HAIKUS: February 2015

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.

Sunday, February 1, 2015, 1:45-2:06 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard);
then drives me to Los Altos Library, tuning
in to SuperBowl on ESPN & write 6 haikus


Date, pecans, grainola cereal,
supreme pizza, crabmeat flakes,
strawberry yogurt, almond milk.
Sunday, February 1, 2015, 7:00-8:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander, "The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life"; (2000); ($22 for $2) 153.7Zander p. 170


A vision is a long line
of possibility radiating,
outward to infinite expression.
Sunday, February 1, 2015, 3:22-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Returning Charles A. Riley II,
"The Jazz Age in France" (2004) 944.361Riley;
p. 22: R.W.S. Mendl on Jazz (1926)—


Jazz is the product of a restless age when
stunts & sensations are order of the day,
with the world rushing helteer-skelter.
Sunday, February 1, 2015, 3:22-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Returning M.C. Richards,
"Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person"
(2009) 158.1Richard1989; p. 35—


Freedom is presence, not absence.
Centering is an act of bringing in,
not of leaving out.
Sunday, February 1, 2015, 3:22-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— New Books: Deborah Levy,
"Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing"
(2014); 828.914Levy; p. 104—


Your skin is thinnest
on the eyelids and thickest
on the palms and soles.
Sunday, February 1, 2015, 3:22-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Sarah Gorham, "Study in Perfect" (2014) 814.54Gorham; pp. 193-203— Neriage,
or What Is the Secret of a Long Marriage?


Longest marriages: U.S.— 83 years;
Marianne Ellison & Henry Piper, 79 years;
World: Karam and Kartari Chand, 89 years.
Sunday, February 1, 2015, 10:00 pm-12:00 am
KKSF 910 am: Coast-to-CoastAM, George Noory
interviews Dr. Joel Wallach (Bio, web, Skeptics) on
"Alternative Health"; "Dead Doctors Don't Lie"


Chromium and Vanadium
are minerals to lower blood sugar
for those with type II diabetes.
Sunday, February 1, 2015, 12:00 am-2:00 am
KKSF 910 am: Coast-to-CoastAM, George Noory
interviews Jim Paris (Bio, web) "Prayer & Finance"; BOOK: "How To Pray For A Financial Miracle"


When praying for help—
have a notepad to jot down
any ideas that come to you.
Monday, February 2, 2015, 1:26-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Found 30 paintings "Adoration of the Magi" (1, 2);
3 crowns on (3), 2 on (11), 1 on (7), none on (9)


Artists showing all three kings with crowns
off their head— Leonardo, Dürer,
Bosch, Botticelli, Hans Memling.
Monday, February 2, 2015, 1:26-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Typing poem "Gold, Myrrh, Frankincense"
written this morning 1:30 am-3:50 am


Three decades have passed
since that epiphany—
still aflame in my heart.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 1:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Price of gold in 1980: $602.50/oz on 12-23-1980;
Myrrh oil @ $78.00/oz; Frankincense @ $55.00/oz


Gold hit all-time high of $850
on January 21, 1980 but went down
to $600 around Christmas that year.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 1:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Editing poem "Gold, Myrrh, Frankincense"
with prices of gifts from The Three Magi


Tom Brokaw giving prices of gold hitting
all-time high $850/oz in January, now $600/oz,
myrrh is at $78/oz & frankincense at $55/oz.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 1:28-4 pm, 8-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Images for ice, water, steam, H2O to represent
gold, myrrh, frankincense & Christ is the essence


Light bulb inside head
to symbolize epiphany,
Eureka and Aha! Moment.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 5:30-7:30 pm
Stanford University: Cantor Arts Center
Bissera Pentcheva, "Animation in Medieval Art"
Exhibit "Sensual Splendor" on 2nd floor after lecture


Quotes Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"Nature's first green is gold"
how its glitter permeates medieval art.
Thursday, February 5, 2015, 3:14-6:33 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Gathering images: Leonardo Self-Portrait (1515); "Vitruvian Man" (1487); Dürer Self-Portrait (1500); "Melencolia I" (1514) because the greatest artist in Italy & Germany painted all three kings with crowns off their head when they came to Bethlehem to present Christ Child with gold, myrrh, frankincense; Writing
"Notes to Poem: Gold, Myrrh, Frankincense"


Epiphany enhanced since
my favorite artists Leonardo
and Dürer knew about humility.
Thursday, February 5, 2015, 7:30-11:30 pm
Stanford Commemorates WWI's 100th Anniversary
Cummings Bldg, Annenberg Auditorium: Rudy & I see
"Lawrence of Arabia" directed by David Lean with
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3)
Essay on "Lawrence of Arabia & Lowell Thomas";
Steven Spielberg's favorite film: "It was a miracle"


This film was based on
T. E. Lawrence's autobiography
Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Friday, February 6, 2015, 1:51-5:38 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Detail of Leonardo's "Adoration" with three kings
on their knees; Ayeri's "Holy Night" for epiphany;
"Christ the Alchemist" for aflame in my heart


Finished "Notes to Poem:
Gold, Myrrh, Frankincense"

to catch Bus #40 in the rain.
Friday, February 6, 2015, 7:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading— Featured reader Marilyn Stablein read poems on her 7-years trip to Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet: Ride home with Valerie K.


Trudy requested copy
of poem I read tonight—
"Angel with the Sudarium"
Saturday, February 7, 2015, 11:46 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Google Doodle of good yarn
(Honored on her 148th birthday with Google Doodle.)
(David C. Scott, Christian Science Monitor, 2-7-2015)


Little House on the Prairie
author married for 64 years with
daughter Rose helping her write.
Saturday, February 7, 2015, 11:46 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Chatted with Jack Mullen whom I've not seen since
Dec. 11, 2014; he has not come to Middlefield Lab
or Krause Center; he had the flu but is healthy now


Notes for poem: "Galactic Birth"
Compare Bosch's Ascent of the Blessed
with NGC 7822's "Tunnel of Light".
Sunday, February 8, 2015, 3:54-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library— John Pollack, "Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas" (2014); ($27.00 for $2) 808.032Pollack; p. 182: Those who are adept at analogy can persuade others more effectively—


Analogy is the art
of cultivating and
communicating ideas.
Sunday, February 8, 2015, 3:54-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library— For Sale Book Shelves:
Bought photographer Joyce Tenneson's book,
"Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage, and Beauty" (2002); ($19.99 for $1)
p. 100: Clara Holm, age 101


A sage knows there is both
wisdom of the universe & of man—
and finds a balance between the two.
Sunday, February 8, 2015, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Rear Window" (1954) starring James Stewart,
Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter,
Raymond Burr, Georgine Darcy, Judith Evelyn;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


Jimmy Stewart suspects
Raymond Burr killed his wife
& Grace Kelly helps to solve murder.
Sunday, February 8, 2015, 9:40-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Saboteur" (1942) with Robert Cummings,
Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd,
Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Alma Kruger;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)


Saboteur detonates ship
at Navy Yard before falling to
his death atop Statue of Liberty.
Sunday, February 9, 2015, 1:00 am-4:00 am
KKSF 910 am: Coast-to-CoastAM, Richar Syrett
interviews Jim Elvidge (Bio, web) "Nature of Reality"; BOOK: "The Universe— Solved!" (2008)


We live in a digital universe
& our "soul data" remains with
us when we die and reincarnate.
Monday, February 9, 2015, 1:50-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Al Guzman emails Rudy & me Robert Slack's video: "Veterans Empowered Through Technology VETT"


Veterans with PTSD will be
empowered by Tech Shop
with cutting edge training.
Monday, February 9, 2015, 1:50-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Patrick McDonnell's Mutts comics (2-9-2015)
Mutts Valentine— "Roses are red, Violets are blue,
The world is sweet, And so are you."


For the enlightened sage
the world is sweet and
everything is a treat.
Monday, February 9, 2015, 1:50-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Robert Slack's idea to empower veterans through technology will also aid the Arab youth terroists
if they learn that creation is better than destruction.


The world is sweet when
we realize that heaven
is within us right now.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 1:36-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW: The Poet's Keeper:
Rereading Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth"
(Poets, John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, all of them dead before
their time from madness, self-neglect or suicide.)
(By Lee Siegel, New York Times, 2-8-2015)


Suicidal poets paid
a noble price for their
pursuit of truth & beauty.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 1:36-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"In the Beginning, Such a Happy Couplet"
(Eileen Simpson & husband John Berryman's intense
friendships with Delmore Schwartz, R.P. Blackmur,
Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate, and
Theodore Roethke.) (By Jonathan Yardley,
Washington Post, 10-16-2006); Quotes Wordsworth:


"We poets in our youth begin
in gladness; / But thereof comes
in the end despondency and madness."
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 1:36-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"NEWS ANALYSIS— The Futility of Vengeance"
(Send your enemies an envelope full of glitter. When
opened, bits of sparkly spite will fall out and stick.
2000 orders @ $9.99 AUD in first few hours.)
(By Kate Murphy, New York Times, 2-8-2015)


Response was so overwhelming,
that 22-year-old Matthew Carpenter
sold his one-day site for $85,000.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 7:00-9:00 pm
Stanford Commemorates WWI's 100th Anniversary
World War I & Making of the Modern Middle East;
Panel Discussion with Joel Beinin, Norman Naimark,
Aron Rodrigue, Moderator: Professor James Sheehan; Cubberley Auditorium (Rudy and I came after seeing "Lawrence of Arabia" on Feb. 5; Auditorium packed)


World War I aftermath
shaped the geopolitical
landscape of the Middle East.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 10:00 pm-12:00 am
KKSF 910 am: Coast-to-CoastAM, George Noory
interviews Michael Shermer (Bio, web, Moral Arc)
"Science & Morality"; BOOKS: "The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom"; "Believing Brain"


Slavery outlawed; women,
minority, gay, animal rights
are part of our moral landscape.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 12:00 am-2:00 am
KKSF 910 am: Coast-to-CoastAM, George Noory
interviews Ardy Sixkiller Clarke (Bio, web) "Sky People"; BOOKS: Sky People: Untold Stories of Alien Encounters in Mesoamerica; "Encounter with Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians"; Video


In Guatemala and Mexico
there are little people, giants, and
sky gods soaring in a beam of light.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 12:45-1:12 pm
Mountain View: Rudy takes me shopping
at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road);
met neighbor Don also shopping there;
then to Foothill College Middlefield Lab


Red grapes, cheddar cheese,
wheat germ, dried apricots,
and dried sweet mango slices.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 8:00-9:05 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium
Stein Visiting Writer Joyce Carol Oates Reading
her short story "Mastiff" (July 1, 2013 New Yorker)
(Notes to Poem: "You Can't Catch Me", 12-18-2009)


Joyce Carol Oates came
to Stanford in November 2009
for a Reading and Colloquium.
Thursday, February 12, 2015, 1:50-5:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
LinkedIn Email: "How Do You End a Meeting?
Netflix's HR Rebel Asks Two Simple Questions"

by Stanford Professor Bob Sutton & Patty McCord


Have we made any decisions
in the room today, and (if we have)
how are we going to communicate them?
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, 6-7:30 pm (Late: 7:10 pm)
Stanford Humanities Center: David Butow:
"Seeing Buddha, the Photographic Experience"
(Web site); Explore Buddhist concepts empathy,
compassion and awareness of present moment.


Literature is filled with words
"see" or "vision" to describe
spiritual awareness.
Friday, February 13, 2015, 5:45-7:20 pm
Rudy picks me up & we meet Al Guzman for films
at Stanford Theatre to see Alfred Hitchcock directs
"The Lady Vanishes" (1938): Margaret Lockwood,
Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty,
Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


Miss Foy vanishes from train
& passengers deny her existence
except for Iris who persists on.
Friday, February 13, 2015, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Strangers on a Train" (1951): Farley Granger
(born in San Jose), Robert Walker, Ruth Roman,
Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock (Hitchcock's
daughter, now 86 years old), & Kasey Rogers;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


Hitchcock's most evil actor—
Bruno kills Guy's wife and
torments him to kill his dad.
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 1:40-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— David Menasche, "Priority List:
A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons"
(2014); ($24.00 for $3) 371.1Menasche; Obituary (Miami Herald, 11-20-2014); Final Interview (Broward News, 11-21-2014); Why I'm not afraid of dying (David Menasche, CNN, 1-10-2014); Book, p. 219: William James Quote—


The greatest use of life is
to spend it on something
that outlasts it.
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 1:40-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Joshua Wolf Shenk,
"Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs" (2014) 153.35Shenk; pp. 3-4, 6, 10— Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger, Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak, Pierre & Marie Curie, Larry Page & Serge Brin, James Watson & Francis Crick, Orville & Wilbur Wright, Joel & Ethan Coen


Dual pair catalyzes
creativity more than
one person alone.
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 1:40-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Daphne Rose Kingma (p. 141—)
"True Love: How to Make Your Relationship Sweeter, Deeper, & More Passionate" (1994); ($12.95 for $2)


Hold each other in the light,
seeing one another as God sees you
in the process of becoming perfect.
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 1:40-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Linda Carroll,
"Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages
of Lasting Love"
(2014) 152.41Carroll; p. 197—


Learning to love
provides a key to
enlightenment & transcendence.
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 1:40-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Nora Ephron, "I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman" (2006); ($19.95 for $1) 814.54Ephron; p. 118—


When I was a child,
nearly every book I read
sent me into rapture.
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 1:40-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— For Sale Book Shelves: G.W.Sok, "A Mix of Bricks & Valentines: Lyrics 1979-2009" (2011); ($20.00 for $1); p. 364: Lyrics "What Is"—


What is a heart without a soul?
what is the flag without its pole?
What is what is what is?
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 1:40-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Sam Keen, "Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds" (2007) ($14.95 for $2); p. 120:
If we observe with a reverent eye—


All events, persons, and things
are at once ordinary & sacred,
factual and sacramental.
Saturday, February 14, 2015, 1:40-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Patricia Schultz, "1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List" (2003) 910.202Schultz ($18.95 for $1) Title page epigraph—


Life is not measured by
the number of breaths we take
but by the places and moments
that take our breath away.
Sunday, February 15, 2015, 2:00-2:36 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at
Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard)
and afterwards to Los Altos Library


Crab flakes, chow mein noodles,
popcorn, spinach, dairy creamer,
almond-coconut milk, orange juice.
Sunday, February 15, 2015, 3:54-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— BOOKS: An Appraisal— Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten
(By Dwight Garner, NY Times, 2-15-2015)


I am now a kind of archive
of people, places and things
that no longer exist.
Sunday, February 15, 2015, 3:54-5:50 pm
"CRITICS NOTEBOOK— Making Rare Appearace: People and Their Appetites" (Work of Philip Levine, America's new & 18th poet laureate, is welcome because it radiates a heat not often felt in today's poetry); (By Dwight Garner, NY Times, 8-10-2011)


Poetry transmitted by grease, soil,
factory light, cheap and honest food,
sweat, low pay, cigarettes and second shifts.
Sunday, February 15, 2015, 3:54-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— BOOKS— Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Who Won Pulitzer, Dies at 87 (His work was vibrantly, angrily and often painfully alive with the sound, smell & sinew of heavy manual labor)
(By Margalit Fox, NY Times, 2-16-2015)


Levine died on Saturday morning,
February 14, at his home
in Fresno, Caifornia.
Monday, February 16, 2015, 12:17-12:21 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Alexandre Lagoya plays
guitar to Variations on the Anonymous Romance "Forbidden Games" ("Jeux interdits") (1952);
Video (Listen, Yepes)), CD, YouTube; Trailer


My favorite music in film
directed by René Clément
on two children in wartime.
Monday, February 16, 2015, 2:20-4:40 pm
Santa Clara: Friend takes me hiking on bike trail at
San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail (Scott Boulevard to Monroe Street); Trail Map; Linda Patterson's Concrete mural wildlife sculptures on trail


Lots of mallard ducks,
some coots & a snowy egret
seen in the creek by the trail.
Monday, February 16, 2015, 7:01-7:09 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Iona Brown plays violin
to Tomaso Albioni's "Adagio in G minor" (1708);
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


Original manuscript destroyed
in WW II bombing of Dresden;
restored by Remo Giazotto.
Monday, February 16, 2015, 5:30-9:11 pm
Mountain View: Finished reading "Radical Zen:
Sayings of Joshu"
(1978); 120-year-old Chao-Chou
translated by Yoel Hoffmann; Saying #197


Someone asked: "What is the
teaching of the men of old?"
Joshu said: "Listen! Listen!"
Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 12:00-12:25 pm
Mountain View: Rudy takes me shopping
at Milk Pail Market (2585 California Street);
then to Foothill College Middlefield Lab


3 lbs of Asian brown pears @ 39¢/lb,
two broccoli (three stalks) @ 69¢ each;
Rudy buys same plus celery @ 79¢
Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 1:02-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Lab closed 4 days for Presidents Holiday (2/13-2/16);
Formatted 20 haikus with links written during break


Two Hitchcock actors still alive—
Young & Innocent's Nova Pilbeam is 95
and Saboteur's Norman Lloyd is 100!
Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Stanford University: Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460)
Terrace Room (4th floor); Joyce Carol Oates gives
Colloquium (not listed); (Writing Advice on Feb. 11)


Oates summarized her talk at
Robert B. Silvers Dec. 13 2004 Lecture
then Q&A on writing failures before success.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 1:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted 90 photos from February 16 hike at
San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail; Favorite photos:


First Sighting of Mallard Duck,
Snowy Egret & Ducks under Tunnel,
Tree with Width Longer than Height.
Thursday, February 19, 2015, 12:50-1:23 pm
Mountain View: Rudy takes me grocery shopping
at Sprouts Farmers Market (630 San Antonio Rd.);
then to Foothill College Middlefield Computer Lab


Brazil nuts, walnut halves,
green onions, Roma tomatoes,
dried apple rings, raw almonds.
Thursday, February 19, 2015, 2:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Complete page San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail Hike
with 86 photos from Feb. 16 Presidents' Day hike


Linda Patterson's Gallery
of concrete decorative art helped
in identifying her sculptured birds.
Thursday, February 19, 2015, 2:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Google Doodle celebrates Lunar New Year 2015
(By Ashitha Nagesh, The Express, UK, 2-19-2015)


Animation shows ram head-butting
a tree until a bee flies out— causing
firecrackers to go off and a series
of fireworks to spell out "Google".
Thursday, February 19, 2015, 2:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Chinese New Year 2015: Year of the Ram;
U.S. Naval Observatory: 2015 Moon Phases;
Year of Sheep Greetings; Sheep Year People


Chinese New Year is celebrated
on the second New Moon (Feb. 19)
after Winter Solstice (Dec. 21, 2014).
Friday, February 20, 2015, 5:40-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"The Trouble with Harry" (1955): Edmund Gwenn,
John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick,
Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers, Royal Dano;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


Shirley MacLaine's first film
with beautiful autumn foliage
on location in Vermont.
Friday, February 20, 2015, 7:30-9:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: Hitchcock directs "Vertigo" (1958):
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes,
Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Josephine Hutchinson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
50th Anniversary; Kim Novak; Melencolia; Mythology


Vertigo replaced Citizen Kane
as best film of all time in 2012
Sight & Sound critics' poll.
Saturday, February 21, 2015, 10:19-10:23 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: BroadcastPeter Mattei sings
"Là ci darem la mano" in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" (1787) at Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center (2015);
Video: Mattei & Lisa Nilsson, Listen, CD, YouTube


Don Giovanni seduces Zerlina
singing to her "We'll give
each other our hands."
Saturday, February 21, 2015, 11:42-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Typing "Vision Tunnel" from James R. Lewis's book
"Encyclopedia of Afterlife Beliefs and Phenomena"
(1994) (pp. 357-358) with Bosch's 1490 painting


Many with near-death experience
(NDE) see themselves journeying
through a tunnel of light.
Sunday, February 22, 2015, 2:00-3:21 pm
Mountain View: Sister-in-law Dan treats me for mint tea at Regal Bagel Café (570 N Shoreline Blvd); Chat
on how she, my brother, nephew, & nieces are doing;
I give her three of my 2015 poems & Notes; Friend
takes me shopping at Safeway (570 N Shoreline Blvd)
& afterwards to Los Altos Library; Meet Rudy at 6 pm


Strawberry yogurt,
Cape Cod potato chips,
Minute Maid orange juice.
Sunday, February 22, 2015, 7:00-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Aquarius Theatre (430 Emerson St.)—
Rudy & I see Alejandro González Iñárritu directing
"Birdman" (2014): Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, and Lindsay Duncan; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


Film is Broadway adaptation of
Raymond Carver's short story "What We
Talk About When We Talk About Love"
.
Monday, February 23, 2015, 11:50 am-12:12 pm
Mountain View: Rudy takes me grocery shopping
at Milk Pail Market (2585 California Street);
then to Foothill College Middlefield Lab


Broccoli @ 69¢ bunch,
red seedless grapes @ 99¢/lb,
Asian brown pear @ 39¢/lb.
Monday, February 23, 2015, 12:59-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab; Typing "Light
Tunnel" from Patricia Pearson's "Opening Heaven's Door" & Jeffrey Long's "Evidence of the Afterlife"


I came out of this tunnel
into a realm of soft, brilliant
love and light that was everywhere.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 1:35-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Ando Hiroshige's
Woodblock Print #38 from 100 Views of Edo "Dawn Clouds at the Yoshiwara Licensed Quarter" inspired:


Lover departs at dawn
by the Omon gate next
to pink cherry blossoms.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 1:35-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Number 38
(Wikipedia) led to 38 slots in American Roulette Wheel & C38 Class Locomotive (New South Wales)


3801 Locomotive featured
in the 1974 short film
A Steam Train Passes.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 1:46-11:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Colorado
becomes 38th State of the Union; 38th Parallel
divides North & South Korea; Messier 38 Galaxy


Cats (Turkish Van Cat)
has 38 chromosomes as lions,
tigers, pigs, raccoons, sea otters.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 1:46-11:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Magic 38
Hexagon
: Numbers in five columns, five left-slanting
rows, and five right-slanting rows all add up to 38


Constructed by retired
railroad clerk Clifford Adams
in 47 years from 1910 to 1957.
Thursday, February 26, 2015, 2:03-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: #38 Baseball
uniforms: Curt Schilling (Phillies, Red Sox); Todd Worrell; Victor Zambrano; Carlos Zambrano;
New York Daily News (August 8, 2005):


Victor Zambrano (#38) of Mets outdueled
Carlos Zambrano (#38) of Chicago Cubs
pitching the New York Mets to a 6-1 win
Thursday, February 26, 2015, 2:03-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Cricket bat
is 38 inches long; William Harvey (1578-1657)
discovered the circulation of blood in London (1616) at age 38; Great Britain 2814a stamp (6-15-2010)


Harvey gained his M.D.
at Padua at age 24 under
Hieronymus Fabricius.
Friday, February 27, 2015, 3:15-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Bus #40 can't drive to Foothill College because of road repairs; let passengers off at El Monte Road;
Took photos while walking to Krause Center


Composing "On Number 38" on what
Patrick Henry, Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Albert Schweitzer did at age 38.
Friday, February 27, 2015, 5:20-5:28 pm
Los Altos Library: Missed 4:45 pm Bus #40 and
hitchhiked ride with Foothill graphic design student
to Library; Sent email to niece Elisa wishing her
"Happy Birthday" & "On Number 38" web page


Still to do— film actors at age 38:
Clark Gable's Gone with the Wind
Gary Cooper's Beau Geste.
Friday, February 27, 2015, 5:55-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"The 39 Steps" (1935): starring Robert Donat,
Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle,
Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Wylie Watson;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


Mr. Memory remembers
everything including
"The 39 Steps".
Friday, February 27, 2015, 7:30-9:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Hitchcock directs "North by
Northwest"
(1959): Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint,
James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll,
Martin Landau, Adam Williams; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Hitch, Eva Marie); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Essay


Thornhill mistaken for Kaplan
the spy as Vandamm tries to kill him
with cropduster and at Mt. Rushmore.
Saturday, February 28, 2015, 1:28-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Parick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech given at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia; Web site notes that Washington, Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison were present on March 23, 1775.


Benjamin Harrison was born in 1833, grandson
of William Henry Harrison, born in 1773, only
2 years old when heroic speech was given.
Saturday, February 28, 2015, 1:28-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Corrected item #32 that 3 future U.S. Presidents were present at Patrick Henry's speech on March 23, 1775; St. John's Church misidentified Benjamin Harrison as Benjamin Harrison V (1726-1791) who was present.


Benjamin Harrison V, Virginia's 5th governor
was the father of William Henry Harrison
and great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison.



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