring-heeled Jack sighted
in 1837 London— can leap over
20-feet walls and houses.

Friday, November 4, 2011, 7:30-9:25 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading— April Eiler
tells me during intermission that she taught
a young Steve Jobs who was practicing yoga

April taught dance improvisation
and 19-year old Steve Jobs came
to her class looking for girls. Saturday, November 5, 2011, 4:00-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Sent emails to friends on poem
"Steve Jobs: Last Words" and Notes after staying home cleaning out newspapers (10 am-3:30 pm);
Learned foxtrot Ballroom dancing (8:45-11:55 pm)

Threw away four bags of
New York Times, Mercury News
and magazines to clean apartment.

Sunday, November 6, 2011, 5:00-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Rudy & Al Guzman missed me for
ride to Stanford; Hitched ride with Neal Randles,
Los Altos Police; Caught 6:45 pm Stanford Shuttle to
Cubberley (7:15 pm); "India's Innovation Stimulus"
(By Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times, Nov. 6, 2011)

Hi-tech is everywhere
in India, helping the poor
and farmers with better crops. Sunday, November 6, 2011, 8:00-10:10 pm
Cubberley Aud— Stanford Flicks: Joe Johnston
directs "Captain America: First Avenger" (2011)
with Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Sebastian Stan, Stanley Tucci; Official Site; Trailer; Reviews: NY Times, Guardian

Marvel Comics hero
Captain America
fights evil forces.

Monday, November 7, 2011, 6:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab;
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Kaiser for
medication refill & Safeway shopping (2-5 pm)
Frozen green beans, peas, and corn @99¢/lb

Wrote eight haikus from
Friday to Sunday— Learned
more about Captain America. Monday, November 7, 2011, 6:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Bodies in Motion: An Exchange" (Alex Rosenberg & William Egginton, NY Times, Nov. 6, 2011)
On knowledge from science and from the arts

Bruno believed that
cosmos is infinite and
in multiple of worlds.

Monday, November 7-8, 2011, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews Alex Jones, Biography, Web site;
"Preserving Freedom", Book: "Rise of Tyranny"; Videos: "Endgame", "Terrorstorm" (2007)

Alternative media activist
warns of New World Order
taking away our freedom. Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Interview with Adam Phillips (By Tyler Krupp & Rachel Stuart, New York Times, Nov. 7, 2011)
Video: "On Pain and Frustration"

Happiness is a distraction—
Better to be good than
to always seek pleasure.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Huge Asteroid 2005 YU55 Zips by Earth in Rare Close Flyby" (Mike Wall, SPACE.com, 11-8-2011)
"Deflecting Killer Asteroids" (Yahoo News, 11-7-11)

Asteroid YU55 flies by
201,700 miles from earth,
closer than moon's orbit. Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Resuming "Baseball's Greatest Moment & 23";
Found 11-4-2009 photo of 23 and Me Blimp
and Michael Jordan "Invincible Trailer" (2011)

May these photos inspire
me to finish "Baseball's
Greatest Moment & 23".

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
The Lookout: "The 10 college majors with the lowest unemployment rates" (Jobs for college graduates)
(By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo News, 11-8-2011)

Zero unemployment rate
for pharmacology, astronomy,
and school student counseling. Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Personal Health: Act Fast to Save Sight
if Signs of Danger to the Retina Appear"
(By Jane E. Brody, NY Times, Nov. 8, 2011)

"Floaters", spots, hairs or
strings in your vision are
precursors to retinal detachment.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 11:32 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Found 6-6-2010 Classics Peanuts Comics Strip—
Charles Schulz honored D-Day with Snoppy in it.
Eisenhower speaking to paratroopers, June 5, 1944

Wallace C. Strobel wore #23
because he was jumpmaster
of paratropper plane #23. Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 11:32 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Resuming "Baseball's Greatest Moment & 23";
Kirk Gibson #23: Homer wins Game 1, 1988 World Series as Dodgers beat A's 5-4 in 9th inning (Video)

Unbelievable!
Home run by Gibson—
Don't believe what I just saw!

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 2:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Texas scientist makes strands of 'invisibility cloak'—
(Liz Goodwin, Lookout, Yahoo News, 11-10-2011)

Ali Aliev uses heated
carbon nanotubes to make
threads of cloak invisible. Thursday, November 10, 2011, 2:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Psalm 23 is recited often at funeral liturgies.
For every happy winner there is distraught loser.

Faces of losers are
so solemn like those
attending a funeral.

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 2:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
10 Most Tweeted Moments: (CNBC.com Slide Show)

Osama Bin Laden's Death, 5-1-11 (5106/sec)
East Coast Earthquake, 8-23-11 (5449)
Last Game 2011 NBA Finals, 6-12-11 (5531)
Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami, 3-14-11 (5530)
UEFA Champions League Final, 5-28-11 (6303)
Thursday, November 10, 2011, 2:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
10 Most Tweeted Moments: (CNBC.com Slide Show)

2011 BET Awards, 6-26-11 (6436/sec)
New Year's Day, Japan, 1-11-11 (6939)
Brazil Eliminated Copa América, 7-17-11 (7166)
FIFA Women's World Cup, 7-17-11 (7196)
Beyoncé Reveals Baby Bump, 8-28-11 (8868)

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 2:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Steve Jobs' Death Breaks Twitter Records, Boosts Bio Sales— News led to 10,000 tweets per second" (By Emma Bazilian, www.adweek.com, 10-6-2011)

SR7 estimated
10,000 tweets per second
after Steve Jobs died. Thursday, November 10, 2011, 2:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Cardinals Stay Alive in World Series" (Tweets)
(Daniel Barbarisi & Matthew Futterman, Blogs,
WSJ, 10-27-2011) Live Blogging Busch Stadium

Do-or-Die in St. Louis—
Incredible. David Freeze
homers to win in 11th.

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 2:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"'Family Circus' creator Bil Keane dies at 89"
(By Amanda Lee Myers, Mercury News, 11-9-2011)
(By Dennis Hevesi, New York Times, 11-10-2011)

Family Circus had
staying power because of its
consistency and simplicity. Thursday, November 10, 2011, 2:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Finishing "Baseball's Greatest Moment & 23";
Concluding Thoughts on Number 23: Blimp
23andMe over Memorial Church & Psalm 23

Number 23— winning
World War II, a Pennant,
and two Baseball World Series.

Friday, November 11, 2011, 12:00 pm-5:00 am
Mountain View: Computer Labs & Libraries closed
Veterans Day; "11-11-11 brings hopes of good luck"
(By Matt Sedensky, SJ Mercury News, 11-10-2011)

11 is a number
of illumination
and enlightenment. Friday, November 11, 2011, 12:00 pm-5:00 am
Mountain View: Computer Labs & Libraries closed
"Happy 11/11/11: It's a 'ones' of a kind day"
(By Angela Hill, SJ Mercury News, 11-11-2011, A1)

Ones Upon a Day—
"Eleven plus two"
anagram of "twelve plus one".

Friday, November 11, 2011, 12:00 pm-5:00 am
Mountain View: Computer Labs & Libraries closed
"11-11-11 brings lucky babies, bets and brides"
(By Matt Sedensky, SJ Mercury News, 11-11-2011)

Alexander Ruiz born in
Los Angeles on 11-11-11
at 11:11 am in Room 1111. Friday, November 11, 2011, 12:00 pm-5:00 am
Mountain View: Computer Labs & Libraries closed
"Albert Pujols is not kidding around" (Tim Keown, ESPN Magazine, March 18, 2010, pp. 32-37)

Pujols, top baseball player
is great humanitarian helping
the poor in Dominica Republic.

Saturday, November 12, 2011, 1:20-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
A Reading of "Quiet Work" by Matthew Arnold
(Christopher Nield, Epoch Times, May 10-16, 2007)
Plotinus and Arnold's "Quiet Work" (Poem

Noise, haste, and turmoil
will not disturb Nature's
quiet work bringing forth fruits. Saturday, November 12, 2011, 1:20-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Finishing "Baseball's Greatest Moment & 23";
"You had to be here to believe it" Tony LaRussa said. He managed A's losing to Gibson's home run.

1988 Manager of A's,
2011 Manager of Cardinals—
Hell to Heaven in 23 years!

Sunday, November 13, 2011, 3:00-4:20 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Walgreens, Milk Pail, and Target; Caught
7:30 pm Stanford Shuttle to Cubberley (7:55 pm);
1-3 pm: KNBR 680 AM— SF 49ers vs NY Giants
San Francisco 49ers defeat NY Giants 27-20

Pimento olives, wasabi almonds,
green onions, radishes, grapes,
and fresh orange juice. Sunday, November 13, 2011, 7:30-11:30 pm
Cubberley Aud— Stanford Flicks: Tate Taylor
directs "The Help" (2011)— Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney; Sissy Spacek;
Trailer; (Reviews: NY Times, Rotten Tomatoes)

Racial divide in
Mississippi as seen from
the eyes of black maids.

Sunday, November 13, 2011, 12:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Discarding papers & cleaning apt
"Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?"
(By Eddy Nahmias, NY Times, 11-13-2011)

Daniel Wegner, Sam Harris,
and Patrick Haggard say
we don't have free will. Sunday, November 13-14, 2011, 12:00-3:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, John B. Wells
interviews Douglas Dietrich (Biography), YouTube,
"World War II Secrets", Images, Topic, Books

Nuclear bombs used by Japan
in Korea and by Germany
in Estonia to repel Soviets.

Monday, November 14, 2011, 2:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me banking to
deposit withdrawal check from TIAA-CREF,
and shopping at Safeway (2580 California St.)

Mountain High vanilla
yogurt, Roma tomatoes,
and broccoli crowns. Monday, November 14, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"The planet we call home, seen from 240 miles up"
(By Chris Lehmann, Yahoo News, 11-14-2011)

International Space Station
Earth video (August-October 2011)—
Aurora Borealis and city lights.

Monday, November 14, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Cat at Number 10 Downing Street embroiled in mouse-related scandal" (By Chris Lehmann,
The Sideshow, Yahoo News, 11-14-2011)
(Downing Street Cat, BBC News, Nov. 14, 2011)

Four-year-old cat Larry
missed catching mouse at
official government dinner. Monday, November 14, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Google's Lab of Wildest Dreams"
(By Claire Cain Miller & Nick Bilton,
New York Times, 11-14-2011)

Sebastian Thrun's robotics
driveless car, space elevators,
Andrew Ng's neuroscience
research at secret Google X Lab.

Monday, November 14, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1989; Camilo José Cela's 1989 Nobel Lecture (pp. 11-17)

Pío Baroja's clock
had words of enlightenment—
"Each hour wounds; the last hour kills." Monday, November 14, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1989: The Year in Poetry;
Robert Wallace's "Common Summer" (p. 61)

The mystery is going
on when love has failed.
The going on is love.

Monday, November 14, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Poulenc's "Voice" at Opera San Jose— a tour de force, starring mezzo Betany Cooland (By Richard Scheinin, San Jose Mercury News, 11-14-2011);
Jean Cocteau's libretto "La voix humaine" (1930)

Jilted woman roams her apartment
tethered to phone as her umblical cord
pleading to win back her ex-lover. Monday, November 14-15, 2011, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews #1 Success Coach Jack Canfield, (Bio),
"Transformation & Life Purpose", Books: "Golden Motorcycle Gang: A Story of Transformation" (William Gladstone), "Chicken Soup for the Soul"

What you're most passionate
about is your life purpose
that brings you most joy.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Mythical Poetry, Another Introduction"
(By Mythica, staugnews.com, 11-15-2011)

A poem a day kept
her migraines away—
Health from creativity. Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"In the Wild, Finding More Than a Feminine Side"
(By James Gorman, New York Times, 11-15-2011)

Hawks have macho military
images, but many are found
with female plumage.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1990; Octavio Paz's 1990 Nobel Lecture (pp. 10-16)

We searched for the real time
without knowing it—
the present, the presence. Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1990: Lawrence Durrell (1912-90);
Alexandria Quartet, Pursewarden's statement (228)

You suddenly realize
that all art must end
in a celebration.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
The Generosity of Dante's "Divine Comedy"; Lecture by Robert Harrison, Stanford Humanites Center, 11-16-2011; RSVP deadline was 11-11-11

Pray for generosity
to attend Dante talk
by Professor Harrison. Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
'Jacob's Ladder': It's Not All in the Genes
(By Anne E. Magurran, Sunday NY Times Book Review, 8-29-2004); Henry Gee's Jacob's Ladder

Knowledge of human genome
can elevate us from
apes to angels.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 1:20-4:30 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Finishing "Baseball's Greatest Moment & 23";
Photos of losers Neftali Feliz & Ralph Branca

Everyone love winners,
few care about despair
of baseball losers. Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:30-7:15 pm
Stanford Humanites Center: Robert Harrison,
The Generosity of Dante's "Divine Comedy";
Moderated by Amir Eshel, Europe Center Director

Dante reaches for the divine
while anchoring to the human
with love that's overflowing.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:30-7:15 pm
Stanford Humanites Center: Q & A Session after
Robert Harrison's lecture— Amir Eshel tells about
Paul Celan meeting Nelly Sachs (May 29, 1960) & writing poem "Zurich, at the Stork" (May 30, 1960)

Our talk was of your God,
I spoke against him...
we really don't know what counts. Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:30-7:15 pm
Stanford Humanites Center: Q & A Session after
Robert Harrison's lecture— Hans Gumbrecht asks
how come "Commedia" still gives us generosity?
Cites Hölderlein's "Andenken" ("Remembrance")

Wide as an ocean
the river flows outward
and poets write that which endures.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:30-7:15 pm
Stanford Humanites Center: Chatted with Professor
Robert Harrison after his lecture that his sequence
of published books reflects Dante's "Commedia"

Robert Harrison's books Forests,
Dominion of the Dead, and Gardens
reflects Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 8:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Finishing "Baseball's Greatest Moment & 23";
Surprise ending of essay on baseball losers

Winners raise their arms
to heaven while losers bow
their heads down to earth.

Thursday, November 17, 2011, 4:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Ghost alps of Antarctica reveal their secret"
(Yahoo News, 11-15-2011), Earthtimes.org

Erosion by rivers and later
by glaciers carved the steep
peaks of these ice mountains. Thursday, November 17, 2011, 4:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Harrison said Charles Singleton was an atheist and commented on Dante's "Commedia" (Fido's talk):

The fiction of Dante's
Comedy is that
it is not fiction.

Thursday, November 17, 2011, 4:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1996; Wislawa Szymborska's 1996 Nobel Lecture, pp 7-10

I'll say to the author of Ecclesiastes
"there is nothing new under the sun"—
that the poem you just wrote is new
and all your readers are also new. Thursday, November 17, 2011, 4:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1996: Ira Gershwin (1896-1983);
"The Man That Got Away" (p. 152); Judy sings 1, 2

The night is bitter,
The stars have lost their glitter,
The winds grow colder
And suddenly you're older.

Thursday, November 17-18, 2011, 11 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews author & futurist Clifford Pickover, (Bio),
"Physics Milestones", Books: "The Physics Book", "A Beginner's Guide to Immortality"

Simultaneous choices
creating infinite worlds
where you didn't die. Friday, November 18, 2011, 5:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Citibank,
Rasputin Music (closing, still buying books),
and shopping at Wal-Mart, and Kohl's
(Friend gave me Free $10 Kohl's Card)

Straightened out bank statements,
bought rubbing alcohol, photo
album and birthday card.

Saturday, November 19, 2011, 2:06-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
"Lost in Cyberspace: How Do I Get Out?"
(By Nishi Shah-Williams, FACCTS, Summer 2007)

Online teaching is good
but need to face students
for more balance in life. Saturday, November 19, 2011, 2:06-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Returning Dr. Ernest Drake's "Dragonology" to
Los Altos Library; Drake's advice on dragon work:

Be prepared above all.
Be secret and subtle.
Be silent about your work.

Saturday, November 19, 2011, 2:06-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Krause Center— Jack Mullen
identified the Oakland A's player with eyes of disbelief after Gibson's homer as 2nd baseman
Tony Phillips in "Greatest Moment in Baseball"

Completed story on
David Freese #23
heroics in 23 days. Saturday, November 19-20, 2011, 12:30-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett
interviews Kenn Thomas (Biography), web site,
"JFK & The Maury Island UFO Incident",
Books: JFK & UFO, Parapolitics, The Octopus (1)

1947 UFO witness Fred Crisman
was connected to JFK
assassination in 1963.

Sunday, November 20, 2011, 3:30-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend went to Sprouts (Sunnyvale)
& got me sunflower seeds, cucumber, & blueberries.
Takes me shopping at Safeway (2580 California St.)

Green beans, peas, radishes,
green onions, salad dressing,
Swiss cheesee, creamer, milk. Sunday, November 20, 2011, 7:00-7:50 pm
Stanford University: Cummings Art Building
Rudy works on JavaScript while I take notes on
Miwon Kwon's Dec. 1 talk "Ends of the Earth"

Transformers film
is next Sunday. Students
left early for Thanksgiving.

Monday, November 21, 2011, 4:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Side By Side" (Ron Fimrite, Sports Illustrated, 9-16-1991); Carl Erskine described Dodgers' clubhouse after Bobby Thomson's homer off Ralph Branca:

Ralph's head dropped to his chest,
his arms between his knees.
Our place was like a tomb. Monday, November 21, 2011, 4:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace" by Ralph Branca & David Ritz; Branca asked priest Pat Rowley "Why me?"

"God chose you because
He knows your faith is strong
enough to bear this cross."

Monday, November 21-22, 2011, 10:20 pm-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews attorney Mark Lane, web site, (Bio),
"JFK Assasination Special IX", Books: "Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK", Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?", "Rush to Judgment"

CIA killed JFK
because he planned to
disband this organization. Monday, November 21-22, 2011, 10:20 pm-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews reporter Barry Ernest, web site, (Bio),
"JFK Assasination Special IX", Book: "Girl on the Stairs: My Search For A Missing Witness To The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy"; Victoria Adams and Sandra Styles on the Stairs; WC Testimony

Victoria Adams heard
shots at Book Depository
but didn't run into Oswald.

Monday, November 21-22, 2011, 10:20 pm-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews Cassie Parnau (Bio), The Kilgallen Files,
"JFK Assasination Special IX", Dorothy Kilgallen

Kilgallen's untimely death
followed her interview
with Jack Ruby. Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Man catches 881-pound tuna, seized by feds"
(By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo News, 11-22-2011)

Like Hemingway's Old Man
and the Sea, he lost giant tuna
not to sharks but to the Feds.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Camouflage Paintings Pictures"
(Five photos in Yahoo Games, 11-22-2011)

China's Invisible Man
Liu Bolin specialize
in camouflage body-paintings. Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Evildoers and Us" (By Alan Wolfe,
Chronicle Review, 9-16-2011, B6-B8), B9-B10

Political evil
cannot be ended
but it can be contained.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
25 "Worst Passwords" of 2011 Revealed
(By David Corsey, Forbes, Yahoo, 11-22-2011)

Password, letmein,
123456, sunshine, shadow,
superman, dragon, iloveyou. Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Book Review: "Where Aquarius Went"
(By Christopher Hitchens, NY Times, 12-19-2004)

Countless young Americans
went off the map in pursuit
of Walden & bucolic utopia.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Forget your goals, get happy"
(By Don Lattin, SF Chronicle, 4-16-2006, M6)
Book Review of Matthieu Ricard's Happiness
and Peter S. Temes's Power of Purpose

Slow down, look within
and try helping others
find a little happiness. Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
'Howl' influenced writers, but what else did it affect? (Allan M. Jalon, SF Chronicle, 4-16-2006, M3, M5)
Jason Shinder's The Poem That Changed America
26 essays on Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956)

Howl opened more doors
for poetry but it did little
to change America's vision.

Tuesday, November 22-23, 2011, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews Linda Moulton Howe (Bio), EarthFiles,
"Strange Phenomena in Missouri"; Orange Spheres
(6-14-2011); Greek Gods Were Extraterrestials

125 red-orange spheres
emerged behind trees in
Kansas City, Missouri Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Los Gatos: Holiday ablaze at Vasona" (Photos)
(By Casey Jay, SJ Mercury News, 11-23-2011, B3)
Photo: George Sakkestad, Los Gatos Weekly Times

Driving through Tunnel
of Light at Vasona Park—
neurons firings in the brain!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Woodblock Print #70 from 100 Views of Edo—
"Snail Hall at the Temple of the 500 Arhats"
by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) inspired haiku:

500 Buddhas with
mind resting and silent
at home in Snail Hall. Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
YouTube: 500 mini Buddhas, Daishoin Temple, Miyajima, Japan; Virtual 360^o Tour: 500 Arhats, Longhua Temple, Shanghai (Photo); Arhats

Pray in Longhua Temple
to receive blessings
from 500 Buddhas.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Photos: "Fire Time" by yakotta (jenna pinkham)
Norcal fires (June 2008) over Vasona Lake
with ashes in air making orangey-brown color

Fire raged in the north
but Vasona Lake is still
with quiet mountain air. Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Received review copy of Jackie Lapin's "Practical Conscious Creation" (Daily Techniques to Manifest Your Desires); YouTube; Book Highlights; Tip #40:

Even with dark rain clouds,
the sun is still shining—
Remember the sunshine!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1994; Kenzaburo Öe's 1994 Nobel Lecture (p. 8)

After reading Adventures of Nils,
he wished to fly with wild geese
and understand the language of birds. Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1994: Year in Poetry; May Sarton's
"Coming into Eighty": "The Teacher" (p. 68)

Desolation— like a crow cawing
in the depth of winter.
Memory is merciless.

Thursday, November 24, 2011, 12:00 pm-4:00 am
Mountain View: Stayed home to clean apartment
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1995; Seamus_Heaney's 1995 Nobel Lecture (pp. 4-16)

We want the poem to be
compellingly wise, and
a re-tuning of the world. Thursday, November 24, 2011, 12:00 pm-4:00 am
Mountain View: Stayed home to clean apartment
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1995; Seamus_Heaney's 1995 Nobel Lecture (pp. 4-16)

Poetry reminds us
that we are hunters
and gatherers of values.

Friday, November 25, 2011, 12:00 pm-4:00 am
Mountain View: Stayed home to clean apartment
DLB Yearbook 1995: Year in Poetry:
Donald Justice's "New and Selected Poems":
"Telephone Number of the Muse" (p. 20)

And that was how I came
to sleep beside, not
with her; without dreams. Friday, November 25, 2011, 12:00 pm-4:00 am
Mountain View: Stayed home to clean apartment
DLB Yearbook 1995: Gay Wilson Allen
(1903-1995); "The Solitary Singer" (1955):
A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman (pp. 281-285)

Gay Wilson Allen—
Whitman scholar, always
generous to others.

Saturday, November 26, 2011, 12:00-8:20 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home to clean apartment
"No. 2 search engine turns to Rudolph for guidance" (By Michael Liedtke, Mercury News, 11-25-2011, B13-B14); Rudolph Reindeer; YouTube; Photo

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
will help Microsoft's Bing search
to compete with Google. Saturday, November 26-27, 2011, 12:30-4:00 am
Mountain View: Stayed home to clean apartment
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
Ian Punnett interviews Paul A. Trout (Bio),
"Animal Predators", Book: "Deadly Powers"

Humans were eaten
by sabre-toothed tigers,
giant dogs, bears, snakes and birds.

Sunday, November 27, 2011, 12:30-6:20 pm
Mountain View: Rudy drove me to Stanford Flicks;
"5 Brain Myths Busted" (Video); Brain Power;
(By Lisa Collier Cool, Yahoo Health, 11-21-2011)
Mentally active seniors avoid Alzheimer's disease;
Both halves of brain used in creative activities;
Brains look solid gray when soaked in formaldehyde

100 billion neurons
in our brain— more than
galaxies in the universe. Sunday, November 27, 2011, 8:30-11:00 pm
Memorial Auditorium: Stanford Flicks: Michael Bay
directs "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (2011)— Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro,
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson,
Patrick Dempsey; Frances McDormand; Trailer; (Film Reviews: NY Times, Rotten Tomatoes)

Decepticons wrecked havoc
on Earth while Autobots
helped us to save it.

Monday, November 28, 2011, 4:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"A Serving of Gratitude May Save the Day"
(By John Tierney, New York Times, 11-28-2011)

Attitude of gratitude
linked to better health
and kinder behavior. Monday, November 28, 2011, 4:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Video: Shane Lechler's amazing 80-yard (on the fly) punt" (By Chris Chase, Yahoo Sports, 11-28-2011)

Oakland Raiders Shane Lechler
punted football 80 yeards
from kick to landing.

Monday, November 28, 2011, 4:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Items in '12 Days of Christmas' now top $100K" (By Kevin Begos, Yahoo News, 11-28-2011)
12 Days of Christmas; 1996-2004 Cost of Gifts

364 items in the song
would cost $101,119—
4.4% increase over last year. Monday, November 28, 2011, 4:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood sex symbol also a brilliant inventor" (By Carina Adly MacKenzie, Pop2it, 11-28-2011); "Hedy's Folly"; NPR Books

Beauty with brains—
invented technology for
wireless internet & cell phones.

Monday, November 28-29, 2011, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews William Henry, Biography, Web site;
"Stargates & Light Body", Books: "Secret of Sion" (2011); "Cloak of the Illuminati" (2003); Images

Stonehenge is a portal—
stargate for travel
to distant galaxies. Monday, November 28-29, 2011, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory
interviews William Henry, Biography, Web site;
"Stargates & Light Body", Books: "Secret of Sion" (2011); "Revelation of the Magi" (2010); Images

Gnostics say we're light
bodies going to Sion,
center of the Milky Way.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1988; Najuib Mahfouz's 1988 Nobel Lecture (pp. 12-14)

Art is generous that
it dwells with the joyous
as well as the wretched. Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1988: Raymond Carver (1938-1988) by William L. Stull (pp. 199-211) "Late Fragment"

And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1988: Raymond Carver (1938-1988) by William L. Stull (p. 210)

In his last months, Carver spoke of
"blessing", "grace", and "mystery"—
He was not religious, but he believed
in miracles and possibility of resurrection. Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1988: Raymond Carver (1938-1988) A Tribute from Tobias Wolff (p. 213)

Ray was the happiest man I ever knew.
He saw every new day, every moment
with friends, every new story and poem
with an astonishment and pure wonder.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1988: Marguerite Yourcenar
(1903-1987) by Steven Serafin (pp. 228-233)
"Memoirs of Hadrian" (enter death with open eyes)

One must swim in the river
that lifts us up and carries us away,
knowing the only way out is to
drown in the vastness of the sea. Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1988: Year in Poetry;
Robert Creeley's "The Company" (1988):
"Just in Time" (pp. 60-61)

Over the unwritten / and under the written
and under & over / and in back & in front of
or up or down or in / or in place of, of not,
of this and this of / all that is, of it.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"A Tribute to Raymond Carver" (By Tobias Wolff,
Poets & Writers, March/April 1989); Jim Heynen told Ray Carver of eagle dropping salmon on his car, which he took home & ate, Ray wrote Eagles:

While taking a walk,
an eagle drops a salmon
at the poet's feet. Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Stonehenge Pits Discovery Suggests Site Was Sacred For Sun Worship Earlier Than Previously Thought" (By Huffington Post, November 29, 2011)
Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project (Video: 1, 2)

Holes for wooden posts
marked processional routes
before erection of larger stones.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 3:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1987; Joseph Brodsky's 1987 Nobel Lecture (pp. 13-19)
"the language prompts or dictates the next line"

Beginning a poem,
the poet doesn't know
the way it's going to end. Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 3;35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
DLB Yearbook 1987: Richard Ellmann (1918-1987) by Stevem Serafom (pp. 226-230) Biographer of William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde

Ellmann opened a door
for Yeats, Joyce, and Wilde
with a sense of wonderment and grace.