Haikus: March 2014

HAIKUS: March 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.

Saturday, March 1, 2014, 11:46 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Found stamps of Michelangelo, Goethe, Kepler, and
Elliptical Planetary Orbits for On the Number 37

Goethe had epiphany at 37 when
seeing the Sistine Ceiling Frescoes
that Michelangelo completed at 37. Saturday, March 1, 2014, 5:30-6:00 pm
Mountain View, Pamela Drive Backyard
Mom with daughter on apt balcony telling
friend on cellphone of my snapping photos

Loop branch on tree
next to my apartment and
tall palms glow in sunset.

Sunday, March 2, 2014, 3:00-3:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Angel cake, apple strudels,
green bell peppers, orange juice,
strawberry yogurt, Swiss cheese.

6:30-7 pm: Rudy & I met Larry Rivers and
Carol outside Sprouts and chatted for awhile.
Sunday, March 2, 2014, 8:00-9:35 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
Alfonso Cuarón directs "Gravity" (2013)
with Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris,
Paul Sharma; Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki; Music: Steven Price; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Rudy and I both rated this film a "10"

Riveting and realistic
feeling floating in space
372 miles above the earth.

Monday, March 3, 2014, 1:58-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Found postage stamps of Rossini, Verdi, Wagner,
Lohengrin, Lenin, Diderot, Wordsworth, Drake,
Samuel Johnson, Dictionary, for On Number 37

Most time spent looking for
Scott Catalogue numbers and
dates when stamps was issued. Monday, March 3, 2014, 1:58-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Ciskei #206 stamp issued May 19, 1993 honoring
Drake's Golden Hind circumnavigating the globe
was in set of 5 commemorating explorers

Under South Africa's apartheid,
Ciskei was set aside for blacks
from 1972-1994 before reincorpation.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 1:04-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Waverley poet Trudy Myrrh Reagan on
her article "Can Personal Meaning Be Derived from Science?" (Leonardo Journal, 47, Issue 1, 2014)

Vast and intricate world
revealed by science can give
artist deep personal meaning. Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 1:04-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Adding to web page On the Number 37—
Accomplishments at Age 37 by Diderot, Wordsworth,
Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Lenin, Cooper, Carnegie

Jeremy Baker's 1982 book
Tolstoy's Bicycle— good source
of what people did at a certain age.

Saturday, March 8, 2014, 12:06-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Found stamps of Michelangelo, Goethe, Kepler, and
Elliptical Planetary Orbits for On the Number 37

Goethe had epiphany at 37 when
seeing the Sistine Ceiling Frescoes
that Michelangelo completed at 37. Saturday, March 8, 2014, 12:06-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Mom with daughter on apt balcony telling
friend on cellphone of my snapping photos

Loop branch on tree
next to my apartment and
tall palms glow in sunset.

Monday, March 10, 2014, 1:21-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Lin comes up big in Rockets' win" scoring 26 points
to beat Portland Trail Blazers 118-113 in overtime
(csnhouston.com, 3-10-2014) Video: Lin's 3-pointer

Lin buried 3-point shot
to give Houston a 102-101
lead & fadeaway jumper in OT. Monday, March 10, 2014, 1:21-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Adding to web page On the Number 37—
From Jeremy Baker's Tolstoy's Bicycle (1962),
Film Accomplishments at Age 37 (page 260)—

Gregory Peck: Roman Holiday,
Edward G. Robinson: Little Caesar,
Humphrey Bogart: The Petrified Forest.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 1:04-5:11 pm
Mountain View: Rudy & I shopped at 99 Ranch
Market (1350 Grant Rd) & The Milk Pail Dairy
(2585 California St); Mountain View Post Office;
Kaiser Hospital; Tamara/Housing; Connie's car

Green onion, tomatoes,
tofu, jumbo eggs, green grapes,
Certified mail to Leslie/Remi.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Cornell President David Skorton on
"President David Skorton to lead Smithsonian Institution" (Cornell Chronicle, March 10, 2014

Cornell's 12th president
will lead the world's largest
museum and research complex.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 4:44-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
While compiling On the Number 37, learned
that at age 37, Cary Grant starred in "Suspicion"
while Gregory Peck starred in "Roman Holiday"

Best Actress Oscars went to
Joan Fontaine for Suspicion and
Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 4:44-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Epiphany while compiling On the Number 37—
Finding 37¢ stamps of dancer Martha Graham (Poster) and physicist Richard Feynman (Poster)

Feynman & Graham posters are
next to each other in the Lab—
they're both born on May 11.

Thursday, March 13, 2014, 2:52-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Meet Jonathan, St Helena's 182-year-old giant tortoise" (He's blind but his hearing is good. had
lived through 33 governors of the small island.)
(By Sally Kettle, BBC News, 3-12-2014)

At 182 years old,
this giant tortoise may be
the oldest living land creature.
Thursday, March 13, 2014, 2:52-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Scott Specialized Catalogue of U.S. Stamps 2013
helps in finding 37¢ stamps: Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Dr. Seuss, Buckminister Fuller, Snow White, Pinocchio, Orion Constellation

Without stamp catalogue
more time needed to find
date when stamps were issued.

Friday, March 14, 2014, 1:49-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
"How America celebrates Pi Day"
(By Elizabeth Landau, CNN Tech, 3-14-2014)

Princeton Public Library awards $314.15
to 7-13-year olds memorizing
most digits of π on Pi Day.
Friday, March 14, 2014, 1:49-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Re-sizing stamps, reducing texts, rearranging sections
so On the Number 37 fits 9 pages without cropping

Updating Numbers page
with links to 4, 23,
37, and 90.

Saturday, March 15, 2014, 2:27-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
Paradox Solved? How Information Can Escape from a Black Hole (The black hole has a huge remnant, a Planck star, releasing the information into space)
(By Katia Moskvitch, Yahoo! News, 3-14-2014)

Information released in
extremely bright events
called gamma-ray bursts. Saturday, March 15, 2014, 2:27-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
OP-ED: The Rise of Anti-Capitalism (Book publishers and newspapers unprofitable as consumers share
information, audio, video and text free on the web.)
(By Jeremy Rifkin, NY Times, 3-16-2014)

Technological revolution
making goods and services
abundant and nearly free.

Sunday, March 16, 2014, 3:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Rudy picked up Connie at Santa
Clara Kaiser Hospital where she stayed for 6 days
because of stomach pains & low sodium electrolytes

Gave Connie this week's Schedule
of Coast-to-Coast.am interviews
and San Jose Mercury News papers. Sunday, March 16, 2014, 4:45-6:05 pm
Mountain View: Rudy & I shopped for groceries
at Milk Pail Market (2585 California Street)
and Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)

Aspargus, blueberries,
green grapes, carrots, oatmeal,
dairy creamer, pizza, spring water.

Monday, March 17, 2014, 10:01-10:06 am
KDFC 104.0 FM: Mícéal O'Rourke plays piano to
George Frederick Pinto's “Rondo on an Irish Air 'Cory Owen'” as I wake up this morning on
Saint Patrick's Day; CD, Listen

Could dance Irish jig to
Pinto's Rondo in G major
on this St. Patrick's Day. Monday, March 17, 2014, 6:27-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Beyond Guinness: Irish software companies pour into Silicon Valley" (By Tom McEnery, San Jose Mayor 1983-1990, SJ Mercury News, 3-17-2014)

Martin Murphy crossed
the Sierras in 1844
and founded Sunnyvale.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 4:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Paulson Park MidPen Housing;
Gave Tamara cashier checks for security deposit
and rent for March 19-31 (Wells Fargo gave me free
cashier checks instead of $10 charge since I've been a client since 1985); signed dozen documents for one-bedroom apt; received two house keys & mailbox key

Chanted blessings when
friend helped me move bags
of books to new apartment.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 7:25-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests (Andrei Linde: "Every experiment that brings better credence to inflationary theory hints that the multiverse is real.")
(By Miriam Kramer, Yahoo! News, 3-19-2014)

Rees and Davies bet their dog
that the multiverse is true
but Linde bets his life!

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 10:01-10:11 am
KDFC 104.0 FM: Janine Jansen plays violin to
Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons: Spring in E Op. 8" for the first day of Spring; CD, YouTube: Jansen;
Patrick McDonnell's Comics Mutts (3-20-2014)

Vivaldi's Spring playing
on radio and Mutts comics
tell me "It's Spring!" today. Thursday, March 20, 2014, 6:31-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
OP-ED: What does it mean to be cool? (Comment on Yiren Lu's 3-16 article "Trouble in Start-Up Land";
(By Scott Herhold, SJ Mercury News, 3-20-2014)

Coolest thing in life
is to determine our own path
Pick something that will last beyond you.

Friday, March 21, 2014, 12:00-1:00 pm
OP-ED: Technology is not wisdom (Speeding up ignorance is not the same as imparting wisdom.
Teach inductive reasoning than handing out iPads.)
(Victor Davis Hanson, SJ Mercury News, 3-21-2014)

Smart machines are simply
pumps delivering knowledge,
not knowledge itself. Friday, March 21, 2014, 5:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Milk Pail—
Navel oranges 19¢/lb; blueberries $1 @ 6 oz;
asparagus 99¢/lb; and move 18 bags of books,
magazines, and printouts to my new apartment

Was 128 on the waiting list,
now Ginzton Terrace Apartments
has a one-bedroom apt available.

Saturday, March 22, 2014, 3:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
SPORTS: Oakland A's incorporate yoga into their daily routine (Yoga instructor Katherine Roberts is in
her 3rd spring training leading A's in yoga stretches.)
(By John Hickey, SJ Mercury News, 3-21-2014

Not a single ad in the Yellow Pages
when learning Yoga from Tony in 1968—
now there are yoga studios everywhere. Saturday, March 22, 2014, 3:00-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
SPORTS: Oakland A's incorporate yoga into their daily routine (A's Catcher Stephen Vogt: "With yoga,
it's easier for me to get loose and to stay flexible.)
(By John Hickey, SJ Mercury News, 3-21-2014

Anthony told me his eyes
popped seeing headline of
"Yogi Berra" in the Daily News!

Monday, March 24, 2014, 12:01-12:18 am
KDFC 104.0 FM: James Conlon conducts Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Franz Liszt's "Les Preludes S 97" (1856); CD (Review), (YouTube: Valery Gergiev, Thielemann, Mitropoulos)

"What else is our life but a series of preludes
to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn
note of which is intoned by Death?" Monday, March 24, 2014, 5:45-7:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend helps me move 20 bags
of books, printouts, clothing, kitchen utensils
to new apartment at MidPen Housing; arranged books in walk-in closet; space not as large as old apt

Found another dolly
to move bags of books
filling up walk-in closet.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 2:30-3:12 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at
Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave) and then to new apt
at MidPen Housing (3:45-6:45 pm) moving 20 bags
of books, papers, & kitchen utensils; luckily showers
stopped so didn't have to cover books; two girls
Sophia & Adrianna greeted me during my moving.

Instant oatmeal, yogurt,
grilled salmon and tilapia,
pizza, bell peppers, orange juice.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 7:06-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"SCIENCE: Big Bang tremors may back physicist's universe-birth theory" (In 1986, Andrei Linde developed the theory of "eternal chaotic inflation"
which creates a self-reproducing many universes.)
(By Lisa M. Krieger, SJ Mercury News, 3-25-2014)

In the beginning, Nothing.
Then in an explosive instant—
Everything— this universe & more.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 3:00-6:10 pm
Mountain View: Friend helps me move to new apt
at MidPen Housing; moved 25 bags of books, papers,
& folders; Prayer for no rain during moving books

Prayer to White Buffalo &
Medicine Man Red Hawk
for sunshine while moving.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 6:32-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opinionator: DRAFT— Keep It Short
(By Daniel Heitman, NY Times, 3-24-2014)

Brevity works since
the time that an audience
is willing to spend with you.

Monday, March 31, 2014, 2:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Gave apartment manager Leslie
pool key; will return apartment key & mailbox key
in an envelope after cleaning my apartment;
Wrote 50 poems living here in last 27 months

Will miss this apartment
with lovely backyard garden
and feminine street names.
Monday, March 31, 2014, 5:30-10:22 pm
Mountain View: Friend cleaned spots on carpet with
distilled water, kitchen & bathroom floors, while I
vacuumed living room & bedroom; cleaned walls,
windows & doors; moved frozen food from freezer

Prayer to Great Spirit
for blessing me and new
tenants moving in here.

Saturday, March 1, 2014, 11:46 am-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation Found stamps of Michelangelo, Goethe, Kepler, and Elliptical Planetary Orbits for On the Number 37 Goethe had epiphany at 37 when seeing the Sistine Ceiling Frescoes that Michelangelo completed at 37.	Saturday, March 1, 2014, 5:30-6:00 pm Mountain View, Pamela Drive Backyard Mom with daughter on apt balcony telling friend on cellphone of my snapping photos Loop branch on tree next to my apartment and tall palms glow in sunset.
Sunday, March 2, 2014, 3:00-3:45 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue) Angel cake, apple strudels, green bell peppers, orange juice, strawberry yogurt, Swiss cheese. 6:30-7 pm: Rudy & I met Larry Rivers and Carol outside Sprouts and chatted for awhile.	Sunday, March 2, 2014, 8:00-9:35 pm Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium; Alfonso Cuarón directs "Gravity" (2013) with Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Paul Sharma; Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki; Music: Steven Price; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Rudy and I both rated this film a "10" Riveting and realistic feeling floating in space 372 miles above the earth.
Monday, March 3, 2014, 1:58-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Found postage stamps of Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Lohengrin, Lenin, Diderot, Wordsworth, Drake, Samuel Johnson, Dictionary, for On Number 37 Most time spent looking for Scott Catalogue numbers and dates when stamps was issued.	Monday, March 3, 2014, 1:58-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Ciskei #206 stamp issued May 19, 1993 honoring Drake's Golden Hind circumnavigating the globe was in set of 5 commemorating explorers Under South Africa's apartheid, Ciskei was set aside for blacks from 1972-1994 before reincorpation.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 1:04-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Email from Waverley poet Trudy Myrrh Reagan on her article "Can Personal Meaning Be Derived from Science?" (Leonardo Journal, 47, Issue 1, 2014) Vast and intricate world revealed by science can give artist deep personal meaning.	Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 1:04-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Adding to web page On the Number 37— Accomplishments at Age 37 by Diderot, Wordsworth, Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Lenin, Cooper, Carnegie Jeremy Baker's 1982 book Tolstoy's Bicycle— good source of what people did at a certain age.
Saturday, March 8, 2014, 12:06-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation Found stamps of Michelangelo, Goethe, Kepler, and Elliptical Planetary Orbits for On the Number 37 Goethe had epiphany at 37 when seeing the Sistine Ceiling Frescoes that Michelangelo completed at 37.	Saturday, March 8, 2014, 12:06-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation Mom with daughter on apt balcony telling friend on cellphone of my snapping photos Loop branch on tree next to my apartment and tall palms glow in sunset.
Monday, March 10, 2014, 1:21-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Lin comes up big in Rockets' win" scoring 26 points to beat Portland Trail Blazers 118-113 in overtime (csnhouston.com, 3-10-2014) Video: Lin's 3-pointer Lin buried 3-point shot to give Houston a 102-101 lead & fadeaway jumper in OT.	Monday, March 10, 2014, 1:21-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Adding to web page On the Number 37— From Jeremy Baker's Tolstoy's Bicycle (1962), Film Accomplishments at Age 37 (page 260)— Gregory Peck: Roman Holiday, Edward G. Robinson: Little Caesar, Humphrey Bogart: The Petrified Forest.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 1:04-5:11 pm Mountain View: Rudy & I shopped at 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Rd) & The Milk Pail Dairy (2585 California St); Mountain View Post Office; Kaiser Hospital; Tamara/Housing; Connie's car Green onion, tomatoes, tofu, jumbo eggs, green grapes, Certified mail to Leslie/Remi.	Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:30-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Email from Cornell President David Skorton on "President David Skorton to lead Smithsonian Institution" (Cornell Chronicle, March 10, 2014 Cornell's 12th president will lead the world's largest museum and research complex.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 4:44-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab While compiling On the Number 37, learned that at age 37, Cary Grant starred in "Suspicion" while Gregory Peck starred in "Roman Holiday" Best Actress Oscars went to Joan Fontaine for Suspicion and Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday.	Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 4:44-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Epiphany while compiling On the Number 37— Finding 37¢ stamps of dancer Martha Graham (Poster) and physicist Richard Feynman (Poster) Feynman & Graham posters are next to each other in the Lab— they're both born on May 11.
Thursday, March 13, 2014, 2:52-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Meet Jonathan, St Helena's 182-year-old giant tortoise" (He's blind but his hearing is good. had lived through 33 governors of the small island.) (By Sally Kettle, BBC News, 3-12-2014) At 182 years old, this giant tortoise may be the oldest living land creature.	Thursday, March 13, 2014, 2:52-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Scott Specialized Catalogue of U.S. Stamps 2013 helps in finding 37¢ stamps: Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Dr. Seuss, Buckminister Fuller, Snow White, Pinocchio, Orion Constellation Without stamp catalogue more time needed to find date when stamps were issued.
Friday, March 14, 2014, 1:49-8:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center "How America celebrates Pi Day" (By Elizabeth Landau, CNN Tech, 3-14-2014) Princeton Public Library awards $314.15 to 7-13-year olds memorizing most digits of π on Pi Day.	Friday, March 14, 2014, 1:49-8:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation Re-sizing stamps, reducing texts, rearranging sections so On the Number 37 fits 9 pages without cropping Updating Numbers page with links to 4, 23, 37, and 90.
Saturday, March 15, 2014, 2:27-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center Paradox Solved? How Information Can Escape from a Black Hole (The black hole has a huge remnant, a Planck star, releasing the information into space) (By Katia Moskvitch, Yahoo! News, 3-14-2014) Information released in extremely bright events called gamma-ray bursts.	Saturday, March 15, 2014, 2:27-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation OP-ED: The Rise of Anti-Capitalism (Book publishers and newspapers unprofitable as consumers share information, audio, video and text free on the web.) (By Jeremy Rifkin, NY Times, 3-16-2014) Technological revolution making goods and services abundant and nearly free.
Sunday, March 16, 2014, 3:00-4:00 pm Mountain View: Rudy picked up Connie at Santa Clara Kaiser Hospital where she stayed for 6 days because of stomach pains & low sodium electrolytes Gave Connie this week's Schedule of Coast-to-Coast.am interviews and San Jose Mercury News papers.	Sunday, March 16, 2014, 4:45-6:05 pm Mountain View: Rudy & I shopped for groceries at Milk Pail Market (2585 California Street) and Safeway (645 San Antonio Road) Aspargus, blueberries, green grapes, carrots, oatmeal, dairy creamer, pizza, spring water.
Monday, March 17, 2014, 10:01-10:06 am KDFC 104.0 FM: Mícéal O'Rourke plays piano to George Frederick Pinto's “Rondo on an Irish Air 'Cory Owen'” as I wake up this morning on Saint Patrick's Day; CD, Listen Could dance Irish jig to Pinto's Rondo in G major on this St. Patrick's Day.	Monday, March 17, 2014, 6:27-9:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Beyond Guinness: Irish software companies pour into Silicon Valley" (By Tom McEnery, San Jose Mayor 1983-1990, SJ Mercury News, 3-17-2014) Martin Murphy crossed the Sierras in 1844 and founded Sunnyvale.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 4:00-6:30 pm Mountain View: Paulson Park MidPen Housing; Gave Tamara cashier checks for security deposit and rent for March 19-31 (Wells Fargo gave me free cashier checks instead of $10 charge since I've been a client since 1985); signed dozen documents for one-bedroom apt; received two house keys & mailbox key Chanted blessings when friend helped me move bags of books to new apartment.	Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 7:25-9:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests (Andrei Linde: "Every experiment that brings better credence to inflationary theory hints that the multiverse is real.") (By Miriam Kramer, Yahoo! News, 3-19-2014) Rees and Davies bet their dog that the multiverse is true but Linde bets his life!
Thursday, March 20, 2014, 10:01-10:11 am KDFC 104.0 FM: Janine Jansen plays violin to Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons: Spring in E Op. 8" for the first day of Spring; CD, YouTube: Jansen; Patrick McDonnell's Comics Mutts (3-20-2014) Vivaldi's Spring playing on radio and Mutts comics tell me "It's Spring!" today.	Thursday, March 20, 2014, 6:31-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab OP-ED: What does it mean to be cool? (Comment on Yiren Lu's 3-16 article "Trouble in Start-Up Land"; (By Scott Herhold, SJ Mercury News, 3-20-2014) Coolest thing in life is to determine our own path Pick something that will last beyond you.
Friday, March 21, 2014, 12:00-1:00 pm OP-ED: Technology is not wisdom (Speeding up ignorance is not the same as imparting wisdom. Teach inductive reasoning than handing out iPads.) (Victor Davis Hanson, SJ Mercury News, 3-21-2014) Smart machines are simply pumps delivering knowledge, not knowledge itself.	Friday, March 21, 2014, 5:00-7:00 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me to Milk Pail— Navel oranges 19¢/lb; blueberries $1 @ 6 oz; asparagus 99¢/lb; and move 18 bags of books, magazines, and printouts to my new apartment Was 128 on the waiting list, now Ginzton Terrace Apartments has a one-bedroom apt available.
Saturday, March 22, 2014, 3:00-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center SPORTS: Oakland A's incorporate yoga into their daily routine (Yoga instructor Katherine Roberts is in her 3rd spring training leading A's in yoga stretches.) (By John Hickey, SJ Mercury News, 3-21-2014 Not a single ad in the Yellow Pages when learning Yoga from Tony in 1968— now there are yoga studios everywhere.	Saturday, March 22, 2014, 3:00-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation SPORTS: Oakland A's incorporate yoga into their daily routine (A's Catcher Stephen Vogt: "With yoga, it's easier for me to get loose and to stay flexible.) (By John Hickey, SJ Mercury News, 3-21-2014 Anthony told me his eyes popped seeing headline of "Yogi Berra" in the Daily News!
Monday, March 24, 2014, 12:01-12:18 am KDFC 104.0 FM: James Conlon conducts Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Franz Liszt's "Les Preludes S 97" (1856); CD (Review), (YouTube: Valery Gergiev, Thielemann, Mitropoulos) "What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn note of which is intoned by Death?"	Monday, March 24, 2014, 5:45-7:45 pm Mountain View: Friend helps me move 20 bags of books, printouts, clothing, kitchen utensils to new apartment at MidPen Housing; arranged books in walk-in closet; space not as large as old apt Found another dolly to move bags of books filling up walk-in closet.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 2:30-3:12 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave) and then to new apt at MidPen Housing (3:45-6:45 pm) moving 20 bags of books, papers, & kitchen utensils; luckily showers stopped so didn't have to cover books; two girls Sophia & Adrianna greeted me during my moving. Instant oatmeal, yogurt, grilled salmon and tilapia, pizza, bell peppers, orange juice.	Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 7:06-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "SCIENCE: Big Bang tremors may back physicist's universe-birth theory" (In 1986, Andrei Linde developed the theory of "eternal chaotic inflation" which creates a self-reproducing many universes.) (By Lisa M. Krieger, SJ Mercury News, 3-25-2014) In the beginning, Nothing. Then in an explosive instant— Everything— this universe & more.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 3:00-6:10 pm Mountain View: Friend helps me move to new apt at MidPen Housing; moved 25 bags of books, papers, & folders; Prayer for no rain during moving books Prayer to White Buffalo & Medicine Man Red Hawk for sunshine while moving.	Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 6:32-9:30 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Opinionator: DRAFT— Keep It Short (By Daniel Heitman, NY Times, 3-24-2014) Brevity works since the time that an audience is willing to spend with you.
Monday, March 31, 2014, 2:00-5:00 pm Mountain View: Gave apartment manager Leslie pool key; will return apartment key & mailbox key in an envelope after cleaning my apartment; Wrote 50 poems living here in last 27 months Will miss this apartment with lovely backyard garden and feminine street names.	Monday, March 31, 2014, 5:30-10:22 pm Mountain View: Friend cleaned spots on carpet with distilled water, kitchen & bathroom floors, while I vacuumed living room & bedroom; cleaned walls, windows & doors; moved frozen food from freezer Prayer to Great Spirit for blessing me and new tenants moving in here.