Haikus: May 2017

HAIKUS: May 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.

Monday, May 1, 2017, 9:56 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Poem: "John Ciardi: Friend or Foe?"; Scanned
John Ciardi; Community Church New: March 1972:
"The Longest Walk in the Universe: Dante's Divine Comedy" I tell Ciardi that since Dante was savvy in philosophy, his soul would fly to heaven instantly. Thus his walk would be the shortest. Ciardi patted
me on the back: "Of course! He did it in a week!"

I cited Plato's Phaedrus (248e, 249c)
on the soul's 10,000 years transmigration.
But those who love philosophy will have
wings to bear them straight to heaven. Monday, May 1, 2017, 9:56 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Tiger Year Monarchs — Queen Elizabeth II (1926); Queen Mary II of England (1662); King Louis XIV of France (1638); Queen Christina of Sweden (1626);
King James I of England (1566); King Edward V of England (1470); King Charles VIII of France (1470); Emperor Akbar India & Queen Mary of Scots (1542);
King Louis XV of France (1710); More Monarchs—

Suleyman I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1494),
Czar Ivan the Terrible of Russia (1530),
King Kamehameha V of Hawaii (1830),
Queen Isabella II of Spain (1830).

Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 10:00-10:41 am
Mountain View: My neighbor Don takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Drive); $5 off
on $50+ Purchases: Potato Taters & Onion Rings;
(Gorton Grilled Salmon Fillets @ $3.50 sold out;
Fresh Express Spinach Salad @ 95¢ also sold out);
11:10 am Bus #34 & 11:21 am Bus #40 to Foothill

Quaker Fruit & Cream Instant Oatmeal,
Swiss cheese, coffee creamers, yogurt,
Hawaiian & Kettle cooked potato chips,
pineapple chunks, thin crust Supreme pizzas. Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 12:00-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Tiger Year Poets — Hans Sachs (1494); Sir Philip Sidney (1554); Wordsworth (1770); Elizabeth Browning (1806); Stephane Mallarmé (1842);
Frédéric Mistral 1830; William C. Bryant (1794);
Hölderlin (1770); Christopher Smart (1722)

Arthur Rimbaud 1854, Emily Dickinson 1830,
John Masefield (1878), Boris Pasternak (1890),
John Berryman & Dylan Thomas (1914),
Robert Bly & Allen Ginsberg (1926).

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 9:54 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Friend saw a giant bird on Foothill Expressway
and wondered whether it's a Maguari Stork.
Sent poem from Pinsky's Workshop (1-24-2007)—

"Maguari Stork" Poem,
Notes to Poem (1-24-2007),
Crowned Crane Adventure Stories. Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 9:54 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Hans Sachs: "Wittenberg Nightingale" (1523);
Sir Philip Sidney: "Come Sleep, O Sleep!" (1583);
Mallarmé "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune" (1876)

John Masefield: "Sea Fever" (1916),
Boris Pasternak: "In the Wood" (1917),
Dylan Thomas: "Fern Hill" (1945)

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 9:54 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Elizabeth Barrett Browning "How Do I Love Thee?" (1846); Frédéric Mistral "Beauty of August" (1848);
William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl" (1818 )

Christopher Smart: "Jubilate Agno" (1763),
Frederich Hölderlin: "Remembrance" (1803),
Arthur Rimbaud: "The Drunken Boat" (1871). Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 9:54 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
John Berryman: "Dream Song 1" (1964);
William Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey" (1798),
Allen Ginsberg: Jumping the Gun on the Sun (1985)

Robert Bly: "Awakening" (1961),
Emily Dickinson: "Poem 128" (1859),
Ogden Nash: "Summer Serenade" (1942).

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 9:54 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Stamps of Tiger-Year Poets: U.S.3659 Ogden Nash (8-19-2002); Monaco 598 Mistral (12-3-1964);
Germany 1016 Friedrich Hölderlin (3-20-1970).

Russia Pasternak (1990);
France Mallarmé (1998);
France 668 Rimbaud (10-29-1951). Thursday, May 4, 2017, 7:43-7:48 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: JoAnn Falletta conducts
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D" (1897); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Waking up to Pachelbel's Canon
is soothing and serene
to start off this day.

Thursday, May 4, 2017, 10:39 am-12:05 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Semans Library— Typed
John Berryman's "77 Dream Songs" 1964), Poem 1 (p.3) & "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest" (1968), Poem 90 (p.15) ; Ogden Nash, "Verses from 1929 On"

Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (2008)
translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover;
Rimbaud's Illuminations (tr. John Ashberry). Thursday, May 4, 2017, 1:09-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Recalled Rimbaud's poem "Dawn" from Illuminations (1886); (Translators: A.S. Kline, Holly Tannen, Moineau, Baudelaire Jones, Louise Varese)

I embraced the summer dawn—
Lifting her veils, I felt her immense
body. When I awoke it was noon.

Thursday, May 4, 2017, 1:09-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
12 Poets Photos: Wordsworth, Christopher Smart,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Cullen Bryant,
Dylan Thomas, John Berryman, Robert Bly,
John Masefield, Sir Philip Sidney, Hans Sachs,
Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson.

Many Tiger-Year poets
have not appeared on postage stamps,
so need to find their images in photos. Thursday, May 4, 2017, 1:09-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
John Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Banquet Speech: "I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession." Tiger-Year Poets gathered at tiger grotto for their Poetry Reading. Will they roar like a tiger?

Will the 18 Tiger-Year poets
recite better poems than those
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove?

Friday, May 5, 2017, 11:22 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Composed poem "Tiger-Year Poets Reading at a Tiger Grotto" of 18 poets born in the Tiger-Year;
Bandhavgarh Park; Emily's "Poem 128" (1859)

Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Tell me how far the morning leaps—
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue! Friday, May 5, 2017, 7:30-9:45 pm
Palo Alto: Waverley Writers Poetry Reading
at Friends Meeting House (957 Colorado Ave)
Featured Reader: Erin Redfern: "Fauntleroy Ferry" after Vallejo's "Black Stone on a White Stone"Natre

Read one poem tonight—
"Round Table Meeting: April 15"
from letters & journals entries on this day.
Anne Cheilek lives nearby & gives me ride.

Saturday, May 6, 2017, 10:30-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Rudy brought me CVS SpectraVite Vitamins (160 tablets) in exchange for 2 bottles of Apple Juice & 2 bags of Potato Chips; drives me
to Public Storage to pay my monthly fee of $288

Rudy lets me off at Rengstorff Ave
and Middlefield Road where I catch
the 11:10 am Bus #40 to Foothill College. Saturday, May 6, 2017, 11:43 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Respond to Deborah's 4/30 email of visiting San Francisco 3rd week in May for her retreat from
UNLV and doing something together

Suggest going ballroom dancing at
Cubberley Pavilion: Hustle 5/20, Waltz 5/27;
and hiking to see Superbloom wildflowers.

Sunday, May 7, 2017, 12:40-1:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Rudy too busy with his Anthropology class to see "My Fair Lady" film; "Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love" by Brad Gooch (2017); Checked 891.5511JalalGooch.
Walter Teller (Ed.) selected the best of Whitman from Horace Traubel's pages in "Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations" (1973); Typed two Traubel entries (5-8-1888) on Walt's name & midnight eating

Lucky Find: Hawaii #74 1˘ stamp
on #U3 4˘ Postal Stationery Cover with
Honolulu, Hawaii, May 8, 1896 postmark. Sunday, May 7, 2017, 3:00-6:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Gerorge Cukor directs
"My Fair Lady" (1964); Audrey Hepburn, (Marni Nixon as Eliza singing voice), Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom, John Holland, Buddy Bryant, Baroness Rothschild; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Won 8 Academy Awards (12 nominations) in 1964

Many wonderful songs in this musical
by Lerner & Loewe; My favorite—
"I Could've Danced All Night".

Monday, May 8, 2017, 10:22 am-2:32 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page Happy 17th Anniversary on Meeting Cathy at Foothill College Middlefield Lab (May 8, 2000)— Rose des Maures with 17 Petals; 17 Roses in a Row; 17 Roses in Vase; Hawaii cover with May 8, 1896 postmark; Walt Whitman Conversations May 8, 1888

Surprised to finish this web page
in three hours. Went home for Monet
Bordighera greeting card to mail it. Monday, May 8, 2017, 2:48-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
2:48 pm Bus #40 from Foothill to Rengstorff Ave & Montecito 3:14; Got greeting card, address label, stamps, scissors, tape, 3:32 at home; 3:57 pm Bus #40 to Los Altos Library 4:18; Printed 5-8-2017.html in color @ 57% 4:40; Los Altos Post Office 4:58 pm

Vincente was busy with another customer;
Lady postmarked "May 8, 2017 Los Altos"
but didn't hit the stamp & messed up the cover.

Monday, May 8, 2017, 5:25-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Printed poem "Tiger-Year Poets Reading at a Tiger Grotto" @39% on two pages that's difficult to read

Placing Poets & their birthdates
in right column & reducing portraits
will make reading more legible @ 54%. Monday, May 8, 2017, 7:40-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College #40 Bus Stop on
Hilltop; Al Guzman surprised me as he waved me
in his car to give me ride home via Shoreline Drive

Al gets off at 5:30 pm from
Teaching Learning Center but
went swimming till 7:30 pm.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 9:50-10:17 am
Mountain View: My neighbor Don takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Drive);
11:10 am Bus #34 & 11:29 am Bus #40 to Foothill

10 Gorton Grilled Salmon Fillets @ $2.50,
Seapak Popcorn Shrimps $3.99, Milk $2.99,
2 free Donuts from Monopoly game tickets. Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 11:57 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Update web pages: Poems 2017-Index and
Nature Walks 2017-Index

Add "Tiger-Poets Reading at a Tiger Grotto"
and "Baylands/Shoreline Park, Palo Alto" hike
to Poetry 2017 and Nature Walks 2017 Index.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 9:46 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Two hours & 40 minutes to format 33 photos from April 21 hike at Shoreline Park: Favorite Photos:

Snowy Egret Closeup,
Path through Mustard Flowers,
Seagull Flying by Canadian Geese. Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 9:46 am-7:30 pm
Checked out "The Short Novels of Dostoevsky" (1945) from Foothill Library (PG3326.A15.M3.1945) containing "The Double" (pp. 477-615) to read

Stanford Another Look Book Club
will discuss Dostoevsky's The Double
on Monday, May 15, 7:30 pm at Encina Hall.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 8:57-9:01 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Jon Nakamatsu plays piano
in Frederic Chopin's "Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66" (1835); CD; (YouTube: Horowitz, Rubinstein, Yundi Li, Lang Lang, Kissin)

Jon Nakamatsu play this piece
at the end of "Speaking Volumes"
at the Los Altos Library (4-19-2017). Thursday, May 11, 2017, 10:29 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Stanford's Another Look Book Club: Listened to
Podcast 2-6-2017 to add conversations missed
in my Notes of "To Loud a Solitude" (2-9-2017)

Robert Harrison: "With all the heaviness
of compactness in this book, there is
a counterpart of airiness and elevation."

Friday, May 12, 2017, 12:21-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed 8 pages of notes from Jon Nakamatsu: Speaking Volumes (Los Altos Library, 4-19-2017)
with 8 web links; Pianist Jon Nakamatsu: From Mountain View to Carnegie Hall; Nakamatsu played:

Mozart's Piano Sonata #13, K. 333,
Frederic Chopin's Scherzo #3, Op. 39,
Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu, Op. 66. Friday, May 12, 2017, 12:21-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Nakamatsu enjoyed my story meeting Aldo Ciccolini
at Stanford (1986), who told me that he performed the yogic corpse pose before his piano concerts, and read all Paul Brunton books on meditation; Just learned

Aldo Ciccolini died at 89 (2-1-2015)
(Obituaries: 1, 2, 3, 4); Didn't know
that he was an expert on Erik Satie.

Saturday, May 13, 2017, 9:37 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed 37 pages of quotes from Bohumil Hrabal's "Too Loud A Solitude"; page 59—

suddenly the kite was God
and I was the Son of God,
and the cord was the Holy Spirit. Saturday, May 13, 2017, 9:37 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Monkey postage stamps from China PR 713-715 (issued 9-23-1963): images to Monkey-Year People

Leonardo da Vinci (1452),
René Descartes (1596),
Benedict Spinoza (1632).

Sunday, May 14, 2017, 2:00-6:10 pm
Los Altos Library: Mother's Day: Thinking of Mom
"A Good Heart: Poem for Mom" (12-25-2005) written 12 years ago when she passed on; Notes
to Poem; Eulogy to Mom; Memories of Mom

Luckily Internet Archive
WayBack Machine has these
files to share with a few friends. Sunday, May 14, 2017, 2:00-6:10 pm
Los Altos Library: Searched through Scott 2017 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, Volume 2- Countries of the World C-F & found China PR 2032 stamp depicting Halley's Comet (issued 4-11-1986)

Dad's friends on China stamps—
#2759 Dr. Hu Shih (12-17-1990),
#3400 Cardinal Yu Pin (12-7-2001).

Monday, May 15, 2017, 7:31-7:37 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)

Erik Satie's "I want you"
to a text by Henry Pacory
with erotic lyrics to waltz. Monday, May 15, 2017, 10:29 am-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Rudy takes me shopping at
99 Ranch Market; Typed conversations missed
in my Notes of "To Loud a Solitude" (2-9-2017)

Robert Harrison: "With all the heaviness
of compactness in this book, there is
a counterpart of airiness and elevation."

Monday, May 15, 2017, 10:32 am-1:20 pm
Mountain View: Reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky's
"The Double" (pp. 477-615) from "Short Novels of Dostoevsky" (1945) translated by Constance Garnett;
Read pp. 477-550 last night (9:40 pm-1:00 am);
6 hours 38 minutes to read 139 pages of this book

Recommended translation by
Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
on doppelganger that made protagonist insane. Monday, May 15, 2017, 7:30-9:00 pm (8 pm-9 pm)
Stanford University: Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall; Another Look Book Club (1/2-hour late)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Double" ; Discussants: Robert Pogue Harrison, Slavic scholar Monika Greenleaf, Russian photographer Lena Herzog

Returned Too Loud a Solitude book
to Cynthia Haven lent to us on 2/6—
Gave her my Hrbal Notes & Peregrine Kills.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 10:32 am-1:53 am
Mountain View: Didn't go to Foothill Computer Lab for first time; Stayed home for cleaning & throwing away newspapers and magazines for Thursday 5/18 Apartment Inspection 9:30 am-12:00 pm

Trash bins for newspapers & cardboards
recycle all filled up; have to find
other bins to throw away papers. Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 10:32 am-1:53 am
Mountain View: Didn't go to Foothill Computer Lab for first time; Stayed home for cleaning & throwing away newspapers and magazines for Thursday 5/18 Apartment Inspection 9:30 am-12:00 pm

Keeping just one copy (2nd section)
of Epoch Times (Arts, Health & Science);
Threw out 16 bags of newspapers & magazines.

Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 9:00 am-3:15 am
Mountain View: Didn't go to Lab again to clean apt; "Maureen O'Hara, spirited movie star, dies at 95"
(By Robert Jablon, Mercury News, 10-25-2015, A14)

She starred in Hunchback of Notre Dame
and was "Queen of Technicolor"; Also played
Natalie Wood's Mom (Miracle on 34th Street). Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 9:00 am-3:15 am
Mountain View: Rudy helped me move 15 bags to
Public Storage so my apt looks neater (1:30-2:30 pm); Another stashed 12 bags in her trunk (8-9 pm)

Read Jane Vandenburgh's poem
"When Grace at the Bliss Café Calls"
in The New Yorker (January 11, 2016).

Thursday, May 18, 2017, 10:30-10:45 am
Mountain View: Julio, Frank, Zahira, Mary came
to inspect my apartment; Even though I threw away
24 bags of newspapers & magazines, they say I must
keep 60 inches space for stretcher in case I need to go to hospital; Inspection again in two weeks

Will need to stay home to throw away
more trash and move boxes so there
will be 60 inches space access to door. Thursday, May 18, 2017, 12:43-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
No computer for two days; 92 emails; Cay writes on missing Connie on her hikes viewing wildflowers; Deborah on retreat till Sunday noon, will rent car for hikeing in Bay Area before going back to Las Vegas

Martha worried that I didn't come to
Krause Center as usual; told her I was
home cleaning for apartment inspection.

Friday, May 19, 2017, 10:30-10:45 am
Mountain View: Went to see Julio Olivos
who told me to keep 60 inches space in my
apt for stretcher if I need to go to hospital;
Julio used tape for his door & said it's 36 inches

I measured distance with yardstick today—
Front door 36"; Bedroom door 32"; Hallway
to Living Room 44"; to Bedroom 43.5 inches. Friday, May 19, 2017, 3:00-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Looking for Hike Trails: UVas Canyon closed due
to Croy Road closure & significant storm damage
to the park's trail system; Other hike trails closed—

Big Basin Redwoods extensive damage;
Memorial Park closures for Wurr Flat
and Pomponio Canyon Trail.

Saturday, May 20, 2017, 9:30 am-1:15 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning—
Threw away New York Times & Mercury News;
Also printouts of Internet business circa 2000-2001;
"Ordinary Memory Loss, or Alzheimer's Disease?"
(By Jane E. Brody, NY Times, 5-18-2015)

Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), in use
(1975) is less discerning than Montreal
Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in 1996. Saturday, May 20, 2017, 1:55-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Email from Deborah on going nature hiking on Monday 5/22 and "taking a walk Tuesday 5/23
on the new East Span of the Oakland Bay Bridge...
it's an engineering tour-de-force!"

Meeting good friends the next few days—
Al Guzman & Rudy for breakfast & film on
Sunday, and hiking with Deborah on Monday.

Sunday, May 21, 2017, 9:26-11:40 am
Santa Clara: HomeTown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real, Moonlit Plaza); Al Guzman picks me up at my apt at 8:00 am in Mountain View, Rudy got back from Lodi & met us for breakfast at 10:15 am; Later we see "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2" film at Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge 12:30 pm for $6 instead of going to the only theatre showing "Lost City of Z"
(2017) on finding tribespeople in Amazonian jungle

Scrambled eggs, six sausages,
two potato triangle crisps, bacon, jello,
cantaloupe chunks, two chocolate milk. Sunday, May 21, 2017, 12:30-3:30 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden & Café: James Gunn
directs "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2" (2017)
with Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista,
Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker,
Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki,
Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn, Sylvester Stallone,
Kurt Russell; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Quill declines immortality like
his god-like father Ego who rules
a planet & wants to expand himself.

Monday, May 22, 2017, 11:00-11:30 am
Los Altos: Deborah Oakley from UNLV visits me after week retreat with Robert Spira (last time 3-3-2012); We go to Shoup Park's Redwood Grove (last visit 6-25-2010); She got sandwich at Roberts Market

Wanted to show her the Redwoods
since Edgewood Park is mostly
open-space trails without shade. Monday, May 22, 2017, 2:15-6:05 pm
San Mateo: Huddart Park; Deborah wants to hike
in redwoods so we came here (last visit 9-23-2012);
Trip uphill and downhill return; no wildflowers,
few creeks, mostly shady trails, no need to wear hat

Started at Miwok Center
to Dean Trail and McGarvey Flat,
to Crystal Spring & Campground Trails.

Monday, May 22, 2017, 6:58-7:17 pm
Half Moon Bay: Driving along Highway 92 stopped
on road to take photos of fog; It was cold & windy
so Deborah gave me her long sleeve pullover since
she had a jacket and I just had a short-sleeve vest

Connie and Cay took me here
around 2005 viewing the cliffs
and down to beach to find seashells. Monday, May 22, 2017, 8:16-9:25 pm
Mountain View: I suggest Chef Chu but Debbie
had Chinese food yesterday with Joy; Veggie Grill (565 San Antonio Rd); Deborah treats me for dinner;
We both have Mediterranean Supergreens Salad—

Scratch-made falafel, hummus,
harissa dip, tomato-cucumber salad,
lemon vinaigrette & grilled za'atar flatbread.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 12:15-3:29 pm
Oakland: Deborah Oakley was sent by Maryland Civil Engineering firm to inspect the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and Oakland Bay Bridge collapse; She says East Span is "an engineering tour-de-force!"

Took awhile to find parking behind
Bridge Yard building at 210 Burma Road
for bike/pedestrian path across Bay Bridge. Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 12:15-3:29 pm
Oakland: Bay Bridge Trail; Former WPI student Deborah is a civil engineer & architect connoisseur who tells me many intricacies of bridge building as
we walk across the East Span of Oakland Bay Bridge

Windy walking across bridge,
fog covers left side toward Oakland,
comorants flying around diving for fish.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Threw away bag of newspapers
and bag of computer printouts & magazines from
two black trash bags into Montebello recycle bin

Threw away hundreds of N.Y. Times articles
on Dot.com boom, search engines to portals,
and stock market crash after 9/11 tragedy. Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 4:40-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
No computer for 3 days; 100 emails mostly Google searched articles on poetry & enlightenment; Found:

Stanford Architecture visit with Deborah
(3-3-2012); Redwood Grove walk (6-25-2010);
No photos of Huddart Park hike (9-23-2012).

Thursday, May 25, 2017, 10:07-10:12 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Jay Ungar, fiddle & Molly Mason, guitar in Jay Ungar's "Ashokan Farewell" (1982); CD; (YouTube: Ungar & Mason, Susanna Heystek, Celtic Woman, J.R. Perkins, "Civil War" Soundtrack)

Piece is a waltz in D major,
composed in the style
of a Scottish lament. Thursday, May 25, 2017, 4:30-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Found Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri's 4-29-2003 talk "Enlightenment and the Responsibilities of the Enlightened" in Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

Professor Richard N. Zare
introduced Shakhashiri who
performed 11 experiments for us.

Friday, May 26, 2017, 2:20-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Richard Hanauer's May 25 email: Greetings
from Athens at the Parthenon with two photos

Richard at the Parthenon,
Panoramic View of Athens,
Mt. Lycabettus (908 feet) in background. Friday, May 26, 2017, 2:20-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
After Deborah told me of her dream of PB, I recall
my poem "A Dream of Philosophical Beauty"

Poem written 12-20-1972 (Boston),
Dream on 12-25-1971 (New York),
Met PB 8-30 & 8-31-1972 (Montreux).

Saturday, May 27, 2017, 10:30 am-5:47 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning—
Threw away two bags of newspapers & three bags
of magazines & printouts from two black trash bags

Trashed printouts of Clear Station stocks
on AMD & Sun Microsystems, Internet
Dot.com bubble & burst, Time magazines. Saturday, May 27, 2017, 10:30 am-5:47 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning—
"OP-ED: Yes, Computers Can Think"
(By Drew McDermott, NY Times, May 14, 1997, A19)

IBM's Deep Blue beats chess
grandmaster Kasparov by analyzing
200 million possible moves a second.

Sunday, May 28, 2017, 11:00 am-2:40 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning—
Threw away bag of printouts from large
black trash bag with old landline telephone

Crushed shoeboxes & wrinkled printouts
were tossed out to make apartment
more neat and tidy for inspection. Sunday, May 28, 2017, 8:00 pm-12:12 am
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning—
Went to Los Altos Library 4-5 pm; Sprouts sold out
red grapes @ 99¢/lb; 4 Terra veggie chips @ $2.50

Emailed Rudy on cleaning progress—
14 large black trash bags not opened
in five years; threw away 10 of them.

Monday, May 29, 2017, 11:00 am-11:46 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning—
Threw away two bags of newspapers & four bags
of magazines & printouts from two black trash bags

Cut name & address labels from
front covers of Time magazines—
this is the fastest items to trash. Monday, May 29, 2017, 11:00 am-11:46 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning—
Kept article "OP-ED: The Jeremy Lin Problem"
(By David Brooks, NY Times, 2-17-2012, A23)

Lin: "I wanted to do well for myself
& my team. How can I possibly give
that up and play selflessly for God?"

Tuesday, May 30, 2017, 12:30-2:30 pm
Mountain View: Neighbor Don takes me shopping
at Shoreline Safeway; Last day to redeem coupons
for free items from Monopoly Games: All Gone— Bottle of 100 aspirins, Morton salt, 25 feet Aluminum foil, 7 Safeway Donuts; Got Free Hass avocado,
Twix candy bar, Lucerne cream cheese, Open Nature Greek yogurt; Nonfat milk @ $2.99, Spinach @ 95¢,
Doritos (Nacho & Ranch) chips @ $1.99 for Rudy

Lucerne cheeses, creamers, yogurts,
Salmon fillets, Nutella spreads, Biscottis,
Dill Rye, Baron pizzas, free dozen eggs. Tuesday, May 30, 2017, 3-8:35 pm, 10 pm-4:23 am
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning— Threw
away two bags newspapers & two bags magazines
(Business 2.0, Columbia College & Engineering,
Internet magazines, New Yorker, keeping only poems)
"Dale Corson, Cornell Administrator Who Helped Quell Protest, Dies at 97" (By Paul Vitello, NY Times, April 6, 2012, B8); Photo of Homer Meade exiting Student Union, bullets across chest & rifle in hand

Dr. Corson knew many of the black
student protestors and offered black
program to prevent another Kent State.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 11:00 am-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning— Threw
away two bags newspapers & four bags magazines
(Business 2.0, Computer Currents, Entrepreneur,
Tech Week, Tech Investor, Tech Stocks, Time Digital)

Got these free magazines during
the Dot.com boom as Silicon Valley
had many startups ready to strike it rich. Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 7:20 pm-3:30 am
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning— Rudy
came 7:20-9:00 pm & with shopping cart, carried
14 bags to Public Storage; Rudy pushed boxes 28" from wall to 50" away, enough room for stretcher

Cleared 8 boxes near the front door
so there's 44" space in the corridor—
apartment now looks more spacious.