Haikus: July 2014

HAIKUS: July 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, July 1, 2014, 10:01-10:18 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Daniel Barenboim conducts Richard Wagner, Tannhäuser: Overture (1843); (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Germany B49 Tannhauser stamp (1933)

Minnesingers Tannhäuser
and Wolfram sang love songs
to win the love of Elisabeth. Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 11:30-11:40 am
Mountain View: 272-276 Montebello Avenue;
Photos of Lambda Λ branch on Pepper Tree;
Λ-shaped compass held by Dürer's Melencolia
Angel or God in Blake's "Ancient of Days"

Pepper Tree honors
Montebello— beautiful mountain
the street where she lives.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 1:25-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Born July 1: Gottfried Leibniz (1646); George Sand (1804); Charles Laughton (1899); William Wyler (1902); Olivia de Havilland (1916); Leslie Caron (1931); Twyla Tharp (1941); Carl Lewis (1961); Diana, Princess of Wales (1961); On July 1 (1997)—

Hong Kong reverted
to Chinese rule after
156 years as British colony.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 1:25-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Can't find Patrick Tehan's Great Egret Chicks photo
(SJ Mercury News, June 27, 2014, B2); Found photo:
Seagulls perch on giant glove in center field as San Francisco Giants play Cincinnati Reds in 11th inning
at AT&T Park (By Jose Carlos Fajardo, 6-28-2014)

Five seagulls on giant glove
at AT&T Park watching
Giants-Reds baseball game.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 6:00-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Campus, Gym B
Donna Frankel teaches World Dance (DANC 5) & Dance Conditioning (DANC 14)— 9 women & 2 men in class; learned 12 dances from around the world—
Class liked hip-hop dance Hine Ma Tov (1, 2, 3)

Had to leave at 9:30 pm
for ride home with Al Guzman
who closed Computer Lab at that time.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 11:11-11:25 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Janina Fialkowska plays
Wolfgang Mozart's 12 Variations on a French Nursery Theme in C K. 265 (1782); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); ["Variations on a Nursery Rhyme", Op. 25 (1914)];
Ride with friend to meet Rudy at Hometown Buffet

Video of Nodame playing
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
with its twelve variations.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 12:30-4:30 pm
Hometown Buffet, 2670 El Camino Real, Santa Clara (Lunch with Rudy & friend: fried fish, string beans, cornbread, salad, jello, peaches, low-fat milk);
5:00-5:20 pm— Fry's (1077 East Arques Ave.)

Bought USB 2.0 Inland
Multi-Card Reader for $3.99
to access photos efficiently.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 6:02-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 2: Christoph Gluck (1714); Clarence Barron (1855); Hermann Hesse (1877); Thurgood Marshall (1902); Johnny Weir (1984); Events on July 2 (1937)—

Amelia Earhart
disappeared over the Pacific
in flight around the world.

Thursday, July 3, 2014, 9:14-9:20 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Klára Körmendi plays
Erik Satie, Three Gymnopedies (1888);
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
France B643: Erik Satie stamp (1992);
Musicians with S names on stamps

Precursor to modern
ambient music— gentle
with tinge of painful sadness.
Thursday, July 3, 2014, 11:57 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 3: John Singleton Copley (1738); George M. Cohan (1878); Franz Kafka (1883); M. F. K. Fisher (1908); Dorothy Kilgallen (1913); Tom Cruise (1962);
Events on July 3 (1863)—

Battle of Gettysburg
ended after three days
in victory for the North.

Thursday, July 3, 2014, 11:57 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 4: Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753); Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804); Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807); Stephen Foster (1826); George Murphy (1902); Lionel Trilling (1905); Eva Marie Saint (1924); Neil Simon (1927); Gina Lollobrigida (1927); Events on July 4 (1976))—

Bicentennial celebration
of American Independence
as tall ships sail down the Hudson. Friday, July 4, 2014, 2:00-6:00 pm
Portola Valley: Windy Hill Hike at Alpine Road—
Hiked here on August 24, 2008 when right railing of Stone Bridge fell that's now repaired. July 4th Hikes: 2013: Purisima; 2012: Portola Redwoods; 2011: Tarwater Trailhead Loop; 2010: El Corte de Madera; 2009: Coal Mine Ridge; 2008: Rhus Ridge Trail

Pleasant hike on Eagle Trail
next to the babbling creek with
two stretches on Alpine Road.

Saturday, July 5, 2014, 2:03-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Eucalyptus polyanthemos
(Red Box, Silver Dollar Gum) fits first Eucalyptus
tree on Montebello Ave with fibrous tan bark

Eucalyptus camaldulensis
(Red Gum) has crescent leaves
but Red Box has ovate leaves. Saturday, July 5, 2014, 2:03-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Schinus molle is
the Peruvian Pepper Tree with rough greyish
twisted bark and pinnately alternate leaflets

Schinus terebinthifolius
(Brazilian Pepper Tree) with oval leaves
is not the one on Montebello Avenue.

Sunday, July 6, 2014, 2:00-2:22 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard),
afterwards gives me ride to Los Altos Library;
Email from Rudy to meet at Chase at 6 pm

Maui onion potato chips,
coconut milk, orange juice,
instant oatmeal, spinach salad. Sunday, July 6, 2014, 4:45-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Will Swift's "Pat and Dick:
The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of A Marriage" 973.924NixonSwift; Scenes From a Marriage 'Pat and Dick' (By Thomas Mallon, NY Times, 2-7-2014)

Better understanding of Nixon
in this well-researched book
on the marriage of Pat & Dick.

Monday, July 7, 2014, 2:00-4:36 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 5:
David Farragut (1801); P. T. Barnum (1810);
Cecil Rhodes (1853); John Howard Northrop (1891);
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902); Julie Nixon Eisenhower (1948); Rich "Goose" Gossage (1951);
Events on July 5 (1975)—

Arthur Ashe became
first black man to win
Wimbledon singles in tennis. Monday, July 7, 2014, 2:00-4:36 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 6:
John Paul Jones (1747); Sir William Hooker (1785);
Alex Hugo Theorell (1903); Frida Kahlo (1907); Nancy Reagan (1921); Bill Haley (1925);
George W. Bush (1946); Sylvester Stallone (1946);
Events on July 6 (1957)—

Althea Gibson became
first black tennis player
to win Wimbledon singles title.

Monday, July 7, 2014, 2:00-4:36 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 7:
Gustav Mahler (1860); Marc Chagall (1887);
George Cukor (1899); Vittorio De Sica (1901);
Satchel Paige (1906); Robert Heinlein (1907);
Ringo Starr (1940); Michelle Kwan (1980);
Events on July 7 (1981)—

President Reagan nominated
Sandra Day O'Connor to
become first female justice on
the United States Supreme Court. Monday, July 7, 2014, 7:00-9:35 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium
Stanford Repertory Theater Festival; Orson Welles directs "Othello" (1952) with Orson Welles, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Suzanne Cloutier, Robert Coote, Hilton Edwards, Michael Laurence, Nicholas Bruce, Fay Compton, Doris Dowling; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Film funding ran out—
Welles shot in Turkish bath
instead of buying costumes.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 10:14-11:01 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Johannes Brahms, Symphony #1 in C minor, Op.68 (1855-1876); (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2);
11:13-11:42 am— Joshua Bell plays Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844) Listen, CD, (Video: Hilary Hahn, Janine Jansen, Issac Stern)

Double treat listening
to Brahms' Symphony #1
& Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 12:35-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 8:
John D. Rockefeller (1839); Alfred Binet (1857);
Käthe Kollwitz (1867); Percy Grainger (1882);
Alec Waugh (1898); Nelson Rockefeller (1908);
Kim Darby (1947); Anjelica Huston (1951);
Events on July 8 (1950)—

President Truman names
General MacArthur to head
United Nations Force in Korea.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 6:00-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Campus, Gym B
Donna Frankel teaches World Dance (DANC 5) &
Dance Conditioning (DANC 14)— 10 women, 2 men
in class; learned 9 dances from around the world—
[YouTube: New York, New York (1); Troika (1); Korobushka; La Bastringue (1); Doudlebska Polka (1); 'T Smidje (1); Pata Pata (1, UC Berkeley);
Not taught: Hungarian Gypsy Dance]

Friend donated 17 colorful
long full skirts to Donna
for her dance performances.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 10:01-10:08 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Ivo Pogorelich plays
Frederic Chopin's Prelude #15 "Raindrop"
in Db Op 28/15 (1838); CD; (YouTube: Martha Argerich, Hélène Grimaud, Marjan Kiepura);
10:21-10:36 am Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays
Ottorino Respighi, Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite #1 (1917), (Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2)

On ship back from Brazil,
Respighi met Enrico Fermi
who asked him to explain music
in terms of physics, but he couldn't.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 12:40-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 9:
Elias Howe (1819); Ottorino Respighi (1879);
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887); Dorothy Thompson (1893); Albert Wedemeyer (1897); King Hassan II (1929); Dean Koontz (1945); Tom Hanks (1956);
Events on July 9 (1896)—

William Jennings Bryan
wins Democratic nomination
with "Cross of Gold" speech. Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 12:40-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 10:
John Calvin (1509); Robert Chambers (1802);
Camille Pissarro (1830); Nikoli Tesla (1856);
Marcel Proust (1871); Kurt Alder (1902); Arthur Ashe (1943); Virginia Wade (1945); Arlo Guthrie (1947);
Events on July 10 (1940)—

Battle of Britain—
RAF repelled Luftwaffe
as hundreds dived to sea.

Friday, July 11, 2014, 1:00-3:14 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave);
Steve McQueen directs "12 Years a Slave" (2013) with
Chiwetel Ejioford, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Alfre Woodard; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Book

Film won Best Picture Award
in 2013 beating Gravity and
earning ten times its budget. Friday, July 11, 2014, 3:20-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: Born July 11:
King Robert the Bruce (1274); John Quincy Adams (1767); John Wanamaker (1838); Leon Bloy (1846);
Harry Kellar (1849); Sir Joseph Larmor (1857); Roger de La Fresnaye (1885); E. B. White (1899);
Yul Brynner (1920); Events on July 11 (1804)—

Vice President Aaron Burr
kills former Treasury Secretary
Alexander Hamilton in pistol duel.

Saturday, July 12, 2014, 1:21-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: OP-ED: Bury My Heart on West End Avenue (Yuwipi ceremony conducted by Sioux Leonard Crow Dog in Manhattan apartment.)
(By Dick Cavett, NY Times, 7-12-2014)
(Red Hawk Video, 1, 2)

Chants of Ha-ya, Ha-ya, Ha-ya
reminds me of Charlie Thom Red Hawk's
sweat lodge ceremonies at Mount Shasta. Saturday, July 12, 2014, 1:21-5:35 pm
Born July 12: Julius Caesar (100 BC); Henry David Thoreau (1817); George Eastman (1854); Amedeo Modigliani (1884); Oscar Hammerstein ll (1895); Pablo Neruda (1904); Bill Cosby (1937); Kristi Yamaguchi (1971); Events on July 12 (1951)—

Allie Reynolds pitches no-hitter
as Yankees beat Indians' Bob Feller
1-0 with Woodling's homer in 7th inning.

Sunday, July 13, 2014, 1:15-1:42 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard),
afterwards gives me ride near Los Altos Library

Baby spinach salad,
non-fat milk, orange juice,
coffee creamer, Yoplait yogurt. Sunday, July 13, 2014, 3:11-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: 49ers legends top All-Stars 45-40
(49ers Candlestick Park finale celebration) Photos
(By Daniel Brown, SJ Mercury News, 7-13-2014)

Joe Montana throws surprise 2-yard
winning touchdown pass to former
49ers owner Eddie Deartolo.

Sunday, July 13, 2014, 3:11-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Beverly Cohn's "What A Year It Was! 1948" (1997); ($22.50 bought for $3)

Truman is Time's Man of the Year,
T.S. Eliot wins Nobel in Literature,
Arcaro wins Triple Crown with Citation. Sunday, July 13, 2014, 3:11-5:45 pm
Barbara Aria & Russell Eng Gon, The Spirit of the Chinese Character: Gifts from the Heart (1992), ($2)

Enlightenment (Ming )
composed of Sun & Moon—
together they light the world.

Sunday, July 13, 2014, 3:11-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Paris Review #128: 40th Anniversary Issue (1993), ($2); pp.76-77: Pattiann Rogers (1, 2), "Life in an Expanding Universe"

It's not only all those cosmic
pinwheels with their charging
solar luminosities,... Sunday, July 13, 2014, 3:11-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" (2002); ($14.95 for $4); 302Gladwell

The tipping point is that
magic moment when an idea
crosses a threshold & spreads like wildfire.

Sunday, July 13, 2014, 3:11-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford (2013); Robert Bly: "William Stafford is a master. He belongs in that category of artists the Japanese have named 'national treasures.'... I believe Willliam Stafford will be read with even greater attention in the next hundred years."

William Stafford's poems
are simple with a serene
lovely lucid luminosity. Sunday, July 13, 2014, 3:11-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Born on July 13:
Julius Caesar (100 BC); Henry David Thoreau (1817); George Eastman (1854); Amedeo Modigliani (1884); Oscar Hammerstein ll (1895); Pablo Neruda (1904); Bill Cosby (1937); Harrison Ford (1942); Events on July 13 (1977)—

25-hour blackout hit
New York City area after
lightning struck power lines.

Monday, July 14, 2014, 12:35-5:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab—
Born July 14: James McNeill Whistler (1834); Emmeline Pankhurst (1858); Gustav Klimt (1862); Happy Chandler (1898); Irving Stone (1903); Woody Guthrie (1912); Gerald R. Ford (1913); Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921); Polly Bergen (1930); Tim Hudson (1975); Events on July 14 (1967-1968)—

San Francisco Giants gave up
500th home run to Eddie Mathews in 1967
and 500th home run to Hank Aaron in 1968. Monday, July 14, 2014, 7:00-9:20 pm
Stanford University: Annenberg Auditorium
Stanford Theater Festival: Orson Welles directs & narrates "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942) with Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Discussant: Michael Metzger

Producers changed Welles's ending
of film and excised much of Herrmann's
score that he removed his name from credits.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 12:05-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Hubble telescope spots bizarre 'string of pearls' formation in space (Two colliding galaxies SSDSS 1531+3414)
(By Mike Wall Christian Science Monitor, 7-14-2014); Supernova 1987A occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud [160,000 light years from Earth. Outburst visible to naked eye, is brightest known supernova in 400 years. Optical hot-spots (pink-white) now encircle ring like a necklace of incandescent diamonds.]

Figure 8 in space—
Supernova 1987A like a necklace
of incandescent diamonds. Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 12:05-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 15:
Inigo Jones (1573); Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606);
Clement Moore (1779); Mother Cabrini (1850);
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919); Thomas Francis, Jr. (1900); Jan-Michael Vincent (1947); Arianna Huffington (1950); Linda Ronstadt (1951); John Stallworth (1952); Kim Alexis (1960); Brigitte Nielsen (1963); Events on July 15 (1918)— Decisive Allied victory at Marne River near Paris (7/15-8/6-1918)

WWI's 2nd Battle of Marne—
15,000 Germans driven
across the river.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 12:03-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 16:
Clare of Assisi (1194); Andrea Del Sarto (1486);
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723); Camille Corot (1796); Mary Baker Eddy (1821); Roald Amundsen (1872); Barbara Stanwyck (1907); Ginger Rogers (1911); Margaret Smith Court (1942); Barry Sanders (1968); Events on July 16 (1969)—

Apollo 11 spaceship launched
with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin,
and Michael Collins to the Moon. Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 12:03-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab—
Formatting 60 photos "Montebello Ave Trees"
(Mountain View)— greetings from four friends—
Pepper Tree (Schinus molle), Redwood Tree
(Sequoia sempervirens), Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba),
and Red Ironbark (Eucalyptus sideroxylon);
Prayer to Platonic Lambda Λ Pepper Tree

Rushing for the bus,
neglected to notice lovely
trees that now I regard as friends.

Thursday, July 17, 2014, 12:09-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Port Chicago
disaster exposed racism in military, launching civil
rights movement (Disaster, Port Chicago, Explosion)
(By Lisa P. White, SJ Mercury News, 7-17-2014);
Ukraine says Malaysian plane shot down; nearly
300 feared dead, among them 80 children
(Reuters, The Indian Express, 7-17-2014)

300 die in Bay arms ship blast (1944).
70 years later to the day—
300 die in plane crash over Ukraine. Thursday, July 17, 2014, 12:09-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 17:
Elbridge Gerry (1744); John Jacob Astor (1763);
Ernest Rhys (1859); S. Y. Agnon (1888); Erle Stanley Gardner (1889); Georges Lemaitre (1894); James Cagney (1899); Donald Sutherland (1935); Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947); Angela Merkel (1954); Events on July 17 (1975)—

American Apollo astronauts
dock with Soviet Soyez spaceship
and join in historic handshakes.

Friday, July 18, 2014, 11:30-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: Born July 18:
Hermann of Reichenau (1013); Robert Hooke (1635);
William Thackeray (1811); S. I. Hayakawa (1906);
Clifford Odets (1906); Andrei Gromyko (1909);
Nelson Mandela (1918); John Glenn (1921); Dick Button (1929); Joe Torre (1940); Torii Hunter (1975);
Events on July 18 (1927: Ty Cobb's 4000th hit);
(1999: David Cone's perfect game)—

David Cone pitched
third perfect game for
Yankees & 16th in MLB. Friday, July 18, 2014, 7:30-10:40 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Robert Wise directs
"The Sound of Music" (1965) with Julie Andrews,
Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker,
Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr,
Nicholas Hammond, Marni Nixon, Daniel Truhitte,
Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright,
Debbie Turner, Kym Karath; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

AFI's 4th greatest musical
after Singin' in the Rain,
West Side Story & Wizard of Oz.

Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Returning Isaiah Berlin's
"The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History" (1966), 891.733TolstoyBerlin

The fox sees many things,
hedgehog focuses on the one—
what kind of person are you? Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Simon Braund's "The Greatest Movies You'll Never See: Unseen Masterpieces by the World's Greatest Directors" (2013) 791.43Greates

Movie masterpieces from
great film directors that
never saw the light of day..

Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: David Hoffman's "Who Knew?: Things You Didn't Know About Things You Know Well" (2000), ($4.98 for $1); page 145—

No word in the English
language rhymes with month,
orange, silver, or purple. Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Rick Jay's "Jay's Journal of Anomalies" (2003); ($25.00 for $4); 791.0922Jay,
pp. 190-191 Levitation Poster

Servais Le Roy performs
Asrah levitation
with woman floating in mid air.

Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: David Shields & Shane Salerno, Salinger (2000), ($37.50 for $5); 813.54Salinge;
(J.D. Salinger; J.D. Salinger's Women); In 1941, 22-year old Salinger dated 16-year old Oona; page 563—

Salinger was obsessed with
16-year old Oona O'Neill whom
he lost in love to Charlie Chaplin. Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Elliot Forbes (Ed.) "Thayer's
Life of Beethoven, Volume I" (1970); ($16.95 for $2);
780.924BeethoThayer (1921); p. 415: Beethoven's
3rd letter to Marie Brigot (after March 5, 1807)—

From childhood on I learned
to love virtue— and all
that is beautiful and good.

Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Demi's "Rumi: Whirling Dervish" (2009), ($19.99 for $4) J891.5511JalalDemi; p. 21—

We came whirling out of
nothingness, scattering stars
like dust. The stars made a circle
and in the middle we dance. Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Michael Green's "One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi" (2005); ($35.00 for $7)

Say now the secret,
Say the word true.
Say what the heart know,
Say I am You..

Saturday, July 19, 2014, 1:19-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Born July 19: Edgar Degas (1834); Edward Charles Pickering (1846);
Charles Horace Mayo (1865); Alice Dunbar (1875); Herbert Marcuse (1898); Edgar Snow (1905); George McGovern; Vikki Carr (1941); On July 19 (1969)—

Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong,
"Buzz" Aldrin & Michael Collins,
went into orbit around the moon. Sunday, July 20, 2014, 4:12-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Born July 20: Petrarch (1304); Gregor Mendel (1822); Sir George Trevelyan (1838);
Max Liebermann (1847); Diana Rigg (1938);
Kim Carnes (1945); Carlos Santana (1947);
Stephen Strasburg (1988); On July 20 (1969)—

Astronaut Neil Armstrong
became the first man
to walk on the moon.

Sunday, July 20, 2014, 1:45-2:17 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard),
afterwards gives me ride to Los Altos Library

Dairy creamer, strawberry yogurt,
fish fillets, spinach salad, pizzas,
instant oatmeal, orange juice. Sunday, July 20, 2014, 4:12-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Theresa Bane's
"Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology" (2013) 398.21Bane

2500 beings and species
of fairy and nature spirits
from mythologies around the globe.

Sunday, July 20, 2014, 4:12-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Cathy Cobb, Monty L.Fetterolf, & Harold Goldwhite, The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged (2014) 540.112Cobb

The alchemists contributed
and refined many scientific
concepts we have today. Sunday, July 20, 2014, 4:12-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Diane Charbonneau (editor)
"Chihuly" (2013) 748.092Chihuly; page 190—
[Dale Chihuly; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2013)]; Chihuly's Chandelier at Stanford

Glass is a magical material
made with human breath, that light
goes through, and has incredible color.

Sunday, July 20, 2014, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: Richard Syrett interviews Dr. Elena Gabor (Bio, Web) "Past Lives
& Hypnotherapy" BOOK: "Home at the Tree of Life:
An Introduction to Subconscious, Ethereal Science"
(Past lives run simultaneously with our present.)

The soul is subconscious level
of the mind or awareness, and
the spirit is higher self, or
super conscious level of awareness. Sunday, July 20, 2014, 3:00-5:40 pm
Los Altos Library— Born July 21:
Saint Philip Neri (1515); Paul Julius Reuter (1816);
Sir John Gilbert (1817); Hart Crane (1899); Ernest Hemingway (1899); Marshall McLuhan (1911);
Cat Stevens (1948); Garry Trudeau (1948);
Robin Williams (1951); On July 21 (1925)—

Scopes guilty for teaching
Darwin's evolution to students
in Tennessee's "Monkey Trial".

Monday, July 21, 2014, 12:35-5:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab—
Montebello Ave Trees: Pepper Tree (Schinus molle), Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), and Red Ironbark (Eucalyptus sideroxylon are the four friends greeting me on my walk home;
inspiring poem "Four Friends on Montebello Ave"

Pepper Tree, Redwood,
Ginkgo, and Eucalyptus
greet me on this street. Monday, July 21, 2014, 7:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium
Stanford Theater Festival: Orson Welles directs "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947), starring Orson Welles,
Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders,
Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Welles made his wife
Rita Hayworth cut her long
red hair and bleached it blonde.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 12:33-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab—
Montebello Ave Trees: Pepper Tree (Schinus molle) showing bent branch with mountain-shape honoring Montebello Ave ("beautiful mountain") or compass held by the Angel in Dürer's "Melencolia I" or Blake's God creating the world in "Ancient of Days" (1794)
inspiring poem "A Pepper Tree Stops Me Cold"

I pause and pray to
the Platonic Lambda Λ—
Soul of the Universe for blessings. Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 12:33-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 22:
Emma Lazarus (1849); Edward Hopper (1882);
Gustav Hertz (1887); Alexander Calder (1898);
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898); Charles Weidman (1901); Amy Vanderbilt (1908); Bob Dole (1923);
Oscar de la Renta (1932); Louise Fletcher (1934);
Terence Stamp (1938); Events On July 22 (1933)—

Wiley Post completed
first solo flight around the world
in seven days, 18 hours, 49 minutes.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 1:31-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab—
"Ho'oponopono: The World's Most Unusual Therapist" (By Dr. Joe Vitale, Common Ground, July/August 2014, pp. 42-43); Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len healed criminally insane patients that nobody could handle by healing himself. Ho'oponopono;
Book: "Zero Limits"; Video: Dr. Hew Len (1, 2)

Nonstop cleaning to restore
our original nature (Buddha)
or blank (Shakespeare). Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 1:31-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 23:
Francesco Sforza (1401); S. H. Kress (1863);
Emil Jannings (1884); Raymond Chandler (1888);
Harry Cohn (1891); Haile Selassie I (1892);
Gloria DeHaven (1925); Anthony Kennedy (1936); Woody Harrelson (1961); Daniel Radcliffe (1989);
Events On July 23 (2009)—

Mark Buehrle of Chicago White Sox
pitched 18th perfect game in MLB,
a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay.

Thursday, July 24, 2014, 12:08-5:35 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 24:
Simon Bolivar (1783); Alexandre Dumas père (1802);
Alexander Jackson Davis (1803); Robert Graves (1895); Amelia Earhart (1897); John D. MacDonald (1916); Bella Abzug (1920); Pat Oliphant (1935);
Lynda Carter (1951); Gus Van Sant (1952);
Karl Malone (1963); Barry Bonds (1964);
Events On July 24 (1959)—

Nixon and Khrushchev
engaged in "Kitchen Debate"
on capitalism and communism. Thursday, July 24, 2014, 6:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Channing House (850 Webster Street)—
Donna Frankel's Foothill College "World Dance"
class performance: [YouTube: East Coast Swing (1);
New York, NY (1); Brazil, Brazil; La Bastringue (1);
Pata Pata (1); Troika (1); Merengue (1); Hawaiian
Hukilau (1); Hine Ma Tov (1, 2); Hong Kong: Waves;
Korobushka; 'T Smidje (1); Jiffy Mixer (1); Didn't do:
Believe; Taiwan: Yin Bin Wu Harvest Dance (1, 2)]

Watched videos of world dances
taught in class as refresher
for performance tonight.

Friday, July 25, 2014, 12:22-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: Born July 25—
Henry Knox (1750); Thomas Eakins (1844);
Arthur James Balfour (1848); Maxfield Parrish (1870); Eric Hoffer (1902); Elias Canetti (1905); Johnny Hodges (1906); Nate Thurmond (1941);
Events on July 25 (1943)—

King Victor Emmanuel proclaimed
end of Italy's alliance with Nazi
Germany in World War II. Friday, July 25, 2014, 12:22-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: — "Ho'oponopono: The World's Most Unusual Therapist" (By Dr. Joe Vitale, Common Ground, July/August 2014); Ho'oponopono; Watched & listened to 1:17:53 Video:
"He Healed the Criminally Insane in 4 years!"
Hawaiian psychologist Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len—

"I didn't heal the criminally insane
but worked on me cleaning
myself to be truly free."

Friday, July 25, 2014, 4:45-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Rengstorff Park 201 (S Rengstorff
Ave); Friend and I have Satsang under a shady tree,
reading "Ho'oponopono: The World's Most Unusual
Therapist" (By Dr. Joe Vitale, Common Ground,
July/August 2014, pp. 42-43); PB and Wei Wu Wei
helped me to see life as a mirror of my consciousness.

Squirrel with corn on the cob
and tiny sparrow joined us
in our meditation. Saturday, July 26, 2014, 1:17-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Born July 26— George Bernard Shaw (1856); Carl Gustav Jung (1875); Aldous Huxley (1894); Gracie Allen (1895); Jason Robards (1922); Stanley Kubrick (1928); Mick Jagger (1943); Dorothy Hamill (1956); Kevin Spacey (1959);
Sandra Bullock (1964); Events on July 26 (1947)—

President Truman creates
National Security Council,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and CIA."

Sunday, July 27, 2014, 3:04-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Born July 27— Hilaire Belloc (1870); Charles Vidor (1900); Leo Durocher (1905); Norman Lear (1922); Jerry Van Dyke (1931);
Bobbie Gentry (1944); Peggy Fleming (1948);
Alex Rodriguez (1964); Events on July 27 (1953)—

Truce is signed ending
three years of Korean War
between the North & South. Sunday, July 27, 2014, 10:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: George Knapp interviews Jacques F. Vallée (Bio, Web) "UFO Gatherings" BOOK: "REVELATIONS: Alien Contact and Human Deception" & Lee Spiegel (Bio, Web); United Nations July 14, 1978 Meeting on UFO

Vallée gathered 200,000
well-documented cases of UFO
sightings to be mined for research.

Monday, July 28, 2014, 12:35-5:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 28—
Beatrix Potter (1866); Charles Dillon Perrine (1867); Marcel Duchamp (1887); Rudy Vallée (1901);
Malcolm Lowry (1909); Earl Tupper (1922);
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929); Bill Bradley (1943); Sally Struthers (1948); Elizabeth Berkley (1972); Events on July 28 (1914)—

World War I began
as Austria-Hungary declared war
on Serbia & other nations followed. Monday, July 28, 2014, 7:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium
Stanford Theater Festival: Orson Welles directs
"Touch of Evil" (1958), starring Orson Welles,
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia,
Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Ray Collins;
Dennis Weaver; Marlene Dietrich; Zsa Zsa Gabor;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Film opens with a three-minute,
twenty-second tracking shot—
greatest long takes in cinema history.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 12:37-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 29—
Alexis Tocqueville (1805); Booth Tarkington (1869);
Benito Mussolini (1883); Theda Bara (1885);
Sigmund Romberg (1887); Owen Lattimore (1900);
Clara Bow (1905); Dag Hammarskjöld (1905);
Elizabeth Dole (1936); Ken Burns (1953);
Events on July 29 (1981)—

Prince Charles married
Lady Diana Spencer at
St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 12:37-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Wei Wu Wei,
Open Secret 11: Inseeing— “Identified with non-
being, you can only be a mirror. 'One must become
identified with non-being and mirror the whole, for the
truth is one and final.'” —Hsieh Ling-yün (385-453);
PB, "Notebooks" Key to the Spiritual World #186—

"The personal consciousness has no more
reality than that of a reflection in a glass
mirror, for it is Mind which illuminates it.
The personal life may be as transient as foam."

Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 12:37-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Peter Milton's
email on his latest print "Hide and Seek" (2014);
Title from William Merritt Chase's 1888 painting
(Phillips Collection); Honors John Singer Sargent's
"Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" (1882); Henry
James painting his novella "The Turn of the Screw"
[Milton liked my poem of his "Soundings" (1989)]

Milton honors his mentor
Josef Albers with shadow
from Homage to the Square. Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 12:37-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Web page on
Bamboo Trees on Ortega Avenue with 19 photos of
bamboo trees leaning to sidewalk & Pepper Tree
on Latham Street showing Platonic Lambda inside sliced-off branch; Poem: "Bamboos for Blessings"
with references to immortal Han Xiang playing his
bamboo flute & Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

Be like the hollow bamboo—
empty myself and let
wisdom flow through.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 11:10 am-12:43 pm
Rudy picked me up at home; helped friend with chores
at Hasting Square Apts on Ortega Ave; then shopped
Mountain View: Milk Pail (2585 California Street)— Green onions (33¢), asparagus (99¢/lb), blueberry (99¢/pint), mozzarella cheese (99¢/8 oz ball), Brussel sprouts (33¢/lb), red globe grapes (79¢/lb), organic zucchini (39¢/lb); Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab (1:11-9:30 pm)— Revised "Bamboos for Blessings"

Hollow bamboo photo at
Presentation Zen; bamboo flute;
and five hollow bamboos. Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 1:11-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born July 30—
Giorgio Vasari (1511); Emily Brontë (1818);
Henry Ford (1863); Vladimir Zworykin (1888);
Casey Stengel (1890); Henry Moore (1898);
Peter Bogdanovich (1939); Paul Anka (1941);
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947); Chris Mullin (1963); Richard Linklater (1960); Hilary Swank (1974);
Events on July 30 (1945)—

Japan Surrenders, End of War!
Emperor Accepts Allied Rule;
MacArthur Supreme Commander.