Haikus: April 2014

HAIKUS: April 2014

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, April 1, 2014, 11:48 am-12:01 pm
KFDC 104.9 FM: Georges Prêtre conducts French National Orchestra in Paul Dukas, "Sorcerer's Apprentice", (1897); inspired by Goethe's 1797 poem (Listen) (CD) (YouTube: 1, 2) (Disney's "Fantasia")

Platonic Lambda shape
is in Sorcerer's cap
Mickey Mouse is wearing. Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 1:00-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Gave Tamara $1050 check for
April rent; Found dish-drying rack in black bag
with kitchen utensils, colanders, bowls, pots,
One-Touch Tester, lancets, and test strips

Spent an hour cleaning
grime off dish-drying rack
so it looks new again.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 1:00-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Reading "Minimalists to preach burgeoning movement in San Jose" (With 11,000 Twitter followers and two million blog followers.)
(By Patrick May, SJ Mercury News, April 1, 2014)

Josh Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
latest book Everthing That Remains:
"less money, less stuff, more meaning." Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 9:37-9:48 pm
KFDC 104.9 FM: String Quartet Cuarteto Casals, Carles Trepat (guitar), Daniel Tummer (castanets), play Luigi Boccherini, Guitar Quintet #4 in D, "Fandango" (1788); Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Stopped cooking to dance
Fandango— clapping hands
and snapping fingers to music.

Thursday, April 3, 2014, 11:15 am-12:00 pm
Mountain View: Ben, maintenance man at Paulson Park tested phone jacks, two phones, answering machine— all phone connections are working; call AT&T for service connection; It's a M-pole issue.

Solomon from AT&T went
to electrical panels in Bldg L
and got my phones to work. Thursday, April 3, 2014, 12:01-12:09 pm
KFDC 104.9 FM: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts
San Francisco Symphony in Ludwig van Beethoven,
Symphony #5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1808); Listen, CD,
YouTube: Dudamel, Toscanini, Von Karajan

May Beethoven's Fifth
lift me to more insights
in my new apartment.

Friday, April 4, 2014, 12:05-12:07 pm
KFDC 104.9 FM: Yo-Yo Ma plays Antonio Vivaldi,
"The Four Seasons: Winter" (1723) "Largo";
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: Yo-Yo Ma, violin)

Vivaldi's "Winter"
on Yo-Yo Ma's cello
good as performed on violin. Friday, April 4, 2014, 7:00-7:20 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to old apartment
mailbox to pick up April 14 issue of Time magazine;
Shopped at 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road)

Water chestnuts, seaweed Nori,
coconut milk, sesame cookies,
broad beans, soybeans & bamboo shoots.

Friday, April 4, 2014, 8:15-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friend's House)
Waverley Writers Open Poetry Reading;
Tom Digby read poem "Alternate Routes"

Read two poems tonight—
"Beauty" and
"One Plum Blossom". Friday, April 4, 2014, 9:50-10:20 pm
Mountain View: Tom "Bubbles" Digby gives me ride
home after Waverley Writers Poetry Reading;
6 minute ride turned to half-hour.

Without my distance glasses,
can't read any street signs
in the dark and we got lost.

Saturday, April 5, 2014, 3:50-4:15 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road); Went for
haircut at Lam's (2464 W. El Camino Real)

Roma tomatoes,
sunflower seeds, dried dates
and apricots, Magnesium Citrate. Saturday, April 5, 2014, 9:05-9:50 pm
Mountain View: Showers & Dinner (6-9 pm);
Walked 45 minutes to Palo Alto Cubberley Pavilion
(4000 Middlefield Rd): Suyue gave me ride home

Missed ballroom dancing
for two weeks due to packing
and moving to new apartment.

Sunday, April 6, 2014, 3:00-3:52 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard);
and later to Los Altos Library (5:30-5:45 pm)
Met Rudy at Chase parking lot and went to Sprouts
where he bought Roma tomatoes & bananas, and Safeway (nut & grain breads & almond & dates cereal); after movies he bought milk & orange juice

Pepperidge Farm cookies,
dairy creamers, orange juice,
Black Forest ham, pizza, yogurt. Sunday, April 6, 2014, 8:00-9:42 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee direct "Frozen" (2013)
with Kristen Bell (Princess Anna), Idina Menzel (Elsa, Snow Queen), Jonathan Groff (Kristoff with reindeer Sven), Josh Gad (Olaf, Snowman), Santino Fontana (Prince Hans); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Movie made over $1 billion

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's
"The Snow Queen", Disney's animation
Frozen is an icy winter wonderland.

Monday, April 7, 2014, 11:31-11:37 am
KFDC 104.9 FM: Vladimir Horowitz plays
Franz Schubert "Schwanengesang"
Serenade, D 957 #4, Ständchen (1828)
(Listen), (CD), (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), Song

Horowitz playing
one of my favorite music—
Schubert's Serenade. Monday, April 7, 2014, 1:25-3:00 pm
Mountain View: First laundray at new apartment;
$1.50 wash (38 minutes); $1.00 dry (48 minutes);
old apartment laundry: $2.00 wash & $2.00 dry;
get home at 9:45 pm too late for last wash at 10 pm

Washed mattress cover
mud stained moving on dolly
plus bed sheets, towel, pants.

Monday, April 7, 2014, 3:40-4:15 pm
Mountain View: Ten minutes walk to Bus Stop
at Rengstorff & Montecito for Bus #40 (3:44 pm);
Bus #35 leaves 4:07 pm; Took Bus #32 (4:02 pm);
Got off at Middlefield & San Antonio & walked to
Lab (closed from March 28 to April 6); Open today

First ride on buses
from new apartment to Lab
took just half an hour. Monday, April 7, 2014, 4:15-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
ARTS: Mickey Rooney, Master of Putting On a Show, Dies at 93 (Number 1 box-office star 1939-1941
Starred in Sugar Babies musical 1979-1982.)
(By Aljean Harmetz, NY Times, 4-7-2014)

Mickey & Judy were
big hits in Babes in Arms
and many movies together.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 2:30-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Missed 2:01 Bus #34, caught 2:17 pm
Bus #40 to Showers Drive; Visit Fidelity Investments
(2580 West El Camino Real); Chris Bagileo helped
changing my address & printing March 31 statement

Fidelity checks #1361 & #1362 ($920)
written to Dr. Roberto V. Espejo, Jr.
for bridge across teeth #19, 20, 21, 22. Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 3:33-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Inner Jump— A Voyage Beyond the Image"
(Commemorating photographer Philippe Halsman)
(By Maya Mizrahi, Epoch Times, May 11, 2011, B2)

When a person jumps
the mask falls so that
the real person appears.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Throwing away some old copies of
New York Times, and saved interesting baseball news:
"A No-Hitter So Rare It Took 6 Pitchers" (5-2-2013)
"Dodgers & Cardinals" (10-11-2013); Preacher Roe

Carl Furillo #6 jumping
to catch #6 Stan Musial's fly
with Duke Snider watching. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 3:00-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
OP-ED: How to Study the Numinous
(Brain scans and fMRI machine are not enough.)
(By Ross Douthat, NY Times, 4-9-2014)

We need a new William James
or James Frazer or Carl Jung
to really study the numinous.

Thursday, April 10, 2014, 2:50-3:13 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road);
Leslie not in at 3:30 pm to pick up my mail

Green onions, bean sprouts,
thick bean curd, firm tofu, eggs,
dried soybeans with bamboo shoots. Thursday, April 10, 2014, 4:37-7:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
OP-ED: A Rationalist's Mystical Moment
(By Barbara Ehrenreich, NY Times, 4-6-2014)

At age 17 in Lone Pine, California,
she saw the world flaming into life,
and felt ecstatic and shattered.

Thursday, April 10, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University: Cubberley Auditorium
BiLi the Mime and His Solo Show

Going to see BiLi because
he studied mime with a disciple of
Marcel Marceau & Étienne Decroux. Thursday, April 10, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University: Cubberley Auditorium
BiLi the Mime and His Solo Show (10 skits)

BiLi studied mime with Stella Filler.
He received a standing ovation
and signed the program afterwards.

Friday, April 11, 2014, 1:50-3:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Gym 2507;
Donna Frankel's Ballroom & Social Dancing Class
Peter Chong rounded up poet Johnny Blade, so
when the Dean came for head count, she allowed
Donna's class to continue with ten students.

Got to class an hour late—
learned merengue and waltz
with nine other students. Friday, April 11, 2014, 1:50-3:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
SCIENCE: Watch Proteins Do the Jitterbug
(Video by XVIVO: Proteins jostle past one
another like commuters in a busy train station.)
(By Carl Zimmer, NY Times, 4-10-2014)

Miraculous video
of proteins at work
repairing our cells.

Saturday, April 12, 2014, 10:15 am-2:45 pm
Mountain View: Never used disposal but kitchen sink is clogged; Called Paulson Park Emergency— Miguel spent an hour with vacuum hose & snake but couldn't declog drain; He called Fifteen Dollar Rooter Sewer & Drain Service ($150 bill to management for 2 hrs)

Martin used bigger snake
with blade and took two hours
to declog drain from former tenants. Saturday, April 12, 2014, 3:28-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Hubble Madness' Picks a Winning Image, and Deep Space Never Looked So Good" (Winning photo is "Mystic Mountain"— 7500 light-years from earth; Photos); (Justin Bachman, Business Week, 4-11-2014)

Carina Nebula is a pillar
of gas, dust, and stars
more than three light-years tall.

Saturday, April 12, 2014, 3:28-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"The Moral: Aesop Knew Something About Crows"
(Thirsty crow drops pebbles into a pitcher to raise water level of high enough to get a drink.)
(By James Gorman, NY Times, 4-10-2014)

Jack drives me to Walgreens (5:44 pm)—
Maxwell House Instant Coffee ($2.99),
eggs (99¢), chicken broth (50¢). Saturday, April 12, 2014, 8:30-9:15 pm
Mountain View: Walked 45 minutes to Palo Alto Cubberley Pavilion (4000 Middlefield Road) for Ballroom dancing (9:15 pm-12 am); Streets passed on
Middlefield Rd: Thaddeus Dr, Victory Ave, Nedson Ct, Claire Ct, and Alvin St; Dana gave me ride home

April's Frog Moon is
not yet full but stars from
the Big Dipper are bright.

Sunday, April 13, 2014, 4:00-4:48 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road); Met Rudy at
Chase parking; Went to Trader Joe's (6:20-6:57 pm)
(Sesame sticks, ginger granola, coconut granola cereal, Ak-Mak crackers, Italian balsamic vinegar) & Sprouts Market (7:15-7:25 pm) (Turkish apricots @ $1.99/lb); Went to Stanford to see "American Hustle"

Campbell Chunky clam chowder soup,
orange juice, baby spinach, bananas,
pizza, dairy creamer, nonfat milk. Sunday, April 13, 2014, 8:00-9:42 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
David O. Russell directs "American Hustle" (2013)
with Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Louis C.K.,
Jack Huston, Saïd Taghmaoui, Michael Peña, Elisabeth Röhm, ; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Nominated for 10 Oscars

Well acted film based
on FBI sting operation
on ABSCAM corruption.

Monday, April 14, 2014, 11:55 am-12:02 pm
KFDC 104.9 FM: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra plays Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D
(1680), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Stayed home to listen
to Pachelbel's Canon
instead of catching the bus. Monday, April 14, 2014, 2:12-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Opinionator: Happiness and Its Discontents"
(By Daniel M. Haybron, NY Times, 4-13-2014)

Misleading to equate
satisfaction with happiness
since the poor claimed to be happy.

Monday, April 14-15, 2014, 11:40 pm-3:00 am
Mountain View: Viewing "Blood Moon Eclipse";
"Blood Moon arrives late Monday" (Partial eclipse start 10:58 pm; Total eclipse starts 12:07 am; Total eclipse ends 1:25 am; Partial eclipse ends 2:33 am)
(By Becky Bach, SJ Mercury News, April 13, 2014)

From dark sliver crescent
to bright full Frog Moon—
light my mind with wisdom. Monday, April 14-15, 2014, 12:00-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM:
George Noory interviews Ron Garner
(Bio, Web, fake) & J. J. Hurtak (Bio, Bio 2, Web)
"ET Contacts" BOOKS: The Overself Awakening,
An Introduction to the Keys of Enoch

1996 Varginha UFO
incident in Brazil
with 4-foot aliens?

Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 10:18-10:58 am
KFDC 104.9 FM: Takács Quartet plays Franz Schubert, "Trout" Quintet in A, Op. 114/D. 667 (1819); (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Schubert wrote Trout Quintet
at age 22 based on German
song "Die Forelle". Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 2:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Nitin Das's 4/13 email on Tibetan prayer flags
with 2-minute film "Peace Prayer of the Wind"

O wind, carry my prayers
far and wide gently so
all will find true peace.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 10:29-10:41 am
KFDC 104.9 FM: Murray Perahia plays Franz Schubert, Impromptu #3 in Bb Op 142 D 935 #3 (1827); CD, (YouTube: Boris Feiner, Maria Yudina, Murray Perahia, Piotr Koscik, Walter Gieseking)

Main theme resembles
incidental music Schubert
composed for Rosamunde. Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 2:16-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
MOVIES REVIEW: His Résumé Before the Age of 4: 'I Saw Jesus on a Horse' (Colton Video; Trailer)
(By Jeannette Catsoulis, NY Times, 4-16-2014)

Heaven Is for Real is story
of 4-year-old Colton Burpo with
near-death experience of heaven.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 2:16-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
The first total lunar eclipse of 2014 (26 photos)
(By Scott Barbour et. al., Yahoo! News, 4-15-2014)
Composite Lunar Eclipse; Cross & Blood Moon

Liberty Goddess juggles
Blood Moon while Antenna
balances Moon on its tiptop. Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 2:16-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
BOOKS: Combative Director, Even in Letters
(On Elia Kazan who's both loved and hated.)
(By Janet Maslin, NY Times, 4-17-2014)

Read his autobiography A Life
first to provide context for
Selected Letters of Elia Kazan.

Thursday, April 17, 2014, 5:02-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Lightened sky of Kato's photo in Photoshop
so Moon is balanced on antenna's tiptop
for poem "Blood Moon Eclipse 2014"

Below the Full Moon
to the right is Spica
brightest star in Virgo. Thursday, April 17, 2014, 5:02-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
'Jaw-Dropping', 'Apocalypse' Blood Moon Still Making Waves (By Mark Biltz, WND Faith,
4-17-2014) (Sign from heaven Acts 2:19-20)

The moon shall be turned
into blood before the coming
of the awesome day of the Lord.

Friday, April 18, 2014, 5:55-7:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Gerd Oswald directs
"Crime of Passion" (1957), with Barbara Stanwyck,
Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, Royal Dano, Jay Adler, Stuart Whitman; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

She kills police chief
(Raymond Burr) because
he won't promote her husband. Friday, April 18, 2014, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Fritz Lang directs
"Clash by Night" (1952), with Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe,
Keith Andes, J. Carrol Naish, Silvio Minciotti;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Marilyn— breath of fresh air
working in Cannery Row
in scenic Monterey.

Saturday, April 19, 2014, 3:30-5:10 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Memorial Church
An Easter Celebration of Christ "There is a Balm in Gilead" (Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Gounod)
Rudy liked sopranos Ariel Bybee, Jennie Listster

Classical music,
soprano & choir singing
celebrating Easter. Saturday, April 19, 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Jeremiah 8:22— "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?"
(Jeremiah 46:11); There Is a Balm in Gilead

They lived in wickedness
and were punished with
sickness and disease.

Sunday, April 20, 2014, 1:14-1:30 pm
KFDC 104.9 FM: Riccardo Chailly conducts
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in J. S. Bach's
Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B-Flat, BWV 1051
(1710), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

Great to listen to Bach's
Brandenburg Concerto
on Easter Sunday. Sunday, April 20, 2014, 2:10-4:40 pm
Mountain View: Did laundry, 38 minutes wash ($1.50)
& 48 minutes dry ($1); Listening to KNBR 680 AM
SF Giants vs. San Diego Padres; Giants' streak of one-run games longest in 104 years (1, 2)

Buster Posey hits homer
in 1st inning as Tim Lincecum
wins first game this season 4-3.

Sunday, April 20, 2014, 8:00-10:06 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium; Spike Jonze directs "Her" (2013) with Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Nominated for 5 Oscars

He loves Samantha—
an OS who knows all
his emotions & thoughts. Sunday, April 20, 2014, 10:30-11:00 pm
Mountain View: After movies, Rudy & I went
shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
Earlier: Safeway (6:48 pm) instant oatmeal;
Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd) (7:23 pm) ginger powder, baby carrots, pecans halves

Organic baby spinach,
dairy creamer, yogurt,
canola oil, orange juice.

Monday, April 21, 2014, 11:22-11:29 am
KFDC 104.9 FM: Norman Del Mar conducts
George Butterworth, Banks of Green Willow (1913),
Listen, (CD) (YouTube), based on
A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad"

Housman's "A Shropshire Lad"
inspired George Butterworth
to write this beautiful music. Monday, April 21, 2014, 3:45-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Patrick McDonnell's Comics Mutts (4-21-2014)
Henry David Thoreau: "Heaven is under our feet
as well as over our heads" (Walden, Chapter 16)

God in Chinese sounds like Shang Di ()
"upper land", but it's really Shang Ti ()
meaning "above the Emperor".

Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 2:32-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Richard's email: "Things I No Longer Can Do"
with Hadouken!'s music "Levitate" (Lyrics)
reminds me of moments with PB in Switzerland
and feeling of Levitation and lightness of being.

I can feel it rising
both feet lift off the ground—
I can levitate. Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 2:32-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
OP-ED: How to Get a Job at Google, Part 2
(Good Résumé: Key is to frame your strengths as:
"I accomplished X, relative to Y, by doing Z.")
(By Thomas Friedman, NY Times, 4-19-2014)

Google looks for
general cognitive ability—
to learn things and solve problems.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 12:06-12:14 pm
KFDC 104.9 FM: Frederick Delius, "Walk to the Paradise Garden" in "A Village Romeo and Juliet" (1907), Listen, (CD) (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Walk to the Paradise Garden
where they dance all night
and take a boat to the sea. Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 2:03-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Patrick McDonnell's Mutts (4-23-2014) Quote:
"The earth has its music for those who will listen,"

Santayana— "Its bright variations forever abound;
With all the wonders that God has bequeathed us,
There is nothing that thrills like the magic of sound.".

Thursday, April 24, 2014, 12:16-12:41 pm
KFDC 104.9 FM: Vladimir Ashkenazy plays
Sergei Rachmaninoff (Listen), CD, YouTube: 1, 2
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43 (1934)
Caller recalled Ashkenazy played on broken piano

Grand piano's leg broke
but Ashkenazy played well
on a wobbly fixed piano. Thursday, April 24, 2014, 6:12-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
A day late finding 25 denomination postage stamps
(U.S. 2378, U.S. 2395, Greece C59, Greece C62)
in composing niece Emily's 25th birthday web page

Greece 25 drachma stamp
of West Wind Zephyrus
to inspire Emily's 25th year.

Friday, April 25, 2014, 5:45-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Julien Duvivier directs
"Flesh and Fantasy" (1943), with Robert Cummings, Betty Field, Edward G. Robinson, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Benchley, Charles Winninger, C. Aubrey Smith, Edgar Barrier; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Three supernatural tales
on masks, chiromancy,
and prophetic dreams. Friday, April 25, 2014, 7:30-8:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Roy Rowland directs
"Witness to Murder" (1954), with Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White, Harry Shannon, Lewis Martin, Dick Elliott, Juanita Moore;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)
"Rear Window" opened months later & was a big hit

Scenes from this film repeated
in Hitchcock's Rear Window,
Vertigo, and North by Northwest.

Saturday, April 26, 2014, 12:26-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Patrick McDonnell's comics Mutts (4-24-2014)
Sunshine gives warmth and light to all alike.

John Muir—
"Nature's peace will flow into you
as sunshine flows into trees." Saturday, April 26, 2014, 12:26-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Patrick McDonnell's comics Mutts (4-25-2014)
Ramana heard Mt. Arunachala calling to him.

John Muir—
"The mountains
are calling and I must go.

Sunday, April 27, 2014, 2:15-2:53 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road) and ride
to Los Altos Library (Read 5 NY Times articles)

Carrots, green beans, peas,
angel cake, kosher pickles,
dairy creamer, orange juice.
Sunday, April 27, 2014, 6:15-7:43 pm
Mountain View: Rudy & I shopped at Trader Joe's (6:20-6:37 pm) (Sesame sticks, Ak-Mak crackers, bananas), Safeway, & Sprouts Market (7:15-7:43 pm)

Green bell peppers, radishes,
green onions, vineripe tomatoes,
Brazilian nuts, pecans, walnuts.

Sunday, April 27, 2014, 8:15-10:00 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium; Nicholas Stoller directs "Neighbors" (2014) with Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Lisa Kudrow, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Battle between couple
with baby and fraternity
house making too much noise. Sunday, April 27-28, 2014, 11:30 pm-3:00 am
Mountain View: Before bedtime, finished reading "Unworldly Wise: As the Owl Remarked to the Rabbit" (1974) by O.O.O. (Wei Wu Wei) with illustrations by David Eccles; 2004 paperback;
Online Chapters I-X; Ch. XXII (p. 44 on Lakshmi):

Ramana's mother
and his cow Lakshmi
were enlightened beings.

Monday, April 28, 2014, 12:46-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
High-frequency traders draining profits from mutual funds and pension accounts (Michael Lewis's book "Flash Boys" tells how high-frequency traders are making $22 billion per year and never lose money.)
(Stephen J. Butler, SJ Mercury News, 4-27-2014)

These traders are always
milliseconds ahead of major
institutions, such as mutual funds. Monday, April 28, 2014, 12:46-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Listening again to Podcast of Marty Laurie's
interview with 82-year-old Willie Mays (4-26-2014)
on the 60th anniversary of 1954 World Series with
Cleveland Indians and his famous Vic Wertz catch
and Dusty Rhodes homer in 10th inning to win 5-2.

Mays hit 24 homers
in 1954 Spring Training,
won batting title on last day.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 12:30-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College, Hearthside Lounge
(Room 2313) Asian Pacific Islander 2014 Heritage Month: Film producer Brian Yang screening film
"Linsanity" (2013) directed by Evan Jackson Leong;
(Slam Dunk Poem; "Linsanity" Poem; News Stories)

Jeremy Lin won
in the NBA against all odds—
You can do it too! Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 4:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: "Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties" (2004) by Graydon Carter & David Friend; Photo history from the first Academy Awards black-tie dinner dance in 1929 to the glittering Vanity Fair gala in 2004 (New: $75 bought for $20)

Over 500 candid photos
of glamorous film stars
so sumptuous and juicy.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 3:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
David O. Selznick, Joan Fontaine, & Alfred Hitchcock at 1940 Oscar; Selznick won Best Picture Awards in 1939-1940 for "Gone with the Wind" & "Rebecca"

Joan Fontaine lost Best Actress
Award for Rebecca in 1940
but won for Suspicion in 1941. Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 3:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change";
"Blood Moons: Decoding Imminent Heavenly Signs "
Revised poem "Blood Moon Eclipse 2014"

It's Passover time
and the Moon is singing
"Enjoy the circus show."