Haikus:June 2018

HAIKUS: June 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.

Friday, June 1, 2018, 9:25 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 2 Discussion: Genius Hour— Links to Wettrick's "Pure Genius"; Kreb's "Genius Hour Guidebook"; McNair's "Genius Hour: Passion Projects"; Juliani's "Inquiry & Innovation"; Research on "Mountain"; 1993 Poem on "Timelessness"

"Genius Hour" is incongruous—
"Hour" implies time, tick-tock of clock;
"Genius" works out of the box in eternity. Friday, June 1, 2018, 7:30-10:00 pm
6 pm Bus #40 to El Camino Real; 6:24 pm Bus #35
to Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friends House)
for Waverley Writers Poetry Reading (24 came);
Last meeting until September 7 as Waverley Writers
don't meet during summer months of July & August;
Joel Katz gave me ride home.

Read two poems— "Shih-Tao's Vision"
and "Above & Beyond" inspired by video
in LINC 58: Project-Based Learning class.

Saturday, June 2, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Forgot 1990 poem "Why Watches Are Set to 10:09"
inclusion on time & eternity in "Genius Hour";
Will include poem link in Module 2 Challenge—

Why Apple Watch shows 10:09 in ads?
Tiffany, Seiko, Cartier, Omega watches
all set to 10:09 in advertisements. Saturday, June 2, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 2 Challenge: Research & Information Literacy 2:05 Video (by Vanessa Garofalo); Proposal Template in Google Docs

Cavada's Internet Class 2 covered
Fake News & Credible Sources (27 & 28)
Proposal: Research "Mountain" & Λ symbol.

Sunday, June 3, 2018, 8:30 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 said he was coming, but never showed up;
Astronomy Professor John Beck brought friend
along to see "Deadpool 2"; Math Professor
Matt Low also joined us at Cinelux Almaden Café:
Al drove me to Los Altos Library after the movie. Checked at Library (4:00-5:00 pm) "goose-pen" in dictionaries, only in OED, but absent in American Heritage & Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionaries. Missed Bus #40; Hitched ride with Lee

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages, bacon,
4 Polish sausages, 2 potato wedges,
jello, cups regular & chocolate milk. Sunday, June 3, 2018, 12:30 pm-3:00 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge
(2306 Almaden Road): David Leitch directs
"Deadpool 2" (2018): Ryan Reynolds,
Josh Brolin Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison,
Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Kesy, Stefan Kapicic, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Eddie Marsan, Robert Maillet; Hayley Sales;
Shiori Kutsuna; Terry Crews; Lewis Tan;
Bill Skarsgard; Rob Delaney; Brad Pitt;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Stanford Theatre: 2 Hitchcock films (5:45-10:15 pm)

Wade Wilson (Deadpool) organized X-Force
to free Russell Collins from prison,
before he's killed by Cable.

Monday, June 4, 2018, 9:00 am-11:51 am
Mountain View: Paid apartment rent to Tamara
as Irene was not yet in (Fine if not paid by 5th);
Missed 10:15 am Bus #40 that came early to Old Middlefield, to Public Storage; Paid Jerson $310 for June rental; Took photo of two flowers blooming out of succulent; Missed 11:21 am Bus #40 at Rengstorff

Unlucky day missing three Bus #40
in morning and evening; total of
three hours from computer time. Monday, June 4, 2018, 12:32-5:57 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 2 Discussion: Genius Hour— Gave two pages of Assignment 2 to Lisa DeLapo
on Saturday, but forgot to upload files to Reply
in Module 2 Discussions; No time to upload
"Proposal Template" to web site until today

"Mountain" projects still to do— Quotes on mountains from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
and The Complete Concordance to the Bible

Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 9:40-9:51 am
Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Blvd)
9:12 am Bus #40 never showed up to go shopping at
Rengstorff Safeway; 9:30 am Bus #34 that came to
Shoreline Safeway; No crowd at lone checkout
counter, so made 10:05 am Bus #34 back home.

Signature Kitchen Onion Rings @ $2.05;
2 Signature Kitchen Potato Taters @ $2.05;
Nonfat Milk $2.38; Lucerne Creamer $3.00. Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 11:26 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 3 Discussion: Learning Process More Important Than End Product—
Read article "PBL vs Product-Based Learning"
Experience: "Writing Free-Verse Poetry" (1987)

Information changes over time,
but ability to learn lasts forever.
Focus on learning process than product.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 11:05 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 3 Discussion: "Learning Process"— Images for web page— Hungary CB3 Shakespeare (10-16-1948); Chinese Ideogram for Poetry Shih; "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 5:1:12

Poetry is a "temple of words"—
Shakespeare: "The poet's eye glance
from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven." Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 11:05 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 3 Discussion: "Learning Process"— Photos from Japan on walking process
as its own reward (1, 2); Experience in writing free-verse poetry; Advice from Dick Maxwell at Foothill

Squaw Valley Writing Workshops (1989-90);
Teaching CPITS poetry writing to students;
"Valentine ♥ Mint Poems" at Ferry Building.

Thursday, June 7, 2018, 9:55 am-3:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 3 Discussion: "Learning Process Is More Important Than End Product"—

Added to "Learning Process" web page—
"Walking Pilgrimages" (4-18-2016 poem),
Complete CPITS Lesson: "What Is Poetry?" Thursday, June 7, 2018, 9:55 am-3:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
No time to see Al Guzman at TLC today; Had to
catch early bus for 4:50 pm "Wages of Fear" film.

3:34 pm Bus #40 at Foothill to Showers Drive;
4:05 pm Bus #522 to Palo Alto Train Depot;
4:50 pm at Stanford Theatre for movie.

Friday, June 8, 2018, 9:25 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 3 Challenge: "Mountains Project"— Book Images for Symbolism— Gaskell's "Dictionary of All Scriptures & Myths" & J.C. Cooper's "Encyclopedia of Tradinal Symbols"

Eberhard, A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols;
E.T.C. Werner, Myths & Legends of China;
Williams, Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs
Friday, June 8, 2018, 9:25 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 3 Challenge: "Mountains Project"— Scanned and downloaded 10 book covers on Symbolism from my personal library, with page numbers to type on "Mountain Symbolism"

Document page numbers on "Mountains"
from books by Nadia Julien (pp. 281-282),
and by Eberhard, Werner, C.A.S. Williams.

Friday, June 8, 2018, 7:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Listened to Game 4 on 95.7 FM with
Warriors beating Cleveland Cavaliers 108-85 for 2nd consecutive NBA Championships; Curry had a team-leading 37 points, shot 7 of 15 from 3-point range

Durant won his 2nd consecutive Finals MVP,
with his first playoff triple-double:
20 points, 12 rebounds & 10 assists. Saturday, June 8, 2018, 11:10 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Got here at 8:25 am, but Lab not open until 11 am;
Wrote "Timeless Genius Hour" waiting for Lab to
open; Ramana: "The Self transcends time & space"

Wei Wu Wei: "Being eternal consists simply
in Being"; Paul Brunton: "Eternal Now is infinitely timeless & timelessly infinite."

Sunday, June 10, 2018, 10:30 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Bookmarked 9 news articles on
enlightenment, poetry, "Justify wins Triple Crown", Paul D. Boyer's obituary, Anthony Bourdain's 1999
New Yorker article "Don't Eat Before Reading This"

Anthony Bourdain dead at 61;
The Best of Anthony Bourdain;
Bourdain taught us more about food. Sunday, June 10, 2018, 10:30 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Heights of Mountains & Dates of
1st Ascent: Matterhorn, Mt. Everest, K-2, Mt. Fuji,
Mt. Omei, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Arunachala, Mt. Olympus,
Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Cook, Mt. Sinai, Mr. Ararat

Giant Buddha of Leshan;
Li Po's visit to Mt. Omei;
Yang Wan-li (1127-1206): "Sudden Fog".

Monday, June 11, 2018, 10:00-10:16 am
Mountain View: Took 9:30 am Bus #34 to
Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro Street) for
Fasting Blood & Urine Tests ($30); Ordered
vial of Humulin ($18); Walked 15 minutes to
Mountain View Train Depot for 11 am Bus #34 home

Good News! Test result: Hemoglobin A1C
is 7.6%; Lower than 8.4% on 2-20-2018;
other test results will follow tomorrow. Monday, June 11, 2018, 1:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: PBL Module 3 Challenge: Re-submitted
assignment since previous one was missing several
photos as Krause Center closed early Saturday at
3 pm & couldn't upload files at Los Altos Library;

Innovation: A Way of Thinking;
Mountains: Table of Contents;
Bartlett's Quotations; Bible Concordance.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 9:45-10:01 am
Mountain View: Safeway (570 N, Shoreline Drive)
Took 9:30 am Bus #34 to Safeway; shopped 16 minutes; and caught 10:05 am Bus #34 home

Lasco Salmon $4.39; SeaPak Shrimp $5;
Oroweat Organic Bread $4; Dole Juice $2;
3 Baby Ray Sauces @ 99¢; Almond Milk $3. Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 11:29 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Module 4 Discussion: Design Thinking:
Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test

Rudy's 1/13 email on his Anthropology class homework "What is religion? Is it in the brain?"
Response: OED, Neurology, Views of Sages.

Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 11:00-11:28 am
Mountain View: Took 10:30 am Bus #34 to
Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro Street) for appt
with Dr. Michelle Ma; Blood Pressure 137/58;
Pulse: 70; Cholesterol 130 mg/dL; Next blood test
in Jan. 2019; 11:41 am Bus #52 to Foothill College

Michelle Ma recommends that I eat cookie
or chocolate at Saturday ballroom dancing,
so my blood sugar doesn't fall below 70 mg/dL. Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 12:15 pm-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Module 4 Discussion: Empathy responding to Rudy's Jan. 13 email query "What is Religion?"
1978 Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon: 7 major stages; SAP SE co-founder Hasso Plattner: Design Thinking.

"Design Thinking: Definition" led to
Stanford Professor Robert McKim's
Experiences in Visual Thinking (1972).

Thursday, June 14, 2018, 9:53 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Module 4 Discussion: Virginia McKim drove me to Mount Shasta (July 1989) for Medicine Walk with journal instructor Nina Holzer. Went to Sweat Lodges by Native American Shaman Charlie Thom "Red Hawk". Read my journal to Virginia's husband Robert McKim when we returned home.

Met Mark Finnern (SAP) at Stanford's 2004 Accelerating Change Conference; Invited us
to SAP Labs for Doug Engelbart's lecture. Thursday, June 14, 2018, 9:53 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Module 4 Discussion: Doug Engelbart lunched with me at 2004 Stanford Conference, and drove me to Chef Chu for dinner later. Didn't know he invented Computer Mouse, Hypertext, and Networked Computers, until he was introduced
afterwards at the Conference. Lucky am I to meet

so many creative people linked to founders
of Design Thinking, Herbert Simon & Hasso Plattner: May my projects be also productive!

Friday, June 15, 2018, 9:20 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Mountain Quotes: Typed 39 quotes from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" (13th Ed., 1955), arranged two columns in chronological order;
Minus 7 Bible Quotes, saved for another section
Daniel Webster: "The Old Man of the Mountain"

U.S. 1068 "Old Man of the Mountain" stamp;
U.S. Quarter 2000 New Hampshire coin;
"NH: Old Man of the Mountain" photo. Friday, June 15, 2018, 9:20 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Went to Teaching Learning Center to see Al Guzman
who'll pick me up at 8 am Sunday for breakfast and
"Solo: A Star Wars Story" 12:00 at Cinelux Almaden;
Printed $5.99 Hometown Buffet Breakfast Coupons;
Printed LINC 58 Homework Assignments (6/10, 6/16)

Mountain Quotes @ 70%;
Mountains Project @ 70%:
Module 4 Discussion @ 55%.

Friday, June 15, 2018, 9:20 am-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
Caught 9:50 pm Bus #522 at Palo Alto Train Depot,
Express Bus arrived at Showers Drive at 10:00 pm;
20 minutes shopping & 10:20 pm Bus #40 home

2 Sig. Kitchen Instant Fruits Oatmeal @ $1.63;
Sig. Kitchen Instant Nuts Oatmeal @ $1.63;
10 oz. Doritos Nacho Cheese Chips @ $1.88. Saturday, June 16, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Add quote from Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" to Mountain Quotes so two columns of 33 quotes are balanced; Provided web links to all quotes cited—

Charles Lamb, "Letter to Wordsworth" (1801);
Katharine Bates, America the Beautiful (1893);
Samuel Francis Smith, America (1831).

Saturday, June 16, 2018, 9:20 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Mountain Quotes" Web links to 33 quotes
from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" (1955);
Jack dropped me off at Los Altos Library

Edited Module 4 Discussion
"What is Religion" so it prints
out @ 77% in four web pages. Saturday, June 16, 2018, 4:15-5:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought "The Entertainment Weekly Guide to the Greatest Movies Ever Made" (1996) for $2, & "Dali: A Fifty Year Retrospective" (2001), Silverstate Fine Art, $39.95 for $3; Prints

Bought Lithograph Dali: Dante's Paradiso
"The Shine of Glorious Bodies" (1964) @ $99 in 1972, now for sale @ $299.70 on eBay.

Sunday, June 17, 2018, 8:30 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 met us at 8:30 am to use $5.99 coupon;
Robert Slack told Al, he'll come but didn't;
Al drove me to Los Altos Library after movie.
Google Search at Library (4:11-6:00 pm)
"Mountain Resources" & "Mountain Photos"

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages, bacon,
4 Polish sausages, potato wedge,
beets, jello, 2 cups chocolate milk. Sunday, June 17, 2018, 12:00 pm-2:20 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge
(2306 Almaden Road): David Leitch directs
"Solo: A Star Wars Story" (2018): Alden Ehrenreich,
Woody Harrelson Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover,
Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge,
Joonas Suotamo, Paul Bettany, Erin Kellyman;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

When Han travelled alone,
and didn't have a last name,
the officer named him "Solo".

Monday, June 18, 2018, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bookmarked 3 articles on Enlightenment; Banayan
made it through "the third door", interviewed Bill Gates; Emailed Rudy to reserve this book.

"Pitfalls on the path toward enlightenment";
"Frenetic campaign to meet business gurus";
"Europe's Enlightenment". Monday, June 18, 2018, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58 Project-Based Learning Final Project
due Friday June 22; Lots of work to do to make this deadline— Mountain Symbolism (from 10 books)

Bible on Mountains, Mountain Photography, Mountain Resources, Mountain Mythology (need to read a lot for this section),

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 7:13-7:23 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Nicola Benedetti plays violin
as Vasily Petrenko conducts Royal Liverpool Philharmonic to Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen Op.20 "Gypsy Airs" (1878); CD; (YouTube:
Nicola Benedetti; Itzhak Perlman; Sarah Chang;
Jascha Heifetz; Joshua Bell; Pablo de Sarasate)

May the rapid fourth movement
of Pablo de Sarasate's "Gypsy Airs"
speed up my final "Mountain Project".
Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58 Project-Based Learning Final Project
Mountain Symbolism: Did 6 books yesterday— Bayley; Chevalier; Cirlot; Cooper; Gaskell; Walker; To do: Julien's "Mammoth Dictionary of Symbols"
& three Chinese Symbolism books on "Mountains"—

Eberhard, A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols;
Werner, Myths and Legends of China;
Williams, Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs.

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Galen Rowell's Mountain Photos: Climber on pinnacle near Mount Whitney (1973); Alpenglow on Keeler Needle, Mount Whitney (1976); Eichorn Pinnacle rising above the Yosemite High Country (2001); Machapuchare at dawn, Nepal (1977)

Galen Rowell's books: "Mountain Light:
In Search of the Dynamic Landscape" (1986); and "Yosemite & The Wild Sierra" (2004). Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Google Search: "Mountain Resources" (126,000 results), Looked at top 100, found all commercial sites touting their services in mining, natural resources of oil & gas, timber industry; Google Search: "Mountain Photos" (1,690,000 results)—

Mountain Photography by Jack Brauer;
10 U.S. Locations for Mountain Photos;
Pinterest: 160 Best Mountain Photographs.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 9:26 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58 Project-Based Learning Final Project—
Five hours today to complete "Bible on Mountains", typing 23 quotes written last night; Selected 24 & 21 quotes respectively from Old & New Testaments

Found "Jesus Praying on Mountain"
painting to illustrate Matthew 14.23—
"he went up into a mountain apart to pray". Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 9:26 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Format page for "Mountain Mythology": Use photos from "Mountain Project" assignment— Matterhorn, Mt. Fuji, Mt. Everest, Mt. Ararat, Mt. Olympus,
Mt. Sinai, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Arunachala

Need to pick up at Los Altos Library—
books on hold: Climbing Mt. Fuji (2017) &
Mount Shasta: A Guide to Climbing (2017).

Thursday, June 21, 2018, 11:35 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Summer Solstice 2018 starts at 6:07 am E.T.; Stonehenge Alignment; Google Doodle
(By Sophie Curtis, The Mirror, UK, 6-21-2018)

From this day forward, each day
becomes darker and darker until
Winter Solstice (Dec. 21, 2:23 pm PST). Thursday, June 21, 2018, 11:35 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Checked out at Los Altos Library: "Mount Shasta:
A Guide to Climbing", "Climbing Mt. Fuji", and
"The Littlest Mountain" by Barb Rosenstock

Can I complete "Mountain Mythology"
page on Matterhorn, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Fuji,
Mt. Olympus, Mt. Sinai, Mt. Arunachala?

Friday, June 22, 2018, 7:31-7:39 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Gustavo Dudamel conducts Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela to Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony #5 in c, Op 67 (1808); CD; (YouTube: Gustavo Dudamel; Leonard Bernstein; Herbert von Karajan; Daniel Barenboim; Arturo Toscanini; Benjamin Zander & Kens Lui)

Beethoven's Fifth "dun-dun-dun-DUN!"
most famous four notes in music— may it
inspire me to finish my "Mountain Project".
Friday, June 22, 2018, 11:06 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Lab closed at 6 pm instead of 7:30 pm yesterday,
so couldn't finish the 8th mountain Mt. Arunachala;
Brought two Ramana books showing Arunachala on cover, scanned today: "Ramana-Arunachala" (1961) and "Sri Ramana: The Sage of Arunagiri" (1948)

Scanned Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi (1968) as it contains 5 Hymns to Arunachala
showing Ramana's devotion to this hill.

Saturday, June 23, 2018, 9:34 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Shocked not to find 8 GB USB in my wallet; Left it
at Teaching Learning Center Friday 4:05 pm while
catching 4:16 pm Bus 40 for Stanford Theatre films;
Don't have USB to save work; Made PYC(6-23-2018) folder & uphold to my web site at Network Solutions

Used Ansel Adams' Our National Parks and
Galen Rowell's Yosemite & the Wild Sierra
for "Mountain Photography" page heading.
Saturday, June 23, 2018, 9:34 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Selected 4 mountain photos on Thomas Mangelsen's web site; Chose 3 from Jack Bauer's web site and 4 from Pinterest posting of 160 Mountain Photos; Pexels has 1000+ mountain photos for free downloading, but no names of photographers

Unsplash has 20,177 free mountain photos
with photographers' names: Tanvi Malik,
Christopher Burns, and Rohit Tandon.

Sunday, June 24, 2018, 9:33-9:47 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Andrew Manze plays violin
& conducts Academy of Ancient Music to Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Concerto #1 in a, BWV 1041 (1723); CD; (YouTube: Anne Akiko Meyers;
Itzhak Perlman; Julia Fischer; Jascha Heifetz); Beethoven: "Bach is not a brook but an ocean"

May Bach's music tide me over
with momentum to complete my
final LINC 58 "Mountain Project".
Sunday, June 24, 2018, 11:35 am-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Forgot to bring USB to save work;
Interesting new graphics book "House of Women" by Sophie Goldstein with 5-stars rating on Amazon.com;
Bought Rachel Pollack's "Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot" (1999) $14.98 for $2 as it has "7 of Cups" from Wheel of Change Tarot showing a mountain

Typed in Yahoo Drafts web links to
Mountain Mythology, Stamps, Symbolism,
Books, Writings; Dana gives me ride home.

Monday, June 25, 2018, 6:17-6:23 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Marin Alsop conducts London Philharmonic Orchestra to Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dance #4 in f (1868); CD; (YouTube: Vittorio Cecchetto; Barry Douglas; Bernard Haitink; Ivan Fischer; Arthur Rubinstein; Leonid Kogan)

Brahms' Hungarian Dances makes me merry,
leaping over mountains and meadows
to finish my "Mountain Project".
Monday, June 25, 2018, 8:01 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Retrieved 8 GB USB left at TLC on Friday, when
Al Guzman opened today at 7:45 am— Hurray!
Will complete my final LINC 58 "Mountain Project"
"Mountain Photos" and "Mountain Resources"

Download PYC(6-23-2018) folder from
Network Solutions with 14 mountain photos &
add 7 photos by Ansel Adams & Galen Rowell.

Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 7:16-7:19 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Vernon Handley conducts Ulster Orchestra to Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King Op 46 (1875); CD; (YouTube: Scott Lawton; film animation; Jacek Kaspszyk);
Need "battle music" to finish my "Mountain Project"

Entrance songs of MLB closing pitchers
started by Yankees Sparky Lyle in 1972
with "Pomp and Circumstance" march.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 8:10 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Battle songs for soldiers; George M. Cohan's "Over There" for WW I & WW II; Noticed I used music of the "Three B's"— Bach, Beethoven, Brahms—
to inspire me for my "Mountain Project" final

Mountain Resources (6-25), Mtn Photos (6-25),
Mtn Mythology (6-22), Mtn in Bible (6-20),
Mtn Symbolism (6-19), Mtn Quotes (6-16).

Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 8:10 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58 Final: "Mountain Project"; Used Yosemite Falls as photo for "Mountain Resources"; Links to
14 "Platonic Lambda" poems to answer question
"How is the mountain connected to the soul?"

Uploaded 29 folders & files to web site;
Submitted LINC 58 PBL Final Project
to MyPortal: Final Mountain Project
& "Mountain: Symbol of Soul" essay. Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 7:45-9:17 pm
Mountain View: Bus #40 arrived San Antonio Rd &
El Camino at 7:45 pm; Safeway (645 San Antonio); International Delight Almond Joy Creamer $2.99; Red Baron Deluxe Pizza $2.99; 64 oz Apple Juice Free; Missed 8:08 pm Bus #40, came early 8:05 pm

Hour & 12 minutes wait for 9:17 pm Bus #40;
Went to Sprouts for Wheat Germ $2.76 and 3.16 lb Roma Tomatoes @ 77¢/lb; Safeway
to get raincheck on dozen eggs @ $1.48.

Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 9:55 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Final Mountain Project; Checked Essay links to
14 "Platonic Lambda" poems; Missing three
photos in "Seeing the Soul Everywhere" poem

Found in PineCones(4-5-2017) folder—
Arrowhead Sign, Pine Cone,
Top of Redwood Tree. Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 9:55 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Found Joseph Bruchac's book "Near the Mountains"
which he traded for one of my poetry compilations
at 1995 CPITS Conference in Santa Barbara

Added Joseph Bruchac's poem
with Zen Master Dogen's quote
to web page Mountain Poetry.

Thursday, June 28, 2018, 7:31-7:34 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays cello
as Christopher Warren-Green conducts Orchestra of the Royal Wedding to Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria D.839" (1875); CD; (YouTube: Royal Wedding; Joshua Bell; Bocelli; Domingo; Pavarotti)

No more battle music as Final Project
is over— just relax & listen to KDFC's
Ave Maria played at Royal Wedding.
Thursday, June 28, 2018, 10:37 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
After seeing "7 of Cups" from Wheel of Change Tarot showing a mountain in Rachel Pollack's "Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot" (1999), p. 51, linked to 9 Tarot cards with mountains for page on this theme.

Rider-Waite Tarot deck has mountain in
"The Fool" & "The Lovers" of Major Arcana—
"Fools give you reasons, wise men never try".

Friday, June 29, 2018, 9:59 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Kay Ryan passed her Waite Tarot deck to the class,
telling us to pick a random card that will trigger a poem (1-5-2010); I chose "Three of Wands" inspiring my first 2010 poem for her Stanford Poetry Workshop

Poem: "The Three of Wands" (1-7-2010);
Notes: "Wisdom: Some Questions" (3-25-2010)
Poem: "Nine, Page, Ace of Pentacles" (Notes);
Notes: "NGC 7822: Galactic Birth" (3-16-2015) Friday, June 29, 2018, 9:59 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Mountain Images in Tarot Cards "The Fool" &
"The Lovers" in Rider-Waite Tarot; "7 of Cups" (Wheel of Change Tarot); "Tarot of the Black Mountain"; "21: Mountain" (Lenormand Tarot)

"Dancer 8: Stagnation" (Tarot of the Sidhe); "Mountain-Strength" (Earth Magic Oracle);
"7 of Keys: The Ascent" (Unknown Tarot);
"21: The Mountain" (Astrological Lenormand).

Saturday, June 30, 2018, 10:08 am-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Emailed 8 Foothill friends on
breakfast & movie with Al Guzman & me tomorrow;
telling us to pick a random card that will trigger a poem (1-5-2010); Email from Stanford Professor Jean-Pierre Dupuy accepting LinkedIn invitation;
Sent him 4 files from Project-Based Learning class—

Design Thinking—- What Is Religion?;
Final PBL Mountain Project (6-22-2018);
Essay— Mountain: Symbol of the Soul;
Mountain Images in Tarot Cards (6-29-2018) Saturday, June 30, 2018, 10:08 am-5:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Mary-Marcia Casoly's June 28 email
on July 1 deadline for Poetry submission to Caesura
2018 issue (Poetry Center San Jose, 1650 Senter Rd);
Send a cover page with biography (80 words) & title of poems (limit 3; less than 32 lines) to Bill Cozzini; Sent files (no photos) in one email with attachments—

Cover Biography for Caesura (80 words);
"Leaf Sings" Poem (28 lines, 10-3-2017);
"Be Thankful" Poem (27 lines, 11-23-2012);
"Blossoming Blessing" Poem (27 lines, 2013).