Haikus: October 2018

HAIKUS: October 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.

Monday, October 1, 2018, 10:00-10:25 am
Mountain View: 8:48 am Bus #40; 9:00 am Bus #22;
to Big 5 (721 Sunnyvale-Saratoga Rd, Sunnyvale)
at 9:35 am; They open at 10:00 am; No restrooms;
Went to restroom at Sprouts (111 E. El Camino Real)
at 10:30 am; Got 10:36 am Bus #22 & 11:35 am
Bus #40 home; 12:30 pm Bus #40 to Foothill College

Big 5's computer is down;
couldn't accept check; paid $37.06 cash for
two pairs of Denali shoes @ $17 with coupon. Monday, October 1, 2018, 1:00-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College; Bus #40 broke down at first stop under bridge 12:48 pm; Walked to Krause Center; Read 6 articles on Enlightenment: "Nothing to gain"; "Enlightenment Course Launched"; "Redeeming Transcendence"; "Steven Pinker to deliver 2018 T.S. Eliot Lecture"; "On Number 97"—

#165-167: Chu Hsi; Ficino; Wang Yang Ming;
#171 Ask the Awakened; #172 "Tenth Man";
#175 "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha".

Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 8:34-8:41 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Christoph von Dohnanyi conducts
Vienna Philharmonic in Felix Mendelssohn's "Athalie:
War March of the Priests Op 74" (1845); CD;
(YouTube: Bernstein, Thomas Heywood);
Mystery in History: Guess date of year? 1845

Brownings began their correspondence;
Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven";
Thoreau began living at Walden Pond. Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 11:25 am-12:15 pm
Mountain View: Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro St.)
Optometry Exam: Valerie Kiyomi Hamamoto, O.D.;
Last two weeks, reading computer screen at Krause Center appeared blurry, so may need new eyeglasses
as they were prescribed in 2010; Distance glasses OK

After an hour exam of "Is this better
or this better?" she said I need no new
glasses; Read small print on her computer.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 12:56-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned page 97 "Lateral Inversion" from
Swami Chinmayananda's "Say Cheese!" (2004):
Sage knows the world is a reflection of Brahmin.

#173: PB's Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind;
#174: Subramuniya's "Awakening Willpower";
#178: Han-shan's "Cold Mountain Poems". Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 7:50-8:10 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Didn't get $2 off for seafood purchase and $1 off for
Tai Pei Meals; While cashier adjusted $3 overcharge, missed 8:08 pm Bus 40; took 9:17 pm Bus #40 home

SeaPak Popcorn Shrimp $3.99;
Bear Claw Coffee Cake $1.51;
Tai Pei Combination Rice $1.50.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 7:51-8:05 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Hilary Hahn plays violin
as Eiji Oue conducts Swedish Radio Symphony
in Nicolo Paganini's "Violin Concerto #1 in D Op 6"
(1817); CD; (YouTube: Hilary Hahn, full concerto;
Sarah Chang, Yehudi Menuhin, 6-year-old Anna Lee)

Paganini's technical wizardry was fully
developed in his Violin Concerto #1—
Lovely to hear Hilary Hahn playing. Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 10:03 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Leon Lederman, 96, Explorer (and Explainer) of the Subatomic World, Dies (1988 Physics Nobel Prize;
"best ambassador of physics to public since Einstein")
(By George Johnson, NY Times, 10-3-2018)

Gave me his busness card when
Lederman lectured at Stanford (4-17-2003)
on physics should be taught first in high school.

Thursday, October 4, 2018, 9:28-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Semans Library
Checked out 7 books for "Number 97" to type at
Krause Center and return before closing at 7 pm—

Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets; Bijak of Kabir;
Desolation Angels; Poems of Kenneth Koch;
Poetry of Rilke; Stephen Mitchell; The Gift. Thursday, October 4, 2018, 7:45-9:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Took books out for "Number 97"—
"Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o"; "Journey to the West" Vol. IV; Bly's "Stealing Sugar from the Castle"

Du Fu: A Life in Poetry, Poem 97—
"The riverside flowers
are driving me crazy"

Friday, October 5, 2018,, 9:15-9:27 am
Mountain View: Walgreens (1905 W. El Camino Real)
Took 9:37 am Bus #52 at El Monte Rd. to Foothill
instead of taking Bus #22 & Bus #40 home

2 Maxwell Instant Coffee @ $2.99;
1 lb Nice Low-Salt Peanuts @ $1.99;
Altoids Cinnamon Mints @ $1.50. Friday, October 5, 2018, 7:30-8:50 pm
Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friends House)
for Waverley Writers Poetry Reading (16 came);
Joel Katz gave me a ride home.

Read two poems tonight—
"Fire Safety Medal" and
"Mountain Images in Tarot Cards".

Saturday, October 6, 2018, 11:04 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 97": "Journey to the West"; Ch. 97 of
"Moby Dick"; 97th Page: Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"

Line 97 of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" "Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns";
Line 97 of Byron's "The Prisoner of Chillon". Saturday, October 6, 2018, 5:10-5:26 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
& Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road) (5:30-5:38 pm);
Quick shopping; Catch 5:49 pm Bus #40 home

Quaker Oatmeal $1.48, Orange Juice $3.00,
Tater Treats $1.37, Fresh Spinach salad 26¢;
2.93 lbs Walnut Halves @ $3.99 = $11.69.

Sunday, October 7, 2018, 8:10 am-11:15 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real); Al picked me up at my apartment at 7:30 am;
Rudy joined us for breakfast, but was too busy
with his C++ class to come and see the movie.
("A Star Is Born" films: Gaynor, Garland, Streisand);
Al dropped me off later at Los Altos Library 3:30 pm

Scrambled eggs, 6 sausages,
4 Polish sausages, bacon, spinach,
grape tomatoes, jello, 2 cups of milk. Sunday, October 7, 2018, 12:10-2:30 pm
San Jose: Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge:
Bradley Cooper directs "A Star Is Born" (2018)
with Bradley Cooper; Lady Gaga; Sam Elliott;
Dave Chappelle; Andrew Dice Clay; Rafi Gavron;
Anthony Ramos; Michael Harney;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Lady Gaga's career going up
as Cooper is going down in this
remake of film classic A Star Is Born.

Sunday, October 7, 2018, 7:30-9:25 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: William Dieterle
directs "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1942)
with Bette Davis, Monty Woolley, Ann Sheridan,
Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke,
Reginald Gardiner, Elisabeth Fraser, Grant Mitchell,
George Barbier; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, );
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Radio star Whiteside fell on icy steps
of Stanley's house around Christmas, and
while in wheelchair began to dominate all. Sunday, October 7, 2018, 9:35-10:50 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: John G. Adolfi directs
"The Working Man" (1933), starring George Arliss,
Bette Davis, Theodore Newton, Hardie Albright, Gordon Westcott, J. Farrell MacDonald, Frederick Burton, Edward Van Sloan, Pat Wing; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Didn't see film Friday
due to Waverley Writers; Got 11:16 pm Bus #22 home

George Arliss mentors the partying
Hartland children, running their Dad's
shoe company, rival to his Reeves stores.

Monday, October 8, 2018, 11:57 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 97": #215: Bly's "My Father at Eight-six" (Google Books; Bly reading poem on PBS)

Coleridge's "Rime of Ancient Mariner";
Line 97 of Keat's "Eve of St. Agnes";
Line 97: Shelley's "Adonais: Elegy for Keats". Monday, October 8, 2018, 6:50-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road)
& Safeway (645 San Antonio Road) (8:25-9:00); Missed 8:08 pm Bus 40, Got 9:15 pm Bus 40 home

Dried Apricots @ $1.99/lb; Tomatoes 98¢/lb;
Quaker Oatmeal $1.48, Chunk Crabmeat $1.49,
Onion rings $2.37, Gorton Fish Fillets @ $3.99.

Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 9:27 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
#220: Numerology: words whose letters add up to 97
(6 phrases and 5 dates found with 97 Numerolgy)

22 days to complete "Number 97" with
220 entries since Pythagoras found
220 and 284 to be amicable numbers. Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 9:27 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 97": Add Kenneth Koch photo by Larry Rivers to #212 (grayscale to RGB, duotone color)

Printing pages 1-7 @ 73% showed
cropped photos at #53 and #72
that need to be adjusted.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 11:30 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 97" project almost finished

Printing pages 1-32 @ 73% showed
cropped photos (#46, #54. #63, #71,
#118, #171) & #215 need adjustments. Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 11:30 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Surprise collage poem from "Number 97"

Arrange philosophical texts &
poems in chronological order
for poem "Meditations on 97".

Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 11:30 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 97": Number 97 Cover; 97 Preface;
Wrote 32 lines poem "Meditations on 97"

The wood where fortune smiled on me—
a million suns are ablaze with light,
whole realm of darkness now turned bright. Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 7:45-7:57 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road)
Missed 8:08 pm Bus 40, Went back to Sprouts
(8:15-8:43 pm); Got 9:12 pm Bus 40 home

5.14 lbs Black grapes @ 69¢/lb = $3.55;
3,22 lbs Dried apricots @ $2.99/lb = $9.63;
2.01 lbs Raw almonds @ $4.99/lb = $10.03.

Thursday, October 11, 2018, 10:27 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finished poem "Meditations on 97" & Notes

some luminous thing has happened—
whatever must be learned—
within the body a lake of bliss. Thursday, October 11, 2018, 10:27 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Happy Birthday" page for Harold A. Scheraga

Giant Pine in Hiroshige's Woodblock #97,
Line 97 in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey",
Chagall's "King David" & Psalm 97.

Friday, October 12, 2018, 10:27 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
20th Anniversary of my web site WisdomPortal.com;
526th Anniversary of Columbus discovering America;
Eugène Delacroix's Illumination on October 12, 1862

After 3.5 years being offline,
WisdomPortal.com is back online
to share insight & illumination with all. Friday, October 12, 2018, 10:27 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Printing web pages @ 73% on "Number 97"
showed cropped photos that were adjusted for
#53-54, #63-64, #80-81, #101, #105, #119

Al Guzman let me use his computer at TLC,
couldn't reduce pages with PDF on Firefox.
Reduced on his laptop using Internet Explorer.

Saturday, October 13, 2018, 7:23-7:43 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts English Chamber Orchestra in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" (1870); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Composed for his second wife Cosima
honoring their son Siegfried, performed on
Christmas Day 1870 in their Lucerne home. Saturday, October 13, 2018, 9:33 pm-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 97" (32 pages) with cover, preface,
"Meditations on 97" and Notes inserted in spine

Thomas Mangelsen "Images of Nature"
card #1700 of "December Deer" for
Professor Scheraga's 97th birthday.

Saturday, October 13, 2018, 9:33 pm-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bought Mangelsen's "Images of Nature" cards (1995):
"December Deer"; "December Ermine", "Among the Glaciers", "Misty Morning Eagle", "Winter Ghost", "November Snows: Bald Eagles"

"Catch of the Day" (1988),
"Winter Aspens" (1986),
"Shores of Wonder Lake". Saturday, October 13, 2018, 9:33 pm-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Chinese Vegetable Page" done for Cathy's Dad (2002); Will do similar page for Rudy on eating Healthy Breakfast— Multi-vitamin, Vitamin C,
Vitamin E, Vitamin D3, Magnesium Citrate

Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Wheat Germ, Almonds, Walnuts, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Banana Chips, Cranberries, Apricots.

Sunday, October 14, 2018, 10:30 am-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home to throw away past month's SJ Mercury News; Came across film review
of "Searching" by Randy Myers (August 23, 2018) as "one of the best thrillers of the year so far." Rating 93% compared to 89% for "Old Man & The Gun"
CineArts Santa Row showing: 12:15 pm & 2:50 pm

Walked to Rengstorff Ave for 4:47 pm Bus #40
to Los Altos Library to return three books,
and took 6:13 pm Bus #40 back home. Sunday, October 14, 2018, 7:30-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Cooking a big wok pan of stir-fry
dinner enough for three meals: Tai Pei Combination Rice, 2 scrambled eggs, 8 sausages, 16 baby carrots diced, broccoli head slivered, water chestnuts sliced, crabmeat, Chop Suey (baby corn, bamboo shoots, gluten), sunflower seeds, almonds, peanuts, walnuts.

Cooked hearty stir-fry dinner
with Lucerne almond-coconut milk
and one Nonni's biscotti for desert.

Monday, October 15, 2018, 7:16-7:28 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Osmo Vänskä conducts Minnesota Orchestra in Ludwig van Beethoven's "Symphony #6 "Pastoral" in F Op.68" (1808); CD; (YouTube: Bernstein, Karajan, Klemperer, Simon Rattle);
(Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" @ 8:17-8:30 am)

Five movements: Countryside cheers,
Brook scene, Country folk gathering,
Thunderstorm, Shepherd's song after storm. Monday, October 15, 2018, 10:04 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Printed page 28 of "Number 97" with Tagore's photo after uploading Bio folder to Network Solutions; Printed "Happy 97th Birthday" page @ 85%
since it's hard to read @ 54% on one page

Will mail "Number 97" booklet
and Scheraga's 97th birthday card
on 10/18 at Los Altos Post Office.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 11:00 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Formatted 31 photos #7705-#7735: Clouds (9/14);
Stanford Theatre Bette Davis Films (9/21, 9/28, 10/7);
Bus Stop Posters (10/1, 10/2); Kitchen (10/14, 10/16)

Stanford Theatre Bette Davis Marquees:
"Little Foxes" (9/21); "Satan Met A Lady" (9/28) and "The Working Man" (10/7). Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 11:00 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finished page for Rudy on eating Healthy Breakfast—
Red Seedless Grapes; Lucerne Strawberry Yogurt;
Banana; Strawberries; Blueberries; Blackberries:

Photos in Kitchen: Vitamins on Cupboard
& Bowl of Oatmeal Cereal for Breakfast—
May this page help Rudy to eat better.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 9:01-9:35 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Keith Jarrett plays piano as Russell Davies conducts Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 in C major, K.467 (1785); CD; (YouTube: Rubinstein, Yeol Eum Son, Maurizio Pollini, Murray Perahia)

One of my favorite music—
Listened to Arthur Rubinstein
playing this on my vinyl record. Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 6:40-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"From abandoned farmworker boy to pediatrician: how one Central Valley man beat the odds"
(Now 65, worked as a pediatrician for 3 decades)
(Tatiana Sanchez, Mercury News, 10-14-2018, B1)

Dr. Ramon Resa treated children of migrant
farm workers in the Central Valley
where he grew up as a crop-picker.

Thursday, October 18, 2018, 9:30-9:50 am
Los Altos: U.S. Post Office (221 Main Street)—
Mailed "Number 97" booklet at book rate ($2.66) &
"December Deer" card with "Happy 97th Birthday" pages to Prof. Scheraga @ 85% (exactly 1 ounce 50¢)

Waited for postal clerk Vincente
to handstamp Cardinal bird stamp
"October 18, 2018, Los Altos, CA". Thursday, October 18, 2018, 9:58-10:55 am
Los Altos: Took 16 photos of store window displays
with Halloween themes of pumpkins, witches, and
goblins along Main Street; Wrote down store names
and addresses after photos for easy identification

Will assemble web pages
"Halloween Theme Displays"
on Main Street of Los Altos.

Friday, October 19, 2018, 9:15-9:24 am
Mountain View: Smart & Final (141 E. El Camino Real)— Neighbor Don Richards takes me shopping—

Gallon of First Street Nonfat Milk @ $2.39;
4 Coffee-mate Creamers @ $1.99— Hazeelnut,
Peppermint Mocha, Coconut, Pumpkin Spice. Friday, October 19, 2018, 10:55 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Halloween Displays": Favorites of 24 photos—

Cover Story: Witch & Skeleton,
Swan Beauty Salon: Robotic Cat,
Davino Florist: Skulls & Pumpkins.

Friday, October 19, 2018, 9:15-9:24 am
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Went to Teaching Learning Center & gave Al Guzman
this week's "Daily Post"; Postpone movies for 10/28

89% rating for "The Old Man & The Gun";
93% rating for "Searching"; Will Oakridge & Santana Row Cinearts still show this film? Friday, October 19, 2018, 7:39 pm
Saturday, October 20, 2018, 8:50 am
Mountain View: Photos at 272 Montebello Ave—
Lights & Cobwebs decorations for Halloween

Dark photo was rotated & brightened
in Adobe Photoshop and made clearer.
Photo taken this morning "Cobwebs on tree".

Saturday, October 20, 2018, 9:32 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bookmarked 12 articles for "Interesting News"
from SJ Mercury News (June to October, 2018)—
"HEALTH: Joan Baez's secrets to staying fit enough to tour at 77" (At 77, folk music icon is promoting her new album "Whistle Down The Wind" & has extended her final concert tour, "Fare Thee Well Tour", into 2019. Good genes: Her mother lived to be 100.)
(By Karen D'Souza, SJ Mercury News, 9-23-2018, B3)

She practices Gokhale Method that
soothes her neck, shoulders & back.
Also does yoga, pilates & meditation. Saturday, October 20, 2018, 9:32 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Dance: Medical career called, but dance came first"
(Anuradha Nag arrived in San Jose from Calcutta in 1992 &has made herself a preeminent proponent
of the Northern Indian dance form know as kathak. Her Tarangini School of Kathak Dance celebrates
on June 8, 2018, the 80th birthday of her guru,
Pandit Birju Maharaj, known as "Parampara".)
(By Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 6-7-2018, p. 10)

Saw Kathak Dances on May 5, 2013
and May 4, 2014, where Anuradha Nag
gave demonstrations on Indian dance styles.

Sunday, October 21, 2018, 5:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Returned Barbara Ehrlich White's
"Renoir: An Intimate Biography", 759.4RenoirWhite;
Romance: Renoir & Aline Charigot; "Boating Party"

Emails from ex-roommates today—
Leonard from Cornell (1967-1969), Ithaca;
Steve from Brandeis (1970-1971), Cambridge. Sunday, October 21, 2018, 11:00 pm-12:25 am
Mountain View: Read 51 pages of W.H. Hudson's
"Green Mansions" (1904), (FictionHudsonW) for
Stanford Another Look book discussion on 10/30

Abel flees to Venezuelan jungle,
lives among native people, and
hears strange bird-like singing.

Monday, October 22, 2018, 10:20-10:43 am
Mountain View: Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)
Neighbor Don takes me shopping: Spinach $1.08;
2 Lucerne Yogurt @ $2.25; Dozen Large Eggs $1.77

10 Gorton Grilled Salmon @ $2.495 = $24.95;
2 Florida Natural Orange J. @ $2.38 = $4.76;
2 Tai Pei Combination Rice @ $2.37 = $4.74;
2 Baron Special Deluxe Pizzas @ 2.98 = $5.96. Monday, October 22, 2018, 11:55 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bring papers & magazines for Al Guzman at TLC;
Print out files reduced on Al's Internet Explorer—

"Halloween Displays: Los Altos" @ 61%;
Mangelsen's "Images of Nature" @ 50%;
"Healthy Breakfast" for Rudy @ 83%;
"Cobweb & Skeleton: 272 Montebello Ave".

Monday, October 22, 2018, 11:15 pm-12:32 am
Mountain View: Read pages 52-101 of Hudson's
"Green Mansions" (1904), (FictionHudsonW) for
Stanford Another Look book discussion on 10/30

Abel meets Rima in the jungle,
gets bitten by a coral snake and
healed by her grandfather in hut. Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 11:15 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Vincente said my "Number 97" mailed at book rate
will arrive in 8 days, but arrived in 2 days in Ithaca

Professor Scheraga's 10/23 email, 9:33 am—
thanking me for "97th Birthday Greetings"
and my booklet "On Number 97".

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 10:17 pm-12:35 am
Mountain View: Read pages 102-164 of Hudson's
"Green Mansions" (1904), (FictionHudsonW) for
Stanford Another Look book discussion on 10/30;
In love with Rima (p. 130); She's like birds (p. 136):

O mystic bell-bird of heavenly race
of the awallow and dove, the quetzal
and the nightingale! Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 12:38-12:42 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Rupert Boyd plays guitar as
Laura Metcalf plays cello in Manuel de Falla's
Suite of Popular Spanish Songs: Jota (1914);
CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Music is like Rima—

"Jota" is from Aragón in the northeast
of Spain— heard this haunting tune
on KDFC just before going to sleep.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 9:27 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Chapter 4: Giacometti's "Walking Man" for book
on "Platonic Lambda: Soul of the Universe"

Revelation at Sotheby's Auction—
Soul manifests itself in our body
whenever we are walking! Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 9:27 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Chapter 5: Leonardo's Divine Proportions for book
on "Platonic Lambda: Soul of the Universe"

Revelation at Leonardo's Face Proportions—
Soul manifests itself in our nose
whenever we are breathing!

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 7:40-7:53 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road)
Got Red seedless grapes for Al Guzman and
caught 8:08 pm Bus #40 at El Camino home

2.07 lbs Whole cashews @ $5.99/lb = $12.40;
4.37 lbs Red grapes @ 98¢/lb = $4.28;
2 pints Blackberries @ 98¢ = $1.96. Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 10:40 pm-12:20 am
Mountain View: Read pages 165-219 of Hudson's
"Green Mansions" (1904), (FictionHudsonW) for
Stanford Another Look book discussion on 10/30:

Page 199— "Rima has been given this
quickness of mind and power
to divine distant things."

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 9:25 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Chapter 7: Pyramids of Giza" for "Platonic Lambda: Soul of the Universe" book; Paul Brunton's "A Search in Secret Egypt" (1935); Online book; p. 286:

Seven lessons must be learnt: Pleasure, Pain,
Hate, Illusion, Truth, Love is sixth,
and Peace must be learnt at the end. Thursday, October 25, 2018, 9:25 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Egypt Pyramid stamps: #8 Sphinx & Pyramid (1867); #39 Sphinx & Pyramid (1879); #53 Giza Pyramids (1914); #228-230 Giza & Thebes Colossus (1938)

#C5 Airplane over Giza Pyramids (1933);
#542 Sphinx & Pyramid (1961);
#C91 Giza Pyramids (1959).

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 7:40-7:55 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Bus #40 showed up early at 7:25 pm for shopping;
Caught 8:08 pm Bus #40 at El Camino home—

Fresh Express Spinach $1.08;
Tree Top Apple Sauce $1.89;
Ultra Thin Supreme Pizza $2.98. Thursday, October 25, 2018, 11:05 pm-12:25 am
Mountain View: Read pages 220-274 of Hudson's
"Green Mansions" (1904), (FictionHudsonW) for
Stanford Another Look book discussion on 10/30:

Page 270— "Rima climbed atop a big tree
but Runi's tribe set the tree aflame on fire,
and she fell like a bird into the flames."

Friday, October 26, 2018, 10:44 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Returning overdue book "Bijak of Kabir"
translated by Linda Hess & Shukdeo Singh
to Foothill Library (PK2095.K3.B4913.2002)
For future birthday "Number" web pages—

Typed Verses 98-100 for Prof. Scheraga,
Verses 42-43 for niece Elisa,
Verse 69 (no #68) for Cathy. Friday, October 26, 2018, 10:44 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Egypt Pyramid stamps: Pyramid & Crescent Moon (1987); #C171A Plane over Pyramids (1982); #C148 Giza Pyramids & Plane (1972); #900 Sphinx & Pyramid (1974); #C182 Giza Pyramids (1985)

Adding Egypt stamps after 1975
with pyramids to better formatting
web pages on "Pyramids of Giza".

Friday, October 26, 2018, 6:15-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library: 2018 Scott Stamp Catalogues
to find postage stamps showing arrowhead—
Chad 135 Flint Arrowhead (12-11-1966);
Jersey 2031 (4-11-2017); Tunisia (10-30-1986)

For Chapter 13 on Arrowheads
round up postage stamps
showing this shape. Friday, October 26, 2018, 6:15-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Egypt #1343 Pyramid & Crescent Moon (6-17-1987); #C148 Giza Pyramids & Plane (11-22-1972); #C171A Plane over Pyramids
(1-15-1982); #C182 Giza Pyramids (5-1-1985)

Located date of issue and
catalogue #s for Egypt stamps
showing "Pyramids of Giza".

Friday, October 26, 2018, 6:15-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out Stephen Skinner's "Sacred Geometry" (2006); Leonard Shlain's "Leonardo's Brain" (2014); Oliver Götze's
"Divine Golden Ingenious" (2017)—

These books will let me
write more for Chapter 5:
"Leonardo's Divine Proportion". Friday, October 26, 2018, 10:35 pm-12:24 am
Mountain View: Finished reading book, pp. 275-315
of Hudson's "Green Mansions", (FictionHudsonW)
for Stanford Another Look book discussion on 10/30;
(Jane Fonda's favorite book, which she read at 13)

Page 310— Carried Rima's ashes,
talisman to save me; her mystic grace,
loveliness & joy vanished, caused me pain.

Saturday, October 27, 2018, 9:32 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Added three Egypt stamps showing Pyramids
(#900, #1343, #1360) found in 2018 Scott Stamp Catalogue, Vol. 2 yesterday at Los Altos Library

Need to reduce sections in Introduction,
Pyramid Power, & Search in Secret Egypt
so only two pages will be printed out @ 68%. Saturday, October 27, 2018, 9:32 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
France 1353 "Egyptian Expedition" under Napoleon Bonaparte (1798-1801) issued 11-11-1972 (source)
showing diggers near the Great Pyramids of Giza

No place to put this stamp
from France in "Pyramids of Giza"
Chapter 7 unless a third page is added.

Sunday, October 28, 2018, 8:08 am-10:15 am
Santa Clara: Hometown Buffet (2670 El Camino Real); Al picked me up at my apartment at 7:30 am;
Rudy joined us for breakfast; Astronomy Professor
John Beck joined us for the movie at 10:40 am
(Red Redford in "The Old Man & The Gun" film);
Al dropped me off at Los Altos Library 2:30 pm

Scrambled eggs, 8 sausages,
bacon, jello, cantaloupes,
2 cups of chocolate milk. Sunday, October 28, 2018, 11:50 am-1:40 pm
San Jose: Cinearts Santana Row (3088 Olsen Dr.); David Lowery directs "Old Man & The Gun" (2018)
with Robert Redford; Casey Affleck; Sissy Spacek;
Danny Glover; Tika Sumpter; Elisabeth Moss;
Tom Waits; Isiah Whitlock Jr.; Keith Carradine;
(YouTube: 1, 2 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Robert Redford as bank robber
Forrest Tucker escaped from prison
17 times, debonair in all his actions.

Monday, October 29, 2018, 11:07-11:30 am
Mountain View: Kaiser Hospital (555 Castro St.);
Picked up Humulin ($18) & Metformin ($11.66);
Went to Kaiser Optometry: Valerie Hamamoto
prescribed (10-2) new distance glasses lenses

Rose said new lenses cost $280
but Kaiser gives me $310 credit
so I'd pay only $14 for new frame. Monday, October 29, 2018, 12:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
11:45 am Bus #52 to Foothill College (12:05 pm);
Wrote Sunday Haikus for "Old Man & The Gun" film
and three Pyramid books from Los Altos Library—

Mark Lehner's The Complete Pyramids (1997);
John Romer's "The Great Pyramid (2007);
Ronald H. Fritze's Egyptomania (2016).

Monday, October 29, 2018, 12:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Pyramids of Giza stamps from other countries
to add to web page "Pyramids of Giza"

Hungary 2637 (1980),
Japan 3524 (2013),
Mali C131 (1971). Monday, October 29, 2018, 12:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Al Guzman emailed Sunday wanting more info
on "Number 42" that I told him on way to movies

Found Issues #13-16 of 1993 Newsletters
"Cave Journey into the Center of the Heart"
with 21 items on mysteries of "Number 42".

Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 9:32 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned Leonardo's "Last Supper" @ 150 dpi and
Inspirti Newsletter #12 & Newsletter #18 @ 300 dpu

Typed memorable passages from
W.H. Hudson's Green Mansions for
tonight's Another Look discussions. Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 8:25-9:10 pm
Stanford University: Encina Hall Bechtel Center
Another Look Book Discussion of "Green Mansion"
Parked at Oval and got to Another Look late

Hard to find parking at Stanford
and missed first hour of discussion
from Harrison, Junkerman, and Witman.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 9:38 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed 4 pages of Notes at Stanford's Another Look
with links to references during the discusssions

Wall Street Journal (8-23-2018): Former
U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson's wife says
the $33 million island is their "Green Mansion". Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 9:38 am-7:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Separated Memorable Passages from book and
Another Look "Green Mansions" Discussions

Charles Junkerman: King Solomon's Mines
and Treasure Island are better romance
novels than Hudson's Green Mansions.