Haikus: November 2014

HAIKUS: November 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, November 1, 2014, 12:31-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Born on November 1: Antonio Canova (1757);
Benjamin Guinness (1798); Crawford Long (1815);
William Merritt Chase (1849); Stephen Crane 1871;
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878); Sholem Asch (1880);
Grantland Rice (1880); Alfred Wegener (1880);
Anton Flettner (1885); Sakutaro Hagiwara 1886;
Sir Gavin de Beer (1899); Nordahl B. Grieg (1902);
Betsy Palmer (1926); Gary Player (1935);
Fernando Valenzuela (1960); Coco Crisp (1979);
Events on November 1: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling in Rome opens to public (1512); H-bomb (1952)—

United States exploded
first hydrogen bomb at
Eniwetok in Marshall Islands. Saturday, November 1, 2014, 12:31-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Born on November 2: Jean-Baptiste Chardin (1699);
Daniel Boone (1734); Carl von Dittersdorf (1739);
Marie-Antoinette (1755); James Knox Polk (1795);
George Boole (1815); Georges Sorel (1847);
Maurice Blondel (1861); Warren G. Harding (1865);
Harlow Shapley (1885); Luchino Visconti (1906);
Burt Lancaster (1913); Johnny Vander Meer (1914);
Sidney Luft (1915); Ann Rutherford (1920);
Melvin Schwartz (1932); Ken Rosewall (1934);
Shere Hite (1942); Stefanie Powers (1942);
Willie McGee (1958); Events November 2 (1976)—

Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford
becoming first U.S. President from
the Deep South since the Civil War.

Sunday, November 2, 2014, 2:00-2:41 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard),
afterwards gives me ride to Los Altos Library

Almond-coconut milk,
red bell peppers, spinach,
dairy creamers, supreme pizzas,
strawberry yogurt, and orange juice. Sunday, November 2, 2014, 4:51-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Returned William Wiser's
"The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s" 944.36Wiser; Robert Shea & R.A. Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1983) SFSheaRobert; pp. 218-219— Karl Haushofer

Hitler seized power shortly
after Haushofer introduced him
to Munich Illuminati Lodge in 1923 (film).

Sunday, November 2, 2014, 4:51-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Mark Adams, "Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time" (2012) 985.37Adams ($16 for $3)

Author retraced 1911
journey of Hiram Bingham,
when he discovered Machu Picchu. Sunday, November 2, 2014, 4:51-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Books for Sale Shelves:
Kevin Kelly, "What Technology Wants" (2010) 303.483Kelly ($27.95 for $2.00)

Technology is a living force
expanding our potential if
we can discern what it wants.

Sunday, November 2, 2014, 4:51-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Books for Sale: Oscar Ogg
"The 26 Letters" (1948) (Bought $14.95 for $2)

History of the alphabet
traced through the 26 letters
from beginning to end. Sunday, November 2, 2014, 4:51-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Adam Hart-Davis, "The Book of Time" (2011) 529.7HartDav; ($29.95 for $3)

The secrets of time—
how it works and
how we measure it.

Monday, November 3, 2014, 1:35-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Born November 3:
Lucan (39 A.D.); Benvenuto Cellini (1500);
Annibale Carracci (1560); Stephen Austin (1793);
William Cullen Bryant (1794); Karl Baedeker (1801);
Vincenzo Bellini (1801); Marcelino Menéndez (1856); William George Barker (1894); Leopold III (1901);
André Malraux (1901); Walker Evans (1903);
James Reston (1909); Bob Feller (1918);
Charles Bronson (1921); Monica Vitti (1931);
Amartya Sen (1933); Roy Emerson (1936);
Larry Holmes (1949); Anna Wintour (1949);
Kate Capshaw (1953); Colin Kaepernick (1987);
Events on November 3 (1936)—

President Franklin D. Roosevelt
re-elected in a landslide over
Republican Alfred M. Landon. Monday, November 3, 2014, 1:35-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Born November 4:
Guido Reni (1575); Thomas Johnson (1732);
James Douglas (1837); George E. Moore (1873);
Charles Despiau (1874); James E. Fraser (1876);
Will Rogers (1879); Harry George Ferguson (1884);
Carlos Garcia (1896); Walter Cronkite (1916);
Art Carney (1918); Martin Balsam (1919);
Freddy Heineken (1923); Dick Groat (1930);
Doris Roberts (1930); C. K. Williams (1936);
Matthew McConaughey (1969); Events November 4:
Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the U.S. as country's first black president (2008);
King Tutankhamen's tomb discovered (1922)—

Entrance to King Tutankhamen's
tomb was discovered in Egypt
by archaeologist Howard Carter.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 12:50-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Notes to Poem: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin— Biblical citations on patience may be found in Galatians 5:22: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,"; Psalm 37:7: "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him."; Lamentations 3:25: "The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him." Linus waiting for The Great Pumpkin's coming on Halloween is like waiting for the Bethlehem Christmas Star; Also 1919 poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats—

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand...
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 12:50-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Notes to Poem: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin— Michael Koresky's essay: In the climatic scene of 1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (Video), Linus is on the school auditorium stage, with a single spotlight shone on him. Linus reminds his schoolmates about the true origins and meaning of Christmas, quoting from Luke 2:11:
"For unto you this day is born a savior, which is Christ the Lord." It's truly a transcendent scene, reinstating the spiritual awareness in a godless commercialzed world of aluminum Christmas trees.

Linus is the most faithful
among the children in Peanuts
at Halloween and Christmas time.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 10:10-10:17 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts
Jean Sibelius, Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1 (1904)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Karajan, Paul Barton, piano)

Sick mother awakes from bed
and dance slowly to music
before Death knocks on door. Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 12:41-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: "A Writer Whose Pen Never Rests, Even Facing Death" (Clive James)
(By Steven Erlanger, NY Times, 11-1-2014)

"The voices who speak to me now,
here at the ending of my life,
are mainly poets."

Thursday, November 6, 2014, 12:15-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Notes to Poem: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin— Patient lovers
who waited for their soul mates: Trisan & Iseult,
Dante & Beatrice, Héloïse & Abélard

True love is a long-maturing
process like fine wine
needing time for aging. Thursday, November 6, 2014, 12:15-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Notes to Poem: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin— Patience quotes:
Anthony Damiani, Paul Brunton, Wei Wu Wei, Swami Chinmayananda, Sivaya Subramuniya, Seung Sahn

Bodhisattva vow—
to end suffering & enlighten
others lifetime after lifetime.

Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:50-9:05 pm
Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friend's House)
Waverley Writers Poetry: Elizabeth Chapman reads
"Fall Classics" (after Giants beat Royals 10/29/2014);
Poem broadcast on KNBR 680 AM with Marty Lurie

Giants win third World Series
in five years. It wasn't possible
but it happened. Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:50-9:05 pm
Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friend's House)
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading: Read poems inspired by comic strips, Autumn Equinox and Halloween; Ride home with Gene Lee

I read two poems tonight:
"Autumn Leaves" and
"Waiting for the Great Pumpkin".

Saturday, November 8, 2014, 1:16-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Subramuniya's "Merging with Siva" (1999)—
To get Lesson 363: Blossoming of Devotion, p. 877, need to type 363 in "Get My Lessorn" Box

The devotee learns patience.
He learns to wait for proper
timing of things in his life. Saturday, November 8, 2014, 1:16-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Subramuniya's "Merging with Siva" (1999)— From
Index of book, found quotes on patience, p. 866—
"We want illumination, and we want it now."

"We must take one step
and then another. There are
no shortcuts to enlightenment."

Sunday, November 9, 2014, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: Jim Church interviews Scott Wolter (Bio, Web) "America Unearthed"; BOOKS: "The Kensington Rune Stone"; "Hooked X: Key to Secret History of North America"

Davy Crockett survived
the Alamo via help
from the Freemasons. Sunday, November 9, 2014, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: Jim Church interviews Peter Levenda (Bio, Web) "The Nazi Diaspora"; BOOKS: "Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult"; "Hitler Legacy"

Nazis went underground
after WW II and is funding
terroism like Al Qaeda & ISIS.

Monday, November 10, 2014, 5:45-9:00 pm,
Los Altos Library— Robert Hendrickson, QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins (1997) R422.03Hendric2008 ($4), p. 389— knock on wood:

Pagan practice of rapping on trees
to ask for protection from friendly spirits
who were believed to reside inside. Monday, November 10, 2014, 5:45-9:00 pm,
Los Altos Library— Shirley MacLaine, The Camino:
A Journey of the Spirit (2001) 791.4302MacLain; ($13.95 for $1.00); Conclusion on p. 307—

We each create it all.
The absence of evidence
does not mean the evidence of absence.

Monday, November 10, 2014, 5:45-9:00 pm,
Los Altos Library— George Victor, "Hitler: The Pathology of Evil" (2000) 943.086HitlerVictor,
p. 96: "Exhibiting Charisma"—

Hitler didn't heal individuals.
His grander claim was that
he was healing the entire nation. Monday, November 10, 2014, 5:45-9:00 pm,
Los Altos Library— George Victor, "Hitler: The Pathology of Evil" (2000) 943.086HitlerVictor,
p. 98: According to Thomas Mann—

"Intellectuals welcomed Nazism
as the rebirth of mystic powers
of life and of the soul of the people."

Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 12:58-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Took photos of Pepper Tree at Avalon Towers in Mountain View
(1, 2, 3, 4) to contrast July photos of "The Soul" exposed for poem "The Soul Must Remain Hidden"

"The Soul must remain hidden"—
like roots supporting the trees,
like sap nourishing the leaves.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 12:58-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: "Centre" images—
Solar System, Atomic Nucleus, Chartres Labyrinth, Mêm-an-Tol Circle Stone, Strasbourg Rose Window, Notre Dame Rose Window, Milk Hill UK Crop Circle

All creation begins
at the centre because
that's where the Soul abides.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 11:45 am-12:13 pm
Mountain View: Rudy picks me up at my apartment
(11 am), bring newspapers to friend (Ortega Drive),
shopped at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road)

Walnuts, wheat germ, cheddar cheese,
green seedless grapes, blackberries,
Black Forest ham, Roma tomatoes. Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 5:00-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Revised poem
"Why Creation Begins at the Centre?" inspired by Creative Labs logo from Coyote Creek hike

Λ in CREΛTIVE Labs logo
struck me like lightning
out of the blue.

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 12:27-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Baby elephant survives 14 attacking lions"
(Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com, 11-11-2014) web page

One-year-old elephant in Zambia
survives 14 attacking lions—
They're calling him Hercules. Thursday, November 13, 2014, 12:27-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Wrote poem
"A Baby Elephant's Tale " inspired by Video
of one-year old baby elephant fending off 14 lions

When I'm old and gray with grandchildren
by my side, I'll show them grandpa's scars
and tell them my adventure when I was One.

Friday, November 14, 2014, 9:38-9:47 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Cellist Mischa Maisky plays
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, "Andante Cantabile",
String Quartet #1 in D, Op. 11, (1871); Listen, CD,
(YouTube: Yo-Yo Ma, Han Na Chang, Jian Wang,
Borodin Quartet, Mstislav Rostropovich)

Tolstoy cried on hearing it.
Helen Keller asked string quartet
to play it as she put her hand on table. Friday, November 14, 2014, 3:12-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
After listening to Zoellner Quartet play "Andante Cantabile" while she held her fingertips lightly on a resonant tabletop to sense the musical vibrations, Helen Keller wrote in "Musician" April 1917, p. 303:

"Notes laugh & kiss & sigh & melt together...
the violins sing of lovely things—
woods and streams and sun-kissed hills."

Saturday, November 15, 2014, 12:32-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed William Dietrich's "Blood of the Reich" on
Nazis interested in magic wand, or wizard's staff
with magical powers" & Lawrence Sutin's biography
"Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley"

Alan Bennett constructed
a magic wand out of a long
"lustre" or glass prism. Saturday, November 15, 2014, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: Richard Syrett
interviews Richard Alan Miller (Biography, Web)
"Mind Powers"; BOOKS: "Power Tools For the 21st Century"; "ESP Induction Through Forms of Self-hypnosis"; Antarctica cavern had clouds that rained

Found mile high cavern
in Antarctica and Nazi
submarine base in disarray.

Sunday, November 16, 2014, 3:00-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard),
afterwards gives me ride to Los Altos Library
to check out Cirlot's "A Dictionary of Symbols"

Almond-coconut milk,
mango & raspberry yogurts,
supreme pizza & orange juice. Sunday, November 16, 2014, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: George Knapp interviews Jim Marrs (Bio, Web) "Hidden History"; BOOKS: "Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?"; "Rule by Secrecy"

Sumerian lore tells
ETs manipulated DNA
to create modern man.

Monday, November 17, 2014, 1:04-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
INNOVATIONS ISSUE: Welcome to the Failure Age!
(Down the block from Yahoo is a 27,000-square-foot warehouse of Weird Stuff, a 21-person company that buys the office detritus that start-ups no longer want.) (By Adam Davidson, NY Times, 11-16-2014)

18-year old William Henry Perkin
discovered purple dye
by accident in 1856.
Monday, November 17, 2014, 1:04-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Typing more references to Centre Symbolism:
J.E. Cirlot "A Dictionary of Symbols" (1971)
(Los Altos Library: 398.303Cirlot1971), pp. 40-42;
Emma Jung & Marie-Louise von Franz, "The Grail Legend" (1986); p. 99— Jesus as centre of mandala

Circumference to centre—
from multiplicity to unity,
from time to timelessness.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 12:02-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Has technology forced us to give up introspection, silence?" (Book Review of Michael Harris, "The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection") (Richard Asa, Mercury News, 11-16-2014); original: Chicago Tribune, 9-30-2014

Constant connection
reduces reflection,
art, and innovation.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 12:02-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Typing more references to Centre Symbolism:
Six citations of centro (center) in Dante's Paradiso: 10.65, 13.51, 14.1 (2), 21.80, 28.51; Wei Wu Wei's insights on centre from "Open Secret" (1965), "Tenth Man" (1966), & "Posthumous Pieces" (1968) Ch. 10:

Centre of infinity
is in all "places"—
and that is what I am.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 12:34-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Marzulli 11/13/2014 Images" on 6-fingered giants from "Giants & the Nephilim talk; Rudy tells me Jewish folklore of Golem magically created from inanimate matter by Rabbi Loew of Prague

Prague's Old New Synagogue
has the Golem's body
in its attic's genizah.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 12:34-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Typing more references to Centre Symbolism:
Master Subramuniya's "Merging with Siva" (1999),
Lesson 108: Realization Is the Key: pp. 226-227— What does it mean to "get centered" & "be centered"?

What is this center?—
Well, it's like the inside
of an empty glass.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 12:34-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Formatted 3 photos of Pragues' Old New Synagogue
for Platonic Lambda (1, 2, 3) from Google Images
(1, 2, 3); (During WW II, Nazis tried to get Golem)

Prague's Old New Synagogue
shaped like Platonic Lambda Λ—
"Soul of the Universe".
Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 12:34-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Typing more references to Centre Symbolism:
Paul Brunton's "Notebooks" (1984-1988)
have 296 paras on "Centre"; (Para #4126)

"We who live in the world's fastest
moving epoch have to keep hold of
our inner still centre all the more."

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 12:44-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
M.C. Richards (1916-1999) (*), "Centering in Pottery,
Poetry, and the Person" (1964); "Crossing Point"—
Quote: "Only with the inner eye of imagination
can we see inner forms of Being and Becoming."

In this lifeless-looking seed
there is a germinating center,
totally alive and totally invisible. Thursday, November 20, 2014, 12:44-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Typing more references to Centre Symbolism:
Paul Brunton's "Notebooks" (1984-1988)
have 296 paras on "Centre"; Selected 64
favorite insights from listings; (Para #27548)

"There is a centre
in every one's Self
which is divine and radiant."

Friday, November 21, 2014, 7:30-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Victor Fleming directs
"Gone With The Wind" (1939) with Clark Gable,
Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland,
Hattie McDaniel, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O' Neil,
Howard Hickman, Ona Munson, Cammie King;
Laura Hope Crews, Harry Davenport, Butterfly McQueen; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7); Screen Tests; Fun Facts

First film to win 8 Oscars
including Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress. Friday, November 21, 2014, 7:30-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre honors 75th anniversary of Victor Fleming's "Gone With The Wind" (1939) with daily
screening for two weeks (November 7-21, 2014);
On last day, patrons lined up around the block
on University Ave, Palo Alto to see Clark Gable,
Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland,
Hattie McDaniel, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O' Neil
in "Gone With The Wind"; Still Photos (1, 2, 3, 4)

Most aesthetic scene in film—
Dolly shot of giant oak silhouette
with Tara estate in the background.

Saturday, November 22, 2014, 11:42 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Images for Notes: Why Creation Begins at the Centre?
Solar System; Electrons around Atomic Nucleus;
Black Hole at Center of Milky Way; Big Bang

Electrons orbiting atomic nucleus
is like nine planets circling the Sun
with galaxies going out from Big Bang. Saturday, November 22, 2014, 11:42 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Images for Notes: Why Creation Begins at the Centre?
Medieval manuscripts: God the Geometer (1, 2, 3);
Soul as Sun's symbol with point in center of circle

All creation begins
at the centre because
that is where the Soul abides.

Sunday, November 23, 2014, 11:42-11:53 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Matthias Bamert conducts
John Marsh, Symphony #8 in G Major (1778)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Symphony #7); Born 1752,
4 years before Mozart; known as the "British Mozart"

Marsh composed 350 works,
was an attorney & astronomer,
wrote 37 volumes journals on British life. Sunday, November 23, 2014, 1:50-2:50 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard),
afterwards gives me ride to Los Altos Library

Nova smoked salmon,
bananas, salad mix, yogurt,
crab meat, chunk pineapples,
French fried onions, dairy creamers.

Sunday, November 23, 2014, 4:23-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (2000) 529.7Gleick ($16.95 for $1), p. 277— Queen to Alice:

"Now, here, you see,
it takes all the running you can do,
to keep in the same place." Sunday, November 23, 2014, 4:23-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Book Sale: Michael Saylor,
The Mobile Wave (2012) 303.4834Saylor;
($25.99 for $3.00); Conclusion on p. 237—

Mobile Technology is very powerful acid.
It has been unleashed and
it will change everything.

Sunday, November 23, 2014, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs
"Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944) with Judy Garland,
Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer,
Tom Drake, Marjorie Main, Harry Davenport,
June Lockhart, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Joan Carroll;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Skip to My Lou danced
spritely in such small space—
a touch of genius choreography! Sunday, November 23, 2014, 9:35-11:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Roy Rowland directs
"Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" (1945)
with Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien,
James Craig, Frances Gifford, Agnes Moorehead,
Morris Carnovsky, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins,
Sara Haden, Greta Granstedt, Dorothy Morris; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Selma gives her calf to farmer
who lost his cows and barn to fire,
prompting the whole town to help out.

Monday, November 24, 2014, 1:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Monterey Bay researchers capture rare deep-sea anglerfish on video for first time" [Black seadevil
(Melanocetus), is named for its baleful ugliness.
With vicious gape, females eat fish of a larger size.]
(Samantha Clark, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11-20-2014)
Esca is luminescent organ luring prey in the dark.

To lure her prey, she jerks
luminescent orb dangling from
the "fishing rod" on her forehead. Monday, November 24, 2014, 1:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Notes: Why Creation Begins at the Centre?;
Haikus with links for films seen at Stanford Theatre:
"Gone With The Wind" (11/21); "Meet Me in St. Louis" & "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" (11/23);
The audience clapped more after "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" than "Meet Me in St. Louis". Video

Small Wisconsin Norwegian
farming village has people
with lovely tender hearts.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 12:06-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
More on "Deep Sea Anglerfish" (1, 2); Film;
Photos of Black seadevil (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

When prey fish gets close,
angler's jaws snaps it up
and swallows it whole. Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 12:06-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Home Is The Centre" composed during half-hour walk home on Rengstorff Ave (11/24: 12-12:30 am)

Home is where the heart is for at its center
is OM— the mantra to summons the gods,
for OM is the Creator God Brahman.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 12:00-12:37 pm
Mountain View: Rudy picked me up at my apt and
shopped at Milk Pail Market (2585 California St.)
and Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road)

Black grapes, pecan halves,
raw almonds, raw wheat germ,
green bell peppers, apple rings. Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 2:00-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Composing Notes of poem: "Home Is The Centre" (Can't finish web page before Thanksgiving Break)

Finding goddess sculptures
of Venus, Athena, and Hera
for The Judgment of Paris.

Thursday, November 27, 2014, 2:15-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Stevens Creek Bike Trail
Shoreline La Avenida to Crittenden Lane Trail Head
Friend hiked on paved bike trail with wheeled walker;
while I hiked along gravel pebbled trail by the creek

Giant bird and snowy egret
in the trees with a dozen
mallard ducks in the creek. Thursday, November 27, 2014, 5:30-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Listening to radio KNBR 680 AM
NFL: Seattle Seahawks vs. San Francisco 49ers;
Both teams 7-4 need to win in advancing to Playoffs;
Seahawks pummelled 49ers 19-3 in Levi Stadium

Seahawks' defense dominance
was like Bears crushing Patriots
46-10 in 1986's SuperBowl XX

Friday, November 28, 2014, 11:54 am-12:00 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Mark Elder conducts The Hallé
in George Butterworth, "Banks of Green Willow" (1913); Listen, (CD), (YouTube); based on
A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad"

He composed this beautiful
music before getting killed
in the Battle of Somme. Friday, November 28, 2014, 1:16-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Wells Fargo,
Walgreens (2 Soft Soaps), Office Depot (Two 8 GB USB @ $3.99 & Four yellow ruled pads $11.99);
99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road)

Tofu, bean curd, eggs,
lychees, vegetarian chop-suey,
broad beans and dried soybeans.

Saturday, November 29, 2014, 11:01-11:06 am
KDFC 104.9 FM— Harpist Emily Mitchell plays
Charles Gounod, "Ave Maria" (1853); Listen; CD; (YouTube: 1, Callas, Dion, Pavarotti); History

Music appeared with poet
Alphonse de Lamartine's
The Book of Life. Saturday, November 29, 2014, 1:16-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library— Alexander F. Skutch, The Life of the Hummingbird (1973); ($9.95 for $3.00); p. 32—
Broccoli crowns @ 99¢/lb at DeMartini (5:11 pm)

Hummingbirds fly up
to 38 miles/hour and have
200 wingbeats per second.

Sunday, November 30, 2014, 3:47-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice
of Your Soul (1995); ($18.00 for $2), page 29—
Recommends listening to Baroque composers:

Music of Handel, Telemann,
Pachelbel, Vivaldi, or Bach,
are calming to the mind. Sunday, November 30, 2014, 3:47-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Mary Caroline Richards,
(Obituary: NY Times 9-20-99, Independent, 9-29-99);
"Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person"
(2nd Ed., 1989) 158.1Richard1989; page 147—

Illumination grows within us—
it comes most readily if we give up
all that we have and be open-souled.