Haikus: July 2012

HAIKUS: July 2012

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, July 1, 2012, 11:00-11:07 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Jerzy Maksymiuk
conducts Edvard Grieg, Op. 65, #6
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (1897),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Trolls & elves from Grieg's
"Troldhaugen" will inspire
today's old redwoods hike. Sunday, July 1, 2012, 2:15-6:30 pm
San Mateo County: Portola Redwoods State Park;
Map of Trails: Hiked on Old Tree Trail, Slate Creek Trail, Camp Trail; Met Steve & Zane Moore (father & son) who used laser beam to measure tall redwoods

1200 years Old Tree—
305.38 feet tall,
14.6 feet wide.

Monday, July 2, 2012, 10:47-10:56 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Gil Shaham plays Antonio Vivaldi, "The Four Seasons: Winter" (1723) (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); First poem (Cornell, 6-8-1968)

Pizzacato raindrops
of "Winter" inspired
my first poem "I See Joy". Monday, July 2, 2012, 12:06-12:11 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Valentina Lisitsa plays
Frederic Chopin, Nocturne #8 in D-flat,
Op. 27 #2 (1835), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2 )

44 million watched her
on YouTube before she
played at Royal Albert Hall.

Monday, July 2, 2012, 2:00-3:00 pm
Sunnyvale: Friend takes me shopping at
Sprouts Farmers Market (111 E. El Camino) &
Big 5 (721 Sunnyvale-Saratoga Rd) Astoria II shoes

Cherries, radishes,
wheat germ, Turkish apricots,
basil leaf, ginger & onion powder. Monday, July 2, 2012, 4:25-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Higgs Boson: Physicists See Best Proof Yet of 'The God Particle' (Ned Potter, Yahoo! News, 7-2-2012)

Fermilab's Tevatron
may have found Higgs boson
among trillions of collisons.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 11:00-11:17 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Valentina Lisitsa plays Beethoven, "Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 #2 'Moonlight'" (1801), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

44 million YouTube
followers requested her
to play Moonlight Sonata. Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Don Larsen to auction off '56 perfect-game uniform
(By Alex Katz, Yahoo! News, 6-28-2012)

Hopes to get $1 million
for his uniform to pay for
his grandchildren's education.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 9:22-9:34 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Riccardo Chailly conducts Gioachino Rossini, William Tell Overture (1829),
Listen, CD, YouTube, Schiller, "William Tell" (1804)

Lone Ranger music
rousing me to adventure
on Independence Day hike. Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 1:10-7:00 pm
San Mateo County: Portola Redwoods State Park;
Map of Trails: Hiked on Service Road, Camp Trail; Slate Creek Trail; Summit Trail

Lots of Goosepen Redwoods
on Slate Creek Trail for
Platonic Lambda files.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Joe Nickell (Bio, Web) "Ghosts: A Skeptic's View"; BOOKS: "Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead", "Adventures in Paranormal Investigation"; (YouTube: exorcism, college lecture)

Mackenzie House ghost noise
caused by parallel stairs
in adjacent building. Thursday, July 5, 2012, 12:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
3 lbs Strawberries for $3 at Milk Pail Market
(2585 California Street); Caught 12:03 pm Bus #35
to Lab for web page on 7/1 Portola Redwoods hike;
Photos from car: Wild Turkeys and Deer on Road

Photos of Old Tree
at Portola Redwoods and
fog on road coming home.

Thursday, July 5, 2012, 12:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
To Use and Use Not (Hemingway 1958 Paris Review)
(By Julie Bosman, NY Times, 7-5-2012)

Hemingway wrote 47 endings
to A Farewell to Arms to be
published in new edition. Thursday, July 5, 2012, 12:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to Universe (By Dennis Overbye, NY Times, 7-5-2012)

Newly discovered Higgs-Boson
particle has mass of about
126 billion electron volts.

Thursday, July 5, 2012, 12:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21
(Interviewed by George Plimpton, Paris Review, Spring 1958); Hemingway learned the most from—

Bach, Mozart, Dante,
Bosch, Brueghel, Goya,
Giotto, Cezanne, Van Gogh. Thursday, July 5, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Frank Joseph Hoff (Bio, Web) "Locating Atlantis"; BOOK: "Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found"; (YouTube, Location hypotheses)

Atlantis was submerged
in Southeast Asia after
volcanic eruption & tsunami.

Friday, July 6, 2012, 10:13-10:52 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Claudio Abbado conducts
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony #7 in A, Op. 92
(Listen), (CD) (YouTube: Abbado) (1812)

Abbado's version
of Beethoven's 7th Symphony
is as good as Toscanni's. Friday, July 6, 2012, 1:35-4:50 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Computer Room
"Harvard in the War of 1812"
(By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Gazette, 7-3-2012)

Dad would have loved this portrait
of Samuel Eliot Morison
whose book he annotated.

Saturday, July 7, 2012, 3:30-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library: "When Richard met Nora:
A friendship out of the movies"
(By Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 7-2-2012)

Nora was warm and
expansive, shepherding
wayward children of her friends. Saturday, July 7, 2012, 3:30-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library: "English Professor Philip Weinstein Discusses William Faulkner" (By Alisa Giardinelli,
Swarthmore College News, 3-21-2012)

Faulkner explores racism
and the damage it does
to blacks and whites.

Sunday, July 8, 2012, 3:45-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "OP-ED: Don't Indulge.
Be Happy." (By Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton,
New York Times, 7-8-2012)

Toddlers given goldfish
crackers are happier
sharing them with others. Sunday, July 8, 2012, 3:45-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "Opinionator: Got Milk?
You Don't Need It"
(By Mark Bittman, NY Times, 7-7-2012)

Milk and dairy products
are our biggest source
of saturated fat.

Sunday, July 8, 2012, 3:45-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "Warm off the presses: Bookshop Santa Cruz unveils machine that prints books while you wait" (Wallace Baine, Mercury News, 7-8-2012)

Machine prints any book
from 8 million titles for
$5 plus 4.5¢ per page. Sunday, July 8, 2012, 3:45-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "Historic bridges of Yosemite Valley under siege" (By Tracie Cone,
SJ Mercury News, 7-8-2012, B5); Photos: 1, 2, 3

Historic Stoneman Bridge
at Yosemite's Merced River
planned for removal.

Sunday, July 8, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett interviews Dr. Judith Orloff (Bio, Web) "Messengers & Intuition"; BOOKS: "Second Sight", "Emotional Freedom"; Video Interview; Articles on Emotions

Go inward to tap
into your gut and find
guides to solve problems. Monday, July 9, 2012, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
ESSAY: A Blip That Speaks of Our Place in the Universe (By Lawrence Krauss, NY Times,
7-10-2012); Victor F. Weisskopf :

Large particle
accelerators are the gothic
cathedrals of our time.

Monday, July 9, 2012, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Bill Morison sent me new video of Nik Wallenda's
tightrope walk across Niagara Falls after the old
link I sent is not available due to copyright issues

Pure endurance carried
Nik over the wire walk
across Niagara Falls. Monday, July 9, 2012, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Three hours twenty minutes to format 97 photos
of July 4 Portola Redwoods hike (Camp Ground
Trail, Slate Creek Trail, and Summit Trail)

Photos of Fallen Trunks Passage
at Portola Redwoods Park and
Sunflare & Fog Bank coming home.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Astronaut Photo Captures Elusive, Strange Lightning
(LiveScience.com, Yahoo! News, 7-10-2012)

Jellyfish-shaped Sprites
and ring-like haloed Elves
dance near the edge of space. Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Review: Tales of Buddha Before He Got Enlightened (Dane McGuffin, Unleashthefanboy.com, 7-10-2012)

Alan Grant & Jon Haward
make fun of Buddha's early
days in comics book form.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Baseball cards in Ohio attic might fetch millions"
(John Seewer, Yahoo! News, 7-10-2012) Slide Show

1910 E98 baseball cards
discovered in attic
worth $3 million. Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Web page on 7/4 Portola Redwoods hike (169 photos);
Pair of Goosepen Redwoods: bottom, middle, top

Here is a Spiral Tan Oak
with helical grooves
soaring to the sky.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Sterling D. Allan (Bio, Web) "Tesla, Energy, & Reincarnation"; BOOK: "Vision of All"; ARTICLES: Alphabetics; Nikola Tesla; Did Tesla Reincarnate as Patrick Flanagan? (Nikola Tesla)

Allan met Flanagan
in Costa Rica and believes
his past life was Nikolai Tesla. Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory: interviews Patrick Flanagan (Bio: 1, 2), Web: 1, 2) Tesla Reincarnation; Books: Beyond Pyramid Power; Pyramid Power: Millennium Science; (YouTube: 1, 2); Caller saw him on Tom Snyder 37 years ago as I did

Flanagan used pyramid
medallion to energize
Tom Snyder on NBC show.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Pondering on Straight Arrow Redwood
on July 4th Portola Redwoods hike

Straight-arrow attention
to focus on what is
to be done at hand. Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Pondering on Meandering Tan Oak
on July 4th Portola Redwoods hike

Meandering mind
to explore and discover
the mysteries of life.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Birds of a Feather" (By Timothy Weisberg,
Cornell Alumni Magazine, July/August 2012)

Photos & video of
Eurasian eagle owl
and a Harris hawk. Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 1:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Genius Kid of Pool" (7-year old Landon Shuffett
from Kentucky); (Artistic Pool Trick Shots)

7-year old kid
impressive trick shots
in pool is amazing.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Byron Belitsos (Bio, Web: 1, 2) "Urantia Revelations"; BOOKS: "The Adventure of Being Human"; The Urantia Book; Urantia News; Wikipedia: Urantia Book; Online Text (2097 pages);
Our Earth (Urantia) founded by "Lucifer Rebellion"

If they need to update
the book by channelling,
then it was not true at start. Thursday, July 12, 2012, 11:00-11:16 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Charles Dutoit conducts
Maurice Ravel, Boléro (1928), (Listen), CD, YouTube
"Ravel's Bolero: Case of Dementia?" (NY Times,
April 8, 2008) "Bolero" alternates between two main melodic themes, repeating the pair 8 times over 340 bars with increasing volume and layers of instruments.

Music: camel caravan
marching across
the Sahara desert.

Thursday, July 12, 2012, 12:45-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Manhattanhenge in NYC" (Yahoo! News, 7-12-2012) (Slides; Video) (Twice a year, the setting sun aligns itself with the east-west grid of streets in Manhattan, allowing sun to shine down all streets at same time.)

Sunset aligns with
middle of buildings
on NYC's east-west streets. Thursday, July 12, 2012, 12:45-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatting 175 photos on 6/17 Portola Redwoods hike; Web page on 6/17 Portola Redwoods hike (161 photos); Platonic Lambda Photos: Redwood Bark, Ghost Inside Goosepen, Fern, Burnt Goosepen

Brightened photos at
Footbridge to Fall Creek Falls
with its Ferns and Giant Rock.

Friday, July 13, 2012, 2:00-5:00 pm
San Jose: VTA (3331 North 1st Street);
Santa Clara: DMV (3665 Flora Vista Ave)

Ten minutes for Clipper Card;
Hour and half wait for
California ID Card. Friday, July 13, 2012, 5:30-6:00 pm
Sunnyvale: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Sprouts (111 E. El Camino Real)

Green bell peppers,
green grapes, radishes,
maple pecan granola.

Friday, July 13, 2012, 2:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: "To Catch a Thief: After 70 years
of shape-shifting, a Catwoman for the 99%"
(By Douglas Wolk, Time, 7-23-2012, pp. 50-53)

Catwoman played by
Julie Newmars, Eartha Kitt,
Michelle Pfeiffer, Adrienne Barbeau,
Halle Berry, and Anne Hathway. Friday, July 13, 2012, 2:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Reading Nathaniel Lachenmeyer,
"13: Story of the Most Popular Superstition"
Ch. 2— Origins of Unlucky 13: The Knights Templar

On Friday 13, 1307
all Templars in France were arrested.
In 1314, its grand master
Jacques de Molay was burned alive.

Saturday, July 14, 2012, 12:15-12:41 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts
Debussy. "La Mer" (1905); CD; YouTube: 1, 2, 3

Hokusai's The Wave
inspired Debussy's "Dialogue
between wind and waves". Saturday, July 14, 2012, 3:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave)

Roma tomatoes,
salad dressings, almond milk,
tropical fruit juice.

Sunday, July 15, 2012, 3:50-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "Best major-league baseball parks for kids" (David A. Kelly, Mercury News, 7-15-2012); Josh Pahigian & Kevin O'Connell, "Ultimate Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums"

Children's area helps
MLB stadiums expand
their business for youth. Sunday, July 15, 2012, 3:50-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "Texting across the threshold of patience" (Angela Hill, SJ Mercury News, 7-15-2012); Mike Cassidy: "Fired Facebook yoga instructor is in the right", "Fired yogi told no on banning cellphones"

98% disapproved
using smartphone
during yoga class..

Monday, July 16, 2012, 10:00-10:11 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Claus Peter Flor conducts
Felix Mendelssohn, Hebrides Overture, Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave" (1833) (Listen), CD,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), Fingal's Cave

Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson,
and Jules Verne— writers
who visited Fingal's Cave. Monday, July 16, 2012, 12:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Hanna on broken link at Number 80 on Sigmund Freud (new link); Updating 21 Bios in
"At Age 80" & finding 10 missing postage stamps

Updating broken links
and missing stamps for
Number 80 done in 2004.

Monday, July 16, 2012, 12:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Bill Morrison on Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 1976 Olympics video; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Numerology: 73 = 7 + 3 = 10

Nadia Comaneci wore 73
and was first to get a "10"
in Olympics gymnastics. Monday, July 16, 2012, 12:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
July 15, 2012 Sunday Comics of "Mutts" shows tail of feline Mooch in four protein structure conformations:
random coil, β-strand, α-helix, Greek key (PYC)

Amazed to see tail
of Mooch in different
protein conformations.

Monday, July 16, 2012, 10:30 pm-2:30 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Peter Canova (Bio, Web): "Higgs Boson & Ancient Texts"; BOOK: Pope Annalisa (First Souls Trilogy); FAQ; Myth & Reality; Gnosticism; Greatest Spiritual Secret; Mary Magdalene; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Gnostics aeons
is similar to Bohm's hologram
and invisible Higgs Field. Monday, July 16, 2012, 10:30 pm-2:30 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Charles Upton (Bio, Web): "Inverted Spirituality"; BOOKS: "Vectors of the Counter-Initiation"; "Knowings"; "Legends of the End"; "Science of the Greater Jihad"; Videos; (Lew Welch)

Illuminati & Global Elites
manipulate spirituality
to destroy traditional religions.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 10:06-10:16 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Gustavo Dudamel conducts
Ludwig van Beethoven Egmont Overture, Op. 84 (1810); (CD), (YouTube: Karajan, Arturo Leonard)

Beethoven's Egmont
inspired by Goethe's play
wakes me up today. Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Added 9 links to Carl Jung's "Red Book" in
Jungian Studies on my "Psychology" page

On page 72
of The Red Book, Jung drew
cones like Platonic Lambda.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
'The Red Book': A Window Into Jung's Dreams
(By Karen Michel, NPR Books, 11-11-2009)

On page 55
of The Red Book, Jung drew
a solar barge across the heavens. Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Image 04/09— Carl Jung's "The Red Book", page 55

One word that was never spoken.
One light that was never lit up.
An unparalleled confusion.
And a road without end.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 12:30-12:40 pm
Mountain View: Reading David Whyte's
"The Heart Aroused" (1994), Ch. 1— The Path Begins: Inviting the Soul to Work (pp. 20, 22)

If work is all about doing,
then soul is all about being.
Work helps us to feel safe.
The soul is safe already. Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 1:45-1:50 pm
Mountain View: Reading David Whyte's
"Crossing the Unknown Sea" (2001), p. 131;
Brother David reads Rilke's "The Swan" (YouTube)

And to die, which is the letting go
of the ground we stand on
and cling to every day—
is like the swan going to water...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 2:40 pm
Mountain View: Lost my jacket. Did I leave it
on top of Daily Post news bin (Phyllis Avenue),
on Bus #22, at Chase Bank (El Camino Real),
or on Bus #40 ride to Los Altos Library?

What a joy to find
my jacket below the bench
at Castro Street bus stop! Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 5:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Knicks Make It Official: Lin Is Gone"
(By Howard Beck, NY Times, 7-18-2012); Rhoden; Lin; Dolan; Yahoo! Sports; Lin Stories; Poems: 1, 2

Linsanity is gone
from New York Knicks
to the Houston Rockets.

Thursday, July 19, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Linda Pastan, "Fireflies" ("here come / the fireflies // with their staccato / lights // their tiny headlamps / blinking...) (New Yorker, 6-25-2012, p. 62); YouTube; "Baby Blues" (Comics on Fireflies: 7-10-12, 7-11-12)

Summer night fireflies—
tiny pulsars from deep space
descend for light show. Thursday, July 19, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Market dominance: 'Skyboxification' of American life" (By Katie Koch, Harvard Gazette, 7-18-2012); BOOK: Michael J. Sandel (Harvard), "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets"; Atlantic

Slipping $50 tip
on a busy night
can shorten the wait.

Thursday, July 19, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Searching for Platonic Lambda Λ images—
Arrowhead; Radio City Christmas Tree (1);
Giza Pyramids; Matterhorn; Summer Triangle;

Blake's Ancient of Days,
French Rooster Church Steeple,
and Wizard's Hat for cover. Thursday, July 19, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Platonic Lambda Cover from Lambda Cloud, Goosepen Redwood, Giacometti's "Walking Man", Leonardo's "Golden Section", Flying Geese

The Soul is so elusive
like the unreachable
vanishing point.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 10:30 pm-2:30 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Arthur Rosengarten (Bio, Web) "Using Tarot Cards"; BOOK: "Tarot and Psychology: Spectrums of Possibility"; Articles: Absolute Knowledge; Fool's Number; Meaningful Numbers; Rosengarten's Three Tarot Cards Reading—

Appearance (what appears to you),
Reality (what's really going on),
Necessity (what needs to be done). Thursday, July 19, 2012, 10:30 pm-2:30 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Steven Myers (Bio, Web) "Great Pyramid Theory"; BOOKS: "Lost Technologies of the Great Pyramid: How the Great Pyramid was built!"; "The Great Pyramid Prosperity Machine: Why the Great Pyramid was Built!"; Skeptic's Dictionary

The Great Pyramid
pumped water and changed
the desert into a garden.

Friday, July 20, 2012, 1:30-3:30 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Computer Room
"OP-ED: The Trouble with Online Education"
(By Mark Edmundson, NY Times, 7-20-2012)

Live class is a dialogue
betwen teacher and students
much like a jazz composition.
Friday, July 20, 2012, 1:30-3:30 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Computer Room
"The Fine Art of Being a Curator"
(By Randy Kennedy, NY Times, 7-19-2012)

Independent Curators International helps turn curators' ideas into traveling exhibitions that are rented by established museums

Friday, July 20, 2012, 7:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; George Fitzmaurice directs "Son of the Sheik" (1926); Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love, Karl Dane, George Fawcett, Agnes Ayres; with Dennis James (Wurlitzer) (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Books

Rudolph Valentino played
both father and son
in Son of the Sheik
Friday, July 20, 2012, 10:30 pm-2:30 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Aleya Annaton (Bio, Web) "Metaphysics"; BOOK: "The Technology of God"; Star Tetrahedron; Triangle Flower Crop Circle; Triangle Travel; (Nassim Haramein, Black Whole)

Former atheist, she now
believes in metaphysical
and spiritual realities.

Saturday, July 21, 2012, 3:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave)
and banking at Wells Fargo (Grant Road)

Roma tomatoes,
fish fillets, popcorn shrimp,
yogurt, and Swiss cheese. Saturday, July 21, 2012, 4:50-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Returned Barry Krause's
"Mineral Collector's Handbook" (1996); Alain Eid's "1000 Photos of Minerals & Fossils" (1998)

Red beryl crystal
on rhyolite matrix
from Wah Wah Mountains.

Saturday, July 21, 2012, 4:50-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: "In First, Software
Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism"
(By John Markoff, NY Times, 7-21-2012)

Ten hours computer time
for cell division of bacterium
M. genitalium with 525 genes. Saturday, July 21, 2012, 4:50-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: "Entrepreneurship /
Technology: Got the Next Great Idea?"
(By Laura Pappano, NY Times, 7-20-2012)

Campus Bubble— postings
from student groups & business
at Emory University.

Sunday, July 22, 2012, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Knapp interviews Ryan Holiday (Bio, Web: 1, 2) "Media Manipulation"; BOOK: "Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator"; YouTube American Apparel; Ryan Holiday's Reading List

News outlets believed
his expert status despite
his media manipulation. Monday, July 23, 2012, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Enjoying Turntables Without Obsessing"
(By Roy Furchgott, NY Times, 4-19-2012)
"What is Media Manipulation?— A Definition and Explanation" (By Ryan Holiday, Forbes, 7-16-2012)

Turntable cost $1000
and $100 for cartridge
to play old vinyl records.

Monday, July 23, 2012, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Ryan Holiday recommends Robert Greene's
"The 50th Law", & "The 48 Laws of Power" (1)

Fearlessness and hustle
made 50 cent a success
in the music business. Monday, July 23, 2012, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Format photos of 7/22 hike at Upper Coyote Ridge Trail, Pomponio Trail, and Tarwater Loop Trail

Need to find photos
of last year's August 27
hike at Tarwater Loop.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"BOOKS: Of Signs, Wonders, Shock and Awe Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central"
(By Dwight Garner, NY Times, 7-24-2012)

Pleasures of reading
Nostradamus— finding words
fitting one's own neuroses. Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
BOOKS: Normalcy Grinds to a Halt 'The Age of Miracles', Debut Novel by Karen Thompson Walker
(By Michiko Kakutani, NY Times, 6-19-2012)

As Earth turns slower—
light is unhooked from day,
darkness unchained from night.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Peering Into the Exquisite Life of Rare Books"
(By Jennifer Schuessler, NY Times, 7-24-2012)

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili—
one of the most beautiful
books ever produced. Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Format photos of 7/22 hike at Upper Coyote Ridge Trail, Pomponio Trail, and Tarwater Loop Trail

Platonic Lambda Fern,
Tiger Lilies by Creek,
Multi-armed Giant Redwood.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 10:10-10:52 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Janine Jansen plays
Ludwig van Beethoven, (Listen) (CD)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806)
(YouTube: David Oistrakh, Itzhak Perlman, Heifetz)

Many years ago
a friend wrote to me
hearing this lovely music. Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Jeremy Lin exclusive: I will always have haters"
(Marcus Thompson II, SJ Mercury News, 7-24-2012)
Unfazed by critics, Lin eager to move on in Houston...

I'm thankful for everthing
that's happened. The Lord
has blessed me so much.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
'Partners in Surrealism' at Legion brings Lee Miller out from the shadow of her mentor/lover Man Ray
(By Karen D'Souza, SJ Mercury News, 7-20-2012)

Lee Miller's lips float
over forest in Man Ray's
Observatory Time— The Lovers. Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Five hours to do Web page of 7/22 hike at Upper Coyote Ridge Trail, Pomponio Trail, Tarwater Loop
Lips Cloud reminds me of Man Ray's 1934 painting

Curvaceous Tan Oak,
Tree in Heart Window Foliage,
Popcorn Clouds in Sky.

Thursday, July 26, 2012, 7:30-8:00 am
DREAM— Someone asks me about enlightenment
in India and Egypt. I tell him to read PB's books
"Search in Secret India" & "Search in Secret Egypt"

Ramana Maharshi, Shankara,
Aurobindo in India and
Tahra Bey in Egypt. Thursday, July 26, 2012, 11:30 am
Mountain View: Friend brings groceries
to my apartment she bought for me at
Sprouts Farmers Market (111 E. El Camino)

Broccoli, cauliflower,
sunflower seeds, bell pepper,
blueberries and red grapes.

Thursday, July 26, 2012, 10:53-11:00 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Klara Kormendi plays
Erik Satie, 3 Gymnopédies (1888)
(Listen), (CD), (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Music used in YouTube Zen Garden and film
"Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya" (1)

Satie's music sounds
like Paris: A Rainy Day
by Gustave Caillebotte. Thursday, July 26, 2012, 1:01-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Fantasy, fairy tales, happy endings"
(By Edward Mason, Harvard Gazette, 7-23-2012)
Maria Tatar led seminar "Golden Compasses as Moral Compasses" with 16 teachers (1, 2, 3, 4)

Wonderland and Neverland
don't depict today's world
of gangs & violence.

Thursday, July 26, 2012, 1:01-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Christie's: The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe" (New York, 27 and 28 October 1999) cover shows Marilyn in the Platonic Lambda pose; Auction Catalog; Marilyn's Books; Immortal Marilyn Library; Marilyn's Reading List; Essay: Dante & Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe read books
on poetry, philosophy,
and spirituality. Thursday, July 26, 2012, 1:01-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Personal Library of Marilyn Monroe— Einstein's "Out of My Later Years", Saint-Exupery's "Wisdom of the Sands", Gibran's "The Prophet", Joseph Murphy, "Miracles of Your Mind", Emily Dickinson's "Selected Poems", "Philosophy of Spinoza", "Portable Blake", Joyce's "Ulysses", Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"

JWN Sullivan, Beethoven: His Spiritual Development,
Kazantzakis, The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises,
Jean Doresse, Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics.

Friday, July 27, 2012, 5:10-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Elia Kazan
directs "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945)
with Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan,
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Gleason; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); Annie Laurie Song; Book

Peggy Ann Garner
won special award for
her brilliant performance. Friday, July 27, 2012, 5:10-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Elia Kazan
directs "East of Eden" (1955) with James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Dick Davalos,
Jo Van Fleet, Burl Ives, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Review: 1, 2, 3, 4); John Steinbeck's 1952 novel

James Dean— giant rebel
with pent-up angst and anger
ever ready to explode.

Saturday, July 28, 2012, 11:48-11:52 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Göran Söllscher plays
Narciso Yepes, Romance for Guitar,
"Jeux interdits", Forbidden Games (1952),
Video (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Touching music played
at the end of René Clément's
film Forbidden Games. Saturday, July 28, 2012, 2:15-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave);
VTA Clipper Card at Walgreens (Grant Road)

Pizza, popcorn shrimp,
spinach, potato salad,
baby carrots, vine tomatoes,
orange juice, red & black grapes.

Sunday, July 29, 2012, 11:00-11:30 am
Mountain View: "At the Grand Canyon, 3-D pavement art captivates tourists" (Kurt Wenner's art)
(By Felicia Fonseca, SJ Mercury News, 7-29-2012)

3-D pavement art
of chalk spiralling down
into the Grand Canyon. Sunday, July 29, 2012, 1:30-7:00 pm
San Mateo County: Portola Redwoods State Park;
Map of Trails: Hiked on Slate Creek Trail & Summit Trail (Photos of July 1 and July 4 Portola hikes)

Fifth hike at Portola
Redwoods retracing trails
done on Independence Day.

Sunday, July 29, 2012, 9:00-10:00 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Daniel Barenboim conducts
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Beethoven,
Symphony #9 in D minor, Op. 125 (1824)
(Listen), CD, (You Tube: 1; 2, 3, 4)

Israeli and Arab musicians
play Beethoven's Ninth—
before the London Olympics. Sunday, July 29, 2012, 9:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Preparing dinner of spinach salad
while listening to Beethoven's 9th Symphony broadcast from Royal Albert Hall before London Olympics

Onion, garlic, radishes,
broccoli, cauliflower,
carrots, tomatoes, spinach,
sunflower seeds, eggs & shrimps.

Monday, July 30, 2012, 9:47-9:56 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Eugene Ormandy conducts
Johann Sebastian Bach (Listen) (CD) (YouTube),
Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook: Little Suite (1725)

Woke up to Bach's music—
sounds like mice scurrying
around searching for cheese. Monday, July 30, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Correction of July 22 Hike photo captions;
Format 134 photos July 29 Portola Redwoods hike

Took photos of same spots
on previous hikes since sunlight
on those scenes are different.

Monday, July 30, 2012, 10:30 pm-2:30 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Dr. Andrew Newberg (Bio, Web) "Communication Strategies"; BOOKS: "Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy"; "How God Changes Your Brain"; (YouTube: Words, Saints & Gurus, God, Reality and Everything)

Be more compassionate
and speak succinctly
to get your point across. Monday, July 30, 2012, 10:30 pm-2:30 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Dr. Seth Farber (Bio, Web) & Paul Levy (Bio, Web) "Mental Illness & Spirituality"; BOOKS: "The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement"; "Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity"; (YouTube: 1, 2); Psychiatry Today (2001)

Many forms of "mental illness"
are actually spiritual experiences
that psychiatrists don't understand.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 12:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Learn a Language in 10 Days: Cartoon Ad selling Pimsleur Approach to learning languages for $10

Artist sketching cartoon
is terrific— you may not learn
a language, but how to draw quickly! Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 12:40-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"A Bison So Rare It's Sacred" (By Peter Applebome, NY Times, 7-13-2012); SF Chronicle (7-28-2012)

White bison— one in ten million;
this newborn in Goshen named
Yellow Medicine Dancing Boy.