Haikus:July 2018

HAIKUS: July 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, July 1, 2018, 8:28 am-11:30 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino)
Al picked me up at my Mtn View Apt at 8:00 am;
Rudy didn't come (busy with Anthropology class);
Free Birthday Coupon; Al paid for $2.49 drinks;
Al asked Foothill student Nuru for breakfast & film;
Waitress Vicky recommends "Seabiscuit" film to see;
Al drove me to Los Altos Library after movie; Web Links to Poosh-M-Up Jr. Baseball Pinball game

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages, bacon,
beets, spinach salad, grape tomatoes,
jello, coffee, 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, July 1, 2018, 12:15 pm-2:35 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge
(2306 Almaden Road): J. A. Bayona directs
"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" (2018) with
Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard Rafe Spall,
Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell,
Toby Jones, Ted Levine, B. D. Wong, Geraldine Chaplin, Jeff Goldblum, Isabella Sermon;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Volcanic eruption on island
wipes out most dinosaurs, but
some rescued for nefarious auction.

Monday, July 2, 2018, 9:00 am-10:10 am
Mountain View: Paid Apartment rent for July;
Told Irene about slow draining in bathroom sink;
Maintenace guy, Junior, came and declogged pipe
instead of using thin rod to bring up hair residues

Phoned AT&T on $6.50 late fee that's 43%
of June 17 phone bill of $15.14; Martin set up
automatic electronic transfer from Wells Fargo. Monday, July 2, 2018, 11:02 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Emailed Public Storage on leaving check in their mailbox at 8:15 am July 1 as their office opens at 8:30 am; Wrote haikus: Saturday 6/30 & Sunday 7/1

Next films Al Guzman interested in seeing—
"Skyscraper" (7/13), "The Equalizer 2" (7/20),
and "Mission Impossible: Fallout" (July 27).

Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 9:20 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Krause Center opens Mon-Thurs, 8 am-6:30 pm;
Closed Fridy & Saturday for total of 42 hours;
Regular schedule opens 63.5 hours (34% less time)

Usually take 9:30 am Bus #34 to shop at
Shoreline Safeway & 11:10 am Bus #34 &
11:29 am Bus #40 to Foothill; Got 8:48 am
Bus #40 at Rengstorff to Foothill @ 9:13 am. Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 9:20 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Learned Rossano Brazzi singing "Some Enchanted Evening" ("South Pacific") dubbed by Giorgio Tozzi;
Mountain in Minor Arcana (Rider-Waite Tarot Deck)

Ace of Wands;
Ace of Swords;
Two of Cups;
Page of Pentacles.

Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 9:20 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Poem: "Mountain Images in Tarot Cards"
Keep this page simple: Leave out 4 Minor Arcana cards and "Hermit" card showing mountain in background. Show 8 Tarot cards with mountains.

Left out Rossano Brazzi singing
"Some Enchanted Evening" (South Pacific)
as his voice was dubbed by Giorgio Tozzi. Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 6:59 am-7:04 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: John Williams conducts
Boston Pops to John Williams's "E.T.: Flying Theme" (1982); CD; (YouTube: Movie Soundtrack; John Williams; Ulster Orchestra); KDFC played music to honor UFO landing at Roswell, NM on July 7, 1947

UFO Museum; 2018 UFO Festival;
Roswell: Facts & Summary (History.com); Roswell UFO incident; Conspiracy Theories.

Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 10:00 am-1:00 pm
Mountain View: No computer access as Foothill College & Libraries closed for Independence Day;
VTA Buses on holiday & Sunday schedule; Good day
for shopping— 10:03 am Bus 40 to Showers Drive;
Tuscany Balsamic Vinegar $2.29 at Trader Joe's (10:20 am); 10:35 am Bus 22 to Grant Rd; Dole Pineapple Slices @ 4/$5 at Nob Hill (11:03 am);
99 Ranch Market (11:34 am); 11:51 am Bus 22 Grant Rd to Showers; 12:39 pm Bus 40 home

8 cans Chop Suey @ $1.39; Soy Sauce $1.79;
2 Spinach Wontons & Custard Buns @ $2.49;
Water Chestnuts $1.69; Vegetable Buns $1.99. Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 3:40 pm-6:40 pm
Mountain View: Big 5 (721 Sunnyvale-Saratoga Rd, Sunnyvale) has Deer-Stags Slip-On Casual Shoes $59.99 for $21.99; Phoned to put pair on hold; They close at 7 pm, and is located near El Camino Real;
3:40 pm Bus 40 to Showers Dr; 3:50 pm Bus 22 to Sunnyvale; Bus Driver didn't know where Sunnyvale-
Saratoga Rd is, and dropped me off at Mathilda Ave, telling me to walk a block back; In-N-Out Burger worker says Big 5 is two blocks the other way

Nicholas at Big 5 Checkout couldn't cash
my Wells Fargo and Fidelity checks, so paid
$23.97 cash; caught last 6:20 pm Bus 40 home.

Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 7:40-7:45 pm
KDFC 109.49 FM: Erich Kunzel conducts
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra to Richard Rodgers' "Victory at Sea: Beneath the Southern Cross" (1952); CD; (YouTube: Soundtrack; Episode 10; Malcolm Gordon); Perry Como sang this song & reached #1
on Billboard & Cash Box charts in August 1953;
Watched "Victory at Sea" on TV: beautiful music

Richard Rodgers composed this tune "Beneath
the Southern Cross") for NBC's Victory at Sea
TV series, later used for "No Other Love". Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 10:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Lisa DeLapo's LINC 58: PBL class: Discussion 1: Above & Beyond; Challenge 1: Junior Historians at Work; Nature Hikes; Discussion 2: Genius Hour; Challenge 2: Proposal Template; Discussion 3: Learning Process; Challenge 3: Doing the Work; Discussion 4: Design Thinking: Empathy— What Is Religion; Challenge 4: Mountain Project

Gathered together all 9 printouts
for Project-Based Learning class
in one folder for easy reference.

Thursday, July 5, 2018, 7:34-7:38 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Pascal Rogé plays piano
to Erik Satie's "Gymnopédie #1" (1888); CD; (YouTube: Daniel Varsano; Pascal Rogé; Tutorial):
Pianist Aldo Ciccolini was an expert on Satie's music

Satie claimed Gymnopédies were inspired
by Flaubert's Salammbô and Chavanne's
Jeunes filles au bord de la mer (1879). Thursday, July 5, 2018, 8:16-8:20 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Barry Wordsworth conducts
BBC Concert Orchestra to Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo" (1890); CD; (YouTube: Paul Bateman; Herbert von Karajan)

One of my all-time favorite music—
Stayed to listen to this treat before
catching 8:48 am Bus 40 to Foothill.

Thursday, July 5, 2018, 9:25 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Didn't go to Stanford Theatre yesterday since
last Bus #40 is not 10:20 pm but 6:20 pm due to
July 4 holiday schedule; Went to Big 5 instead

Wrote 6 haikus today on shopping
adventures on July 4th and beautiful
music by Richard Rodgers & Erik Satie. Thursday, July 5, 2018, 6:30-7:01 pm
Mountain View: 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Rd);
6 pm Bus 40 to San Antonio Rd & El Camino Real;
6:20 pm Bus 22 to Grant Rd; 7:10 pm Bus 22 Grant Rd to Showers; 7:39 pm Bus 40 home to make soup

2 Wo Chong Extra Firm Tofu @ $1.19;
Kimbo Jumbo Thick Bean Curd $2.38;
Mogami Japanese Sesame Oil $1.99.

Friday, July 6, 2018, 7:29-7:34 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Claudio Abbado conducts Vienna Philharmonic to Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dance #1 in g WoO (1869); CD; (YouTube: Daniel Barenboim; Claudio Abbado; Gustavo Dudamel;
Chung Myung-Whun): Request by Susan on 15th wedding anniversary with AC whom she met at ballroom dancing at University of Michigan;
(80th birthday page for Susan's Dad in 2004)

Surprised that KDFC's request came
from Susan & AC whom I know from
Saturday ballroom dancing at Cubberley.
Friday, July 6, 2018, 9:27 am-4:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Martha Rubin says that Krause Center will be open
Friday 8:00 am-6:30 pm & Saturday 9 am-4:00 pm
Hurray! Extra time will let me upload more files to
Network Solutions, webhost for WisdomPortal.com;
Write more chapters in "Platonic Lambda Λ" book;
Will go to Stanford Theatre and see "Palm Beach Story" 5:50 pm & "It Happened One Night" 7:30 pm

Sent to Martha: "Wei Wu Wei's Open Secret";
Design Thinking: Empathy: What Is Religion;
What Is a Religious Man; Mountain Project.

Friday, July 6, 2018, 5:50-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Preston Sturges directs
"Palm Beach Story" (1942) with Claudette Colbert,
Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallée, Sig Arno,
Robert Dudley, Esther Howard; Franklin Pangborn,
Arthur Hoyt, Alan Bridge, Fred Toones, Charles R. Moore, Frank Moran; (YouTube: 1, 2, full film); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Seen this movie twice already—
but like to see Rudy Vallée crooning
love songs in wooing Claudette Colbert. Friday, July 6, 2018, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra directs
"It Happened One Night" (1934) with Clark Gable,
Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns,
Jameson Thomas, Alan Hale Sr., Arthur Hoyt, Blanche Friderici, Charles C. Wilson, Edward Platt,
Will Wright, Joan Staley; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Won 5 Academy Awards 1934

Seen this movie twice already—
Love bus scene everyone singing
the song "Man on the Flying Trapeze".

Saturday, July 7, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Arrange 5 assignments of Lisa DeLapo's
LINC 58 Project-Based Learning on one page:

"Above & Beyond" Video;
Junior Historians at Work;
Recommended Nature Hikes. Saturday, July 7, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Arrange 5 assignments of Lisa DeLapo's
LINC 58 Project-Based Learning on one page:

Discussion 2: Genius Hour;
Challenge 2: Proposal Template;
Discussion 3: Learning Process.

Sunday, July 8, 2018, 12:40-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Had to return Madeleine L'Engle's
"A Wrinkle in Time" (1962); 50th anniversary edition (2012) with afterword by granddaughter Charlotte and photos; Couldn't renew this book due to hold

Read last chapter to finish 32-lines
rhyming poem "A Wrinkle in Time"—
my niece Elisa's favorite book in 1985. Sunday, July 8, 2018, 12:40-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: "Manhattanhenge 2018:
When & Where to Watch" (By Nicholas St. Fleur,
NY Times, 5-28-2018); Manhattan is 30^o from cardinal east & west, so Solstice dates are shifted

May 29, 8:13 pm; May 30, 8:12 pm EDT;
July 12, 8:20 pm; July 13, 8:21 pm EDT;
Best views: 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th Street.

Monday, July 9, 2018, 7:30-7:36 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Angèle Dubeau plays violin with La Pietà to Vittorio Monti's Csárdás (1904); CD; (YouTube: Nancy Webb; David Garrett;
József Lendvay; Clara Cernat)

Seven tempo changes in
this violin piece with fast
finale— Molto più vivo.
Monday, July 9, 2018, 8:50 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Arrange last 3 assignments of Lisa DeLapo's
LINC 58 Project-Based Learning on one page:
Module 3 Challenge: "Doing the Work"

Design Thinking: Empathy;
Final Mountain Project;
Mountain as Soul Symbol.

Monday, July 9, 2018, 8:50 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Visited Al Guzman at Teaching & Learning Center;
Brought him Friday newspapers from Bryant St. and
University Ave, plus Daily Post (7/6. 7/7. 7/9); Gave
Al "LINC 58 Project-Based Learning" that's legible;
Only blue font was legible in Thursday's printouts

Al found reason that Thursday's
black font printing came out faint
was due to Cyan toner being empty.
Monday, July 9, 2018, 8:50 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed up poem "A Wrinkle in Time" written in
Yahoo Draft on Sunday at Los Altos Library;
added images "A Wrinkle in Time" (1st Edition),
Ant on String (Page 73), and Madeleine L'Engle

Zap map! Flap gap! Clap rap! Tap sap!
Chant mantra— in a flash you're there!
Twinkle of an eye— no stairs to climb,
Tesseract— a wrinkle in time!

Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 9:20-11:43 am
Mountain View: 9:20 am Bus 40 to San Antonio; Wells Fargo 9:37 am: transfer $700 Savings to Checking; 10:06 Bus 40 to Old Middlefield Way; Destiny (Public Storage) gives me $310 receipt (7/2) saying Fidelity check #1718 didn't bounce; Took
11:21 am Bus 40 to Foothill College 11:43 am

Fidelity told me last night (11 pm) that
check #1718 to Public Storage bounced;
Sold $500 stocks to cover Storage fees.
Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 11:55 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Manhattanhenge, says Neil deGrasse Tyson, to occur May 30, July 12; prepare for a beautiful sunset" (By Brian Hartwig, NY Daily News,
5-26-2011); "Summer Solstice at Stonehenge"
(By Deborah Byrd, EarthSky.org, 6-19-2018)

Manhattanhenge at 42nd Street;
Heel Stone at Summer Solstice;
Summer Solsticee: Stonehenge.

Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 7:15-7:20 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Jason Vieaux plays guitar to Andrew York's Sunburst (1989); CD; (YouTube: Jason Vieaux; Andrew York; John Williams)

Andrew York's music "Sunburst" &
Vladimir Kush's painting "Sunrise"
will inspire poem "Montecitohenge".
Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 9:59 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Found Montecitohenge photos (July 2 & June 28)
to go with Stonehenge & Manhattanhenge for poem

No need to mention others—
Enjoy this moment— merging
with the Sun's luminous Oneness.

Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 6:55-7:23 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road);
Fire at Sprouts Market closed store July 6-10:
Caught 7:49 pm Bus #40 home

2.11 lbs Red Cherries @ $1.48 = $3.27;
3.11 lbs Walnut Halves @ $3.99 = $12.41;
18 oz Blueberries $1.98; Green Onions 50¢. Thursday, July 12, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
8.6 million people living in New York City, but none
has noticed Manhattanhenge until Tyson in 1996—

Only a wide-open-minded astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson spotted Manhattanhenge,
now a yearly ritual for NYC photographers.

Thursday, July 12, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
After Al fixed date & time of my Canon A590 camera,
tested it out yesterday 8 pm, but it's still not working;
Montecitohenge (Mountain View, 7-11-2018, 8 pm)

Photo of Platonic Lambda Λ Pepper Tree
at 272 Montebello with white St. Bernard dog
who's docile when I say "Peace Be with You!" Thursday, July 12, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Al Guzman fixed TLC toner that had faint printing;
will print "Wrinkle in Time" & "Manhattanhenge"
plus "Morning Prayers" poems; Preface on Λ poems

Give Al today's Daily Post with
Jake Coyle's review of "Skyscraper"
comparing Dwayne Johnson to King Kong.

Thursday, July 12, 2018, 5:40-7:20 pm
4:45 pm Bus 522 (Showers Dr) to Train Depot (5 pm)
for Stanford Theatre films: George Cukor directs
"Holiday" (1938) with Katharine Hepburn,
Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Henry Kolker,
Edward Everett Horton, Jean Dixon; Binnie Barnes,
Henry Daniell; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Free-spirited Katherine Hepburn
marries her sister Julia's finacée
Cary Grant who does back flips well. Thursday, July 12, 2018, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs
"Dinner at Eight" (1934) with Marie Dressler,
John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow,
Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Lee Tracy,
Edmund Lowe, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt,
Phillips Holmes, Louise Closser Hale, Grant Mitchell; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Jean Harlow plays dumb blonde
in this film with Marie Dressler,
Billie Burke, John & Lionel Barrymore.

Friday, July 13, 2018, 9:30 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Today's email from Columbia: "Will new ways of visualizing activity in the brain improve treatments for infants?" with link to Zuckerman Institute—

Charles S. Zucker can switch off
pleasure from food in brains of mice
by manipulating neurons in the amygdala. Friday, July 13, 2018, 9:30 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Correct date from 2001 to 1995 when purchased
Thomas Mangelsen's "Images of Nature" note cards
in Mountain Photography; DeLapo-PBL page links—

Corrected (Section 9) Final Mountain Project:
Mountain Symbolism; Mountain Mythology;
Mountain Photography; Mountain Resources.

Saturday, July 14, 2018, 11:00 am-3:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Krause Center opened 11:00 am instead of 9:00 am;
& closed early today at 3:00 pm instead of 4:00 pm

Martha Rubin tells me: "Bus gets booed
as it blocks view of Manhattanhenge"
(By Steve Autio, GlobalNews.ca, 7-14-2018) Saturday, July 14, 2018, 5:15-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd);
Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road);
Caught 5:49 pm Bus #40 home

International Delight Dairy Creamer
Almond Joy (32 oz) for $3.49 at Safeway;
2 Blueberries (18 oz) @ $1.98 at Sprouts.

Sunday, July 15, 2018, 8:10 am-10:55 am
Santa Clara Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real)
Al picked me up at my Mtn View Apt at 7:30 am;
Karen joined us at 10:00 am; Dave said he was coming, but had to care for his Dad; Rudy probably in Lodi, didn't answer email; Karen joined us for movie; She gave me ride to Los Altos Library instead of Al; Wrote Sunday haikus (2:45-6:00 pm); Too
sleepy for Stanford Theatre; 6:13 pm Bus 40 home

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages,
bacon, beets, spinach salad,
jello, and 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, July 15, 2018, 11:30 am-1:30 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge: Rawson Marshall Thurber directs "Skyscraper" (2018) with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson; Neve Campbell; Ng Chin Han; Rolland Moller; Pablo Schreiber; Noah Taylor; Hannah Quinlivan, Matt O'Leary, Byron Mann, Kevin Rankin, McKenna Roberts; Noah Cottrell; Tzi Ma; Adrian Holmes: (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); The Rock Wrestiling Champion

Tallest skyscraper on fire;
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson scales
building like King Kong to rescue family.

Monday, July 16, 2018, 10:30 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Henry Morgenthau III, 101, award-winning
WGBH producer who turned to poetry"
(By Bryan Marquard, Bostin Globe, 7-16-2018); "Writing poetry for me is a celebration of the evening of a long life," he wrote in his book's introduction.

"Now as death kindly waits for me, I am
enlivened with thoughts I can't take with me."
He wrote: "I'm telling you my dear, / dying is
the most important / event in your life." Monday, July 16, 2018, 10:30 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"OP-ED: We are better off, but are we happier?"
(By Dow Marmur, Toronto Star, 7-16-2018);
Pinker's book Enlightenment Now shows we're better now. but I may still be unhappy when I compare myself to my neighbour's wealth and success.

Alan Watts: "life is best understood as a piece of music" rather than a tale of economic progress. Being rich & successful doesn't mean that money & fame will make us happy. Video

Monday, July 16, 2018, 10:30 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Friend didn't see me at Library computers on 7/15—

Los Altos Library: two DMV Tests DVDs—
"Let's Go for a Drive" (DVD629.283LET's)
"Rules of the Road" (DVD629.283RULES) Monday, July 16, 2018, 10:30 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Sunset Clouds, Foothil College; Nature Walks 2018

Including Foothill Clouds Photos
in my Nature Walks 2018 files
as there are few hikes this year.

Monday, July 16, 2018, 10:30 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Starting "Number 67" for friend's upcoming birthday:
Hiroshige, 100 Views of Edo: "Sakasai Ferry" (1857)

Mountains in background,
huts & pines by river bank—
Ah! five snowy egrets. Monday, July 16, 2018, 6:50-7:39 pm
Mountain View: CVS (2630 El Camino Real);
Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road);
Caught 7:39 pm Bus #40 home

CVS Vitamin C (1000 mg) 200 tablets
$15.99 BOGO free; 2 bottles + tax = $17.43;
1.97 lb Cluster Tomatoes @ 98¢/lb = $1.93.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 9:27 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Starting "Number 67" for friend's upcoming birthday:
Holmium, atomic number 67, named after Stockholm

Messier M67 galaxy in Cancer;
NGC 67 elliptical galaxy in Andromeda;
Asteroid 67 Asia with period of 3.77 years. Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 9:27 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 67"— 32 entries for "67 on Mathematics";
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) Aircraft Carrier;

German Submarine U-67;
T-67 Tank Destroyer;
Bell TH-67 Creek Helicopter.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 7:00-7:27 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd)
Safeway-Just-For-U Specials; 7:45 pm Bus 40 home

2 Nonni Biscotti @ $2.50; Almond Milk $2.24;
Shrimp Scampi $3.99; Tai Pei Meals @ $2.15;
2 Van de Kamp 10 Fish Fillets @ $4 (BOGO).
Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 9:30 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
30 photos for "Neighborhood Strolls 2018"

Photos on Mountain View walks
have inspired seven poems
linked on this web page.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 7:00-7:26 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd)
Refund $6 for overcharging Tai Pei Meals;
Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road);
Caught 7:44 pm Bus #40 home

Bunch Organic Broccolette 98¢;
1.24 lb Raw Wheat Germ = $3.11;
5.56 lbs Red Grapes @ 97¢/lb = $5.20.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 8:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Sierra Vista & Montecito Ave
for photo of chopped-down Canary Islands Palm;
and three photos of Sierra Vista Estates houses
Sierra Vista Ave; Right Hackett; Left Hackett Ave)

Add these more recent photos
to web page done earlier today—
"Neighborhood Strolls 2018".

Thursday, July 19, 2018, 11:09 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Added new photos for "Neighborhood Strolls 2018"
TLC: Al Guzman bought CR1220 battery $5.45 and fixed my camera date & time; Gave Al "Daily Post",

Pecan Thin Crackers, Red Seedless Grapes;
Printed "Neighborhood Strolls 2018" @ 65%;
Printed " Foothill Sunset Clouds" @ 80%. Thursday, July 19, 2018, 9:55-10:15 pm
After Stanford Theatre films, got 9:32 pm Bus #22
at Palo Alto Train Depot to San Antonio Road;
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd);
Saw Hendrik at Safeway; 12:20 pm Bus 40 home

4 Nonni Cranberry Thin Cookies @ $1.49;
Signature Kitchen Instant Fruit Oatmeal $1.63;
Bear Claw Coffee Cake $3.25; Spinach $1.49.

Thursday, July 19, 2018, 5:50-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre films: Thornton Freeland directs
"Flying Down to Rio" (1933) with Dolores del Río,
Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers,
Fred Astaire, Blanche Friderici, Walter Walker,
Etta Moten Barnett, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Ginger made 19 films before paired with Fred)

First movie together, Fred & Ginger
recived 5th and 4th billing, but after
dancing Carioca, they became a big hit. Thursday, July 19, 2018, 7:30-9:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Clyde Bruckman directs
"Movie Crazy" (1932) with Harold Lloyd,
Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson, Louise Closser Hale, Spencer Charters, Robert McWade, Sydney Jarvis, Eddie Fetherston, DeWitt Jennings, Lucy Beaumont, Harold Goodwin, Mary Doran; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Harold Lloyd called "Trouble" wants to be
in the movies, but does everything wrong,
until they recognize his comic genius.

Friday, July 20, 2018, 9:55 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Richard sends 7 photos in two emails from Vienna's
Belevedere Palace— Franz von Matsch's "Emperor Franz Joseph Deathbed"; "Surgery Shadowing"; Portraits of Two Physicians; Ruben's "Cherubs"

Sphinx Sculpture at Belvedere Palace;
Claude Monet's Chef Père Paul (1882);
Gustave Klimt's The Kiss (1908); Austria 727. Friday, July 20, 2018, 9:55 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 67"— #47-52 in Science & Technology Section: Locomotive 67: Bristol's Ashton Court; British Royal Train hauled by a Class 67 Royal Sovereign; Alaska Tanana Valley Locomotive 67

Rohrerstown Fire Engine 67;
1932 Buick Model 67 restored;
1936 Ford Model 67 Pickup on sale.

Friday, July 20, 2018, 6:25-6:52 pm
6:01 pm Bus #40 Foothill to El Camino at 6:23 pm;
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd);
Orange Milano, Geneva, Chessman Cookies
3 for $5; Caught 7:14 pm Bus #40 home

Lucerne Hazelnut Dairy Creamer $2.85;
Signature Kitchen Instant Oatmeal $1.63;
3 lbs Reiser Devil Eggs Potato Salad $5.00. Friday, July 20, 2018, 7:30-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Rudy's phone message: Back from
Lodi; Cooked dinner; 3 potato triangular crisps;
2 scambled eggs, 6 sausages, brocolette, walnuts,
pumpkin & sunflower seeds; almond-coconut milk

Copied event dates from 67 BC and 67 AD
in James Trager's The People's Chronology
for adding to History section of "Number 67".

Saturday, July 21, 2018, 8:03-8:10 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays Tomaso Albinoni's "Adagio in g minor"
(18th century); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

One of my all-time favorite music—
reconstructed by Remo Giazotto in 1945
found from Dresden fragment by Albinoni. Saturday, July 21, 2018, 9:34 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 67" played a role in Mansion of Happiness, America's 1st board game, to reach 67 at the center.

Jeremy Baker, Tolstoy's Bicycle (1982)
Tolstoy has his first bicycle lesson
(March 1895) at the age 67.

Sunday, July 22, 2014, 7:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: William Wyler
directs "Roman Holiday" (1953) starring
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert,
Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams, Margaret Rawlings, Paolo Carlini, Claudio Ermelli,
Tullio Carminati, Paola Borboni; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5):
Friend dropped me off at University Ave 7:10 pm

Audrey Hepburn wins
Oscars; Eddie Albert
should have won too. Sunday, July 22, 2014, 9:40-11:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Rouben Mamoulian
directs "Queen Christina" (1933), with Greta Garbo,
John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Elizabeth Young; A. Tamiroff;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 78 photos), (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Queen Christina; Fact & Film Fiction;
Herbert Stothart: Composer for "Queen Christina"
Got 11:35 pm Bus #22 at Train Depot after movies

Garbo caressed the whole
room to engrave it in her memory
for it is here where she fell in love.

Monday, July 23, 2018, 10:55 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed poem "One and the Many" written yesterday
at Los Altos Library (1:17-3:16 pm) inspired by
One & Many photos: Hedgeroses (1, 2), Irises (1, 2)

"From the gods a gift to the human race:
thus I reckon the gift of seeing the One
in the many and the many in the One."
— Plato (428-348 B.C.), Philebus 16d Monday, July 23, 2018, 10:55 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
2018 Scott Postage Stamps Catalogue 4B "M" to find stamps with "67 um" from Mauritania & "0.67 euro" from Monaco 2242 "LaCarriere d'un Navitateur"

Monaco 2276, 36th International Flower Show;
Mauritania 380, Ruben's "Three Burghers";
Mauritania 473, Reseau Locomotive;
Mauritania C200, 1982 World Soccer Cup.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 8:32-8:38 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Alice Sara Ott plays piano to Edvard Grieg's "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Op.65 #6" (1896); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Mystery in Music History Date—
X-ray machine exhibited (1-18-1896);
Gold discovered in Yukon, Alaska (8-16-1896). Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 10:00 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
At Age 67: Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Faraday, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sigmund Freud, Leo Tolstoy.

Added Charles de Gaulle, prime minister
at age 67 plus nine more people from
Jeremy Baker's Tolstoy's Bicycle (1982)

Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 10:40 pm-11:59 pm
Mountain View: After dinner, read William James
Writings, 1902-1910: Lecture IV of Pragmatism (1907): "The One and the Many" (pp. 541-557)

Cites Vivekananda and Vedanta
that separation into many is not real
as we are the One Exitence of the universe. Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 7:34-7:40 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Jenny Lin plays piano to Claude Debussy's "Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune" (1905); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Based on Verlaine's poem—
"song mingles with the moonlight
makes birds in the trees dream."

Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 9:25 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 67"— #68: 67th Street, NYC; #69:
67 Rue de Seine: Galerie L'Amour de L'Art, Paris

#70: 67th Floor Cloud Club;
#71: Habitat 67 Building Montreal;
#72: Stanford Bronze Plaque 67. Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 7:34-7:23 am
Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road);
2.11 lb Brazil Nuts @ 9.99/lb = $21.08; 2 Strawberry Greek Yogurt @ $4.99 BOGO; 7:40 pm Bus 40 home

3.00 lbs Raw Almonds @ $3.99/lb = $11.97
3.59 lb Red Cherries @ $1.48/lb = $5.31;
3.68 lbs Red Grapes @ 97¢/lb = $3.57.

Thursday, July 26, 2018, 9:30 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Walk to Jane Lane— 28 photos of streets on the way and trees on Montebello Ave seeking their blessings

"Three Graces" Eucalyptus Tree;
"Lion of Courage" Pepper Tree;
Platonic Lambda Λ Pepper Tree. Thursday, July 26, 2018, 7:15-7:35 pm
Mountain View: Smart & Final (141 East El Camino
Real) Buy 4 to get Special Savings; 75¢ off coupon
for Black Forest Ham $1.74; 8:08 pm Bus 40 home.

4 International Creamers @ $1.99 = $7.96;
2 Black Forest Ham (1 lb) @ $2.49 = $4.98;
2 Silk Almond-Coconut Milk @ $1.99 = $3.98.

Friday, July 27, 2018, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Walk to Jane Lane— 28 photos of streets on the way and trees on Montebello Ave seeking their blessings

Took two photos this morning—
Montecito to Rengstorff Ave;
Jane Lane Bus Stop & Post Bin. Friday, July 27, 2018, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 67" #75: Johann S. Bach's Cantata 67;
#76: Haydn's Symphony 67; #77: Driver 67's Car 67

#78: Elton John's song "Old 67";
#79: Chicago's Questions 67 and 68;
#80: Dominique Morisseau's play Detroit '67.

Saturday, July 28, 2018, 11:45 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
#81: Baseball's 67th World Series (1970); Baltimore Orioles defeats Cincinnati Reds in five games.

#88: Rickey Henderson sets single season stolen bases with 130. 67th stolen base on
6-22-1982 against Dan Quisenberry of Royals. Saturday, July 28, 2018, 11:45 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
#96: 67th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus wins with final round 65 & established a new record of 275.

#90: 67th Kentucky Derby won by Whirlaway
#91: 67th Preakness Stakes won by Alsab;
#92: 67th Belmont Stakes won by Omaha.

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 8:23 am-11:30 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real); Al picked me up at my Mtn View Apt at 8 am; Went to SJ Diridon Station around noon. Couldn't photograph nice clouds as sun was too bright; Photos inside Train Station with history in glass cases came out OK. Went to Almaden Rd Bridge & strolled down Redbird Dr., Nightingale Drive, & Ironwood Drive.

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages,
bacon, beets, spinach salad,
jello, and 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, July 29, 2018, 1:45-3:55 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge:
Antoine Fuqua directs "Equalizer 2" (2018) with Denzel Washington; Pedro Pascal; Ashton Sanders; Bill Pullman; Melissa Leo; Sakina Jaffrey;
Jonathan Scarfe, Orson Bean, Adam Karst,
Kazy Tauginas, Garrett Golden;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Seaside shootout with hurricane
as Denzel Washington tackles
three gunmen trying to kill him.

Monday, July 30, 2018, 8:17-8:24 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Evgeny Kissin plays piano to Ludwig van Beethoven's "Rage over a Lost Penny
Op 129" (1798); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Title appears on the autograph manuscript, but not in Beethoven's hand, and has been attributed to his friend Anton Schindler. Performed as a show piece.

Robert Schumann wrote of the work:
"it would be difficult to find anything
merrier than this whimsical, amiable anger." Monday, July 30, 2018, 10:58 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 67: Sports #82-89: Baseball Records from "SABR Baseball Lists & Record Books" (2007);
No United States stamps with 67¢ denominaion;
0.67 Euro & 6.70 Francs Stamps— France 2859 Marianne; France 2560 Cesar's "The Thumb"

France 2701: Monet's Waterlilies in Moonlight;
France 2757: Camille Claudel's La Valse;
France 2798: Brueghel's Peasant Dance.

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 9:57 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Sistine Ceiling used to illustrate poem "One and
the Many" instead of One & many hedgeroses and
One & many irises; Need extra stanza to explain the last stanza “Many in 'The Drunkenness of Noah' /
to the One God: 'Let there be Light!'”

Cosimo de' Medici read to the young
Michelangelo on "One and the Many"
now displayed on the Sistine Ceiling
for the Neo-Platonic initiates. Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 9:57 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 67: #105: Three Biblical citations of 67; #106: Psalm 67 asks God's blessings; #107: 67th Book of Enoch cites God's Promise to Noah; #108: 67th Saying in Gospel of Thomas on Self-Knowledge; #109 Ch. 67 of Aquarian Gospel on John the Baptist

#110: Rig Veda's Book 1.67: praise to Agni;
#111: Tao Te Ching 67 on compassion;
#112: Hua Hu Ching 67 on yin & yang;
#113: Golden Verses 67 on vegetarianism.