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.

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 2:45-3:34 pm Mountain View: Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd): Used $5 off coupon on $40 purchase; Solgar Magnesium Citrate (120 tabs) $11.99 +$1.08 tax 2.17 lbs No-salt Peanuts @ $1.99/lb = $4.32; 3 lbs Walnut Halves @ $4.99/lb = $15.02; 6 lbs Navel Oranges @ 33¢/lb = $2.04.	Thursday, March 1, 2018, 5:05-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "On Number 41"; Davy Crockett (Topps 1956, orange back) Card #41 is Vote for Davy! Road Signs: Interstate 41; California State Route 41; Ontario King's Highway 41.
Friday, March 2, 2018, 12:50-5:50 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Al Guzman phoned 10:25 am saying he's feeling better; Will return to work around March 15 and go to movies again; East 41st Street Sign, NYC; Mountain View Senior Center for 5¢ printouts: "Three Graces on Montebello Ave"; "This Book Was Meant For You"; "This Treasure Was Meant For You".	Friday, March 2, 2018, 7:30-8:40 pm 6 pm Bus #40 to El Camino Real; 6:50 pm Bus #35 to Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friends House) for Waverley Writers Poetry Reading; Featured Readers: Christine Cummings & Jeanne Watson; 29 poets came tonight; Joel Katz gave me ride home. Read one poem— "Three Graces on Montebello Ave"; No time to write a poem honoring Jackie Marderosian.
Saturday, March 3, 2018, 11:02 am-4:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "On Number 41"— 41 in Mathematics; 41 in different languages; West 41st Street Sign, NYC; 41-story buildings: The Heritage at Trump Place One St. Petersburg Condo Tower; Chicago Westlake 41-story Tower; Chicago's 41-story Kemper Building.	Saturday, March 3, 2018, 5:15-11:00 pm Mountain View: After dinner of Salmon Fillets, 12 potato tots, and Roma tomato, decide to stay home, instead of hour-walk to Cubberley Pavilion for ballroom dancing; Worked on "On Number 41" Dickerson's Proteins on amino acid #41 in myoglobin & human hemoglobin A & B; SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007).
Sunday, March 4, 2018, 10:30 am-6:05 pm Los Altos Library: Brought Wing-tsit Chan's "A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy" (1969) to type in "On Number 41"— 41 in Chinese Philosophers: Chang Tsai, Ch'eng Hao, Ch'eng I, Lu Hsiang-shan, Chu Hsi, Wang Yang Ming. 41st MLB World Series (1944): St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns 4-2 in WWII depleted talent. Synchronicity— 1:24 pm Email to Ann on not going ballroom dancing last night; She emailed 1:22 pm on why I didn't come.	Sunday, March 4, 2018, 10:30 am-6:05 pm Los Altos Library: Foreign stamps with 41 denominations: 0.41-Euro from France #2892 Sea Turtle; #2936 Bird: Colibri a tete bleue; 41 cents from Ireland #1457 St. Patrick; 0.41-Euro from Italy #2477 Mountains; #2486 Matteo Ricci; #2413 Madoona of Senigllia; #2431 Christ & Angels; #2442 "Otiz" Iceman Discovery, 10th Anniversary Italy #2432 Madonna & Child; #2479 "Malato Alla Forte" sculpture; #2537 Giotto's "Encounter at the Golden Door"
Monday, March 5, 2018, 9:33 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Wrote haikus for Saturday 3/3 and Sunday 3/4; Downloaded 11 stamps with 41 denominations While downloading Italy #2479 sculpture found 2012 France stamp Suscinio Castle with Λ-shape steeples like in cathedrals.	Monday, March 5, 2018, 9:33 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Four articles on Enlightenment— Paola Bertucci's "Artisanal Enlighenment & Diderot's Encyclopedia" "Steven Pinker Receives Humanist Award"; "Reason without humanity doesn't get us far"; "Achieving Enlightenment Via Telemann".
Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 9:40-9:59 am Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.) 9:30 am Bus #34 & 10:05 am Bus #34 back home. Eggs raincheck $1.49; Silk Almond & Coconut Milk $2.34; 2 Bailey Creamers @ $3; Van de Kamps Fish Fillets $3.99; Lasco Smoked Salmon $4.39 2 Lucerne Strawberry Yogurt @ $1.79; 2 Red Baron Deluxe Pizzas @ $2.77; 2 Tai Pei Potstickers & Egg Rolls @ $2.	Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 11:25 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Email from Peter Milton, 1:22 am, March 6 on new essay about him— "Peter Milton's TSUNAMI: Turner, Constable, & Ruskin at Sea in a New American Print" by James A.W. Hefferman Heffernan knows his Art History as he compares Milton's works to Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and J.M.W. Turner.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 7:30-7:35 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Paavo Järvi conducts Radio France Philharmonic in Dmitri Shostakovich's "Jazz Suite #2: Waltz #2" (1938); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, "Eyes Wide Shut") Shostakovich's Jazz Suite #2 is a lovely waltz to dance to, played in many movies.	Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 10:30 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center RGS 41 Locomotive at Knott's Berry Farm; Compiling Geography in "On Number 41"— Cities located at 41o north latitude Chicago, IL, USA: 41o53' Barcelona, Spain: 41o 23' Istanbul, Turkey: 41o 01'/
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 10:30 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Compiling Music Opus #41 in "On Number 41"— Chopin's Opus #41: set of 4 piano Mazurkas; Schumann's Opus #41: three String Quartets; Jean Sibelius's Opus #41: Kyllikki for piano.	Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 10:30 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Compiling Building #41 in "On Number 41"— Building 41 at SLAC is A & E Building; Microsoft Building 41, Redmond, WA; MIT Cryolab is Building 41, Cambrdge. MA.
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 10:30 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center 6 Citations of 41 in Bible for "On Number 41"— 1 Kings 14:21: Rehoboam, 41 when reigning; 1 Kings 15:10: Jeroboam reigned 41 years; Numbers 1:41: # in Asher's tribe, 41500.	Thursday, March 8, 2018, 10:30 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Dave Matthews song #41; Rock band Sum 41 0.41 Euro stamp Italy 2486 Matteo Ricci; 41st State entering the Union is Montana; 41st U.S. President is George H. W. Bush.
Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:45 am-2:00 pm Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave) Forgot greetings for Lilly's 5th birthday (March 5); Notes to Poem "Thee Graces at Montebello Ave" Had to reduce pixels of downloaded stamp Monaco #1986 of "Three Graces" so it finally showed up on the web page.	Friday, March 9, 2018, 2:30-6:20 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center From Jeremy Baker's "Tolstoy's Bicycle" (1982), compiling people's accomplishments at age 41— Audubon's Birds of America (1827); Metternich at Congress of Vienna (1814); Descartes' Discourse on the Method (1637).
Friday, March 9, 2018, 2:30-6:20 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center 41st Academy Awards (1969) without a host; Oliver! wins "Best Picture" First time tie for Best Actress Award— Katharine Hepburn for Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.	Friday, March 9, 2018, 6:40-7:08 pm Mountain View: Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd): Came here to get weekend specials for Rudy; Missed 7:14 pm Bus #40; Got 7:39 pm Bus #40 home 4 Half-pints (6 oz) Blueberries @ 98¢; Kettle Chips (Dill Pickles, Truffles) @ 99¢; 1.54 lb Jumbo Scallops @ $9.99/lb = $15.38.
Saturday, March 10, 2018, 8:04-8:20 am KDFC 104.9 FM: José Serebrier conducts Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Antonin Dvorak, "In Nature's Realm, Op.91" (1891); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4) Poem; Poems 2016 Trilogy with 1st part dedicated to Nature, 2nd part to Life, and 3rd part to Love.	Saturday, March 10, 2018, 9:30 am-1:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center RGS 41 Locomotive at Knott's Berry Farm; Psalms #41: David asks for God's blessings; Book of Enoch XLI: seeing secrets of heavens Krause Center closed 1 pm instead of 4 pm; 1:48 pm Bus #40 to Los Altos Library for three more hours of work to 4:50 pm.
Saturday, March 10, 2018, 2:05-4:50 pm Los Altos Library: 2018 Scott Catalog 3B shows Italy #2390 Centennial of first Tuscany stamp Charles Tiffany starts store (1853) at age 41; Henry Royce's Rolls-Royce (1904) at age 41; James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1923) at 41.	Saturday, March 10, 2018, 9:30 am-1:00 pm Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd): Broccoli @ $1.28/lb; Lucerne Almond Milk $1.99 4 Lucerne Cheese (Provolone, Pepper Jack, Monterey Jack, Swiss) @ $1.88; 4 Safeway's Instant Oatmeal (10 packets Fruit) @ $1.61.
Sunday, March 11, 2018, 12:40-6:00 pm Los Altos Library: Bookmark two films for tonight; At age 41: Simone Beauvoir, "Second Sex"; John Dalton, Atomic weights; Gustav Holst, "The Planets" Marco Polo returns from China at age 41; Columbus discovers New World at age 41; Alex Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo at 41.	Sunday, March 11, 2018, 6:50-6:58 pm Palo Alto: Walgreens (300 University Ave): Have not shopped here since Stanford Theatre closed Oct. 3, 2017-Jan. 6, 2018 for renovation 4 bottles Lindsay Manzanilla Olives (regular price $2.49) @ $1.00— I slice 7 olives when baking pizza.
Sunday, March 11, 2018, 7:30-8:50 pm Stanford Theatre: Erle C. Kenton directs "Island of Lost Souls" (1932) with Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, Paul Hurst, Tetsu Komai; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Film remade "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1977) Terrifying horror film on shipwrecked island with great performance by Laughton as Dr. Moreau.	Sunday, March 11, 2018, 9:00-10:30 pm Stanford Theatre: Mitchell Leisen directs "Murder at the Vanities" (1934) with Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney, Gertrude Michael, Jessie Ralph, Gail Patrick, Donald Meek, Toby Wing, Duke Ellington's Orchestra; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Backstage musical murder mystery, where detective must solve case between the musical numbers.
Monday, March 12, 2018, 11:06 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "On Number 41"— At age 41 Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex (1949); Dad was at Sorbonne (1928-1930) and told me this story— Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir were kissing in the back of the room; Prof. Albert Mathiez reprimanded them for not paying attention.	Monday, March 12, 2018, 11:06 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Format photos from Wikipedia of people at age 41: Tiffany, Royce, Joyce, Beauvoir, Dalton, Holst, Marco Polo, Columbus, Alexander Dumas— Alfred Stieglitz opens NYC studio at 41; Giacomo Puccini writes opera Tosca at 41; Puccini 1999 stamp: San Marino 0.41 Euro.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 9:40-9:54 am Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.) 9:30 am Bus #34 & 10:05 am Bus #34 back home. Signature Essential Potato Tots $3.00; 2 Lucerne Coffee Creamers @ $2.45; 2 Tree Top Apple Sauce @ $1.02.	Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 12:14-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Cathy's 10:49 am email recalling Connie's birthday Connie would have been 80 today— Missed her daily phone calls and our nature hikes together.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 12:14-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Read Wagenknecht's chapter on Marilyn Monroe. When told she shared the same sign as Rosalind Russell, Rosemary Clooney, and Judy Garland, she replied not knowing them.	Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 12:14-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Read Wagenknecht's Marilyn Monroe (page 201). Marilyn was a Gemini (June 1, 1926) saying she shared the sign with Emerson, Whitman, Bernard Shaw, & Queen Victoria.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:59 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center SCIENCE: "Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Mind Roamed the Cosmos"; ARTS: "6 Memorable Cultural Moments Inspired by Stephen Hawking"; "Stephen Hawking Taught Us a Lot About How to Live" (By Dennis Overbye, NY Times, 3-14-2018) "Stephen Hawking, in His Own Words"; "Stephen Hawking's Beautiful Mind"; Stephen Hawking died on P-Day.	Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:59 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Read 5 fascinating articles from "New York Times"— Stephen Hawking liked to say he was born (1-8-1942) 300 years to the day after Galileo died (1-8-1642), and he died on Wednesday, 139 years after Albert Einstein was born (3-14-1879); Reincarnating souls? Newton born (12-25-1642) year Galileo died (1-8-1642); Einstein born (3-14-1879) year Maxwell died (11-5-1879)— linkage of souls?
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:59 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Wisdom Mudra Pose: Isaac Newton; Galileo; James Clerk Maxwell; Albert Einstein: Stephen Hawking; Downloaded photos of these scientists for a poem Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Hawking: Great scientific geniuses linked by their birth and death— cosmic mystery?.	Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:59 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Read "The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998" last night and found 8 records relating to #41— Are they out of date since book is 20 years old? 1996 Gator Bowl: Syracuse beat Clemson 41-0; Austin Carr: highest NCAA scoring avg 41.3; Oldest Wimbledon Champ: Arthur Gore, 41.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:59 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "Is There a Linkage of Souls of Scientific Geniuses?" Poem of 33-lines inspired by Hawking not afraid to be gobbled up by black holes, saying "I am their master".	Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:59 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "Is There a Linkage of Souls of Scientific Geniuses?" Had to write this poem on P-Day after "rounding up the usual suspects"— Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Hawking.
Thursday, March 15, 2018, 11:55 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "Is There a Linkage of Souls of Scientific Geniuses?" Web site WisdomPortal.com offline since 4-26-2015; can't show poem with photos of 5 greatest scientists.	Thursday, March 15, 2018, 11:55 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "Is There a Linkage of Souls of Scientific Geniuses?" Took screen shot of above poem and cropped photo of "five scientists" so image with birth dates can be sent to friends.
Friday, March 16, 2018, 7:55-8:03 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Augustin Dumay plays violin, Manuel Rosenthal conducts Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra in Gabriel Fauré, "Berceuse Op 16" (1879); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4) Lullaby or Cradle Song written by Fauré in 1879— year Maxwell died & Einstein was born.	Friday, March 16, 2018, 12:30-4:40 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Emailed friends "Linkage of Souls" poem with photos of 5 scientists in wisdom mudra pose: Glad Prof. Jean-Pierre Dupuy liked my poem. Sorry to learn my best friend at Cornell John Vournakis died on January 17, 2018; He planned to visit— now, a hole in my heart.
Friday, March 16, 2018, 6:00-7:10 pm 4:47 pm Bus #40 & 5:15 pm Bus #522 to Palo Alto— Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs "Tarnished Lady" (1931) with Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook, Phoebe Foster, Alexander Kirkland, Osgood Perkins, Elizabeth Patterson, Eric Blore, Berton Churchill; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Destitute socialite leaves writer she loves to marry millionaire stockbroker for money, but he becomes broke after the market crash.	Friday, March 16, 2018, 7:30-9:00 pm Stanford Theatre: Frank Borzage directs "A Farewell to Arms" (1932) based on Hemingway's 1929 novel, with Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue, Blanche Friderici, Mary Forbes, Gilbert Emery; (You Tube: 1, Full movie); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) American ambulance driver in WWI, falls in love with British nurse (Hayes) and seduces her in their night outing.
Saturday, March 17, 2018, 1:11-5:40 pm Los Altos Library: Email from Nancy Applequist that her husband Jon Applequist died Dec. 18, 2017 rapidly in 2.5 weeks of Shy-Drager Sydrome Jon was my Columbia senior thesis advisor; wrote recommendation letter for me to study at Cornell with Professor Harold A. Scheraga.	Saturday, March 17, 2018, 1:11-5:40 pm Los Altos Library: Typed from books brought to the Library on #41 from Confucius, Pythagoras, Kay Ryan's "The Best of It", and Jane Hirshfield. Pythagoras Golden Verses' #41— "Never sleep before going over the acts of the day in the mind."
Sunday, March 18, 2018, 7:30-9:10 pm Stanford Theatre: Wesley Ruggles directs "I'm No Angel" (1933) with Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde, Kent Taylor, Gertrude Michael, Russell Hopton, Dorothy Peterson, William B. Davidson, Gertrude Howard; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Mae West as Tira in circus show shimmies and sings to attract men, and puts her head in a lion's mouth.	Sunday, March 18, 2018, 9:20-10:26 pm Stanford Theatre: Erle C. Kenton directs "You're Telling Me!" (1934) with W. C. Fields, Adrienne Ames, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Louise Carter, Kathleen Howard, Dell Henderson, Nora Cecil, George Irving, Bob McKenzie, Tammany Young; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Optometrist & part-time inventor's puncture-proof tire's patent bought for $1 million thanks to bidding by princess.
Monday, March 19, 2018, 9:03-9:15 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Andrew Davis conducts BBC Symphony Orchestra in Frederick Delius, "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" (1907); CD; (YouTube: Barbirolli, Davis, Simonov, Trees, Otaka) Beautiful music of lovers walking to Paradise Garden inn and taking a boat to drown themselves.	Monday, March 19, 2018, 10:55 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center Computer Lab closed on Saturday and Sunday, so Monday is my happiest day where I can write HTML and be constructive composing haikus and poetry. Will write haikus on the four films seen on Friday & Sunday at Stanford Theatre and type poetry passages connecting to #41.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 9:40-9:59 am Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.) 9:30 am Bus #34 & 10:05 am Bus #34 back home. 2 Bailey Coffee Creamers @ $3.00; 2 Tropicana Orange Juice @ $2.49; 2 Lucerne Strawberry Yogurt $1.79; 2 Imitation Chunk Crabmeat @ $1.49.	Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 11:57 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center 1st day of Spring (Vernal Equinox 3-20, 9:15 am) First day of Spring— It's still raining. All these showers— Good for flowers.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 8:00-8:06 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Philadelphia Orchestra in Johann Sebastian Bach, "Sheep May Safely Graze BWV 208" (1907); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday today— Bach means "brook", but Beethoven says "To me, Bach is an ocean!"	Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 9:50-10:08 pm Mountain View: Bus #22 arrived at Showers Drive at 9:40 pm; Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd): Baby carrots 88¢; Bunch Green onions 88¢; Caught last Bus #40 at 10:20 pm home 1.35 lbs Cluster Tomatoes @ 98¢/lb = $1.32; 2.61 lbs Green Grapes @ 88¢/lb = $2.30; 1 lb package Strawberries = $1.25.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 6:05-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Paul Sloane directs The Woman Accused (1933) with Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel, Louis Calhern, Norma Mitchell, Jack La Rue, Frank Sheridan, Jay Belasco; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Woman accused of killing ex-lover with a 3-day cruise to nowhere and a mock trial.	Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 7:30-8:48 pm Stanford Theatre: Marion Gering directs "The Devil and the Deep" (1932) with Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Cary Grant, Paul Porcasi, Juliette Compton, Henry Kolker; (YouTube: full movie); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Laughton plays submarine commander insanely jealous that his wife is having affairs with Gary Cooper & Cary Grant.
Thursday, March 22, 2018, 10:32 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center St. John of Karpathos (680 AD), "Encouragement of Monks in India" ("Philokalia"); Text 41: Anyone who devotes himself with special intensity to prayer is assailed by fearsome and savage temptations.	Thursday, March 22, 2018, 10:32 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "On Number 41"— 41st Verse in Chapter 18 of "Ashtavakra Gita" (400 BC); trans. John Richards Cessation of thoughts is natural, spontaneous and perennial for the Wise-one delighting in the Self..
Friday, March 23, 2018, 1:00-2:53 pm Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave): Stephen Chbosky directs "Wonder" (2017) with Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Izabela Vidovic, Noah Jupe, Danielle Rose Russell, Nadji Jeter, Mandy Patinkin; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Kids in 5th grade were mean to Auggie with his facial defect, but he was courageous to brave through it.	Friday, March 23, 2018, 4:20-4:50 pm After "Wonder" movie, friend drives me to Stanford University: Memorial Church Courtyard for photos of Stanford bronze plaques as numbers for birthdays of Professor Scheraga, Cathy, Elisa, Sophie, Lilly, Emily, Marissa, Byron; Photo of Plaque #41 to complete On Number 41 for Elisa Half-hour to take 16 photos of numbers on birthdays for the next two years.
Saturday, March 24, 2018, 5:58-6:02 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Vladimir Ashkenazy plays piano; to Frederic Chopin, "Nocturne #2 in Eb Op 9 #2 B 54 #2" (1831); CD; (YouTube: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Artur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Tiffany Poon, Valentina Lisitsa, Vadim Chaimovich) Beautiful Chopin Nocturne #2 wakes me up this morning for early class in Adobe Illustrator.	Saturday, March 24, 2018, 7:58-8:18 am Mountain View: Rengstorff Ave & Jane Lane— Picked up "Daily Post", didn't have to go to Valero Gas Station today; Had to catch 7:58 am Bus #40 to make the 9 am class; Next Bus #40 is 9 am getting to Foothill College at 9:20 am, too late for my class Bus #40 driver passed me by at Jane Lane as truck blocked his view; Waved my umbrella & he stopped at next block.
Saturday, March 24, 2018, 9:00 am-2:50 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center William Cavada teaches "Adobe Illustrator I" (LINC 731) "KCI Illustrator Cut Shapes"— Cavada tunes this class to Makerspace 3D Printing where we can register for free.	Saturday, March 24, 2018, 9:00 am-2:50 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Keith gives class a tour of Makerspace Lab 3D-Printing is additive; Laser Cutting is subtractive Can cut with Laser, Router, Knife Blade; Use vinyl but not poly-vinyl-chloride, since PVC releases poisonous chlorine.
Saturday, March 24, 2018, 4:30-5:40 pm Los Altos Library: Books for Sale Shelves— Didn't buy Stephen Baker, "The Numerati" (2008) 244 pp. (303.483Baker) $26 for $2— Yahoo! and Google harvest an average of 2500 details about each of us every month.	Saturday, March 24, 2018, 3:00-3:55 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center After Illustrator class, checked photos taken on 3/21 (Kaiser), 3/21 (Marquee). 3/23 (Plaques) Peter's eyeball on retinopathy exam; Marquee at Stanford Theatre & Tabu; Stanford bronze plaque #41 for Elisa.
Sunday, March 25, 2018, 11:40 am-3:50 pm Los Altos Library: Peter'sEyeball(1000x1000).jpg too big to print out and can't make image smaller; Reduced in Photoshop to Peter'sEyeball(500x500).jpg and printed it out in color for 20¢; Last minute email to friends on great movie "Tabu" at Stanford Theatre Emailed Rudy, Al, and friends to come to Stanford Theatre to see Murnau's Tabu film.	Sunday, March 25, 2018, 4:55-5:02 pm Palo Alto: Walgreens (300 University Ave) Specials on Sale: Swanson's 30% reduced sodium Chicken Broth @ 59¢ (no limit); Maxwell Instant Coffee @ $3.99 or 2 for $5; Bought 8 cans soup & 2 jars of coffee; Clerk double-bagged it for me Put four cans of soup in my backpack so bag is not too heavy for half-hour walk down Rengstorff.
Sunday, March 25, 2018, 7:30-9:05 pm Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "Trouble in Paradise" (1932) with Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Edward Everett Horton, Charlie Ruggles, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4). Two jewel thieves insinuate themselves into the household of wealthy perfume magnate Colet.	Sunday, 3-25-2018, 5:55-7:20 pm & 9:15-10:36 pm Stanford Theatre: F. W. Murnau directs "Tabu: A Story of the South Seas" (1931) with Matahi, Anne Chevalier (Reri), Bill Bambridge, Hitu; (YouTube: Full Film, Making of Film, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4): Screenplay by F.W. Murnau & Robert J. Flaherty This film is one of my top 10; saw it some 15 years ago; seeing it twice today to study Murnau's artistry.
Monday, March 26, 2018, 9:25-9:31 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Itzhak Perlman plays violin; Lawrence Foster conducts Abbey Road Ensemble in Jules Massenet, "Thaïs: Méditation" (1894); CD; (YouTube: Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Nicola Benedetti, Fritz Kreisler, Maxim Vengerov) One of my all-time favorite music— so soft & soothing with Itzhak Perlman playing it.	Monday, March 26, 2018, 10:02-10:07 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Alfred Brendel plays piano; in Ludwig van Beethoven, "Für Elise in a WoO 59" (1808); CD; (YouTube: Alfred Brendel, Claudio Arrau, Georgii Cherkin, Ivo Pogorelich); Beethoven died today in 1827 at age 56, 191 years ago Itzhak Perlman played Thaïs, Alfred Brendel playing Für Elise— two fine music pieces that rhymes.
Monday, March 26, 2018, 11:55 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Typed up Poem "That's My Eyeball" written from 1:00 am-3:05 am this morning That's my eyeball— screen shot taken after retinopathy exam.	Monday, March 26, 2018, 11:55 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Stanford bronze plaque #41 for Elisa cleaned in Adobe Photoshop; placed in Number #41 This was missing photo— now will be able to complete Number #41 for Elisa's birthday.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 2:30-3:08 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) to buy $40+ groceries for $4 refund; Rainchecks: Tai Pei Meals 10 @ $1.90; Salmon Fillets @ $2 BOGO 10 Salmon Fillets @ $2.00; 10 Tai Pei Meals @ &1.90; 4 Noni Biscotti @ $2.49.	Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 4:40-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center "41" in book title: "41 Stories by O. Henry" (2007); "41 Uses for Grandma" (2011); "41: A Portrait of My Father" (2014); "41 Will Come" (2016) Rained for 40 days and 40 nights— the rain stopped on the 41st day; On the 41st day David slew Goliath.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 4:40-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Time Magazine covers for Volume XLI, No. 1-26 (Joseph Stalin on January 4, 1943, XLI:1) to (Bernard Baruch on June 28, 1943, XLI:26) George Patton (4-12-1943, XLI:15); Sir Thomas Beecham (4-5-1943, XLI:14); Madame Chiang Kai-shek (3-1-1943, XLI:19).	Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 4:40-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center "Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Poets since 1955" (2007); Volume 41 (1985); Edited by Thadious M. Davis & Trudier Harris African-American dramatists and prose writers featured in Vol. 41 with outpouring of poets in mid-1950s.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 7:47-7:50 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Quartet San Francisco plays Astor Piazzolla, "Libertango" (1974); CD; (YouTube: Russian Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Tatyana's Guitar Quartet, Astor Piazzola & Daniel Barenboim, André Rieu, Armenia Orchestra) Title is a portmanteau merging "Libertad" (liberty) and "Tango", symbolizing Piazzolla's break from Classical Tango to Tango Nuevo.	Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 8:09-8:20 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Joshua Bell plays violin; Andrew Litton conducts Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Pablo de Sarasate, "Zigeunerweisen Op 20" (1878); CD; (YouTube: Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, Jascha Heifetz, Sarah Chang) Gypsy Airs is Pablo de Sarasate's most popular violin compositions with csardas rhythms at the end.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 9:54 am-4:40 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Photoshop covers: "41 Stories by O. Henry" (2007); "41 Uses for Grandma" (2011); "41: A Portrait of My Father" (2014); "41 Will Come" (2016) Came early to Krause Center today; have to leave at 4:40 pm for Stanford Theatre movies tonight.	Wednesday, March 28, 2018,, 9:54 am-4:40 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Forgot to download photos from Stanford Theatre's weekly showings; Had to guess 11 "Title.jpg"; Can't find photo for film "A Farewell to Arms" Found: Tabu, I'm No Angel, Tarnished Lady, Devil and the Deep, Island of Lost Souls, Murder at the Vanities, Trouble in Paradise.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 5:50-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "If I Had a Million" (1932): Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, Jack Oakie, Richard Bennett, Charlie Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, W. C. Fields, Mary Boland, Roscoe Karns, May Robson, Wynne Gibson, Gene Raymond, Frances Dee; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Dying milionaire gives his wealth to eight strangers from phone book, with 8 directors for the 8 stories.	Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 7:30-9:15 pm Stanford Theatre: Edmund Goulding & 10 others direct "Paramount on Parade" (1930): Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, Richard Arlen, George Bancroft, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis, Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, William Powell, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Ruth Chatterton; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) All-star American pre-Code revue of all Paramount stars with 20 segments and 10 directors.
Thursday, March 29, 2018, 11:32 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Completed "On Number 41"— with 288 items adding poets e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda; also— Ghazal 41 by Hafiz, Poem 41 by Kabir translated by Tagore, Poem 41 in Mary Oliver's Evidence.	Thursday, March 29, 2018, 11:32 am-7:15 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Completed "On Number 41"— added saints & sages Huang Po, Francis of Assisi, Subramuniyaswami Subramuniya on Superconsciousness— you're pure life force flowing through people, plants, water, everything.
Friday, March 30, 2018, 10:23 am-4:10 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Poetry News: Further examining the importance of poetry (By Marilyn Lerch, Sackville Tribune Post, 3-29-2018); Shelley's "A Defense of Poetry" (1821)— Poetry creates for us a being within our being... purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being.	Friday, March 30, 2018, 10:23 am-4:10 pm Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center Completed "On Number 41"— Need to add images of Confucius, Chao-Chou (Joshu), Shakespeare, and A.E. (George William Russell) to web pages Chao-Chou aka Joshu (778-897), China #741 Confucius (8-27-1947), Hungary CB3 Shakespeare (10-16-1948), A.E. aka George William Russell (1867-1935).
Friday, March 30, 2018, 5:40-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Josef von Sternberg directs "Blonde Venus" (1932) with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan, Rita La Roy, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Sidney Toler, Morgan Wallace, Clarence Muse, Émile Chautard, Hattie McDaniel; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Marlene sings "Hot Vodoo" in an ape suit attracting rich playboy Cary Grant.	Friday, March 30, 2018, 7:30-9:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Josef von Sternberg directs "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) with Marlene Dietrich, John Davis Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith, Gavin Gordon, Olive Tell, Ruthelma Stevens, Erville Alderson, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Gerald Fielding, Maria Riva; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Marlene plays Catherine the Great as she accumulates more power with horses galloping up the palace stairs.
Saturday, March 31, 2018, 11:40 am-4:50 pm Los Altos Library: (Krause Center closed today)— Need to include "Confucian Analects" 14.41 & 16.41; China 741 Confucius stamp; Marilyn stamps— U.S. 2967: Marilyn Monroe, 32¢ (6-1-1995); Congo Republic C107: 100 fr. (3-10-1971); Grenada 2468: Marilyn, 75¢ (9-5-1995).	Saturday, March 31, 2018, 5:10-5:30 pm Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rua): Weekend Specials on Almonds & Walnut Halves (for Rudy); Caught Bus #40 at 5:49 pm home 2.31 lbs Walnut Halves @ $3.99/lb = $9.22; 3.44 lbs Raw Almonds @ $2.99/lb = $10.29; 2 Half-pints Blueberries @ $1.25 = $2.50.

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