Haikus: February 2017

HAIKUS: February 2017

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.

Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 12:45-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Edmonia Lewis: Google Doodle salutes pioneering sculptor to kick off Black History Month" (Google honors a 19th century artist who burned so bright that her twin gifts of blazing talent and steely determination could not be denied even in her era's discrimination.)
(By Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 2-1-2017)

Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis—
Hiawatha (Newark Museum),
Death of Cleopatra (Smithsonian).
Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 12:45-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Hour & 41 minutes to reassemble "Birds Killed by Peregrine" by J.A. Baker's "The Peregrine" (1967), lost in 12 GB USB (8-28-2016)— Woodpigeon, Rook, Black-headed Gull, Lapwing, Wigeon, Partridge, Fieldfare, Moorhen, Curlew, Mallard Duck; also Robert Pogue Harrison & Werner Herzog

J.A. Baker found 619 peregrine kills
during ten winters, and lists relative
figures for 1962/1963 winter in Essex.

Thursday, February 2, 2017, 10:00-10:06 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays
piano in Erik Satie's "Je te veux" (1903); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Satie's sentimental waltz
with erotic lyrics
by Henry Pacory. Thursday, February 2, 2017, 2:27-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
2-1/2 hrs to reassemble"Cuesta Park 2016" from camera chip (2-15-2016), as original file was lost.

Ann Magnolia Tree Blossoming,
Kissing Pine Trees at Sunset,
Giant Wide Toyon Pine Tree.

Friday, February 3, 2017, 1:00-2:32 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuelar Ave)
Woody Allen directs "Whatever Works" (2009); with Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Adam Brooks, Ed Begley Jr., Henry Cavill, Conleth Hill, Michael McKean, Jessica Hecht; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Young southern belle marries an
old cynical physicist, but her mom
gets her to fall in love with younger man. Friday, February 3, 2017, 7:30-8:55 pm
Mountain View: After movie, friend takes me to pay Public Storage fee and shop at Sprouts (4:14 pm)— Baby carrots 99¢/lb, Sunflower seeds @ $1.99/lb, Walnut halves & pieces $3.99/lb, Spring water 99¢;
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading (17 poets came)

Read two poems: "The Advocate Tree"
and "Happy to Hear & Say These Words";
Joel Katz gave me ride home afterwards.

Saturday, February 4, 2017, 10:00-10:30 am
Mountain View: Rudy phoned to meet me at home 6:30 pm to go to Stanford Theatre silent films

Sister-in-law Dan phoned
to have lunch tomorrow,
will pick me up at 10:30 am. Saturday, February 4, 2017, 11:42 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Hour to reassemble "108 Roses" (9 photos & text)

Format 3 poems from Word document—
"Supermoon", "The Virgin Mary",
"Happy to Hear & Say These Words".

Saturday, February 4, 2017, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "So This Is Paris" (1926) starring Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman, George Beranger, Dot Farley, Myrna Loy, Sidney D'Albrook; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Dennis James at the Wurlitzer;
Packard told us "this film was shown 90 years ago at Stanford Theatre (1926) & Ginger Rogers danced the Charleston onstage here weeks before the movie."

Two Paris couples fooling
around with neighbor's spouses
in a wild Charleston dance party. Saturday, February 4, 2017, 9:30-10:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "Meyer aus Berlin" (1919) starring Ernst Lubitsch, Ossi Oswalda, Erich Schönfelder, Trude Troll, Ethel Orff, Heinz Landsmann; (Full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Holland Museum sent film with Dutch subtitles; David Woodley Packard found someone to translate Dutch to English during film; Rudy & I fell asleep at end of film; Rudy dropped me at Cubberley ballroom dancing (11 pm).

Ernst Lubitsch plays young Berliner
wooing Kitty to climb Mt. Watzmann
when his wife Paula arrives unexpectedly.

Sunday, February 5, 2017, 10:30 am-1:00 pm Mountain View: Bamboo Garden (108 N. Rengstorff Ave); Sister-in-law Dan picked me up at 10:30 am; Chef Chu & many Castro Street restaurants open
at Noon; Found nice Chinese Restaurant nearby;
This used to be a fast food Chinese takeout, but is
now a busy place where people come for dim sum

Soy milk, Yu-tiao, scallion pancakes,
steamed dumplings: Xiao Long Bao,
shrimp & veggies pan-fried noodles. Sunday, February 5, 2017, 10:30 am-1:00 pm Mountain View: Bamboo Garden (108 N. Rengstorff Ave); Dan tells me she's still teaching Pre-School, Jimmy is retired from Kaiser, Emily still working for AMC in Los Angeles, Marissa going for MD/Ph.D. at UCSF Medical School, Byron going for dentistry at University of the Pacific

Gave Jimmy & Dan my "Poems 2016"
with "108 Roses" printed in color
& Stanford Theatre film brochures.

Sunday, February 5, 2017, 3:00-5:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1925) with Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Irene Rich, Edward Martindel, Carrie Daumery; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Dennis James at the Wurlitzer

Lubitsch retains Wilde's four-acts
morality drama on hypocrites playing
phony games while living a shallow life. Sunday, February 5, 2017, 5:15-6:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "Eternal Love" (1929) starring John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi, Mona Rico, Hobart Bosworth, Evelyn Selbie, Bodil Rosing; (YouTube: 1, Full film); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Rudy came to all 4 silent films

Village mob accuses Marcus of killing Lorenz,
and chases him & Ciglia to the mountains
where they're buried by an avalanche.

Monday, February 6, 2017, 1:53-5:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote haikus on silent Ernst Lubitsch films seen on weekend: "So This Is Paris" (1926), "Meyer aus Berlin" (1919), "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1925), "Eternal Love" (1929) at the Stanford Theatre

Hard to find YouTube videos
of these Ernst Lubitsch films
shown some 90 years ago. Monday, February 6, 2017, 7:30-9:10 pm
Stanford University: Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall; Another Look Book Discussion
Bohumil Hrabal's "Too Loud a Solitude" (1976); Discussants: Robert Pogue Harrison, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford), Karen Feldman (UC Berkeley)

Another Look fan David Russell (Stanford's
Radiology Dept) will share his 1951 Czech
car, a Tatraplan, also known as the T600.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 10:40-10:55 am
Mountain View: 10:32 am Bus #34 to Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.) & 11:05 am Bus #34 home;
12:10 pm Bus #34 to Showers Drive for 12:30 pm
Bus #40 to Foothill College (cloudy but no rain)

Vanilla Cinnamon Coffee Creamer,
Almond Milk, Pineapple-Orange Juice,
Lasco Smoked Salmon, Fresh Spinach. Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 12:55-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
New Epson T1500 Scanner for "Another Look" flyer;
Format 7 photos of Tatra 1951 car & Discussants;
Photo of Stanford Encina Hall & Hoover Tower

Too Loud a Solitude book cover,
Bohumil Hrabal by Czech river
in wisdom mudra pose like Einstein.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 12:55-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"BUSINESS DAY: The Feng Shui Kingdom"
(When building the new entrance to Hong Kong
Disneyland, Walt Disney executives decided to
shift the angle of the front gate by 12 degrees.)
(By Laura M. Holson, NY Times, April 25, 2005)

They consulted a Feng Shui specialist
who said the change would ensure
prosperity for the Disney park. Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 12:55-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page for Another Look: "Too Loud A Solitude"
with 10 images and links to Cynthia Haven, Faith Bell, Bell's Books, Peter Orner's essay "Night Train to Split"; Despite the rain, David Russell brought his 1951 Tatra vintage Czech auto to share with us

Used Adobe Photoshop to brighten
7 photos of 1951 Tatra automobile
and the info placards about the car.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 9:25-9:47 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Christopher Parkening plays
guitar, Andrew Litton conducts Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fantasy for a Gentleman" (1903); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Four movements based on six short dances
for solo guitar by the 17th-century
Spanish composer Gaspar Sanz. Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 12:44-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned "China Travels Poster" done in Advanced Adobe Illustrator class (CIS-125E, Winter 1994) to accompany "Drone Video of Guilin" Richard sent.

Type Notes taken at Feb. 6's Another Look
book discussion of "Too Loud A Solitude"
with comments by Discussants & audience.

Thursday, February 9, 2017, 11:55 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"OPINIONATOR: Sartre and Camus in New York"
(In December 1944, Albert Camus, editor of Combat, main newspaper of French Resistance, made Jean-Paul Sartre an offer he couldn't refuse: the job of American correspondent. Sartre arrived in NY in January 1945 with Camus coming in 1946.)
(By Andy Martin, NY Times, July 14, 2012)
The Boxer & The Goal Keeper (Reviews)—

Sartre accumulated women to overcome
his ugliness; Camus was part-Bogart,
part-Samurai aspiring to chastity. Thursday, February 9, 2017, 11:55 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finished typing Notes "Too Loud A Solitude" book discussion (2-6-2017) with links to authors & books cited by Discussants: Pirandello's Humor; Freud's Humor; "Notes from the Underground"; Karel Capek; Louis-Ferdinand Céline; "Voyage au bout de la nuit"; Eucharist; Transubstantiation; Kant's Tombstone; Allegory; Allegory in Dante's Convivio; Soul Weight (Poem); Film of "Too Loud A Solitude" (2016)

Original cost of 1951 Tatra— $1,450,
Auction price of Czech auto— $20,900,
Photo of Russell's 1951 Tatra on the road.

Friday, February 10, 2017, 10:00-10:10 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Gustavo Dudamel conducts Vienna Philharmonic in Johann Strauss II's "Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314" (1866); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Rudy can't finish "Culture" homework (9:04-9:40 am)

Brahms wrote first bars of Blue Danube
when signing Strauss's stepdaughter's fan
adding "Alas! not by Johannes Brahms". Friday, February 10, 2017, 1:55-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Chinese culture (Penn State, Travel China): Filial piety; Feng shui; Dim sum; Kung Fu; Mahjong; Chinese zodiac; Lion dance; Dragon Boat Festival.

Offering suggestions to Rudy
on Chinese culture, poetry & power,
and Bill Walsh on leadership (video).

Friday, February 10, 2017, 5:35-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Val Guest directs "I'll Be Your Sweetheart" (1945) starring Margaret Lockwood,
Vic Oliver, Michael Rennie, Peter Graves, Moore Marriott, Frederick Burtwell, Garry Marsh, George Merritt, Muriel George; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Composers of popular music hall songs
fighting for a new copyright law
to protect their songs to be stolen. Friday, February 10, 2017, 7:30-9:18 pm
Stanford Theatre: Leslie Arliss directs "Love Story" (1944) starring Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Tom Walls, Reginald Purdell, Walter Hudd, A. E. Matthews, Beatrice Varley, Laurence Hanray; (YouTube: 1, Full film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Concert pianist who, after learning
that she is dying of heart failure,
decides to spend her last days in Cornwall.

Saturday, February 11, 2017, 11:00-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Rudy's 1:15 pm email on his Anthropology class
video link to "Culture Medicine"; 2:12 pm email to Rudy on "Global Warming" Interviews with Mitch Battros's "Climatic Cycles & Magnetic Fields"
and Robert Felix's "Coming Ice Age"; Book

Dr. Albert Schweitzer sent patients back
to Witch Doctor as their chants & brews
are better than his Western medicine. Saturday, February 11, 2017, 11:00-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
3:09 pm email to Hunter Swart on Elaine Pagels'
2/16 Stanford talk on "Satan"; my poem "Study of Transformation"; Coleman Barks Talk on Rumi;
Hunter's 3:17 pm email: "Machtergreifung 84" on
our Jan. 30, 2017 meeting— 84th anniversary of

Hitler's Nazi seizure of power (1-30-1933),
Mahatma Gandhi's assassination (1-30-1948),
Douglas Engelbart's birthday (1-30-1925).

Sunday, February 12, 2017, 12:45-4:55 pm
Los Altos Library— W. S. Merwin, "Garden Time" (2016); 811.54Merwin; "Wings of Daylight", p. 18—

Brightness appears showing us everything
it reveals the splendors it calls everything
but shows it to each of us alone. Sunday, February 12, 2017, 12:45-4:55 pm
Los Altos Library— Dana Gioia, "99 Poems" (2016); 811.54Gioia; "The Apple Orchard", p. 185—

A quarter mile of trees in fragrant rows
Arching above us. We walked the aisle,
Alone in spring's ephemeral cathedral..

Sunday, February 12, 2017, 5:50-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs
"Monte Carlo" (1930) with Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Claud Allister, ZaSu Pitts, Tyler Brooke, John Roche , Lionel Belmore, Albert Conti, Donald Novis, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Jack Buchanan plays count
impersonating as hairdresser
who falls in love with a countess. Sunday, February 12, 2017, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs
"The Love Parade" (1929) with Maurice Chevalier,
Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Eugene Pallette, E. H. Calvert, Lionel Belmore, Edgar Norton; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Maurice Chevalier marries
Jeanette MacDonald, ruler of
feminist queendom of Sylvania.

Monday, February 13, 2017, 12:55-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
11:57 am 2/11 email to Rudy on "All Lives Matter"
for his Social Movement Anthropology class project:
"End of Identity Liberalism"; “Why not 'All Lives Matter?'”; Bay Area University Student Papers—

Stanford Daily: "Dialogue isn't enough";
Berkeley's Daily Californian: "Black Lives Matter protests"; SJSU's Spartan Daily:
"All humans are equally valuable". Monday, February 13, 2017, 12:55-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Start to compose "On Number 40" for Elisa's 40th birthday on 2-27-2017: Atomic #40 Zirconium; Atomic Wt 40 Calcium; Cysteine-40 in Ribonuclease; Lysine-40 in Hb A chain; Arginine-40 in Hb B chain

Messier 40, NGC 40,
Asteroid 40 Harmonia,
Rose Rhonda with 40 petals,
Chinese 40 ideograph (sì shi).

Tuesday, February 14, 2017, 12:50-1:21 pm
Mountain View: 12:40 pm Bus #34 to Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.) & 2:05 pm Bus #34 home;
3:10 pm Bus #34 to Showers Drive for 3:19 pm
Bus #40 to Foothill College Campus 3:34 pm

Red Baron Deluxe Pizzas @ $2.99,
Almond Milk, Mt. Olives Pickles,
Tai Pei Egg Rolls and Potstickers,
Quaker Instant Oatmeals, Apple Sauce. Tuesday, February 14, 2017, 3:53-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Composing "On Number 40" for Elisa's 40th birthday (2-27-2017): Babylonian 40; Hebrew 40 Mem (water or fountain of wisdom); 40 in different languages

66th & 67th digits of e = 40,
70th & 71st digits of pi, π = 40,
Dream Orange Rose with 40 petals,
Romania telephone calling code = 40.

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 11:10 am-12:07 pm
Mountain View: Neighbor Don took me shopping at Smart & Final (141 E. El Camino Real) & 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Rd), saving me 3-hours bus trips

Eggs @ 99¢/dozen, Bananas @ 63¢/lb;
Extra firm tofu @ 99¢, Sesame buns $3.29,
P.O.P. Wild Ginseng Tea (100 bags) $25.99. Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 1:53-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"On Number 40": Uniform #40— Mike Alstott;
Danny Murtaugh; Elroy Hirsch; Pat Tillman;

Gale Sayers; Bill Laimbeer;
Rick Sutcliffe; Joe Morrison;
Shawn Kemp; Don Wilson.

Thursday, February 16, 2017, 6:00-7:30 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
Elaine Pagels, Princeton University, talk on
"Satan: How a fictional being still shadows
our views of gender, race, and politics"

Got Stanford Shopping Express
at Showers Drive at 3:30 pm
arriving here early at 4:45 pm. Thursday, February 16, 2017, 6:00-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall;
The room is packed, all seats filled, with people standing wall-to-wall; She showed dozens of slides

Gave Elaine my poems "Platonic Lambda Λ",
"Giacometti's Walking Man", "Spring Geese".
She signed her Book of Revelations (2012).

Friday, February 17, 2017, 6:00-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "Broken Lullaby" aka "The Man I Killed" (1932) with Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Lucien Littlefield, ZaSu Pitts, Frank Sheridan, Emma Dunn; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Frenchman goes to Germany
to beg forgiveness from parents
of German soldier he killed in WW I
and falls in love with soldier's fiancée. Friday, February 17, 2017, 6:00-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "The Smiling Lieutenant" (1931) starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charlie Ruggles, George Barbier , Hugh O'Connell; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Full film); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Romance of Lieutenant (Chevalier)
and violin player (Claudette Colbert)
derailed when he's ordered to marry
King's Princess Anna (Miriam Hopkins).

Saturday, February 18, 2017, 11:46 am-4:46 pm
Los Altos Library— Rudy's Anthropology Midterm is "Microfinance: helping the poor"; Watch Jessica Jackley's TED talk "Poverty, money-- and love"

Told Rudy to read "Aimi Duong's Oimei"
helping Thai women make a living
selling hand-woven textiles. Saturday, February 18, 2017, 11:46 am-4:46 pm
Los Altos Library— Aimi Duong, Founder of Oimei Interview, (Tiana Reid, Trendhunter.com, 9-21-2011)
Oimei or Aimi means "love beauty" First Ennead, 6.9

Sent Plotinus quote to Aimi, who responded
right away, asking to use it on her web site,
which I gladly gave permission (3-9-2012).

Sunday, February 19, 2017, 3:40-5:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Jack Clayton directs "The Innocents" (1961) starring Deborah Kerr,
Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Clytie Jessop,
Isla Cameron; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Governess hired to care for children
believes that the house is haunted
and they're possessed by ghosts. Sunday, February 19, 2017, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ronald Neame directs "The Chalk Garden" (1964) with Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Felix Aylmer, Elizabeth Sellars; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Al Guzman picked me up at Los Altos Library (2:30 pm) & drove to Theatre for two horror movies

Governess with mysterious past
hired to care for troubled girl who's
determined to find out her secrets.

Monday, February 20, 2017, 2:10-4:25 pm
Mountain View: 2:10 pm Bus #34 to Showers Drive;
MIlk Pail (2585 California St.) 2:45 pm; Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd.) 3:28 pm; Bus #40 (San Antonio & El Camino) home; Umbrella & two bags groceries

Navel oranges @ 49¢/lb, Roma tomatoes @
79¢/lb, Green onions 50¢, Walnuts $3.99/lb,
Terra Sweet potatoes & Beets chips @ 2.00. Monday, February 20, 2017, 9:25 pm-4:25 am
Mountain View: Bag of Laundry $1.75 Wash, $1 Dry
(6-9:16 pm); Searched for 40 denomination postage stamps in 1975 Scott's Stamp Catalogue, Volume II;
Found 150 stamps from Albania to Cameroun

40 qintars Albania #1001 Sparrowhawk;
40 groschen Austria #529 Vienna Costume;
40 cents Cambodia #4 Apsara Dancing (1951).

Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 11:42 am-12:02 pm
Mountain View: 11:32 am Bus #34 to Safeway (570 N. Shoreline Dr.) shopping; Missed 12:05 pm #34
home; 2:10 pm Bus #34 to Showers Dr. for 2:28 pm
Bus #40 to Foothill College (2:40 pm)

Dave's Power Seeds Killer Bread $4.99,
Swiss Cheese @ $1.88, Yogurt $1.89,
Biscotti $2.00, Orange Juice $3.00. Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 2:52-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
VTA Bus 40 rotated & resized; Photos taken: Bus Stop 40: Showers to El Camino; Bus Stop 40: Showers to Latham St.; Bus 40: Foothill College to Shoreline;

Caught up writing 14 haikus—
Thursday, Feb. 16-Tuesday, Feb. 21
when Foothill was closed for four days.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 10:00-10:10 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: John Mauceri conducts Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in Bernard Herrmann's "Vertigo: Prelude and Scene d'Amour" (1866); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Dupuy's talk "Time & Vertigo"

Herrmann's "Scene d'Amour" from
"Liebestod" in Tristan & Isolde
by Wagner is theme of lost love. Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 11:55-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Photo on Bus #40: Foothill College at Showers Drive;
Last night (11:20 pm-4:30 am) found 167 stamps from Cameroun to France in 1975 Scott's Catalog, Vol. II

40 francs France #310 "La Marseillaise",
40 francs Comoro Islands #42 Coelacanth,
40 milliemes Egypt #C18 Plane over Pyramids.

Thursday, February 23, 2017, 9:31-9:36 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Itzhak Perlman plays violin,
Lawrence Foster conducts Abbey Road Ensemble
in Jules Massenet's "Thaïs: Meditation" (1894); CD;
(YouTube: Perlman, Maxim Vengerov, Yo-Yo Ma,
Fritz Kreisler, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Janine Jansen,
Joshua Bell, Nicola Benedetti, David Garrett)

Piece opens with harps followed
by solo violin playing at
Andante religioso tempo. Thursday, February 23, 2017, 3:01-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Last night (11:30 pm-3:30 am) found 140 stamps from France to Hungary in 1975 Scott's Catalog, Vol. II
with 40 denomination: France C18 Centaur & Plane; French Polynesia 92 Tahitian Girl; Germany 548 Numeral; Germany 821 General George C. Marshall

40 francs France #B393 Coco Writing,
40 pfennigs Germany #1004 Copernicus,
40 fillér Hungary #1236 Great Egret.

Friday, February 24, 2017, 9:39-9:44 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Juan Diego Flörez tenor, sings
while Carlo Tenanr conducts Gioachino Rossini Philharmonic in Ernesto de Curtis's "Torna a Surriento" (1902); CD; (YouTube: Juan D. Florez, Luciano Pavarotti, Yo-Yo Ma)

Written for Prime Minister Zanadelli
who vacationed at Hotel Tramontano
to help impoverished town of Sorrento. Friday, February 24, 2017, 12:57-6:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Krishna Print #40: Radha & Krishna Playing a Game Oblivious to Storm; 40 denomination in 1975 Scott's Catalog, Vol. II— Greenland 8 Polar Bear; Guinea C17 Dove with Letter; Hungary 975 Lily of the Valley

40 cents Vietnam C5 Dragon,
40 centavos Uruguay C44 Pegasus,
40 agorot Israel 397 Noah sent out dove.

Saturday, February 25, 2017, 11:41 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 40: Structure & Action of Proteins: Leucine-40 in Sperm Whale Myoglobin; San Franciso's 575 Market Street has 40-story building; Bill Tilden wins 40th Wimbledon Men's Tennis, (7-3-1920)

40th Kentucky Derby won by Old Rosebud,
40th Preakness Stakes won by Rhine Maiden,
40th Belmont Stakes won by Burgomaster. Saturday, February 25, 2017, 11:41 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Last night (12:05 am-3:30 am) found 110 stamps
from Hungary to Laos in 1975 Scott's Catalogues,
Vol. II-III with 40 denomination: Italy 948 Toscanini; Italy 944 Giotto's Madonna; Italy 944 Giotto used

40 filler Hungary 1558 Four-Leaf Clovers,
40 filler Hungary B129 Pegasus & Literature,
40 yen Japan 800 Hokusai's The Great Wave.

Monday, February 27, 2017, 1:59 -3:03 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned Thomas D. Mangelsenn's "Eagle Among
the Glaciers" (2006) for Elisa's 40th Birthday card;
Printed Happy Birthday Elisa at Los Altos Library (3:35 pm); Mailed at Los Altos Post Office (4:06 pm)

P.O. clerk Vincente said my mail
to Elisa weighed exactly 1.00 ounce,
stamped Feb. 27, 2017 for her 40th birthday. Monday, February 27, 2017, 4:50-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Last night (12:00 am-6:30 am) found 128 stamps from U.S. to Vietnam in 1975 Scott's Catalog, Vol. I-III
with 4 denomination: U.S. 233 Columbus Fleet;
U.S. 287 Indian Hunting Buffalo; U.S. 1116 Lincoln

4 fen PRC #1108 Giant Panda,
4 piaster Vietnam #C10 Phoenix,
4 forint Hungary #2280 Mona Lisa.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 2:00-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Poem: "Heaven and Hell" inspired by Furman S. Baldwin's 1947 photo "Il Bacio" ("The Kiss"); Vishuddha Mudra (1); Buddha (1, 2); Einstein (1)

The two-year-old boy sits on the stoop
between two girls similar in age
like "The Lover" Tarot card image. Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 2:00-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
San Marino 622 Dante; Poland 487 Picasso's Dove; Spain 292 Don Quixote Tilting at Sheep; Switzerland C14 Wings Allegory; Switzerland B88 Girl (30+10 fr)

40 francs Guinea #C17 Dove with Letter,
40 filler Hungary #975 Lily of the Valley,
40 piaster Laos #C11 Buddha Statue.