Haikus: May 2018

HAIKUS: May 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.

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Tuesday, May 1, 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;
Frank (Preventive Maintenace) checked batteries
to Smoke Detector in bedroom & found they're OK.

Mozzarella, Provolone, Swiss Cheese @ $1.88;
Tai Pei: Egg Rolls & Potstickers @ $1.90;
Ranch Dressing $1.99; Nonfat Milk $2.99. Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 2:50-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned WellsFargo 4/2018 statement to send to
Network Solutions so I can upload to WisdomPortal;
Better images to Thomas Moran: Mountain Paintings

Zoroaster Peak (Grand Canyon, AZ);
Index Peak, Yellowstone National Park;
Glen Eyrie, Garden of Gods, Colorado.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 8:32-8:42 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Kyung Wha Chung plays violin, with Charles Dutoit's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Camille Saint-Saens's "Havanaise Op. 83" (1887);
CD; (YouTube: 1; 2; 3; 4); Blind Date: What Year?

Eiffel Tower building started (1887),
Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccines (1887),
Buffalo Bill's Wild West tour began (1887). Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 11:00-11:45 am
Mountain View: Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro St);
See Michelle Ma, PharmMD (Diabetes consultation);
Blood Pressure 137/63; Pulse: 71; Weight: 145 lb;
Improved blood sugar in April compared to March

Blood sugar dipped to 67 and 68 mg/dL
after 50-minutes walk & ballroom dancing;
Dr. Ma said "eat cookie to prevent acidosis".

Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 12:55-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Emailed Rudy & Al Guzman that I'm going to see
"On Dangerous Ground" & "The Spiral Staircase"
at Stanford Theatre (5:55 pm & 7:30 pm today).

Next film at Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge:
"A Quiet Place" 95% (11:00 am, 2:45 pm);
"Avengers: Infinity War" 84%. (1:45 pm). Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 9:40-9:51 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road);
Left Stanford Theatre 9:05 pm to catch 9:11 pm
Bus #22 at Palo Alto Train Depot with time to shop
at Sprouts and catch last 10:20 pm Bus #40 home

Rain check on Turkish figs @ $2.99/lb;
1.13 lb Raw wheat germ @ $2.49/lb = $2.81;
2.90 lbs Dried apple rings @ $3.89/lb = $11.28.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 5:55-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Nicholas Ray directs
"On Dangerous Ground" (1951) with Ida Lupino,
Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper,
Anthony Ross, Ed Bagley, Ian Wolfe, Gus Schilling, Frank Ferguson, Cleo Moore, Olive Carey;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3), 4; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Cynical cop on manhunt for killer,
falls in love with killer's blind sister
who tells him her brother is mentally ill. Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 7:30-8:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Robert Siodmak directs
"The Spiral Staircase" (1946) with Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith,
Gordon Oliver, Rhonda Fleming, Elsa Lanchester,
Sara Allgood, Rhys Williams, James Bell;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Young mute woman catches the eye
of a serial killer targeting disabled
women in a small Vermont village in 1906.

Thursday, May 3, 2018, 9:57 am
Mountain View: Public Storage;
Caught 9:44 am Bus #40 to Old Middlefied
and walked three blocks to pay May rental fee.

Took 10:22 am Bus #40 at Old Middlefield
and got off at Showers Drive to pick up
today's Daily Post, Epoch Times, & Metro. Thursday, May 3, 2018, 11:24 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Added three Paul Cézanne's paintings of
Mont Sainte-Victoire to "Mountain Paintings"

Mont Sainte-Victoire (1887),
Mount of St.Victoria (1898),
Mont Sainte-Victoire (1895)

Friday, May 4, 2018, 1:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave);
Craig Gillespie directs "I, Tonya" (2017) with
Margot Robbie, Mckenna Grace, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, Caitlin Carver, Bojana Novakovic, Paul Walter Hauser, Bobby Cannavale, Ricky Russert; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Life of figure skater Tonya Harding
and her connection to the 1994 attack
on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. Friday, May 4, 2018, 7:30-10:15 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 (26 came);
Featured Readers: Lara Gularte & Robert Pesich;
Mary-Marcia printed "First Day of Spring" in color
& "Linkage of Souls?" for May-June issue of "Fresh Hot Bread"; Anne Cheilek gave me ride home.

Read two poems— "That's My Eyeball"
and "Neighborhood License Plates"
inspired by 4ETU315 "Ides of March" plate.

Saturday, May 5, 2018, 10:05 am
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Walking up to Krause Center, spotted jackrabbit,
first one sighted in 30 years on Foothill campus—

Online Photo of Jackrabbit,
Online Photo of Krause Center,
Photoshopped: Jackrabbit by Krause Center. Saturday, May 5, 2018, 10:18 am-3:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Added three more old mountain paintings
to web page for total of 12 paintings

Dürer's Arco Valley in Tyrol (1495),
Pieter Bruegel's Haymaking July (1565),
Coninxloo's Mountain Landscape (1595).

Sunday, May 6, 2018, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Notorious" (1946) with Cary Grant,
Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern Reinhold Schünzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Alexis Minotis,
Wally Brown, E.A. Krumschmidt; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full movie); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, NY Times)

François Truffaut regards
Notorius as Hitchcock's greatest work.
Wine cellar scene is my favorite part in film. Sunday, May 6, 2018, 9:25-10:14 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs "Spellbound" (1945) with Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, Steven Geray, Paul Harvey, Norman Lloyd, Bill Goodwin; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3,
full film); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, NY Times);
Salvador Dalí designed the dream sequence

Psychiatrist Ingrid Bergman falls in
love with new chief Gregory Peck who's
an amnesic imposter and perhaps murderer.

Monday, May 7, 2018, 10:40 am
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Registrar
Registered LINC 58 (CRN42286) Project Based Learning (5/21-6/22/2018, 2 units, online $67.75)

Went to Smart Shop to update
VTA Bus Pass, as old one expired
when LINC 72B class was cancelled. Monday, May 7, 2018, 11:30 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
18 Red Roses; U.S. 1876-1879 18¢ flowers (1981);
5-8-1911 Boston Postmark (Letter: Abby to mother)

Bavaria 18 Kreuzer (1862),
France 686 Versailles 18 fr. (1955),
France 603 Chateaubriand, 18 fr. (1948).

Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 9:50-10:08 am
Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.)
Bus #34 late 10 minutes; Got to Safeway at 9:50 am;
Just one checkout lane; missed 10:08 am Bus #34
20-minutes shopping, wait an hour for next Bus #34

Biscottti @ $2.00; Pizza $3.37; Creamer $2.45;
Smoked Salmon $4.39; SeaPak Shrimp $4.99;
Ken's Salad Dressings @ $1.24 and 99¢. Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 2:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Mailed Monet's "Haystack" card with color web page
printed at Los Altos Library (12:33 pm) on the 18th
Anniversary meeting Cathy at Foothill (5-8-2000).

Went to Los Altos Post Office (1:10 pm)
(221 Main St.) where Vincente postmarked
"May 8, 2018" for 18th Anniversary meeting.

Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 8:30-8:38 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Richard Joo plays piano, to Billy Joel's "Waltz #1: Nunley's Carousel, Op. 2" (1999);
CD; (YouTube: 1; 2; 3); Blind Date: What Year?

Leonardo's Last Supper Restored (1999),
Boris Yeltsin Resigns & Putin Reigns (1999),
ExxonMobil Merger: largest company (1999). Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 11:04 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Edmund Hillary: View from the Summit", Typed passages from the book for "Mountain Essays"

Mt. Everest 1953 Route to the Top;
Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norga;
View East from Mt. Everest Summit.

Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 9:45-10:35 am
Mountain View: Kaiser Hospital (555 Castro St.)
9:33 am Bus #34 to Castro St; Wells Fargo cash
withdrawal for weekend (9:59 am); Kaiser for Humulin (10:07 am); 10:35 Bus #52 to Foothill

Al Guzman emailed movie preference
on Sunday: Avengers: Infinity War (84%)
instead of A Quiet Place (95% rating). Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 11:04 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Dag Hammarskjöld interview with biographer
Roger Lipsey" (By David P. Gushee, Read the Spirit, 6-9-2013) with Dag's 1953 quote on mountaineering.

Interesting 1963 NY Times articles—
"Meditations of a Man of Action" &
"Clues to the Hammarskjöld Riddle".

Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 8:00-8:54 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road)
Shopped to get two weeks Wednesday's Specials
Caught 9:17 pm Bus #40 home

Strawberries, 2 Blueberries, Blackberries
@ $1.25; Dried Mango @ $3.89/lb; Walnut
Pieces @ $4.99/lb; Roma Tomatoes @ 50¢/lb;
120 tablets Magnesium Citrate $13.07. Thursday, May 10, 2018, 10:58 am-4:05 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Hammarskjöld United Nations Meditation Room:
A Room of Quiet: Lao Tzu's Uncarved Block

Web page on Hammarskjöld's
book Markings (1964) on mountains.
Emily Dickinson's poems on mountains—
Poems #666, #667, #757, #772, #975, #1278.

Thursday, May 10, 2018, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: David Miller directs
"Sudden Fear" (1952) with Joan Crawford,
Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett,
Virginia Huston, Mike Connors; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3), 4; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Successful playwright Crawford marries
Jack Palance who with Gloria Grahame
plot to kill her for inheritance money. Thursday, May 10, 2018, 7:30-9:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Henry Hathaway directs "Niagara"
(1953) with Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea, Don Wilson, Lurene Tuttle, Will Wright, Russell Collins; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Marilyn plays scheming wife
planning to kill Joseph Cotten
while vacationing at Niagara Falls.

Thursday, May 10, 2018, 9:40-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
9:11 pm Bus #22 (Train Depot) to San Antonio Rd
at 9:35 pm; Shopping; 10:20 pm Bus #40 home

4 Sig. Kit. Instant Oatmeal @ $1.61;
2 Nonni's Regular Biscotti @ $2.00;
Doritos Nacho Cheese Chips $1.88. Friday, May 11, 2018, 11:00 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Emily Dickinson: Mountain Poems; Found Mt. Rainier watercolor to fill empty space on page

Web page on Gary Snyder's
Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996) in
Mountain Poetry section of Platonic Λ book.

Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10:15 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Add to Mountain Poetry— Antonio Machado's "Passageways" and Tomas Tranströmer's "Black Mountains"; "POETRY— Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer— review"

Found interesting Robert Bly article,
and Spain 2086 Antonio Machado (1978),
Sweden 2717 Tomas Tranströmer (2013). Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10:15 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Brought books to type poems of Machado and Tranströmer to Mountain Poetry; Searched my
poetry files (2006-2018) & found 8 "Mountain Poems"; 6 written in Mountain View (2007-2018)

"Mountains Are Mountains" written in Corseaux, 10-26-1978; "Blue Heaven, Green Earth" written at Squaw Valley, 7-13-1990.

Sunday, May 13, 2018, 8:30 am-11:45 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino)
Al picked me up at my Mtn View Apt at 8:00 am;
Rudy came 8:30 am; Karen joined us at 10:30 am;
Rudy can't come to movie as he had meetings with
his Medical Anthropology class; Karen can't make
it to the movie. Astronomy Professor John Beck joined us to see "Avengers: Infinity War"; Al drove me to Los Altos Library after the movie. Stayed at Library (4:00-7:00 pm) to type texts from two giant Mountain Climbing books: "Conquest of Everest" (2013) & "Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains" (2000) for "Mountain Books" page
in "Mountains"; Dana gave me ride home

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages,
bacon, beets, spinach, jello,
cups regular & chocolate milk. Sunday, May 13, 2018, 12:30 pm-3:00 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge (2306 Almaden Road) : Anthony & Joseph Russo direct
"Avengers: Infinity War" (2018): Robert Downey Jr.,
Chris Hemsworth Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans,
Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan; Tom Hiddleston; Idris Elba; Peter Dinklage; Benedict Wong; Pom Klementieff; Karen Gillian; Dave Bautista; Zoe Saldana; Vin Diesel; Bradley Cooper; Gwyneth Paltrow; Benicio del Toro;
Josh Brolin; Chris Pratt: (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Marvel Comics Galaxy of Superheroes,
The Avengers can't defeat Thanos
who is destroying half the universe.

Monday, May 14, 2018, 8:31-8:36 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Gabriel Schwabe plays cello,
Marc Soustrot conducts Malmo Symphony Orchestra
to Camille Saint-Saëns's Allegro Appassionato in b, Op. 43 (1875); CD; (Video: 1; 2; Jacqueline du Pré);
Blind Date: What Year of composition & events?

Psychologist Carl Jung was born (1875),
First Race of the Kentucky Derby (1875),
Paris Garnier Opera House Opened (1875). Monday, May 14, 2018, 10:57 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Mountain Books: "Conquest of Everest" (2013); "Climbing World's 14 Highest Mountains" (2000); Mountains: Masterworks of the Living Earth (2006); Mountains of the Mind (2003); Geologist viewpoint:

Mountains are not eternal & unchanging—
like all living things, are born, grow
and mature, then finally die.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 9:40-9:58 am
Mountain View: Safeway (570 North Shoreline Dr.)
Bus #34 arrived at Safeway 9:40 am; Just one checkout lane; Made 10:06 am Bus #34 home

Creamer $2.45; Dole Pineapple Chunks @ $1;
Potato Tater Treats & Onion Rings @ $2.02;
Ketchup 99¢; Doritos $1.88; Milk $2.99. Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 12:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
François Cheng's "Empty and Full" (1994)
has much insight on mountain and water

Web page on Shih-Tao's paintings and
vision: "mountain & sea are the same"
quoted in Empty and Full (pp. 84-86).

Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 10:58 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Poet's Notebook: Red" [Peggy Noonan, former Ronald Reagan's speechwriter, surprised her readers by quoting W. C. Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Poem XXII in Williams' "Spring and All" (1923)]
(By Peter Meinke, Creative Loafing, 5-16-2018)

No one has defined poetry precisely
except it's a "special" language,
the kind of writing that people
read more than once. Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 10:58 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"WHAT TO COOK: Art and Craft" (Sifton: Argued my thesis that restaurants are cultural expressions same as dance or music or poetry. Gabrielle Hamilton said "No way. Cooking is craft."
Tom Colicchio: "I named my restaurant Craft")
(By Sam Sifton, New York Times, 5-16-2018)

David Chang brought the Japanese
concept of "shokunin", or mastery
of a profession and one's work.

Thursday, May 17, 2018, 9:59 am-3:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Mountain Writings: Photos of Paul Brunton;
"Hermit in the Himalayas"; 1969 Rider Edition

Web page on PB's Hermit in the Himalayas—
"Why do I love these mountains?... something
of that stillness, that beauty in my meditaions." Thursday, May 17, 2018, 9:59 am-3:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Mountain Writings: Painting of Goethe;
"Italian Journey"; 1992 Penguin Edition

Web page on Goethe's Italian Journey
climbing Mt. Vesuvius in Naples
on May 2, May 6, May 20, 1787.

Thursday, May 17, 2018, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Stanley Donen directs "Arabesque" (1966) with Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore, Carl Duering, John Merivale, Duncan Lamont; George Coulouris, Ernest Clark, Harold Kasket, Gordon Griffin (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Gregory Peck involved with spies
& international murder plot; help by
Sophia Loren, but can he trust her? Thursday, May 17, 2018, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Stanley Donen directs "Charade"
(1963) with Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant,
Dominique Minot, Jacques Marin, Ned Glass,
James Coburn, George Kennedy, Walter Matthau,
Paul Bonias; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Cary Grant's only film with Audrey Hepburn,
stalked by three WW II veterans looking for
$250,000 stashed away by her dead husband.

Friday, May 18, 2018, 10:30 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Mountain Writings: Photos of Korean Zen Master
Ku San; "Nine Mountains" (1976)

Web page on Ku San's Nine Mountains—
"Embraces all the mountains and rivers,
The jade plum in the snow
Will exhibit the face of Spring." Friday, May 18, 2018, 10:30 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Went to Foothill Teaching Learning Center—
Network Solution's Kevin & TLC's Al Guzman
helped in uploading pages to WisdomPortal.com

Folder of Poems 2018;
Interesting News;
Poetry News.

Saturday, May 19, 2018, 7:36-7:41 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Maxim Vengerov plays violin,
Ian Brown on piano to Fritz Kreisler's Liebesfreud (1910); CD; (YouTube: Vengerov; Isaac Stern; Joshua Bell; Nicola Benedetti: Fritz Kreisler)

Listening to Kreisler's "Love's Joy"
made me joyful that after 1118 days,
uploaded pages to WisdomPortal.com Saturday, May 19, 2018, 9:45 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Mountain Writings: 6 Excerpts from John Muir's
"Mountains of California" and "Sacred Summits"; Shih-Tao's "Mountain and Sea" ("Empty & Full")

Paul Brunton's Hermit in the Himalayas,
Edmund Hillary's View from the Summit,
Hammarskjöld on Mountaineering.

Sunday, May 20, 2018, 12:47-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: New Nonfiction Books on Shelves:
Kinnell & Hass were poetry mentors (Squaw Valley, 1989-1990); Robert Hass, "A Little Book on Form" (2017) 447 pp. (809.1Hass); p.3

Definition of form— The way
the poem embodies the energy
of the gesture of its making. Sunday, May 20, 2018, 12:47-6:05 pm
Galway Kinnell, "Collected Poems" (2017) 591 pp. (811.54); "Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock",
p. 148 (Galway Kinnell made the 56 poets write a new poem each day at Squaw Valley, 1989-1990)

The air is so still
That as they go off through the trees
The love songs of birds do not get any fainter.

Monday, May 21, 2018, 7:31-7:35 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: John O'Conor plays piano
to Ludwig van Beethoven's Für Elise in a WoO 59, 1810; CD; YouTube: 1; Georgii Cherkin; Igor Levit; Valentina Lisitsa; Ivo Pogorelich; Claudio Arrau)

My niece Elisa played this piece
for me when she was 8-years-old,
and it's one of my favorite music. Monday, May 21, 2018, 9:37 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Checked out from Los Altos Library: Paul-Gordon Chandler's "In Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran" (2017); p. 151

Kahlil Gibran's Sand and Foam— "Should
you sit upon a cloud you would not see the
boundary line between one country & another."

Monday, May 21, 2018, 9:37 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Composed 32-lines poem "Shih-Tao's Vision":
"Mountain is the sea & sea is the mountain."

Artist Shih-Tao (1642-1707),
Paintings: "Light of Dawn",
"Conversation with Mountain".
Monday, May 21, 2018, 9:37 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Complete Concordance to the Bible, New King James Version (Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, TN, 1983);

Need to find 594 Biblical passages from
Citations: 154 Mount, 200 Mountains,
235 Mountains, and 5 Mountaintop(s).

Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 9:25-9:43 am
Mountain View: Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)
9:12 am Bus #40 to Safeway; 9:52 am Bus #40 back
Safer to shop here than Shoreline since Bus #40
runs every half-hour & Bus #34 runs every hour

Supreme Pizza $3.37; Yoplait Yogurt Free;
6 Salmon Fillets @ $1.75; Ketchup 99¢;
2 Galbani Cheese Sticks @ $2.99.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 11:36 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
An hour 20 minutes to upload 30 folders (2916 files)
and 8 files to Network Solutions server for web site
WisdomPortal.com; Pages visible: http but not https

James at Network Solutions said
my web site is not configured for https
yet, and may take up to four days for setup.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 9:50 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
TLC yesterday 3:50-5:05 pm— Phoned Network Solutions; Talked to Kelly, Shawn (Validation), Betania (Tech Support)— Bought wrong SSL Certificate $249 for business; Will refund Al—

XPress SSL Certificate $119.98 for 2 years
needs minutes for validation & not 4 days—
WisdomPortal.com now has https installed.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 9:50 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Email from Network Solutions refunding $129.02 to Al Guzman; 38 minutes to upload 38 files (no folders) to WisdomPortal.com; Volcanic Eruptions: Mount Vesuvisus 79 AD; Krakatoa 1883; Mt. Pelée 1902

Revised poem "Shih-Tao's Vision":
"fluid mountain lava and flow from
volcanoes destroying whole cities."

Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: William Wyler directs "The Desperate Hours" (1955) with Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young, Mary Murphy; Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, Walter Baldwin, Whit Bissell, Ray Teal, Simon Oakland; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3, full film); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Bogart as leader of trio of escaped convicts
invades Fredric March's home & torments
family before policemen arrive to kill him. Thursday, May 17, 2018, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: J. Lee Thompson directs
"Cape Fear" (1962) with Gregory Peck,
Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin,
Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas,
Barrie Chase, Paul Comi, Edward Platt,
Will Wright, Joan Staley; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3,
Full film); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Ex-convict Mitchum stalks Gregory Peck's
wife and daughter, blaming him for putting
him in prison for 8 years, and seeks revenge.

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 9:57 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Project-Based Learning Assignment 1—
Reaction on 5-minutes "Above & Beyond" Video

First impression was "Rah! Rah! Rah!
Hurray!" for Charlie & Maya designing
a car that could fly and won the race.
Thursday, May 24, 2018, 9:57 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Poem "Above & Beyond" on enlightened masters—
Chung Gang; Joseph Campbell; Chinmayananda

The truck is going places—
above and beyond, but I'm staying
home right here residing within.

Friday, May 25, 2018, 7:15-7:22 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Jon Nakamatsu plays piano
to Frederic Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in c# Op.66 (1834); CD; (YouTube: Jon Nakamatsu;
Arthur Rubinstein; Vladimir Horowitz;
Anastasia Huppmann; Yundi Li; Tzvi Erez)

Jon Nakamatsu played this piece
at the Los Altos Library on
Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Friday, May 25, 2018, 7:33-7:38 am
KDFC 109.49 FM: Leonard Bernstein conducts
Los Angeles Philharmonic to Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring: Simple Gifts" (1944); CD; (YouTube: 1; 2; 3; 4; "Simple Gifts" lyrics (1848);
Poem: "Be Thankful" for the simple gifts (s2012)

'Tis the gift to be simple,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come 'round right.

Friday, May 25, 2018, 9:23 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
TLC printer not working with streaks in center;
LINC 58: Project-Based Learning Assignment 2—
Told to use Sketchnotes on watching Videos

By drawing while taking notes,
we activate the right-side of our
brain and become more creative.
Friday, May 25, 2018, 9:23 am-6:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Project-Based Learning Assignment 2—
Brought blue felt tip pen & yellow marker for sketches; Perhaps will do drawing in Photoshop

Cartoon images, animals, drawings;
cartoon forest, sunshine, flowers
cartoon bunny, chipmunk, squirrel.

Saturday, May 26, 2018, 10:15 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Krause Center closed 5/26 & 5/28
for Memorial Day Holidays; Need to LogIn Foothill
MyPortal & Canvas to do LINC 58 homework due 5/26 & 5/27; Download Images for Sketchnotes—

Smith Castle; Newspaper;
Purified Water Bottle; Butterfly;
Calendars: April 2011, May 2018. Saturday, May 26, 2018, 10:15 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Krause Center closed 5/26, 5/28;
Lucky that Library has Photoshop so could use
Script Type to simulate handwriting & download images instead of drawing for Sketchnotes page—

Buck Institute: Water Quality Project;
Edutopia: Junior Historians at Work;
Photoshop: Module 1 Challenge (page 1).

Sunday, May 27, 2018, 10:30 am-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Reading Walt Whitman's poem
"What I Heard from the Learn'd Astronomer" (1865),
realized that Project-Based Learning (PBL) sites
were mostly indoors and too confining for the mind

Czech #726 Walt Whitman 1955 stamp;
Dorothy Lathrop's Girl Gazing at Stars (1930);
Blackboard of Equations; Sunrise Background.
Sunday, May 27, 2018, 10:30 am-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Page 2 to Module 1 Challenge,
"Nature Walks", so students will hike Redwood trails in the Bay Area; Open Space Views has dozens of
free docent-led hikes; Λ Lambda-shaped Redwoods—

Top of Redwood;
Middle of Redwood;
Bottom of Redwood: Goosepen.
Monday, May 28, 2018, 1:25-1:46 pm
Mountain View: Memorial Day VTA Buses run
on holiday Sunday schedule; 1:16 pm Bus #40
to Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road)

2 lbs Strawberries $2; Blackberries 98¢;
Walnut Halves & Pieces @ $4.99/lb;
Package of Pitted Dates $3.74. Monday, May 28, 2018, 1:50-2:43 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Redeem Monopoly Game coupons for FREE items;
Caught 2:58 pm Bus #40 home

Mott Apple Juice $3.99; Coco Cola $1.99;
1 lb Spaghetti & Macaroni @ $1.25;
Lucerne Cream Cheese 8 oz $1.49.

Monday, May 28, 2018, 4:17-4:44 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)
Redeem Monopoly Game coupons for FREE items;
4:15 pm Bus #40 to Safeway & 4:47 pm Bus home

3 Artisan French Baguette Breads @ $1.99;
Box of O Organic Animal Cookies 99¢;
2 Donuts @ 79¢ 3 Gravy Mix (sold out). Monday, May 28, 2018, 7:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Feet tired & took an hour nap;
Listened to Game 7 on 95.7 FM with Warriors
trailing Houston Rockets by 15 points 48-33

Warriors beat Rockets 101-92
and will face LeBron James and
Cleveland Cavaliers for 4th straight Finals.

Tuesday, May 29, 2018, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote 8 Haikus Saturday 5/26-Monday 5/28 on work
done at Los Altos Library 5/26 & 5/27 (14 hours)
"Young Historians at Work" & "Nature Walks"
& Shopping on Monday 5/28 at Sprouts & Safeway

Photoshop pages saved at 72 dpi
(187 KB & 195 KB) not clearly visible;
need to redo & save at higher resolution.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018, 9:25 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Project-Based Learning Assignment 2—
3 hours to redo JuniorHistorians(8x10) @ 200 dpi
(690 KB) Added Sources for Dates: 1) On This Day
(Birthdays & Events from the New York Times)

2) This Day in History (chronological order);
3) Anyday Today in History (what happened?);
4) 1954 Topps Scoop Cards: (news headlines).

Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 9:34 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Project-Based Learning Assignment 2—
3 hrs 40 mins to redo NatureHikes(8x10) @ 200 dpi
(827 KB) File is 4.35X larger than page @ 72 dpi.

Added Squirrel & Bunny to Landscape;
Info on Goosepen at bottom of Redwoods;
Added Redhawk's talk about the Great Spirit.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 9:34 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LINC 58: Project-Based Learning Assignment 2—
Uploaded JuniorHistorians(8x10).jpg and
NatureHikes(8x10).jpg to WisdomPortal.com

Missed 4:16 pm Bus #40 that didn't stop;
Al Guzman drove by "Hop in!" & we caught
the bus at second stop on San Antonio Road.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 9:55-10:07 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
9:40 pm Bus #522 at Palo Alto Train Depot got to
Showers Dr. at 9:52 pm; Enough time for shopping

2 Safeway Instant Oatmeals @ $1.63;
Ultra-Thin Supreme Pizza $3.37;
Caught 10:20 pm Bus #40 home.
Thursday, May 31, 2018, 10:00 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Corrected typos in JuniorHistorians(8x10).jpg
and NatureHikes(8x10).jpg in Photoshop

Set Width=800 Height=1000 pixels for
IMG SRC files, so pages are more readable
in JuniorHistorians.html & NatureHikes.html,