Haikus: April 2018

HAIKUS: April 2018

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, April 1, 2018, 11:30-11:59 am
Mountain View: 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Rd)
11:06 am Bus #40; 11:15 am Bus #22; Rolled cart
to Phyllis & El Camino 12:30 pm; 12:37 pm Bus 22;
12:45 pm Showers; 1:45 pm Bus #40; 2:03 pm home

6 cans Chia Charing @ $1.39; 2 Tofu @ $1.19;
Bean Curd $2.69; 2 Roasted Seaweed @ $2.19;
3 Veg Buns @ $1.29; Water Chestnuts $1.69. Sunday, April 1, 2018, 12:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Easter Sunday, all computer
facilities closed; Rudy going to church & meals
with neighbors & can't go to Stanford Theatre films;
Will go by myself to see them; Poems for Easter—

"What Is Easter?" (4-4-1977);
"Easter Bunny Hunt" (4-9-2010);
Notes: Joseph Campbell's insight.

Sunday, April 1, 2018, 6:00-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs
"Girls About Town" (1931) with Kay Francis,
Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette,
Alan Dinehart, Lucile Gleason, Lucile Browne, George Barbier, Louise Beavers; (You Tube:
1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);

Two gold diggers about town
swindled Eugene Pallette of jewels
and Joel McCrea of $10,000 cash. Sunday, April 1, 2018, 7:30-8:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: Lowell Sherman directs "She Done Him Wrong" (1933) with Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery Sr.,
David Landau, Rafaela Ottiano, Dewey Robinson,
Rochelle Hudson, Tammany Young, Louise Beavers;
(You Tube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Cary Grant's first major role
as undercover cop arresting
hoodlums around Mae West.

Monday, April 2, 2018, 2:30-3:30 pm
Santa Clara: Kaiser Hospital (Dept 490)
Ophthalmologist Thuy Ngugen examined eyes
after dilation and found some blood there;
Will have retinopathy exam in a year

Ophthalmologist didn't look at photos
taken at the Mountain View Clinic
and advised me to exercise more. Monday, April 2, 2018, 2:30-3:30 pm
Santa Clara: Friend didn't want to follow Mapquest
directions & wished to drive back on El Camino;
Took Central Expwy West, Arguez and Scott Ave;
Saw plane going up, so heading to San Jose

She asked stranger on De la Cruz Blvd,
told to turn left at Montague, and head
straight to El Camino; got home at 6:30 pm.

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 11:02 am-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for Apt Inspection
9 am-5 pm; Threw away a bag of Mercury News;
Daily Post; Saving few articles to bookmark—

Rare Yellow Cardinal Sighted;
Hundreds Honoring Stephen Hawking;
Louvre Hosts 1st Delacroix Show in 50 Years. Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 6:40-6:59 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Shopping cart didn't get stuck & was able to roll it
across El Camino Real; Got 7:14 pm Bus #40 home

Signature Kitchens Instant Oatmeal @ $1.51;
Nonni Thin Additive Cookies @ $1,99
with 50¢ off coupons ($1.49 each).

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 9:27 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Section 41 of Sage Ninomiya's Evening Talks cites Confucian Analects 4:4— "if one truly sets his
heart on benevolence, he is free from wickedness"

So true as the sage whose mind
is imbued with goodness will
not be overcome with evil. Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 5:00-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Visiting Al Guzman at Teaching Learning Center
since he has not worked for 3 months due to back spasm pain; saved four bags of newspapers for him

Print out "On Number 41"
for Elisa's 41st birthday—
took 50 days to complete.

Thursday, April 5, 2018, 8:32 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Edward Wagenknecht's chapter "Marilyn Monroe: Rosemary for Remembrance" from his "Seven Daughters of the Theater" (1964); Added 5 stamps—

Congo Republic C107; U.S. 2967;
Grenada 2468; Laos 1999 (illegal);
Democratic Republic of Congo 2003. Thursday, April 5, 2018, 8:32 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Images for #5— Spain #1453 Hands; San Marino 1684 Vituvian Man; Firetruck #5; Figure 5 in Gold;
5 Candles; No. 5 Cake; Beethoven 5th Symphony

Looking for images #5
for Lilly's 5th Birthday
poem "On the Number 5"

Thursday, April 5, 2018, 8:32 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed Wagenknecht's chapter "Marilyn Monroe"—
"I have a certain stupid sincerity."

Chou Tun-Yi: "Sincerity is
the foundation of the sage."
Mencius: "The sage is one
with the childlike heart." Thursday, April 5, 2018, 8:32 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Images for #5— Students Studying in Library;
School Bus; 5 Senses; Sense of Touch: Poem—

Firetruck No. 5
inspired Williams' poem
and Demuth's painting
The Figure 5 in Gold.

Friday, April 6, 2018, 7:48-7:53 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: John Wilson conducts
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
in George Butterworth, "English Idyll #1" (1911); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Butterworth collected folk songs
from county of Sussex composing
rhapsodies for Two English Idylls. Friday, April 6, 2018, 9:45 am-12:05 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave);
Got April Prime Time Newsletter on movies shown:
"Darkest Hour" (4/9) & "Shape of Water" (4/13);
Printed "Linkage of Souls?" poem to read tonight

Al Guzman emailed that he'll
leave TLC early today at 3:30 pm
so I took 12:22 pm Bus #40 there.

Friday, April 6, 2018, 12:54-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"MLB pitcher incredibly keeps his cool
as bald eagle lands on his shoulder"
(By Mike Oz, Big League Stew, 4-5-2018)

Eagle landed on Seattle Mariners pitcher
James Paxton on Thursday during
Minnesota Twins' home opener. Friday, April 6, 2018, 7:30-9:00 pm
6 pm Bus #40 to El Camino Real; 6:20 pm Bus #35
to Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friends House)
for Waverley Writers Poetry Reading; (15 came);
Trudy Myrrh Reagan gave me ride home.

Read two poems— " Is There a Linkage
of Souls of Scientific Geniuses?"
and "First Day of Spring".

Saturday, April 7, 2018, 10:12 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
At Waverley Writers last night during the break,
Trudy Reagan told me about Mitchell Feigenbaum:

Learned a new number yesterday:
Feigenbaum constant—
δ = 4.669201609... Saturday, April 7, 2018, 10:12 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bookmark two Marlene Dietrich movies seen
at Stanford Theatre on Friday, March 30.

Josef von Sternberg directed
Marlene in Blonde Venus (1932)
and The Scarlet Empress (1934).

Saturday, April 7, 2018, 4:00-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Books for Sale Shelves—
Clive Hirschhorn, "The Hollywood Musical" (1981),
463 pp., $17.50 for $3 (too heavy to carry home)

Source book of movie musicals
from 1927-1982 with index of songs,
film titles, performers, and composers. Saturday, April 7, 2018, 4:00-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Ian Stewart, "The Beauty of Numbers in Nature" (2017); ( 508.0151Stewart);
Bought Stewart's book "Numbers" (1994) 1-100

Mathematical patterns
and principles from
the natural world.

Sunday, April 8, 2018, 8:53 am-11:35 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino)
Al picked me up at my Mtn View Apt at 8:30 am;
Rudy joined us at 9:02 am; Vickie served at table:
Emailed Foothill friends on joining us Saturday;
Felix and Dave replied on coming another time;
Printed $5.99 breakfast coupon for Al and me;
Al drove to Cinelux Theatre in 15 minutes

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages,
bacon, beets, jello, 2 potato wedges,
4 Polish sausages, 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, April 8, 2018, 12:00 pm-2:30 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge:
Ryan Coogler directs "Black Panther" (2018)
with Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan,
Lupita Nyong'o , Danai Gurira , Martin Freeman,
Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke,
Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3);(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Meteorite with vibranium made
African nation Wakanda poweful
as rival chieftans fight for the throne.

Monday, April 9, 2018, 8:00 am-8:11 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Shlomo Mintz plays violin as Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts Philharmonia Orchestra in Ludwig van Beethoven's "Romance for Violin #2 in F Op 50" (1798); CD; (YouTube: Nobuyuki Tsujii, Itzhak Perlman & Daniel Barenboim; Capuçon; Kyung Wha Chung; Jascha Heifetz; Maxim Vengerov; David Oistrakh; Vanessa-Mae)

Wonderful waking up to
beautiful music of Beethoven's
Violin Romance #2 this morning. Monday, April 9, 2018, 1:00 pm-3:05 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: (266 Escuela Ave);
Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge: Joe Wright directs "Darkest Hour" (2017) with Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, Nicholas Jones, Samuel West, David Schofield, Richard Lumsden, Malcolm Story (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Gary Oldman won Best Actor
Oscar playing Churchill in WW II—
"We shall never surrender!" to the Nazis.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 9:40-9:58 am
Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.)
9:30 am Bus #34 & 10:05 am Bus #34 back home.

4 Tree Top Apple Sauce @ $1.50;
Potato Taters & Onion Rings @ $2.03;
2 Silk Almond & Coconut Milk @ $2.98. Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 11:23 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Sign up Cavada's LINC class for free VTA Bus pass

LINC 72b: Adobe InDesign (#41766)
(4/21 & 4/28) or LINC 81A: Using
Digital Images (#41796) (6/11-6/29).

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 9:40-9:58 am
Mountain View Senior Center: (266 Escuela Ave);
Print out poem "Meditations on 41: Mystic Knot
of Star Lovers" and Notes to Poem on 41 @ 5¢

Expand "Literary Sources" column
so Tomas Tranströmer & Hirshfield
Poem 41 will fit in a single line. Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 12:00 pm-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Anthony at Registrar signed me up for LINC 72B;
Added "Mystic Knot" to Notes to Poem on 41

Mystic Knot (numerology = 41)
or Endless Knot symbolizes
the eternal continuum of mind.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Lewis Allen directs "The Uninvited" (1944) with Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Gail Russell, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Alan Napier;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Missed
5:30-6:05 pm showing; Saw again 9:55-10:30 pm

Ray Miland buys haunted house
where granddaughter is obsessed with
as her mother fell off the cliff and died. Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 7:30-9:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: Thorold Dickinson directs "Gaslight" (1940) with Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton, Minnie Rayner, Jimmy Hanley, Marie Wright, Aubrey Dexter; (YouTube: 1, 2, Full Film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, Essay on 1940 & 1944 films)

British version of Gaslight
made three years before U.S. film
with Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman.

Thursday, April 12, 2018, 8:32-8:40 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Michael Ludwig plays violin
as JoAnn Falletta conducts Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in Dmitri Shostakovich's "Gadfly: Romance, Op. 97" (1955); CD; (YouTube:
Andre Rieu; Janine Jansen; Tasmin Little
Jonathan Carney; Nicola Benedetti

Shostakovich composed this
music for the 1955 Soviet film
The Gadfly based on novel of same name. Thursday, April 12, 2018, 4:05 pm-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Last stanza of poem "Meditations on 41" based
on numerology of words = 41; "Mystic Knot" = 41; "Star Lovers" =41; Triangle = 41; Universe = 41;
Chose Perseus and Andromeda as "Star Lovers";
Triangulum found between Perseus & Andromeda.

Mystic Knot of Star Lovers
binds this Triangle Universe
symbolized by Platonic Lambda Λ

Friday, April 13, 2018, 11:50 am-1:55 pm
Santa Clara: DMV (3665 Flora Vista Ave);
Change of Address on CA-ID Card (Took photo
and thumbprint); and applying for a Real ID

Need statement from financial
institution or rental lease
to get Real ID card. Friday, April 13, 2018,, 3:11 pm-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bookmark "The Uninvited" & "Gaslight" movies
seen at Stanford Theatre on Wednesday 4/11

Will take 4:47 pm Bus #40 to
Showers Drive for 5:13 pm Bus #22 to
Train Depot @ 5:36 pm for 6 pm "Sabotage".

Friday, April 13, 2018, 6:00-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs "Sabotage" (1936) with Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour, Matthew Boulton, S. J. Warmington, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Bull, Robert Rietti;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Mr. Verloc moonlights as saboteur
and anarchist bomber as his wife
runs a small London movie theater. Friday, April 13, 2018, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs "Rebecca" (1940) with Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Reginald Denny, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Nigel Bruce, Florence Bates, Edward Fielding, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Nominated for 1940 Best Actress
in Rebecca, Joan Fontaine didn't win
until 1941 for Hitchcock's Suspicion.

Saturday, April 14, 2018, 11:45 am-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"PERSONAL TECH: I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes."
(By Brian X. Chen, NY Times, 4-11-2018)

Facebook had even kept a permanent record
of roughly 100 people he had deleted from
his friends list over the last 14 years. Saturday, April 14, 2018, 4:00-5:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Books for Sale Shelves— Bought
Clive Hirschhorn, "The Hollywood Musical" (1981),
463 pp., $17.50 for $3 (Heavy book not bought yet;
Will carry home today as I'm not going shopping)

Source book of movie musicals
from 1927-1982 with index of songs,
film titles, performers, and composers.

Sunday, April 15, 2018, 12:45-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Books for Sale Shelves—
Michael Babcock, Susan Seddon Boulet:
The Goddess Paintings (1994); $22 for $4

Boulet's luminous paintings of
Psyche, Athena, Gaia, and 42
other goddesses come to vibrant life. Sunday, April 15, 2018, 12:45-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: S. Peter Dance, "The Collector's Encyclopedia of Shells" (1974); $17.95 for $3.00;
Santa Clara Libraries don't have this book

This book shows 2,000 species
of mollusks (shells) including
1,500 color photographs.

Sunday, April 15, 2018, 12:45-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Returning Robert Van Pelt's
"Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast" (2001); (585.097); John Muir 1878 quote on page 2—

"Walk in the sequoia woods at any
time of year and you will say they are
the most beautiful and majestic on earth." Sunday, April 15, 2018, 12:45-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Returning "Giants in
the Earth: The California Redwoods" (2001)
by Peter Johnstone (Ed.); (634.9758Giants) p. 89—

In youth the redwood has a heavenly
yearning, growing 150 feet high,
in arrowhead form.

Monday, April 16, 2018, 11:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed poem "Neighborhood License Plates" written yesterday (5:30-8:00 pm) with photos of Montebello & Montecito corner & Car License Plate 6UJA104

Valiant wise lover (VWL: Prius)
will light lantern, (WLL: Ford)
marry the princess. (MTP: BMW) Monday, April 16, 2018, 11:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Rest in Peace to Art Bell, the Man who made the paranormal normal" (Died Friday 4/13 at age 72)
(By Drew Millard, Outline.com, 4-14-2018)

Connie and I listened to
Art Bell's Coast-to-Coast AM
every night on his paranormal topics.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 9:40-9:53 am
Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.)
9:30 am Bus #34 & 10:05 am Bus #34 back home.
There's just one checkout lane; if I miss bus after
20-minutes shopping, wait another hour for Bus #34

Signature Kitchen French Fried Onions $2;
2 Signature Select Supreme Pizza @ $2.88;
2 International Delight Creamers @ $2.99. Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 11:26 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Even if you clear your history, Google has a record of all of your search activity— here's how to delete it (By Alix Langone, Business Insider, 4-17-2018)

Open Chrome. Click More. Click History.
Clear Browsing Data. Select Beginning
of Time to Clear Everything.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 10:20 am-1:37 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for Apartment
Inspection; Computer Room to find photos for
Notes to Poem: "Neighborhood License Plates"

Prince Valiant comic book;
Full Circle Rainbow;
Philosophic Balance. Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 9:40-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road);
Bus #22 Palo Alto Train Depot to San Antonio Rd) (9:11-9:30 pm); Caught 10:16 pm Bus #40 home.

2 Strawberries lb baskets @ $1.25;
3.33 lbs Unsalted Peanuts @ $1.99/lb;
2 dozens Free-Range Chicken Eggs @ $1.88.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 6:10-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Norman Foster directs "Journey into Fear" (1943) with Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Río, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Orson Welles, Jack Moss, Jack Durant, Frank Readick, Edgar Barrier, Hans Conried; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Full Movie); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Joseph Cotten pursued by Nazi
assassins; told to leave his wife and
travel by ship, but killer followed him. Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Fritz Lang directs "Ministry of Fear" (1944) with Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Dan Duryea, Alan Napier, Erskine Sanford, Mary Field, Percy Waram: (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Got 9:11 pm Bus #22 with time to shop at Sprouts

Ray Milland leaves asylum
and unknowingly joins spy ring
being pursued by foreign agents.

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 9:45 am & 11:45 am-Noon
Mountain View Senior Center: (266 Escuelar Ave)
Printed Notes to Poem "Meditations on 41"

Went to MVSC twice to print Added Notes on Chinese Star Lovers on 7th day of 7th moon
and reformatting of Sources on Tranströmer. Thursday, April 19, 2018, 3:30-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: "Neighborhood License Plates"

Formatting 14 photos in Photoshop
selected as images in Notes to Poem:
"Neighborhood License Plates".

Friday, April 20, 2018, 10:30 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: "Neighborhood License Plates"
Buddha Vision (Zen Eyesight); Missing Key;

Color Violet,
Giant Rainbow Circle,
Art Never Dies. Friday, April 20, 2018, 10:30 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: "Neighborhood License Plates"
Goodness; Beauty (Helen of Troy); Balance;

Tristan & Isolde,
Wagner's Opera,
Wise Compassion.

Friday, April 20, 2018, 6:05-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: James Whale directs Frankenstein (1931) with Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr, Dwight Frye, Lionel Belmore, Michael Mark ; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Full Movie); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Stanford Theatre honors 200th anniversary
of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by showing
the 1931 film classic with Boris Karloff. Friday, April 20, 2018, 7:30-8:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: James Whale directs "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) with Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Douglas Walton, Una O'Connor, O. P. Heggie, E.E. Clive: (YouTube: 1, 2, full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Elsa Lanchester played
dual roles as Mary Shelley
and as the Bride of Frankenstein.

Saturday, April 21, 2018, 8:15-8:25 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Steven Osborne plays piano
in Ludwig van Beethoven's "Piano Sonata #25 in G Op 79" (1809); CD; (YouTube: Daniel Barenboim; Qi Xu; Annie Fischer; Andras Schiff

One of Beethoven's shortest sonatas
with three movements written in 1809
titled "Cuckoo" or "Sonatina". Saturday, April 21, 2018, 5:20-5:36 pm
Krause (10 am-3:40 pm); Los Altos Library (4-5 pm);
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd.)
Raincheck on dried cranberries @ $1.99/lb,
3.07 lb for $6.11; Got 5:40 pm Bus #40 home

Went to Safeway for $1 refund
on Nonni Thin Additives coupon;
Cash at Wells Fargo for breakfast & movie.

Sunday, April 22, 2018, 8:15 am-11:45 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real) Al picked me up at my Mtn View Apt 7:55 am;
Rudy came 8:00 am; Karen joined us at 11 am;
Rudy can't come to movie as he had meetings with
his Medical Anthropology class; Karen had to work;
Al got refund for extra ticket he bought at Fandango; We missed the trailers but saw the start of movie;
Al drove me to Los Altos Library after the movie.

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages,
bacon, beets, 2 potato wedges,
jello, and 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, April 22, 2018, 12:00 pm-2:10 pm
Santa Clara: AMC Mercado 20 (3111 Mission College Blvd): Ava DuVernay directs
"A Wrinkle in Time" (2018) with Oprah Winfrey,
Reese Witherspoon Mindy Kaling, Storm Reid,
Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Chris Pine, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Pena, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, André Holland, Rowan Blanchard, Bellamy Young; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Three good witches tells Meg
& Charlie that they're warriors of light
fighting Evil to bring their father back.

Monday, April 23, 2018, 9:50-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Search Fernando Po 254-256 Zodiac stamps (1968)
showing Libra to illustrate poem "On Balance"
Typed 32-line poem to show "philosophic balance"

Wrote this poem in Montreux
on October 24, 1978 during
my week with Paul Brunton. Monday, April 23, 2018, 9:50-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: "Neighborhood License Plates"
completed in ten days, typing quotes from Wei Wu Wei and Paul Brunton, sages who inspired me.

Paul Brunton on philosophic balance
from his Notebooks— "not
the mean between two extremes".

Monday, April 23, 2018, 9:50-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Search China #1481 Winter Landscape (1966)
to illustrate poem "Mountains Are Mountains"
found in "Philosophical Poems" compiled in 1979; Typed 20-line poem for "Platonic Λ: Mountains"

Wrote this poem in Corseaux
on October 26, 1978 during
my week with Paul Brunton. Monday, April 23, 2018, 9:50-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page 29 for niece Emily's 29th birthday today;
Numerology of words whose letters add up to 29— CENTER, FIRE, FOREST, FRUIT, GRAIL, LIGHT,
POINT, THREE, SUN STONES, STAR BOOK

VIOLET: 4 + 9 + 6 + 3 + 5 + 2 = 29
WHITE: 5 + 8 + 9 + 2 + 5 = 29
WISDOM: 5 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 6 + 4 = 29

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 9:40-9:55 am
Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.)
9:30 am Bus #34 & 10:05 am Bus #34 back home.
There's just one checkout lane; if I miss bus after
20-minutes shopping, wait another hour for Bus #34

Signature Kitchen French Fried Onions $2.00;
Nonfat Milk $2.49; Coffee Creamer $2.99;
Signature Asian Sesame Dressing $1.99. Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 12:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Added 7 more images to poem "Neighborhood License Plates"— VWL for Wei Wu Wei as "Valiant Wise Lover"; PPB: Promoting Philosophic Balance

Included License Plate 4ETU315
that triggered "Ides of March" and
"Et tu Brutus?" on Scoops #118 card.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 11:25 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
To upload web pages to WisdomPortal.com, Network Solutions want me to send PDF files of my CA-ID with current address & electricity bills; Got CA-ID applied on 4/13; Irene Valdez wrote letter verifying my address since 3/19/2014, and that I don't pay electricity bills; Forgot User ID/Password to Login Network Solutions as it was done in November 2017, so had to do it over; Is this for a business account?

During my 17 years of web hosting
of WisdomPortal.com since 10-12-1998,
never sent ID files to Network Solutions. Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 11:25 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"U.S.: Barbara Bush, Wife of 41st President and Mother of 43rd, Dies at 92" (Bushes celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary in January, making them the longest- married couple in presidential history. She was only the second woman in American history to have a son of hers follow his father to the White House. Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, was the first.

Didn't know that one of Barbara Bush's
distant relatives was Franklin Pierce,
the 14th President of the United States.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 6:05-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ted Tetzlaff directs
"The Window" (1949) with Barbara Hale,
Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman,
Bobby Driscoll (1950 Juvenile Academy Award);
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), 4; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); based
on Cornell Woolrich's "The Boy Cried Murder"

Young boy witnesses a murder,
but because of his penchant for lying,
no one believes him, except the murderers. Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 7:30-9:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Charles Laughton directs "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) with Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Don Beddoe, Peter Graves: (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Safeway Shopping 9:40-10 pm

Psychopathic "preacher" insinuates
himself into lives of a young widow
and her two children to steal hidden cash.

Thursday, April 26, 2018, 10:55 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Emailed Jose Sanes, Processing Specialist at
Network Solutions that wants Notarized letter
of affidavit from an officer of company; Told him
that WisdomPortal.com is not an online business;
Also can answer all questions on Wayback Machine

Sent attachment of USPS letter
verifying my P.O. Box 390707 as
Registrant & Admin Contact at WhoIs. Thursday, April 26, 2018, 10:55 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Need to pay $159.96 for 4 years of Online Security
@ $39.99/year to get https://www.wisdomportal.com;
My web site was removed from tdl.com, due to much
hacking by China PRC (Dalai Lama's Lectures at Stanford?) & Iran (Rumi's Poetry & Coleman Barks?)

Robert Thurman, Tibet House,
Dalai Lama, Stanford Iranian Studies,
Rumi's Poetry have https on their web sites.

Friday, April 27, 2018, 5:55-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"The 39 Steps" (1935) with Robert Donat,
Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft John Laurie, Helen Haye, Wylie Watson, Peggy Simpson, Frank Cellier; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), full movie);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Good scene of farmer's wife
giving Robert Donat her husband's
overcoat to protect him from the cold. Friday, April 27, 2018, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) with Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

American reporter stumbles upon
Nazi espionage ring hiding in a
Dutch windmill rotating backwards.

Saturday, April 28, 2018, 11:40 am-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"The World Wants Blueberries All the Time. Chile's Excited" (Chilean grower Hortifrut produced 220 million pounds of blueberies in the current harvest.
(By Eduardo Thomson, Bloomberg News, 4-18-2018)

1.7 million tons blueberries produced last year;
U.S. is biggest producer of blueberries,
followed by Canada and Chile. Saturday, April 28, 2018, 11:40 am-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Reformat captions to Scoops #118 card Julius Caesar Assassinated so two lines appear instead of three.
Add to Notes to Poem: Neighborhood License Plates:
Caesar's descendants and Recent Roman historian

Last Caesar descendant died in the 5th century;
One notable Roman historian Peter Brown
still alive (age 82) but teaches at Princeton.

Sunday, April 29, 2018, 1:54-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Robin Richmond's
"Michelangelo & Creation of the Sistine Chapel" (1995) $22 for $4; Cupertino & Milpitas Library have this book (759.5MichelaRichmon)

Wrote poem on "Distance of Creation" (1992),
so bought this book with centerfold showing
restoration views of Sistine Ceiling Frescoes. Sunday, April 29, 2018, 9:45 pm-2:00 am
Mountain View: Start reading Philip Larkin's book
"A Girl in Winter" for tomorrow's "Another Look"
Book Discussion Club at Stanford's Bechtel Center
Read to p. 171 (4+ hours); 77 more pages tomorrow

Unlike novelist Thomas Hardy whose
poems were not published until 1898,
poet Philip Larkin wrote only two novels.

Monday, April 30, 2018, 9:27-9:37 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
in Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture
"Fingal's Cave" Op.26" (1832); CD; (YouTube:
1; 2; Claudio Abbado; Scott Sandmeier)

Inspired by 1829 excursion to
Scottish island of Staffa, with
basalt sea Fingal's Cave. Monday, April 30, 2018, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Bechtel Conference Center
Encina Hall; Another Look Book Discussion—
Philip Larkin, "A Girl in Winter" (1947); Discussants: Robert Pogue Harrison, Tobias Wolff, Elizabeth Conquest, (wife of Robert Conquest)

Philip Larkin's A Girl in Winter
book review by Clive James
and Joyce Carol Oates.