Haikus: August 2018

HAIKUS: August 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.

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 9:29 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 67: #115: Plato's Philebus 67a on pleasure; #116: Timaeus 67c on sight; #118: Gita 2.67 on dispassion; Gita 18.67 on self-discipline

Case 67 of Hekiganroku: Fu Daishi concludes his lecture on Diamond Sutra to Emperor Wu: hitting lecturn once & it's over.
Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 9:29 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 67: Checked out e.e. cummings' "Complete Poems: 1904-1962" from Foothill Library as it's not available at Santa Clara Libraries; Typed Poems 67:

Xaipe (1950);
95 Poems (1958);
73 Poems (1963).

Thursday, August 2, 2018, 8:53 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Astavakra Gita 18.67— "Hallelujah to him who has renounced all desires, who is the embodiment of Perfect Bliss, which is his own nature, and who is spontaneously absorbed in the unlimited space."
Swami Chinmayananda's exuberant commentary
on Sage Astavakra's dialogue with King Janaka
captures ecstasy of experiencing enlightenment—

Meditator is not separate from the meditated:
subject merged in object-of-contemplation:
wherein the river has reached the ocean! Thursday, August 2, 2018, 8:53 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 67: #168: Stephen Mitchell's "Parables & Portraits" (1990), 67th poem "Penelope"; #169:
Kay Ryan's "The Best of It" (2010), 67th poem— "OSPREY"; #171: Jane Hirshfield's "Women in Praise of the Sacred" (1994), 67th Poem— Hadewijch of Antwerp's "Love's maturity" #172:
67 in Numberlogy (words whose letters add up to 67)

DRAGON TREASURE = 32 + 35 = 67
GARDEN BRIDGE = 31 + 36 = 67
GOLDEN FOUNTAIN = 30 + 37 = 67.

Friday, August 3, 2018, 10:00 am-5:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Cathy's Birthday: Hiroshige's Woodcut #67; Postage stamps with 67 denomination; Happy Hellos Highway 67: Cover: Number 67; Preface

France 2701: Monet's Waterlilies
France 2257: Camille Claudel's La Valse
France 2798: Brueghel's Peasant Dance Friday, August 3, 2018, 10:00 am-5:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Poem: "Meditations on Number 67: Be Glad & Sing
for Joy" and Notes to Poem with Literary Sources

Be glad and sing for joy—
sing prayers within your heart
with the gift of compassion
that will be blessed and multiply.

Friday, August 3, 2018, 5:40-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Joshua Prager's 100 Years
came in so #160 can be completed in "Number 67"; Also checked out Robert Bly's Tranströmer in "The Half-Finished Heaven" (2001) to change #165

Bought Joel ben Izzy's The Beggar King
& The Secret of Happiness ($22.95 for $1)
as it has 87 Amazon reviews (4.6 of 5 stars). Saturday, August 4, 2018, 10:18 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 67: #165: Replaced 27-lines poem "Traffic"
with shorter 8-lines poem "Two Cities" translated
by Robert Bly in "The Half-Finished Heaven" (2001)

I swim out in a trance
on the glittering dark water.
A steady note of a tuba comes in.

Sunday, August 5, 2018, 12:40-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Emailed Cathy's Birthday page, Poem "Meditations on Number 67", and Notes;
Deng Ming-Dao, "Wisdom of the Tao" (2018)
191 pp. (299.514Deng); #56, p. 72—

A Realized Person has a heart-like mirror,
nothing needs to be done and
nothing needs to be gained. Sunday, August 5, 2018, 12:40-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: New Nonfiction Books on Shelves:
Sir Ken Robinson, "Out of Our Minds"(3rd Ed., 2017) 275 pp. (153.35Robinso2017); p.121—
(TED 2006 Talks: 52,336,054 views)

Creativity involves putting your
imagination to work. In a sense,
creativity is applied imagination.

Monday, August 6, 2018, 9:29-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number Paintings for "Mystery of Numbers" book— Jasper Johns' "Numbers in Color" (1959);
Katharine Stahl's "Helvetica Numbers" (2013);
Sadie Chandler's "Numbers" (2010);
Silvia Hartman's "Numbers" (2014)

Dan Heller's Hebrew Letters & Numbers
(2003) is the most exotic art image of
all the "Numbers" paintings found. Monday, August 6, 2018, 9:29-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Updating Numbers done in 2014 before web site went offline for 3.5 years (4-26-2015); Trinity; Number 4; Number 5; Number 6 in Nature; Number 37: Number 38: Number 41; Number 41; Number 66; Number 95;
Make "Number pages" each year on their birthday—

Number 41 for niece Elisa;
Number 67 for friend Cathy;
Number 96 for Prof. Scheraga.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 12:40-3:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 67: Adjusted pages 9-10 so #99 Marvel Value Stamp #67 is not cropped; Adjusted pages 20-21 #161-163 so 73 Poems cover's not cropped;
Printed 24 pages with cover & preface at TLC

Reducing & expanding lines in those pages
helped bring all the images on one page,
so none of them are cropped off. Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 6:30-7:01 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Friend takes me shopping: 2 Rewards Coupons for $40+ purchases; Dole Pineapple-Orange Juice $2.49; O-Organic Coconut Mile $2.38; Spinach $1.49; Baby Carrots $1.29; Tai Pei Meals @ $1.90

8 Quaker Instant Oatmeal @ $1.38;
4 Lucerne Strawberry Yogurt @ $2.25;
2 Oroweat Dill Rye & Dark Rye Bread @ $2.

Wednesday, August 8, 2018, 8:45 am-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Walk around Redbird & Nightingale Drive, San Jose; Formatted 45 photos & assembled web page
of hike with Al Guzman on 7-29-2018

Added photos of Hawk resting at
Krause Center to synchronize with
Redbird & Nightingale Drive walks. Wednesday, August 8, 2018, 8:45 am-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Foothill Clouds, Los Altos Hills; 24 photos of clouds taken at Foothill College; Photos were taken on July 18-19 and July 23-25, 2018 according to camera

Since Al Guzman fixed the date & time
on my Canon Powershot A590 camera,
the time on these photos are accurate.

Thursday, August 9, 2018, 9:28 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Books to Write Projects; "Mountains"; "Platonic Lambda: Soul of the Universe"; "Mystery of Numbers"; "Albert Einstein & The Wisdom Mudra"; "Wisdom Mudra in Art History"

Table with books to write
will keep me focused
and "Just Do It!". Thursday, August 9, 2018, 5:45-7:00 pm
After Krause Center closed at 5 pm, Jack dropped me
off at El Camino Real & Showers Drive where I got
the 5:30 pm Bus #522 to Palo Alto Train Station;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: opens 7 pm (half-hour before movie starts); Newspapers at Bryant Street

Went to Music on the Plaza
played by Stealin' Chicago band;
Free metal mug for McRoskey Pillow drawing.

Thursday, August 9, 2018, 7:30-10:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: John Cromwell
directs "Since You Went Away" (1944) starring
Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten,
Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Walker, Hattie McDaniel, Alla Nazimova, Agnes Moorehead; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, Full Film;
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4): Tues. & Wed. showing had incomplete version; Library of Congress sent complete version today: Inermission at 9:15 pm:
Caught 10:28 pm Bus #22 (Palo Alto Train Depot)

Long movie of three hours
so need to walk home as
last Bus #40 is 10:20 pm. Friday, August 10, 2018, 1:00-2:53 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave):
Boaz Yakin directs "Remember the Titans" (2000) starring Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald Faison, Craig Kirkwood, Ethan Suplee, Kip Pardue, Hayden Panettiere, Nicole Ari Parker, Kate Bosworth, Ryan Gosling; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3 4, 5; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Foothill College closed today without electricity; Didn't come to MV Senior Center (June, July, August) until today

True story of black coach Herman Boone
(Denzel Washington), blending T.C. Williams
High School football team in Alexandria, VA
(1971) to a perfect undefeated 13-0 season.

Saturday, August 11, 2018, 9:36 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Correct typos in "Walk around Redbird and Nightingale Drive, San Jose"; "Books to Write Projects"; "Mystery of Numbers"; "Wisdom Mudra
in Art & Philosopy" (title change to "Art History")

In rush to print pages in color
at TLC on Thursday 3:30-4:00 pm,
made several typos corrected today. Saturday, August 11, 2018, 9:36 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote Haikus for Thursday 8/9 to Saturday 8/11;
Table of Contents page for "Mystery of Numbers";
"Numbers 0-99"; "Numbers 101-366"; "Numbers 1000 & Higher"; Can't find 367-999.

191,200— Baseball signed by Joe DiMaggio
& Marilyn Monroe sold for $191,200
at Heritage Auctions (May 6. 2006).

Sunday, August 12, 2018, 8:11 am-10:45 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real); Al picked me up at my MV Apt 7:40 am
for breakfast; Karen joined us at 10:00 am; Printed out $5.99 Hometown Buffet breakfast coupons for us; Astronomy Professor John Beck emailed that he was coming for the movie, but didn't show up: Rudy still in Lodi, didn't come for breakfast or movie

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages,
bacon, spinach, grape tomatoes,
jello, and 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, August 12, 2018 11:45 am-2:27 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge:
Christopher McQuarrie directs "Mission: Impossible— Fallout" (2018) with Tom Cruise; Henry Cavill; Ving Rhames; Simon Pegg; Rebecca Ferguson; Sean Harris; Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Kirby, Kristoffer Joner, Wes Bentley; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
does all the stunts, jumping through
windows, across buildings, into helicopters.

Monday, August 13, 2018, 10:25 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Searched through dozens of folders & found
book covers to scan— "Warriors of Light" (1985); "Philosophical Poems" (1981); "Invisible Dragon" (1976); "Chinese Zoo"; "Memoirs Collage"

Scanned book covers at 150 dpi
(231-564 KB), size=(923x1200).jpg
Memoirs Collage for Memoirs cover. Monday, August 13, 2018, 10:25 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Table of Contents page for "Warriors of Light" (1985)— St. Francis of Assisi, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus, Johann S. Bach, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Euclid, Mahatma Gandhi

Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur,
Buddha, Albert Schweitzer,
Copernicus, Albert Einstein.

Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 10:05 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Found "367-999" in PYC-6 USB (downloaded from Wayback Machine 4-1-2008); #499: Confucian Analects has 499 sayings; #369: In California, at a secret location in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, is a 369-foot-high titan that's both tallest living tree & tallest organism on earth. ( NYT, 4-27-2004)

Carol Kaesuk Yoon's 2004 NY Times article
tells about a 413-feet Douglas Fir tree at
Lynn Valley of British Columbia, Vancouver. Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 10:05 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bookmarked 6 news articles yesterday at Los Altos Library (6:30-8:00 pm)— "OP-ED: We Are Merging With Robots"; "Google-Facebook Dominance Hurts Ad Tech Firms"; “NASA's Parker Solar Probe to 'Touch the Sun'”; "Twitter's Struggle Over What Gets Banned"; "Maria Konnikova Shows Her Cards"

Signed baseball sells for record $623,369—
11 signatures from 1939 Hall of Famers
Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb.

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 10:30 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Found & Scanned "Elephant Rock" photo with daisies for poem "Elephant Rock at Valley of Fire"

I see that bull elephant now in this Valley
of Fire, heart overwhelmed by beauty—
his gentle mind ready for flight. Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 10:30 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Found & Scanned "Cave Journey to Center of the Heart" book cover for "Books to Write" web page

18 Newsletters for computer graphics
designers at Foothill College to infuse
a spiritual dimension in our artworks.

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 10:30 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Mystery of Numbers: Table of Contents with
Jasper Johns' "0 Through 9" Painting (1960)

24 Chapters of my favorite numbers— 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 22, 26, 33, 40, 42, 55,
64, 73, 100, 108, 220, 322, 500, 1022, 1132. Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 10:30 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Memoirs: Table of Contents; in "Books to Write"
web page; Cropped image of "Memoir Collage"

16 Chapters from China Years
to Studies at Columbia & Cornell,
to Collecting Quotes & Autographs.

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 7:20-7:53 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd)
$5 off coupon for $30+ purchases— Rainchecks
$11.99 for Solgar Magnesium Citrate ($13.25)
& $9.99/lb for Jumbo Sea Scallops ($10.02);
Organic Broccolette @98¢

2.47 lb Red seedless grapes @98¢/lb = $2.42;
2.64 lb Vine-ripe tomatoes @98¢/lb = $2.59;
0.95 lb Dried mango @ $4.49/lb = $4.27. Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 8:08 pm-7:00 am
Mountain View: Caught 8:08 pm Bus #40 home at
San Antonio Rd & El Camino; Lost house & mailbox keys while looking at watch 8:00 pm; Neighbor Don Richards drove me there (8:40 pm) & searched, but can't find keys; Slept over on Don's couch (12-7 am)

Watched PBS "Nova" (9 pm-11:55 pm)
"Wonders of Mexico"; "Mesa Verde";
"Dunkirk: Hitler's Secret Weapon".

Thursday, August 16, 2018, 9:15 am-10:00 am
Mountain View: Paid $10 to Irene for lost house
and mailbox keys; Junior made duplicate keys

Great to be back in apartment again;
Coffee/creamer; wheat germ, banana oatmeal;
33 red grapes, yogurt, banana chips, and nuts. Thursday, August 16, 2018, 12:45-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Anna-Sofia Lesiv, Mercury News, 8-16-2018 article—

"Getting Married on 8-18-18? Lucky You!" "18" in Chinese means "certain prosperity".
Hebrew "life" (chai): numerical value of 18.

Thursday, August 16, 2018, 12:45-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Assembled two sets on "Number 67" (26 pages);
"Aretha Franklin, Indomitable 'Queen of Soul',
Dies at 76" (By Jon Pareles, NY Times, 8-16-2018)

She had more than 100 singles on the
Billboard charts. including 17 Top 10
pop singles and 20 No. 1 R&B hits. Thursday, August 16, 2018, 12:45-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"When Aretha Franklin Brought Down the House at the Kennedy Center" (Singing "A Natural Woman")
(By Gavin Edwards, NY Times, 8-16-2018)

Chilina Kennedy: "She was up in the
stratosphere with those riffs, but every cell
of her being seemed to be in the music."

Friday, August 17, 2018, 9:27 am-3:27 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Found illustrated "8" and "9" birthday poems for
Elisa (1985-1986) for "Mystery of Numbers" book,
5-pages "Sequoia sempervirens" Wikipedia article;
Checked out Library copy of "Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast"; Not Redwoods writings by others...

but find photos of giant Redwoods in
my hundreds of hikes with Connie
and my reminiscences of them.
Friday, August 17, 2018, 9:27 am-3:27 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
8/17 Email from Al Guzman on chores I need to do;
Chapter on "Redwoods" and "Goosepen" by Aug. 26;
Getting a haircut; Waverley Writers Party; Trip to
CALSTRS in San Jose on units needed for pension;
Decided on seeing "Crazy Rich Asians" on Aug. 26

Director Jon Chu is son of Chef Chu,
a local boy whose film is getting
rave reviews, raking in millions.

Friday, August 17, 2018, 5:10-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: John Ford directs
"The Quiet Man" (1952) starring John Wayne,
Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond,
Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, Francis Ford,
Arthur Shields, Eileen Crowe, Charles Fitzsimons,
Sea McClory; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Full movie); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

John Wayne buys house in Innisfree
where he was born after retirement—
recall Yeats's poem "Lake Isle of Innisfree". Friday, August 17, 2018, 7:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: John Ford directs
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) starring
John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, George O'Brien, Arthur Shields, Chief John Big Tree, Fred Graham, Basil F. Heath, Noble Johnson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, Full movie); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Considered most beautifully photographed
Westerner ever made by the film auteur
John Ford— a real scenic treat!.

Saturday, August 18, 2018, 12:28-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Lawrence J. Quirk, The Great Romantic Films (1974) on Sales Shelves ($6.95 for $2); Santa Clara Libraries don't have this book

Fifty of the best-loved motion pictures
from Smilin' Through (1932) to Love &
Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973). Saturday, August 18, 2018, 12:28-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Looking through Nature Walks 2006-2010, and located 36 hike photos of Redwoods
& Goosepens for chapters on these Lambda Λ topics

Better to write about memorable
Redwoods encountered on hike trails
since they are my personal experiences.

Sunday, August 19, 2018, 10:30-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Looking through Nature Walks 2008-2013, found 315 Redwoods & 78 Goosepen photos for chapters on these Lambda Λ topics

Platonic Lambda Shaped Log;
Platonic Lambda Shaped Trunk;
Platonic Λ Shaped Log Cross-Section. Sunday, August 19, 2018, 7:15-8:45 pm
Palo Alto: Mary-Marcia's Waverley Writers Potluck Party (3730 Redwood Circle); Friend came late to Library & drove me there; Most poets have gone.

Took photo of "Redwood" signpost;
Had green & white tea with salad;
Joe & Mary-Marcia drove me home.

Monday, August 20, 2018, 11:10 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Looking through Nature Walks 2013-2018,
found 87 Redwoods & 7 Vanishing Point photos
for chapters on these Platonic Lambda Λ topics

Vanishing Point to Beach;
Vanishing Point to the Hills;
Vanishing Point on Coast Trail. Monday, August 20, 2018, 11:10 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Looking through Nature Walks 2013-2018,
Found Platonic Lambda Λ images on hikes;
Ponderosa Center Redwoods (Santa Clara)

Lambda-shaped Pine Tree;
Platonic Lambda-shaped Fern;
"Daddy Long Legs" Lambda Shadow.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 7:29-7:38 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Andrew Litton conducts
Dallas Symphony Orchestra to Gustav Holst's
"The Planets: Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity Op. 32" (1916); CD; (YouTube: Eugene Ormandy;
Colin Davis; James Levine, Seiji Ozawa)

The Jupiter section of Holst's
The Planets is my favorite—
What joy will it bring me today? Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 8:40-8:48 am
Mountain View: Jane Lane & Rengstorff Ave;
Waiting for 8:48 am Bus #40 to Foothill College;
MIRACLE: Someone returned my lost keys where
I lost them Wednesday, 8/15; Thought it was at Bus
#40 Stop (San Antonio Rd/El Camino Real) @ 8 pm.

Lost my house & mailbox keys a week ago—
Didn't know it was on the Bus Stop bench
when I got out my watch to check the time.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 9:28 am-6:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bookmarked 11 articles in San Jose Mercury News
(6/18-8/17/2018); "Silicon Valley Birthplace":
"Nobel Prize-winning Stanford physicist Burton Richter dies at 87"; Hendrik Fisher worked at SLAC, & knew Burton Richter, wants to read his obituary

Mercury News (7/21);
Stanford News (7/19);
New York Times (7/23). Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 9:28 am-6:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Formatting 22 Photos taken 8/16-8/20/2018 for "Excursions" page; Ford Shelby Cobra GT360;
John Wayne Marquee; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Poster; Redwood Circle Signpost; One Acanthus Mollis; "Marble Shooter" Sculpture at Kaiser

Mountain View City Hall;
Mountain View Center for Arts;
Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018, 9:27 am-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Compose web page "Excursions to Library &
Stanford Theatre Movies"; Photos link to Poems:

One Acanthus Mollis ("One and the Many");
Platonic Λ Redwood ("Coast Redwoods");
Magnolia ("Yellow-Veined Leaf Sings"). Wednesday, August 22, 2018, 9:27 am-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Compose web page "Excursions to Library &
Stanford Theatre Movies" with 33 photos

Walking home at 8 pm on August 21,
learned from Patricia that her white dog
is a Clumber Spaniel from Great Britain.

Thursday, August 23, 2018, 9:27 am-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Compose web page "Excursions to Library &
Stanford Theatre Movies"; Add 8 photos to page:

Disk-Shaped Pine Tree, Montebello Ave;
Redwoods Behind Three Ginkgo Trees;
Hole in Giant Gnarly Pepper Tree. Thursday, August 23, 2018, 9:27 am-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Compose web page "Redwoods from Hikes"
and Platonic Lambda Λ Images (2006-2018)

Memorial Park Oldest Redwood;
Advocate Tree, Forest Nisene Park;
Skyline Boulevard Methuselah Tree.

Thursday, August 23, 2018, 5:40-7:12 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Fred M. Wilcox
directs "The Secret Garden" (1949) starring
Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall,
Dean Stockwell, Brian Roper, Gladys Cooper,
Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Owen, Isobel Elsom, Aubrey Mather, George Zucco, Billy Bevan;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Dad took family to see Secret Garden
at Utopia Theater on Union Turnpike—
my first movie viewing in America in 1949. Thursday, August 23, 2018, 7:30-9:25 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli
directs "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944) starring
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor,
Leon Ames, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main, Harry Davenport, Joan Carroll, June Lockhart, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Robert Sully; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

One of my favorite musicals—
Love the songs "Under the Bamboo Tree"
& "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".

Friday, August 24, 2018, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finished web page "Excursions to Library &
Stanford Theatre Movies"; Add 9 photos to page:

The Secret Garden Marquee;
Meet Me in St. Louis Film Poster;
Stanford Theatre Memorablia Room. Friday, August 24, 2018, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finished web page "Excursions to Library &
Stanford Theatre Movies"; Add 9 photos to page:

Wurlitzer Played at Stanford Theatre;
Movie Posters Display in Lobby (1st floor);
Only Angels Have Wings Poster (2nd floor).

Saturday, August 25, 2018, 7:38-7:48 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Leonard Bernstein conducts
New York Philharmonic to Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave' Op 26" (1832); CD (YouTube: Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Herbert von Karajan, Nathalie Stutzmann)

A Google Doodle for Lenny celebrating
his 100th birthday on August 25, 2018,
as American's greatest musician. Saturday, August 25, 2018, 7:59-8:06 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Klára Körmendi plays piano
to Erik Satie's "3 Gymnopédies" (1888); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Met Ciccolini at Stanford
(12-5-1986); Didn't know he was an expert on Erik Satie, whose serene music is like PB's teachings.

After the rousing Hebrides Overture,
nice to listen to Erik Satie's
soothing music for relaxation.

Saturday, August 25, 2018, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Library: "The World's Tallest Tree"
(By Elizabeth Howell, Live Science, 4-15-2013); Hyperion: 380.3 feet; discovered in 2006 and is so tall that its top cannot be seen. Living in a secret location in Redwood National Park, CA, it lives among others including Helios at 374.3 feet,
Icarus at 371.2 feet, and Daedalus at 363.4 feet.
"10 Tallest Trees" (By Melissa Breyer, 4-26-2018)

11 facts about coast redwoods: When scarred
by fire, cavities are large enough to house
geese, scar caves are called "goose-pens". Saturday, August 25, 2018, 7:04-8:24 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Leonard Bernstein conducts
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to Beethoven's "Symphony #9" (1824); CD (YouTube: "Ode to Freedom: The Berlin Celebration Concert"); Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Symphony #9 after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, on Christmas Day 1989 in the Konzerthaus Berlin with Schiller statue in front.
Schiller's "Ode to Joy" (1785) used by Beethoven.

Stayed home to listen to Beethoven's 9th
in its entirety, and got to ballroom dancing
at Cubberley Pavilion an half-hour late.

Sunday, August 26, 2018, 8:46 am-12:20 pm
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real); Woke up late at 7:55 am as alarm didn't ring at 7:00 am; Al came to my Mtn View Apt at 8 am & gave me 15 extra minutes; No time to drink coffee; $3 off coupon for dinner buffet honored; Karen joined us at 10:20 am-12:20 pm breakfast; No time for short hour walk; Karen drove me to Los Altos Library after
the movie taking El Camino Real & San Antonio Rd.

Coffee, scrambled eggs, 8 sausages,
bacon, beets, spinach, grape tomatoes,
jello, and 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, August 26, 2018, 1:15-3:30 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge (2306 Almaaden Rd): Jon M. Chu directs "Crazy Rich Asians" (2018) with Constance Wu; Henry Golding; Michelle Yeoh; Gemma Chan; Lisa Lu; Awkwafina; Harry Shum Jr., Ken Jeong, Sonoya Mizuno, Chris Pang, Jimmy O. Yang; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Shoreline Theatre sold out 7 pm & 9 pm Saturday, so Karen came to see it today with us

Making dumpling scene in film familiar—
helped Mom to make these dim sum
when she had parties in New York.

Sunday, August 26, 2018, 7:20-10:12 pm
Mountain View: Got haircut at Lam's Hair & Nails (2464 W El Camino Real), Saturday 4:25-4:45 pm, before ballroom dancing; Did laundry tonight—

2 bedsheets, pillow case, regular pants,
2 pajama pants, 7 bath & facial towels,
11 shorts, 11 T-shirts, 21 pair of socks. Monday, August 27, 2018, 9:26-5:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote 12 haikus 8/17 (John Wayne movies) and
Saturday 8/25 to Monday 8/27; Al Guzman came

to log me in CALSTRS so I could
check out my Retirement Plans online
and find out what's needed to get pension.

Monday, August 27, 2018, 9:26-5:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Need to round up Redwood photos from hikes—
6 Memorable Redwoods: Oldest at Memorial Park;
Advocate Tree; Methuselah Tree at Skyline Blvd

Thornewood Redwood;
Portola Redwoods State Park;
El Corte de Madera Redwood. Monday, August 27, 2018, 9:26-5:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Need to gather Goosepen photos from hikes—
Goosepens: Memorial Park Redwood Goosepen;
Advocate Tree Goosepen; Methuselah Tree Goosepen

Portola Redwood Goosepen;
Purisima Creek Redwood Goosepen;
El Corte de Madera Redwood Goosepen.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018, 9:26-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Celebrating my mentor Goethe's 269th birthday;
Poetry Anthology on Goethe; "Winter Journey
in the Harz" (1777); "Meeting Goethe in Heidelberg" (Notes); Earth Inhaling & Exhaling; Eckermann

Goethe on Peace;
Goethe & Alchemy;
Goethe inspired by Michelangelo. Tuesday, August 28, 2018, 9:26-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Arrange four photos each from Redwood hikes in chronological order— Oldest at Memorial Park; Advocate Tree; Methuselah Tree; Thornewood; Portola Redwoods; El Corte de Madera Redwood

With these giant Redwoods photos
lined up, they may trigger my fond
memories of my encounters with them.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018, 7:02-7:08 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Andrew Parrott & Taverner Players in Johann Pachelbel's "Canon and Gigue
in D" (1706); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Celebrating his birthday today,
they played Pachelbel's Canon in D
this morning— so refreshing to hear. Wednesday, August 29, 2018, 9:58 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Platonic Lambda Λ Redwoods": 30 photos from Redwoods hikes (2008-2012) for second chapter—

From a tiny seed it grows to over 300 feet high,
aged 2000+ years, Sequoia sempervirens—
the world's tallest living miracle!

Thursday, August 30, 2018, 9:28 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Found 79 photos of Goosepens in Redwood hikes; Need to select best samples for the third Λ chapter

Thornewood Redwood didn't have goosepen;
Photographed 100 Redwoods & 62 Goosepens
on five hikes to Portola Redwoods State Park. Thursday, August 30, 2018, 9:28 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Lab will be closed Friday 8/31 to Monday 9/3
for four-days Labor Day weekend holiday

Will catch 4:47 pm Bus #40 to Showers Drive
for 5:13 pm Bus 22 to Train Depot 5:36 pm for
6:05 pm "Mummy" movie at Stanford Theatre.

Thursday, August 30, 2018, 6:05-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Karl Freund directs "The Mummy"(1932) starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan, Bramwell Fletcher, Noble Johnson, Leonard Mudie; (YouTube: 1 2, 3 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Archaeologists unearth ancient mummy
who returns to life, obsessed with woman
who may be reincarnation of his former love. Thursday, August 30, 2018, 7:30-8:35 pm
Edgar G. Ulmer directs "The Black Cat" (1934), with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher, Harry Cording, Lucille Lund, Henry Armetta, Albert Conti, John Carradine;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3): (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Karloff (Frankenstein) & Lugosi (Dracula)
pitted against each other in 1934
horror film The Black Cat.

Friday, August 31, 2018, 7:00-7:11 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Itzhak Perlman plays violin,
Zubin Mehta conducts New York Philharmonic
in Camille Saint-Saën's "Havanaise Op 83"
(1887); CD; (YouTube: Itzhak Perlman, Yueun Kim, Maxim Vengerov, Jean-François Paillard)

Celebrating his 73rd birthday,
showcased Itzak Perlman playing
Saint-Saën's Havanaise, Op. 83. Friday, August 31, 2018, 10:54 am-4:20 pm
Los Altos Library: "Goose-pen" cited in 20 volumes
"OED", Vol. VI: Follow-Haswed, p. 685, under
"Goose"— (a) pen or enclosure for geese,
(b) quill pen; Shakespeare "12th Night" (1601),
III.ii.48 "though thou write with a goose-pen"

OED provides usage for "quill pen"
but doesn't give usage for "geese enclosure"
so when was "goose-pen" word first used?

Friday, August 31, 2018, 5:45-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs "Father of the Bride"(1950) starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, Marietta Canty, Russ Tamblyn, Tom Irish, Paul Harvey, Leo G. Carroll, Fay Baker; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, movie); (Reviews:
1, 2, 3, 4); Missed 9:34 pm Bus #22 after movie

After hectic wedding of daughter,
Spencer Tracy & Joan Bennett dance
to music of "Good Night Sweetheart". Friday, August 31, 2018, 7:30-9:25 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Leo McCarey directs "An Affair to Remember" (1957), with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Q. Lewis, Fortunio Bonanova, Charles Watts, Marni Nixon (as Deborah Kerr's singing voice in this film & "The King & I"); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Scene of Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr
visiting his grandmother in Italy, reminds
me of peaceful time with PB in Switzerland.