Haikus: February 2013

HAIKUS: February 2013

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Friday, February 1, 2013, 7:30-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading
(Gave Terry and Joan "Snow Angel" poem)

Read "Celestial Snow Angel"
and "Feminine Street Names"
showing them NASA's photo. Friday, February 1, 2013, 7:30-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading
Tom Digby ("Bubbles") read "Hidden Wings"

Fairies climbed to mountaintop
and found sparkling jewels
forgetting their wings to fly.

Saturday, February 2, 2013, 11:40 am-12:05 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue) today
as she's going on Los Trancos hike tomorrow

Mustard potato salad,
pizza, popcorn, bananas,
tomatoes, Swiss cheese. Saturday, February 2, 2013, 1:14-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"The Boy With a Thorn in His Joints" (Susannah Meadows, NY Times Magazine, 2-3-2013)

Three-year old boy
diagnosed with juvenile
idiopathic arthritis.

Saturday, February 2, 2013, 1:14-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Joseph Campbell: "Life has no meaning". Finally located quote near end of book "Power of Myth" (1988), p. 229— Campbell: "I don't believe life has a purpose. Life is a lot of protoplasm." Bill Moyers: "Not true— not true." Campbell: "Follow your bliss and you'll experience the radiance and epiphany."

While writing poem on
"The Meaning of Life" recalled
Campbell's dialogue with Moyers. Sunday, February 3, 2013, 8:00-9:42 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium
Stephen Chbosky directs "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (2012); with Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott, Melanie Lynskey, Paul Rudd, Reece Thompson; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Film based on 1999 book

High school freshman
is nervous, shy, suicidal,
and slow to make friends.

Sunday, February 3, 2013, 4:06-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "The Author Himself Was a Cat in the Hat" (Leslie Kaufman, NY Times, 2-4-2013)

Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)
had a hat resembling the one
worn by Cat in the Hat. Sunday, February 3, 2013, 4:06-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs"
by C.A.S. Williams (3rd edition, 1988) on sale for $5

Bought a fresh copy
of this classic reference
for bargain price of $5.

Sunday, February 3, 2013, 10:00-10:45 pm
Palo Alto: Jack came to Stanford Flicks and gave me ride home after "Wallflower" movie; I left Los Altos Library at 5:45 pm when Baltimore Ravens led SF 49ers 28-6; Jack told me there was half-hour blackout at Superdome & SF 49ers rallied to make Superbowl close, but losing 34-31 at 5 yard line (NY Times).

Hubris that Jim Harbaugh
and 49ers lost Superbowl XLVII
as everyone thought they'd win. Sunday, February 3, 2013, 11:15 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com George Noory interviews Raymon Grace (Bio, Web: 1, 2, 3) & Linda Rosenbaum (Bio, Web); "Clearing & Dowsing"; BOOKS: The Future Is Yours: Do Something About It!, Techniques That Work for Me; My Husband Has ADD; YouTube; Video: Curing ADD &OCD

Using power of intent,
human mind can direct
and clear negative energies.

Monday, February 4, 2013, 12:00-12:16 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Office Depot
(910 El Monte Ave) to buy Emtec 8GB flash drive
for $4.99 and Emtec 16GB flash drive for $7.99

Fry's Electronics sold out
HP 16GB flash drive @ $8.99
so bought Emtech drives instead. Monday, February 4, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III"
(John F. Burns & Alan Cowell, NY Times, 2-5-2013)

King Richard III's bones
found at Grey Friars Church
site in Leicester, England.

Monday, February 4, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Italian Film Classics at Stanford Pigott Hall,
Building 260, Room 113, Mondays 6-9 pm;
Discussion with film scholar Sarah Carey (DLCL)

Great Italian films
to be shown at Stanford
this winter semester. Monday, February 4, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Saw Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960) last time at Stanford (10-17-2007); Closing shot of Paola
(Valeria Ciangottini) smiling; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

One of my favorite film images—
Paola smiling at Marcello
at end of La Dolce Vita.

Monday, February 4, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"THINK BIG: 7 speakers, 12 minutes each"
(By Lucia Huntington, Harvard Gazette, 2-1-2013)
Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger said—

No one should ever
have to do work that can
be done by a machine. Monday, February 4, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960);
Sense of Cinema; Glamor.com; GoneMovies.com; Paola's smile could save Marcello's life of decadence

Marcello's photographer
Paparazzo is the inception
of today's term "paparazzi".

Monday, February 4, 2013, 10:15 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com; George Noory interviews Paul H. Smith (Bio, Web: 1, 2, 3, 4) & Tom McNear (Bio, Web); "Remembering Ingo Swann"; BOOK: "Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program"; Ingo Swann (Photos; YouTube, Swann Database)

Ingo Swann, psychic, artist,
and remote viewer started
SRI remote viewing program. Monday, February 4, 2013, 10:15 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com George Noory interviews Rob MacGregor (Bio, Web: 1, 2) & Trish MacGregor (Bio, Web); "Alien Abductions & Synchronicities"; BOOKS: 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, Synchronicity and Other Side, Aliens in the Backyard, "The Fog: On the Bermuda Triangle"; Broadcast

Bruce Gernon's flight
into Bermuda Triangle and
UFO abductee's experiences.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"10 Tips to Protect Yourself Online"
(By Joanna Stern, Yahoo! News, 2-4-2013);

Be careful when clicking
on links. Use different
passwords for every account. Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Foothill Middlefield Lab: Quirks of the Game: Other Calls That Altered the Course of the Super Bowl
(By Stuart Miller, NY Times, 2-5-2013)

Officiating hurt 49ers
and gave momentum to
Ravens in the Superbowl.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 10:16-10:33 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Yo Yo Ma plays Antonin Dvorak,
Silent Wood, Op. 68.5 (1891), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: Yo Yo Ma, Jacqueline du Pre)

Silent Woods is lyrical
character piece bearing
tempo of dreamy theme. Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 10:33-10:39 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Evgeny Kissin plays Ludwig van Beethoven, Rage Over a Lost Penny, Op. 129 (1795)
(Listen) CD, (YouTube: 1, 2), (Dylan Thomas poem)

Rage against losing
sight of the One in our
pursuit of the many.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 12:26-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Fractals, Parasites and 3-D Reconstructions"
(By Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, 6-29-2012); Image #9 "Four Monkeys" (Eyes like UFO aliens)

Cross-section of reed plant
large green-ringed cells belong
to phloem that transports sugars. Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 12:26-10:00 pm
Foothill Middlefield Lab: Phaethon Images: Antonio Fantuzzi (British Museum); Cooper: "Apollo & Phaethon"; Rubens (National Gallery); Rubens 2; Sarah Young; Charioteer Krishna; Krishna & Arjuna

Searching for art images
on "Phaethon & Sun Chariot"
and "Krishna the Charioteer".

Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 12:26-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Monopoly axes the iron, introduces the cat"
(By Chris Morris, Yahoo! News, 2-6-2013); Cat

Scottie Dog will have
a Cat to chase around
the Monopoly board soon. Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 12:26-10:00 pm
Foothill Middlefield Lab: "Lincoln Portrait"
Daguerreotype of Lincoln (1847) by Nicholas H. Shepherd presented in 1937 to Library of Congress

Is Albert Kaplan's
"Portrait of a Young Man"
a daguerreotype of Lincoln?

Thursday, February 7, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
“5-Year-Old Boy Gets 'Robohand'”
(By Alyssa Newcomb, Yahoo! News, 2-7-2013)

3-D printer made
prosthetic hand for 5-year
old boy born without fingers. Thursday, February 7, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Scientists: 4.5 Billion Earth-Like Planets in Galaxy"
(By Mark Whittington, Yahoo! News, 2-6-2013)

Kepler Space Telescope found
60% red dwarves in Milky Way—
hence 4.5 billion earth-like planets.

Thursday, February 7, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Searching for "Sun Yolk" image (7-28-2009)
& found Sunset photos (1); Gnostic website

At the crack of dawn—
a giant egg shell breaks
and sunlight floods the earth. Thursday, February 7, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Added stanza to poem "Road to Rifted Rock"
and Notes referring to Bhagavad Gita & Plato

so Krishna's chariot may take me upward
beyond the rifted rock and vanishing point
to see the real light of ten thousand suns.

Friday, February 8, 2013, 1:00-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Gym Building 2507
Donna Frankel's Ballroom Dance class;
Donna taught tango and cha cha today

Relearned how to dance
the fan in tango and
cross-body cha cha step. Friday, February 8, 2013, 4:25-8:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote Preface to Notes to poem
"Road to Rifted Rock"

Poem born from synchronicity
and serendipity— "Road to Rock
Notes" is a spiritual sadhana.

Saturday, February 9, 2013, 10:00-11:00 am
Mountain View: Lots of buzzing in the garden—
tree trimmer on top of 8 palm trees 80+ feet high,
cutting dozens of palm fronds with a buzz saw;
chatted with trimmer who does it every two years

Palm fronds chopped down—
falling with a loud thud but
some float gently like a feather. Saturday, February 9, 2013, 1:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?" (By Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman,
NY Times Magazine, 2-10-2013); Slide Show; COMT

COMT gene explains
why one child is worrier
and another is unflappable.

Saturday, February 9, 2013, 1:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Robert Scott from Stanford's Medieval Matters
sent email of Church of Peace in Swidnica, Poland
with 360^o photo of church's interior— beautiful!

Ornate ceiling paintings and
lovely floor carpets surround
statues of John the Baptist & Christ. Saturday, February 9, 2013, 1:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Internet cat stars scratch the surface for fame"
(Leanne Italie, Miami Herald, 2-5-2013); Cat Dance; Cat Videos; Henri, Le Chat Noir; Simon's Cat; Maru

After years going viral,
cat video stars rake in
cash & help charities.

Sunday, February 9, 2013, 1:15-1:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave)

Strawberry yogurt,
salmon and pollock fillets,
peanuts, green beans, creamers. Sunday, February 9, 2013, 4:45-6:00 pm
Sunnyvale: Sweet Tomatoes (1210 Kifer Road);
Dinner with Al Guzman, Rudy, and Dave

Two plates of salad,
jello, tapioca pudding,
and blueberry muffins.

Sunday, February 9, 2013, 2:45-4:00 pm
Mountain View Library: Rudy picked me up for drive to Sweet Tomatoes; Found 4 Giacometti books with "Invisible Object": Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacomett & "Giacomett: A Biography in Pictures", James Lord, "Giacomett: A Biography", Michael Peppiatt, "In Giacometti's Studio" (Web: MOMA, 1, 2, 3)

Steve sent me photo (Jan. 10)
of Giacometti's Invisible Object
or Hands Holding the Void. Sunday, February 9, 2013, 6:45-9:50 pm
Santa Clara: AMC Mercado Theatre: Tom Hooper directs "Les Misérables" with Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samantha Barks, Aaron Tveit, Daniel Huttlestone, (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Rudy loved this film
musical Les Misérables
that left him in tears.

Monday, February 11, 2013, 1:00-5:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
“Brain Area 'Where Evil Lurks' Doesn't Exist”
(Marc Lallanilla, Yahoo News, 2-11-2013)
What Makes a Psychopath?; Gerhard Roth

No central lobe in brain
that links to violence
and criminal behavior. Monday, February 11, 2013, 6:00-9:00 pm
Italian Film Classics: Stanford Pigott Hall, Room 113
Michelangelo Antonioni directs "L'Avventura" (1960)
with Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari;
Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Booed when first shown at
Cannes Film Festival— now
regarded second best film ever.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
The three main characters in "L'Avventura" (1960) are all alive 53 years after making Antonioni's film;
Nun at bell tower honors Hitchcock's "Vertigo"

Sandro: Gabriele Ferzetti— age 87
Claudia: Monica Vitti— age 81
Anna: Lea Massari— age 79 Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Colors & Spinozist Bodies of L'avventura"
(By Erik S. Roraback, erea.revues.org, 3-1-2005)
" L'Avventura" by Lawrence Russell; Gilles Deleuze:

Time is the interiority
in which we are, in which
we move, live and change.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
“Go Directly to Success: Monopoly's Lessons” (1)
(Philip E. Orbanes, Wall Street Journal, 2-11-2013)

Stay diversified,
acquire railroads, buy
orange and red properties. Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Abraham Lincoln's 204th birthday; Whitman poem;
Library; White House; Memorial; (Films: 1, 2, 3)

Lincoln penny & $5 bill,
Lincoln postage stamps,
Gettysburg & 2nd Inaugural Address.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Richard sent this video "The Power of Words" (1)—
"Change Your Words, Change Your World" (1, 2)

She changed panhandler's sign
"I'm blind. Please help." to
"It's a beautiful day and I can't see it." Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Inspirational video: "Never Give Up"—
Lion caught zebra in the waters for dinner.

Zebra fought to his dying
breath— almost drowning
lion to save his life.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse (2-13-2013)
Mom asks her preschooler son who's the valentine for

Michael doesn't tell Mom
who's his valentine, but he
writes to his crush "For Deanna". Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 12:35-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts" (2-13-2013)
A Mutts Valentine quote from Mother Teresa—

Not all of us can do
great things. But we can do
small things with great love.

Thursday, February 14, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"OPINIONATOR: Try a Little Tenderness"
(By Gordon Marino, NY Times, 2-13-2013)

Sweeter than red roses
on Valentine's Day are
kind words we may say. Thursday, February 14, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts" (2-14-2013)
A Mutts Valentine quote from Audrey Hepburn—

Audrey Hepburn:
The best thing to hold
onto in life is each other.

Friday, February 15, 2013, 1:30-2:30 pm
Mountain View: Kaiser Hospital (fasting blood test);
Read Robert Pinsky's poem "Food" (pp. 90-91)
in "The New Yorker" Food issue (Dec. 3, 2012)

Substance of lack, prime substance of desire...
Substance of communion, substance of need...
Substance of charity, and of luxury. Friday, February 15, 2013, 7:30-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Reading D.T. Suzuki's essay
"The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind" (1949)
in "Zen Buddhism" (1956) (pp. 157-226)

Mirror-Mind needs no polishing
since from the first all is the void
where can the dust alight?

Saturday, February 16, 2013, 1:00-4:30 am
Mountain View: Read Janet Lewis' novella
"The Wife of Martin Guerre" (1941) for Stanford's
"Another Look" book discussion (2-20-2013)

16th century peasant
returns to his wife after
eight years but is an imposter. Saturday, February 16, 2013, 2:45-4:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out Mary Oliver's
"A Thousand Mornings" (2012); Read 80-pages book after DeMartini shopping while waiting for Bus #40

Oliver honors Christopher Smart's
"For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry"
with poem to her dog Percy.

Sunday, February 17, 2013, 4:20-5:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Young and Innocent" (1937) with Nova Pilbeam, Derrick DeMarney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, George Curzon; YouTube; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Nova Pilbeam looks like
Grace Kelly driving in
To Catch a Thief.
Sunday, February 17, 2013, 5:55-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"The Secret Agent" (1936) with Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, & Robert Young; YouTube; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

The dog sensed his master
will be pushed off the Alps
to his untimely death.

Sunday, February 17, 2013, 8:00-10:00 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium
Bill Condon directs "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn— Part 2" (2012); with Kristen Stewart,
Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Mackenzie Foy, Ashley Greene, Maggie Grace, Michael Sheen; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Nominated for 11 Golden
Raspberry Awards and
won for the Worst Picture. Monday, February 18, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com George Noory interviews John Hogue (Bio, Web) "St. Malachy & Pope Prophecies"; BOOKS: "Nostradamus 2012:
The End of End Times", "The Last Pope Revisited: The Prophecies of St. Malachy", Web links: Saint Malachy; Papal Prophecies; Vaticinia Nostradami

In 1140, Saint Malachy
prophesized the next 112 popes
the last being Peter of Rome.

Monday, February 18, 2013, 12:00-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Shabuway (180 Castro Street)
Sister-in-law Dan treats me for lunch and gifts:
Shrimp pot-stickers & veggies in steam pot

Getting together
for New Year greetings and
catching up on our activities. Monday, February 18, 2013, 6:00-7:02 pm
Walk around Stanford Lake Lagunita (3:30-5:30 pm)
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping
at Sprouts Farmers Market (630 San Antonio Road)

Green onions, Roma tomatoes,
red bell peppers, basil, parsley,
tarragon, garlic & onion powder.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 3:33-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Alexey Matveev (Prague, Czech Republic)
requesting to post the largest Animal Stamp Shop on
my web site wisdomportal.com's Postage Stamps

Bosnia & Herzegovina
2010 souvenir sheet showing
swan gliding serenely in lake. Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 3:33-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Searching for photos of spotted hawk on web
that perched on a tree above at Lake Lagunita
Red-tailed hawk (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Broad-winged Hawk

"The spotted hawk swoops by
and stops somewhere waiting
for you." — Walt Whitman

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 3:33-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found?"
(By Clara Moskowitz, Yahoo! News, 2-18-2013

AMS can detect
electrons and positrons
made by dark matter collisions. Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 3:33-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Rare Star Explosion Creates Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole" (Yahoo! News, SPACE.com, 2-18-2013

Youngest black hole made
when W49B exploded 1000 years
ago 26,000 light-years away.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 12:30-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Poem: "Hands Holding the Void" inspired by
Alberto Giacometti's "Invisible Object" (1934)
and the folk tale of "The Wise Old Woman" (1, 2, 3)

The Void or "Soul-Bird"
is in our hands to create
everything afresh and new. Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 12:30-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Nanotubes Seen as Alternative When Silicon Chips Hit Their Limits (John Markoff, NY Times, 2-20-2013)
Science, Feb. 1, 2013 cover; Visualization Challenge

Carbon nanotubes will
replace silicon chips
in computer circuits.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center: "Another Look 2"
(2-20-2013) Janet Lewis' novella "The Wife of Martin Guerre" (1941); Free broadsides: Yvor Winter's
"A Summer Commentary" & Janet Lewis' "River"

Beautiful broadsides
of poems from Yvor Winters
and Janet Lewis as momentos. Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center: "Another Look 2"
book discussion (2-20-2013) Janet Lewis' novella
"The Wife of Martin Guerre" (1941) by Stanford
Professors Ken Fields, Tobias Wolff, Eavan Boland

Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
and Sommersby (1993) films don't show
psychological impact of novel by Lewis.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com; George Noory interviews Russell Targ (Bio, Web: 1, 2, 3, 4) "Remote Viewing"; BOOKS: "The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities"; Limitless Mind: Guide to Remote Viewing; "Do You See What I See?"; "Miracles of Mind: Spiritual Healing"; YouTube (1, 2)

Ingo Swann saw crystals
around Jupiter a million miles
away using remote viewing. Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com George Noory interviews Devaron (Bio, Web) "Changelings"; BOOK: Principles of Self Mastery; ARTICLES: Changelings and ET's on Earth; Atlantis; Alien Family's; Alien Child in a Human World; Ancient Structures; Art by Devaron; Graphic Design

Moses was a changeling—
children substituted by ETs
to evolve human species.

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
“Why 'Good Hair' Matters” (R. Alan Leo, Harvard Medical School News, 2-14-2013); Cell (2-14-2013)

Mutation in EDAR gene
(ectodysplasin A receptor)
creates thicker hair growth. Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"OP-ED: What Data Can't Do"
(By David Brooks, NY Times, 2-19-2013)

Tons of data can't explain
Dante's love for Beatrice
whom he met just twice.

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Prairies Schooner (12-18-2012); EDITOR'S NOTES (David Sanders): Two ideas (Winters & Paz) worth considering, not mutually exclusive: Yvor Winters—

In so far as poetry
tends toward the formless,
it fails to be expressive of anything. Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Prairies Schooner (7-24-2012); Jeremy Bass:
"Impossible to Tell: On Robert Pinsky"
Pinsky learned from Yvor Winters at Stanford—

Clarity, flexibility,
efficiency, cohesiveness
are essential to a poet.

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Prairies Schooner (12-18-2012): Octavia Paz— "In order to experience a poem, we must understand it;
in order to understand it we must hear it, see it, contemplate it— convert it into an echo, a shadow, nothingness. Comprehension is a spiritual exercise."

Above quote is from
Octavia Paz's Alternating Current
published in 1967 (page 66). Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Prairies Schooner (7-24-2012); Yvor Winters students: Robert Pinsky, Thom Gunn, Donald Hall, John Peck, J.V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, Ken Fields,
N. Scott Momaday, Robert Hass, Philip Levine,
Edgar Bowers, Donald Justice, Helen Pinkerton

Yvor Winters was a master
as he had so many fruits
from his poetry garden.

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"James Wood's lighter side" (By Sarah Sweeney, Harvard Gazette, 2-15-2013); "How Fiction Works"; "The Fun Stuff"; Read "I Curse the River of Time"

Friend copied out Per Petterson's
I Curse the River of Time to see
how he does paragraphs & sentences. Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Good Fit for Today's Little Screens: Short Stories (Leslie Kaufman, NY Times, 2-16-2013); Sorry, short story boom is bogus (Laura Miller, Salon, 2-20-2013)

Stories are models
of concision and are
easily consumed on screens.

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Wonders of attraction: Pierce explores the creative power of symbiosis" (Aaron Lester, Harvard Gazette, 2-15-2013); Naomi Pierce, Organismic Biology

Mutualism or cooperation
between ants & butterflies
and orchids & bees help each other. Thursday, February 21, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Unlocking the Conspiracy Mind-Set" (By Justin Gillis, NY Times, 2-21-2013); Gavin A. Schmidt;
"The Greatest Hoax: Global Warming Conspiracy"

People who reject climate
science buy into fringe theories
that NASA faked the moon landing.

Friday, February 22, 2013, 12:30-1:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Semans Library
Beryl Rowland, "Birds With Human Souls" (1978);
Attar, "Conference of the Birds" (circa 1177, 2003);
Anne Carson, "Eros: The Bittersweet" (1986);
Janet Lewis, "The Wife of Martin Guerre" (1941)

Books on birds as
symbol of the soul
pointing to the Void. Friday, February 22, 2013, 6:00-8:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"Money, marriage, kids: To attain happiness, Gilbert says, consider your mom's recipe" (By Chuck Leddy, Harvard Gazette, 2-21-2013); Daniel Gilbert; Book:
"Stumbling On Happiness" (2007); YouTube (1, 2)

People are happiest
when the mind is engaged
whether talking or creating.

Saturday, February 23, 2013, 12:36-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"OP-ED: What Our Brains Can Teach Us"
(By David Eagleman, NY Times, 2-23-2013)

We can't decipher
our brain landscape with
its 100 billion neurons. Saturday, February 23, 2013, 12:36-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Confronting the Fact of Fiction & the Fiction of Fact (Manohla Dargis & A.O. Scott, NY Times, 2-23-2013)

Does art exist for
our personal pleasure or
to give us moral instruction?

Saturday, February 23, 2013, 12:36-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Synthetic biology: Stanford, UC Berkeley engineering a new frontier (By Lisa M. Krieger, SJ Mercury News, 2-17-2013); Drew Endy; Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology works
because the DNA in cells
can be programmed. Saturday, February 23, 2013, 12:36-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"ART: As One Renaissance Door Closes, Others Open" (Elisabetta Povoledo, NY Times, 2-23-2013)
Raphael: Expulsion of Heliodorous; Fire in the Borgo

Thirty years to restore
Raphael's Room of Heliodorus
at the Vatican Museums.

Sunday, February 24, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com; George Knapp interviews Ray Kurzweil (Bio, Web: 1, 2, 3) "Mind-Machine"; BOOKS: How to Create a Mind: Secret of Human Thought Revealed; Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology; Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever; Age of Spiritual Machines ; YouTube: (1, 2, 3); Kurzweil at Google

Most inventive genius
since Edison, Kurzweil
wants to create a mind. Sunday, February 24, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com; George Knapp interviews Lon Strickler (Bio, Web) "Cryptids"; BOOK: "Phantoms & Monsters: Cryptid Encounters"; YouTube: Spirit Clearing; Unknown Object UFO Landing in Texas; New 'Montauk Monster' Washes Ashore On Long Island; Unknown Creature - Hoof, Hand, Paw or What?; Pinterest; Google+

His 1981 encounter
with Bigfoot in Maryland
sparked his Phantoms & Monsters.

Monday, February 25, 2013, 1:35-5:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Beryl Rowland, "Birds with Human Souls" (1978);
Dove as symbol of the soul (1); Plato, Phaedrus (1);
Ba: Coffin Text at the Louvre (1)

Egyptian Ba (soul) shows
a bird with human head;
Plato's soul takes on wings. Monday, February 25, 2013, 1:35-5:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
While searching for "Birds with Human Souls",
found "Light for the Souls" at web site of innovative
surrealist paintings by Russian artist Vladimir Kush

His style is called surrealist
but Kush refers to it as
"metaphorical realism".

Monday, February 25, 2013, 1:35-5:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
The Medieval and Modern Cathedral: A Conversation with the Deans of Salisbury and Grace Cathedrals; CEMEX Auditorium (Tuesday, Feb. 26, 7:30 pm) Salisbury Cathedral (1220); Grace Cathedral (1964)

What is it like to work
in a beautiful cathedral
every day in your life? Monday, February 25, 2013, 6:00-9:00 pm
Italian Film Classics: Stanford Pigott Hall, Room 113
Luchino Visconti directs "Rocco and His Brothers" (1960); with Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou; Composer: Nino Rota (YouTube: 1, 2); Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Rural family struggles
to adapt to city life
in Northern Milan.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 12:30-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
While searching for roses with 36 petals and found
Le Petit Cadeau; Rose Petals of Amor; Meaning of Roses; Modern Herbal: Roses; 35 petals Jackaranda;
6x6 Magic Square; Sun Magic Square adds to 666

Compassion Rose (1972)—
climbing hybrid tea rose
with 36 petals. Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 12:30-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Plutarch noted 36 is a product of the first 2 perfect squares 4 x 9 = 36; sum of the first 3 cubic numbers:
1 + 8 + 27 = 36; square number 6 x 6 = 36; and
8th triangular number 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 = 36.

Plutarch (46-120 AD)
was the last priest at
Temple of Delphi Oracles.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 12:30-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
36 uniform #s— Meadowlark Lemon; Jim Kaat
Robin Roberts (1); Don Newcombe (1, 2);
Tom Gordon (1, 2); Jerome Bettis; Dave Cone;
Gaylord Perry; Jerry Koosman; Leroy Butler;
Jackie Jensen; Joe Niekro; Merton Hanks;

Baseball, football, and
basketball stars wearing
uniforms with number 36. Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford CEMEX Auditorium, Knight Management Center: "The Medieval and Modern Cathedral: A Conversation with the Deans of Salisbury and Grace Cathedrals"; June Osborne, Salisbury Cathedral (1220); Jane Shaw, Grace Cathedral (1964);
Moderator: Michael Krasny (KQED-FM radio)

Salisbury Cathedral
and Grace Cathedral are
inspiring architecture.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com; George Noory interviews Dr. David Hanscom (Bio, Web) Overcoming Chronic Pain; BOOK: Back in Control: A spine surgeon's roadmap out of chronic pain (1)

Mind is better than
surgery to heal chronic
pain and reduce stress. Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com; George Noory interviews Gordon James Gianninoto
(Bio, Web) "Planet X & Catastrophe"; Earth Changes and the Pole Shift; Zeta Talk; Videos (1, 2)

Planet X will cause
pole shift, climate change,
and kill 90% of population.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 3:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Surprise email from herman h. herman who studied
with Anthony Damiani at Wisdom Goldenrod (1972-1984) and had a meeting with PB in June 1977

Humbleness, holiness,
happiness come to those
who studied PB's books. Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 3:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opposites of Pythagoras: straight and curved may apply to the yardstick and circle or 1 and 0—
the basis of computer codes of yang & yin.

36 inches in a yardstick,
36 degrees is 1/10
of a complete circle.

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:32-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"NASA Discovers New Radiation Belt Around Earth"
(By Charles Q. Choi, Yahoo! News, 2-28-2013)

Van Allen belt discovered
in 1958 and a new radiation
belt found in August 2012. Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:32-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Van Cliburn, Cold War Musical Envoy, Dies at 78"
(By Anthony Tommasini, NY Times, 2-28-2013)

After winning Tchaikovsky Competition
in Moscow, Van Cliburn was the first
musician to have a ticker tape parade.

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:32-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Protein architecture: Surprised that Prof. S. Dasgupta (IIT Kharagpur) is still using my Chou & Fasman method (1974) written almost 40 years ago to predict protein secondary structures (Lecture 34:10-54:00)

Wrote web page honoring
my mentor Gerald Fasman
and our prediction method. Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:32-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Khan Academy: Biology; Science Guru;
Microbiology Resources: MicrobiologyBytes Video Library; How Stuff Works: Microbiology Videos; Science Daily: Microbiology; vimeo: Microbiology

It's amazing how many
Internet videos there are
teaching students on science.

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:32-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Finding the Visible in the Invisible" (MIT Labs)
(By Erik Olsen, NY Times, 2-27-2013)
William T. Freeman; Michael Rubinstein; YouTube

Scientists developed program
that reveals colors & motions
in video that we can't see. Thursday, February 28, 2013, 6:45-9:00 pm
Stanford Old Union, Sanctuary, The Circle, 3rd Floor
Guided Meditation & "The Power of Compassion"
by Venerable Telo Tulku Rinpoche (born 10-27-1972 in Philadelphia); Telo; 7-22-2004; NYT, 6-12-2004

He's the reincarnated saint Tilopa (988-1069)
with Naropa (1016-1100) as his disciple
and radiant light from Nagarjuna (150-250).