Haikus: October 2017

HAIKUS: October 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.

Sunday, October 1, 2017, 10;25-10:30 am
KNBR: Marty Lurie, Matt Cain pitches last game, retiring after 13 years; Elizabeth Chapman reads
"Ode to Matt Cain's Perfect Game" (Podcast 5:09)

Matt Cain is an athlete and an artist,
asked about his perfect game,
he replied "I have no idea." Sunday, October 1, 2017, 12:40-2:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Didn't buy $17.95 book for $2:
Jill Fairchild (Ed.), "Trees: A Celebration" (1989);
Aldous Huxley "Olive Tree" pp. 84-85—

I like the olive, symbolizing
peace with its leaves, and
joy with its golden oil .

Sunday, October 1, 2017, 4:00-6:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Arthur Penn directs "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) with Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder, Evans Evans; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, Historical accuracy, Bosley Crowther)

Landmark film of New Hollywood era,
popular with younger generation
portraying more sex and violence. Sunday, October 1, 2017, 6:10-7:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Mervyn LeRoy directs
"Two Seconds" (1932) with Edward G. Robinson,
Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee, Preston Foster,
J. Carrol Naish, Frederick Burton, Harry Beresford, Dorothea Wolbert, Berton Churchill; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4 (16:40); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Two seconds to die in electric chair,
as Edward G. Robinson flashbacks
to the events that led him there.

Monday, October 2, 2017, 8:32-8:39 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Georges Silfies plays clarinet;
Leonard Alatkin conducts St, Louis Symphony Orchestra in George Gershwin's 1937 "Promenade (Walking the Dog)"; CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Musical number written by Gershwin
for the 1937 film Shall We Dance
with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers. Monday, October 2, 2017, 11:00 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Found photos of Cooper's Hawk (1, 2) to assemble
in Photoshop as they flew away before I could
get my camera for their photo a month ago (1, 2).

Two Cooper's Hawks resting on
the bench near the mailboxes—
Are they hunting for rabbits?

Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 12:20-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
With newly found Yellow Magnolia Leaf with veins wrote 4 stanzas of poem "Yellow-Veined Leaf Sings" last night; Leaf is from Baby Grand Magnolia

I hear no Lorelei singing on the Rhine,
nor loud chanting along the Ganges,
nor cormorant fishing in the Li River,
nor waltz tunes swaying in the Danube.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 12:20-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Need references from the web to complete poem "Yellow-Veined Leaf Sings"; Smetana's "Moldau"; Finnegans Wake; Moldau as "mouldaw stains" (I.8)

James Joyce cites thousands of rivers
in Finnegans Wake, and this leaf sings its
first line— "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's
from swerve of shore to bend of bay"

Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 10:01-10:13 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Joshua Bell plays violin, as
Michael Stern conducts Orchestra of St. Luke's in Antonin Dvorak's "Russalka: Song to the Moon" (1901); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Hunter's Moon or Moon of Falling Leaves
is tomorrow's October Full Moon—
time to celebrate with Moon Cakes. Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 11:29-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Photos for Notes to "Yellow-Veined Leaf Sings"— Jane Lane Signpost; Jane Lane Bus Stop Bench; Czech #387 Smetana stamp; Vltava River Map

Inspired to write Notes for this poem
since the yellow-veined leaf sang
to me about rivers of the world.

Thursday, October 5, 2017, 8:47-8:54 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Charles Dutoit conducts Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Maurice Ravel's "Pavane
for a Dead Princess in G Op.18" (1910); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Pavane was a slow processional
dance at the Spanish court written
for his patron, Princess de Polignac. Thursday, October 5, 2017, 12:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Photos for Notes to "Yellow-Veined Leaf Sings"— Moldau Sheet Music; Ireland 1220c James Joyce stamp; Charles Bridge, Prague; Moldau River.

Smetana's Moldau record album,
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake book,
First page: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam"

Friday, October 6, 2017, 9:29-11:55 am
Robin from Network Solutions phoned at 9:29 am
saying WisdomPortal.com domain name registration
is due Oct. 11. Rudy came and paid $499.95 on his
VISA card that I reimbursed him with Fidelity check.

$100/year for web hosting and
domain name comes out to
$5/month web hosting. Friday, October 6, 2017, 7:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friends Meeting House); Waverley Writers Poetry Reading (20 poets came); Five poets who gave me ride are not here, so Phyllis Klein offered me a ride home

Read two poems tonight—
"Chandresekha's Monet Lecture"
and "Lunch with Feathered Friends".

Saturday, October 7, 2017, 11:50 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned "China Travels", Fogg-WangYangMing, Emerson's Power Quote, "Rock, Scissors, Paper", Stanford Music Quiz, Aldo Ciccolini news story.

Took another photo of Jane Lane Bus Stop
for poem "Yellow-Veined Leaf Sings";
Write up on rivers of the world. Saturday, October 7, 2017, 4:20-4:47 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd)
Jack dropped me off after Krause Center closed;
Weekend specials, Boulder Canyon Potato Chips—
Buy 1 get 2 free ($3.39), 5:05 pm Bus #40 home

Bunch of green onions for 50¢,
Twelve bags of potato chips
@ $1.13 each for Rudy.

Sunday, October 8, 2017, 1:47-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Emailed Rudy, Al, & Karen
on possible movies to see next Sunday, Oct. 15
at Cinelux Almaden Café or Bluelight Cinema

American Made (87% rating),
Blade Runner 2049 (89% rating),
and Logan Lucky (93% rating). Sunday, October 8, 2017, 1:47-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Left Library 6 pm instead of 5 pm
to write haikus for Friday & Saturday (10/6, 10/7);
No time for shopping at Sprouts or Safeway

Cooked dinner stirred-fried rice
with shrimps, crabmeat, bean curd,
green onions, carrots, and walnuts.

Monday, October 9, 2017, 12:12-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned image of Wang Yang Ming from print
bought at Harvard Fogg Museum for $1 (1970)

Photo of Aldo Ciccolini from
Palo Alto Times Tribune (12-4-1986)
on his Stanford Lively Arts Concert. Monday, October 9, 2017, 12:12-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote poem "Turning Negative Noise to Something Positive" on banging of nails that wakes me up

Construction on Hackett Ave,
Construction Hours: 7 am-6 pm,
Roof up on apartment building at left.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017, 8:17-8:22 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Ángel Romero plays guitar
to Johann Sebastian Bach's "Anna Magdalena Notebook: 2 Menuets" (1725); CD; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Rudy drove me to Social Services for 10:30 am interview with Jessica to renew Cal-Fresh

This 1725 Notebook is from Bach's
second wife Anna Magdalena, who copied
Bach's music or composed them herself. Tuesday, October 10, 2017, 2:40-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Who was Fridtjof Nansen? Google Doodle celebrates 156th birthday of legendary Norwegian adventurer (By Natalie Evans, The Mirror, UK,
10-10-2017); Nansen Doodle; Stamps of Nansen

He created the Nansen Passport,
travel document for stateless refugees
allowing the displaced to emigrate & resettle.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 10:40-10:51 am
Mountain View: CVS (2630 West El Camino Real)
Bought CVS Spectravite Multivitamin 365 tablets
($22.29), BOGO free + $5.50 CVS coupons
for $16.79 + $1.51 tax = $18.50 total

Only two multivitamins left—
CVS had buy one get one free sale,
so a year's supply costs 2.5¢ each. Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 11:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Cover: "Yellow-Veined Leaf Sings: Selected Poems 2017"; Poem "Nothing Is Impossible" recalling event in Switzerland with PB on Friday, 8-20-1976

I checked my train schedule and said
"impossible to cover 4 cities in 4 hours".
PB replied— "Nothing is impossible!"

Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 11:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
How to upload files using FTP (Network Solutions)
Host Name/ Address: ftp.wisdomportal.com; Host type: Always select auto-detect; Username / UserID: Your FTP username as assigned in the FTP Accounts section; Password: Your FTP password as assigned in the FTP Accounts section. Once your FTP password has been set you will be unable to view your password, please commit password to memory.

Have not uploaded files
since April 26, 2015 to tdl.com
before going offline for over 2.5 years. Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 11:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Software on Mac OS X at Foothill is CyberDuck;
Upload Files Using Cyberduck FTP Client (Mac);
a. Select FTP-SSL option from dropdown menu at top of screen; b. Server: ftp-[egnyte domain]. egnyte.com. (ftp-premiumacme.egnyte.com);
c. User Name: [your user name] $ [your egnyte domain]. ("jsmith$premiumacme"); d. Password: your Egnyte password; e. "Modification date"

Upload files by dragging from Finder
or your desktop into folders visible
within Cyberduck's folder browser.

Thursday, October 12, 2017, 8:03-8:14 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Gustavo Dudamel conducts
Vienna Philharmonic to Johann Strauss II's
"Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314" (1867); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Brahms signed Strauss's stepdaughter's fan
and wrote the first bars of Blue Danube
adding "Alas! not by Johannes Brahms". Thursday, October 12, 2017, 12:30-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Called Network Solutions 10:20-11:00 am for help
uploading files; Lisa will sent directions & suggests
using SSL (https://) to prevent hacking of web site

Cost for SSL is $70/year or $165/3 years—
SSL: Dalia Lama (Thurman & Tibet House)
& Rumi (Stanford Iranian Studies & Poetry).

Thursday, October 12, 2017, 12:30-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote poem "Aldo Ciccolini 1986 Stanford Concert",
after finding 12-4-1986 Palo Alto Times Tribune;
This is the 18th poem in "Selected Poems 2017"

He tells me on reading all of Paul Brunton's
yoga books. "I was missing just one book
and found it at a bookstore in Brussels." Thursday, October 12, 2017, 12:30-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Wilbur moved software buttons to dock at left instead of bottom; Develop menu to view Page Source since BBEdit 5.0 files not on new Macs

Requested Wilbur to make these changes
as only Administrator can do adjustments—
This will save me time using the Mac here.

Friday, October 13, 2017, 1:10-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"OBITUARIES: Michel Jouvet, Who Unlocked REM Sleep's Secrets, Dies at 91" (Neurophysiologist discovered brain region that controls rapid eye
movement, & helped define REM sleep as a unique
state of consciousness common to humans & animals alike.) (By Daniel E. Slotnik, NY Times, 10-11-2017)

Michel Jouvet lectured at Cornell in 1968
on "Dreams of Cats" telling us human babies
dream 90% when asleep, but 20% in adults. Friday, October 13, 2017, 1:10-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"OBITUARIES: Y.A. Tittle, Quarterback Who Led Giants to 3 Title Games, Dies at 90" (NY Giants quarterback Tittle after being slammed to ground by a Pittsburgh Steelers lineman in Pittsburgh on 9-20-1964.) (Richard Goldstein, NY Times, 10-9-2017); Morris Berman; Post-Gazette; Smithsonian

Photograph immortalized Y.A. Tittle in
football lore as an image of the aging
warrior who had finally fallen.

Saturday, October 14, 2017, 9:35 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Numbers 96— Uniform #96: Bill Voiselle; Sean Jones; Cortez Kennedy; Clyde Simmons; Mac Suzuki

CA-96 runs through Big-Foot sightings;
#96 ranked song in Rolling Stones survey
is Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Ball of Fire". Saturday, October 14, 2017, 9:35 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
SCIENCE: Sleep From Alpha to Delta (By Gay Gaer Luce & Julius Segal, NY Times, 4-17-1966)

Alpha: on edge of sleep;
Delta: deepest stage of sleep;
REM: Rapid Eye Movement in dreams.

Sunday, October 15, 2017, 12:40-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Download 96¢ postage stamps—
US PR89 Justice; US RE145 Wine Tax; Ceylon 73 Victoria; Hong Kong 7 Victoria; Hong Kong 23 Victoria: Strait Settlements 18 Queen Victoria

Poem #96— Kay Ryan's "Witness";
James Richardson's "Vectors 3.0 Aphorisms";
Jane Hirshfield's Mirabai: "Song of the flute". Sunday, October 15, 2017, 5:42-6:02 pm
Mountain View: CVS (2630 West El Camino Real)
17.5 oz No-salt Deluxe Mixed Nuts $2.99 with
$2+$3 CVS coupons; Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd); Dates $3.99; 2.5 lb Red Grapes @ 98¢/lb

Dinner: Dill rye sandwich: margarine and
Nutella with two fried eggs, 8 slices of ham,
4 Swiss cheese, pickles, spinach, orange juice.

Monday, October 16, 2017, 9:50-10:00 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Gordon Hunt plays oboe with Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Domenico Zipoli's Elevazione (1716); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Domenico Zipoli's oboe
music Elevazione is one
of my all-time favorites. Monday, October 16, 2017, 11:00 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
#96— 96 minutes for first artificial satellite Sputnik to orbit the earth; "Jeremiah 52:23" (KJV):

And there were ninety and six pomegranates
on a side; and all the pomegranates upon
the network were an hundred round about.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 10:35-11:13 am
Mountain View: Neighbor Don takes me shopping
at Safeway (580 North Rengstorff Ave); $5.00 off
on $50+ purchase; With coupons totalled $38.95—
Broccoli crowns @ $1.27/lb; Bananas @ 49¢/lb;

Quaker Instant Oatmeal @ $1.67;
Yogurt @ $1.48; Baron Pizza @ $3.33;
Nonni Biscotti @ $2; 10 Fish Fillets @ $3. Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 6:34-7:17 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Friend 6 hours late bringing Marai's "Embers";
Just before 6:10 pm Bus 40 came, she picked me up; 1/2-hour for Scheraga's 96th birthday card—

Hiroshige's Woodcut #96;
U.S. 96¢ Newspaper Stamp;
Israel 399 King David & Psalm 96.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 5:57-6:01 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Bjarte Engeset conducts Iceland Symphony Orchestra in Edvard Fliflet Braein's "Out Towards the Sea" (1964); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3 4)

Amazing meditative music,
serene, soothing, splendid—
heard for first time before dawn Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 11:00 am-4:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
For Scheraga's 96th birthday, sending Thomas
Mangelsen's card of "Misty Morning Eagle"—

Lone bald eagle serenely observes
the misty morning in Montana
from the limb of a spruce tree.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 4:12-5:45 pm
Los Altos Post Office (221 Main Street); Got there
4:50 pm & waited 1/2 hour for Vincente to serve another client with two bags of Priority Mail & packages; Vincente postmarked "October 18, 2017,
Los Altos, CA"; Saw hare near Encina Hall (7 pm)

Photos of Main Street shop windows with
Halloween displays— Adventure Toys,
Paperwhirl, and Davino Florist. Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University: Bechtel Conference Center
Another Look's Book Discussion of Sándor Márai's
Embers (1942) by Professors Robert Harrison, Tobias Wolff, Jane Shaw; Cynthia Haven played recording Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasie (pp. 50-51)

Hungarian title is Candles Burning—
book theme on friendship, love,
jealousy, revenge, and music.

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 7:48-7:54 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Rosa Antonelli plays piano to Isaac Albéniz's "Suite española: Cadiz Op. 47" (1964); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Interview);
Her face glowed when Rosa played at Carnegie Hall

Thought this slow, soothing
piano piece is by Erik Satie,
but it's from Isaac Albéniz. Thursday, October 19, 2017, 8:44-8:50 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Mark Elder conducts Hallé Orchestra in George Butterworth's "Banks of
Green Willow "Idyll for Small Orc" (1913); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Serene music at breakfast

Butterworth was killed at age 31
in WWI on 5 August 1916,
at Battle of the Somme.

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 9:50 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Steve Jobs Once Gave Some Brilliant Management Advice on Hiring Top People. In 2 Sentences"
(By Marcel Schwantes, Leadership from the Core); Jobs understood information age when he quipped:

"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people &
tell them what to do; we hire smart people
so they can tell us what to do." Thursday, October 19, 2017, 9:50 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Banks of Green Willow" music on YouTube—
Video by whitethroat1 showing willow along bank
with Platonic Lambda Λ in creek (5:12 of 6:06);
Also: Whitethroat Singing by Stephen Cummings—

Such a cute little bird—
Whitethroat hoping from branch
to branch and chirping merrily.

Friday, October 20, 2017, 8:13-10:40 am
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Al Ruffinelli used CyberDuck and tried to upload
some WisdomPortal.com pages without success;
Used Stanford 1996 Bronze Plaque for Cover and wrote Preface for "On Number 96"; Wrote captions for 96¢ foreign stamps showing Victoria; Paid $3 to print 26 pages of "On Number 96" @ 65% & poems.

Saw Al Guzman at TLC 4:30-6:00 pm;
Let me print free 31 pages of "On Number 96"
@ 80% in color, and then gave me ride home. Friday, October 20, 2017, 1:00-3:06 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Esecula Ave)
Niki Caro directs "The Zookeeper's Wife" (2017)
with Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Michael McElhatton, Iddo Goldberg, Shira Haas, Efrat Dor, Val Maloku, Timothy Radford, Goran Kostic, Arnost Goldflam, Alena Mihulová; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Rudy gave this film a "10+"
when we saw it with Al Guzman on
4-30-2017 at Cinearts @ Santana Row.

Saturday, October 21, 2017, 6:59-7:10 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Claudio Abbado conducts
Berlin Philharmonic in Johannes Brahms's "Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80" (1880); CD; (YouTube: Georg Solti, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, Riccardo Muti, Paavo Järvi)

Composed as "Thank You"
to the University of Breslau
offering Brahms honorary degree. Saturday, October 21, 2017, 9:32 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Photos of Uniform #96 was uneven when printed
in Firefox browser yesterday; adjusted captions
to print evenly; Found photo of Jack Rabbit
for "October 18, 2017 Adventures" web page

Sighting of Jack Rabbit on 10-18-2017
reminds me of similar sightings
on 8-20-2010 and 6-22-2011.

Sunday, October 22, 2017, 8:50 am-11:50 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real)
Al Guzman picks Rudy & me up 8:30 am at my apt for breakfast; Karen joined us at 10:30 am; Used $5.99 breakfast coupons for the four of us; No time to invite our Foothill friends since Al decided late on going to Cinelux Almaden Café Theatre for "Bladerunner 2049"
Haven't seen original "Bladerunner" (1982) or novel

Scrambled eggs, 6 sausages, bacon,
beets, spinach salad, egg salad, jello,
cantaloupes, and 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, October 22, 2017, 12:45-3:30 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Alamaden (2306 Almaden Rd.);
Denis Villeneuve directs "Blade Runner 2049"
(2017) with Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista, Jared Leto; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Ryan Gosling was the good guy,
but confusing who the bad guys were,
even former Harrison Ford was dubious.

Sunday, October 22, 2017, 4:15-4:41 pm
Mountain View: 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Rd.)
Karen drives Rudy & me here where she buys
seaweed, water chestnuts, and dim sum to eat;
Rudy tries free food samplings; I purchase—

Two cans of water chestnuts @ $1.39;
Vegetarian gluten $1.79; Chai Chang $2.19;
Boxes Yur Mochi Sesame Cookies @ $1.29. Sunday, October 22, 2017, 5:15-5:45 pm
Mountain View: Karen drives down Shoreline Blvd instead of San Antonio Rd to see birds at Baylands; Wind up at Shoreline Golf Links (2940 N. Shoreline Blvd); Rolling Loud at Shoreline Amphitheatre

Mallard ducks & Canadian geese
in the pond but no sailboats or
birds flying around, so we leave.

Monday, October 23, 2017, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Since yesterday movie was confusing, read more on
"Blade Runner 2049" (2017) & "Bladerunner" (1982)
as well as Philip K. Dick's 1968 science fiction novel
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Test to distinguish humans from androids—
Androids are efficient but lack empathy
whereas real human beings have them. Monday, October 23, 2017, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote poem "Meditations on 95" with Notes;
Need to compose poem "Meditations on 96"
based on citations in "On Number 96" done for
Professor Harold A. Scheraga's 96th birthday

Arrange citations in chronological order
as first step, and see if a poem will
emerge from this compilation.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 8:42 am-1:07 pm
Mountain View: Apartment Computer Room and
Los Altos Hills, Krause Center (2:18-5:10 pm)
Wrote 36-lines poem "Meditations on 96"
based on "Number 96" citations of writers

Wrote poem in Microsoft Word on
Dell computer and format it in HTML
with BBEdit on Mac OSX at Krause Center. Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 5:40-6:30 pm
Left Krause Center for 5:17 pm Bus #40;
Met Rudy at Chase, Showers Drive at 5:40 pm;
Went to Hewitt's Teaching & Learning Center;
Asked Stanford students where's Sapp Center

Sapp Center for Science Teaching and
Learning is at bottom of old Chemistry
Building damaged by 1989 earthquake.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 7:00-8:18 pm
Stanford University, Sapp Center (376 Lomita Dr.)
Professor Robert Sapolsky: "Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worsts" based on his recent book "Behave"; Stanford News, 5-8-2017; Took 8 pages of notes from over 70 slides he showed; He's a wonderful speaker.

Rudy and I were lucky to find
front-row seats at left next to podium;
auditorium full with many on the floor. Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 9:00-9:21 pm
Mountain View: Rudy & I leaves Stanford Oval;
He drives on El Camino Real; We stopped and shopped at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
Safeway coupon $2 off on $20+ purchases;
3 Nonni's Biscotti & Thin Additives @ $3.00

Lasco smoked salmon $3.91;
2 Lucerne dairy creamers @ $2.88;
Non-fat milk $2.97; supreme pizza $2.80.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 7:31-7:35 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Barry Wordsworth conducts
BBC Concert Orchestra in Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo" (1888); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Beautiful music in
Mascagni's opera
with a sad ending. Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 9:30 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Photos: Boston Public Library Grand Staircase; Murals by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes; Saint-Gaudens Lion sculptures; Staircase murals

Loved Chavannes paintings
of "Muses of Enlightenment" on
staircase of Boston Public Library.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 9:30 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Notes: Meditations on 95" as template to complete
Literary Sources in "Notes: Meditations on 96"

Poem essentially in chronological order
from King David's Psalms 96 (1023 BC) to
line 96 of Mary Oliver's "Evening Star" (2000). Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 9:30 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Pondering Sapolsky's talk on behavior changes—
No "us" & "them" in Christmas truce 1914 (film)

Hugh Thompson Jr. stopped U.S. troops in My Lai Massacre of Vietnamese civilians;
John Newton wrote "Amazing Grace".

Thursday, October 26, 2017, 11:00 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Went through four old 1-GB USBs and found
"PoetryNews.html" files (2005-2006) that were
not contaminated with Korean or Chinese

After PoetryNews.html was contaminated
at Krause Center Macs in 2006, stopped
adding Poetry News to my web site. Thursday, October 26, 2017, 11:00 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Restored "PoetryNews.html" added Anne Waldman
news (9-10-2009) to Tagore news (Dec. 27, 2006);
Found lost Singularity files in Technology folder

Stories of the Human Spirit
has Mary Shelley's 1818
sci-fi novel Frankenstein.

Friday, October 27, 2017, 1:00-3:04 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Esecula Ave)
Mira Nair directs "Queen of Katwe" (2016)
with Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Kabanza, Taryn Kay Kyaze, Ronald Ssemaganda, Ethan Nazario Lubega, Nikita Waligwa, Edgar Kanyike, Esteri Tebandeke, Peter Odeke, Sheebah Karungi; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Interview

Phiona, a 10-year-old Ugandian
girl has talent for chess, becomes
champion that gets her out of poverty. Friday, October 27, 2017, 3:30-6:00 pm
Rudy & I gave "Queen of Katwe" movie a "9";
We pick up "Daily Post" at Chevy's on El Camino;
Drops me off at San Antonio's Wells Fargo; Took
4 pm Bus #40 to Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center; Al Guzman stops car 4:15 pm and offers
me ride home; Declined as I just arrived to work;
Article by Jeff Haden, Inc.com (10-27-2017) on
12-year-old Steve Jobs caling Bill Hewitt & got job.

22 years ago, Steve Jobs said one thing
separates people who achieve from those
who only dream"— Ask for help.

Friday, October 27, 2017, 6:15-6:40 pm
After leaving Foothill College Krause Center at 6 pm,
Jack dropped me off at Los Altos Library to check out
three books before taking the 6:40 pm Bus #40 home

Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems (2011);
JoAnn Dahlkoetter, Your Performing Edge;
Miranda Seymour, Mary Shelley Bio (2002). Saturday, October 28, 2017, 9:37 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
For poem on "Platonic Lambda Λ Business Cards",
Google Images: American Airlines; AAA; Autos—

KIA Motors,
Accura, Infiniti,
Mitsubishi, Motorola.

Saturday, October 28, 2017, 9:37 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
More Auto Logos; Willys Jeep; Wayne Bush's
Logos: Pyramid with more Lambda Λ images—

1947 Willys Overland Logo;
Seeing Eye-U.S. Great Seal;
Microsoft Pyramid. Saturday, October 28, 2017, 9:37 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Poem: "Trees at Versailles"; Met three people
in 2016 whose business cards showed Λ image—

David Massolo, Photography;
Sean Headrick, Aerotestra;
Stephen Wolfram, Mathematica.

Sunday, October 29, 2017, 12:40-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Al Guzman emailed that our
meeting at Firehouse Grill was Friday, 6-12-2015

Sean Headrick (6-12-2015);
David Massolo (1-2-2016);
Stephen Wolfram (3-5-2016). Sunday, October 29, 2017, 12:40-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Stanley Moss, "Almost Complete Poems" (2016); 624 pp; "Now" (2013), p. 137—

The verb 'to be' is English lightning—
lightning and thunder are happily married,
their vows are storms. Now, now Uncle.

Sunday, October 29, 2017, 5:25-6:15 pm
Mountain View: Took 5:06 pm Bus #40 from Library
to El Camino & San Antonio Rd; Went to Sprouts
(630 San Antonio Rd) & Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd); Caught 6:21 pm Bus #40 home; Specials bought

for Rudy: Black seedless grapes 2.46 lb
@ 77¢/lb; = $1.89; Peach Yogurt @ $1.48;
Instant Oatmeal $1.59; Galbani Cheese $2.99. Sunday, October 29, 2017 6:45-10:40 pm
Mountain View: Listening to KNBR Radio on
Game 5 of 2017 World Series between Dodgers
and Astros; Kershaw leading 4-0 at end of 4th;
Astros tied it 4-4 bottom of 4th; Dodgers scored 3

top of 5th; Astros tied it 7-7 bottom of 5th;
Astros led 12-9; but Dodgers tied it 12-12;
top of 9th; Astros win 13-12 bottom of 10th.

Monday, October 30, 2017, 12:00-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote poem "Platonic Lambda Business Cards"
after scanning front & back of business cards of
Sean Headrick, David Massolo, Stephen Wolfram;
included 7 automobile logos of Lambda Λ image—

But these Platonic Lambda Λ business cards
caught me by complete surprise— carrying
the soul's image in my pocket all the time. Monday, October 30, 2017, 8:00-8:55 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium,
Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate 2017,
Poetry Reading & 18 minutes Session of Q&A;
Cupertino Poet Laureate Jennifer Brown came
to 4th row left, "Hi Peter" and sat next to me.

She reads from Waiting in the Waters (2018):
poems base on letters of Civil War slave
soldiers asking for health compensations.

Tuesday, October 31, 2017, 11:00 am-Noon
Stanford University: Terrace Room (4th floor)
Margaret Jacks Hall (Building 460)
Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate 2017,
Poetry Colloquium; Reads D.H. Lawrence's
"Song of a Man Who Has Come Through"
saying "I like that knocking startles me"

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through
me!... No, no, it is the three strange angels.
Admit them, admit them. Tuesday, October 31, 2017, 2:30-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
After the Colloquium, Tracy K. Smith autographed
the flyer of her reading; free lunch was served on
the patio; I had salad & vegetarian sandwich with
orange spice tea; Took 12:43 pm Palm XPress Bus;
12:55 pm Bus #522; 1:30 pm Bus #40 to Foothill

Today is Halloween—
Orange Spirit Great Pumpkin
rises slowly like the Full Moon.