Haikus: August 2019

HAIKUS: August 2019

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.

Thursday, August 1, 2019, 8:30-8:34 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Orli Shaham plays piano
to Robert Schumann's Romance in F# Op. 28 #2 (1840); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1840 in Music History:

Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert (2-10);
W. H. Harrison elected 9th U.S. President (12-2);
Napoleon buried at Invalides in Paris (12-15-1840). Thursday, August 1, 2019, 11:04 am-5:45 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 68" for Cathy's birthday using "Number 67"
as a template; Finished Math (#1-34) & Science (#35-52):

Found image of Bronze Plaque 68
(taken 9-24-2018) so no need for trip to
Stanford Memorial Quad to take photo.

Friday, August 2, 2019, 8:33-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Katia & Marielle Labèque play piano
to Isaac Albéniz's Suite Espanola: Aragon (1882); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1886 in Music History:

R. Stevenson publishes Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1-5);
Arturo Toscanini makes conducting debut (6-25);
Folies Bergère stages 1st Paris revue (11-30-1886). Friday, August 2, 2019, 12:09 am-4:35 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 68": James Trager, The People's Chronology
68 B.C.— Crete falls to the Roman legions

Events 68 A.D.— Emperor Nero sentenced to death by praetorium guard; History of Jewish People compiled by General Flavius Josephus.

Friday, August 2, 2019, 5:55-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Henry Koster directs
"Three Smart Girls" (1936) with Deanna Durbin, Barbara Read, Nan Grey, Ray Milland, Charles Winninger, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Deanna Durbin's singing saved Universal Studios from bankruptcy.

Three sisters sail to New York
and disrupt Dad re-marrying
a gold-digging woman.. Friday, August 2, 2019, 7:30-9:05 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Henry Koster directs
"It Started with Eve" (1941); Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Tallichet, Catherine Doucet, Walter Catlett; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Jack came to see movies

Son hires hat-check girl (Deanna Durbin)
to be his fiancée to show his dying dad
(Charles Loughton); he loves her & gets well.

Saturday, August 3, 2019, 9:01-9:11 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Gustavo Dudamel conducts
Vienna Philharmonic to Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube Waltz Op. 314 (1886); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Johann Strauss II refused
all requests from dancers
since he had "two left feet". Saturday, August 3, 2019, 10:55 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Numbers-68 Geography Section:
Connecticut Route 68; M-68, Michigan Highway;
68th St. Hunter College IRT Station; (Image)

Habitat 68 Montreal;
68th Floor, Cloud Club;
68th Street, Manhattan.

Saturday, August 3, 2019, 10:55 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Library: 0.68 Euro stamps from Monaco: 2140 Magic Stars (8-13-1979); 2785 Posidonia Oceanica (1-21-2015); 2821 'Princess Charlene of Monaco' Rose (12-3-2015); 2837 Prince Pierre Foundation (3-16-2016)

Using Scott Postage Stamp Catalogue 2019
Volume 4B from the Library Reference shelves,
found four stamps from Monaco with 0.68 Euro. Sunday, August 4, 2019, 4:20-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Numbers-68 Sports Section:
Lyle Spatz, SABR Baseball List & Record Books, 3rd Ed. (2007), p. 45— Teammates Hitting Home Runs
Most Times in the Same Game:

3rd with 68: Willie Mays & Willie McCovey;
#1 Hank Aaron & Eddie Matthews 75;
#2 Lou Gehrig & Babe Ruth 73.

Monday, August 5, 2019, 8:30-8:35 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Michael Tilson Thomas conducts
San Francisco Symphony to Sergei Prokofiev's
Romeo and Juliet: Folk Dance Op. 64 (1935); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1935 in Music History:

Porky Pig makes debut as 1st major Looney Tunes character (3-9); Executive Order 7034 creates Works Progress Administration (WPA) (5-6);
Carlos Gardel, "Father of Tango", dies in plane crash, in Medellin, Colombia (6-24-1935). Monday, August 5, 2019, 1:08-5:45 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 68" for Cathy's birthday today—
Did History #55-59 & Geography #61-75;
Numerology: words whose letters add up to 68:

BUDDHA VIGILANCE: = 22 + 46 = 68
BUTTERFLY WISDOM: = 39 + 29 = 68
MIRROR MIND (Awakened): = 46 + 22 = 68
NINTEEN SIXTEEN (1916): = 36 + 32 = 68
ROSE SAPPHIRE (Jewelry): = 21 + 47 = 68

Monday, August 5, 2019, 6:30-6:43 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd):
Got off Bus #40 at El Camino Real & San Antonio Rd
to pick up China Daily that neighbor Don likes to read

50¢ Off: 8 Yoplait Yogurt @ 39¢ (Lemon-Lime,
(Orange Creme, Light Blueberry, Light Cherry);
Blueberry Pudding Ring @ $1.60 ($2 off Reward). Monday, August 5, 2019, 6:55-7:08 pm
Mountain View: Walmart (600 Showers Drive):
Walked here from San Antonio Road after
shopping at Safeway to buy Rubbing Alcohol.

2 Bottles 50% Isopropyl Alcohol @ 88¢;
No supply of Witch Hazel to buy;
Caught 7:20 pm Bus #40 home.

Tuesday, August 6, 2019, 8:32-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Neeme Järvi conducts
Bergen Philharmonic to Johan Halvorsen's
Suite Ancienne: Intrata Op. 31a (1911); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1911 in Music History:

1st time an aircraft lands on a ship by Eugene B. Ely on USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco (1-18); 1st Indianapolis 500 automobile race is held in U.S., won by Ray Harroun at 74.59 mph (5-30); Philadelphia Athletics defeat NY Giants, 13-2, to win 1911 World Series in 6 games (10-2-1911);
Tuesday, August 6, 2019, 10:45 am-5:45 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Continuing "Number 68" for Cathy's birthday—
Geography Section #61-75: Connecticut Route 68; M-68, Michigan Highway; 68th St. Hunter College IRT Station;

68 Rue du Général Eboué; New York City Bldgs:
The Dorchester, 155 W. 68th St; Milan House,
116 E. 68th St; Hunter College Skywalk, E. 68th St; John D. Crimmins House, 40 East 68th Street; Corcoran, 49 E. 48th St; Isaac H. Rothschild House
226 E. 68th St; The Marquand, 11 East 68th St.

Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 8:32-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Zubin Mehta conducts
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to Peter Tchaikovsky's
Swan Lake: Act I: Waltz Op. 20 (1911); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1876 in Music History:

Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent
for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. (2-14);
Harvard Lampoon humor magazine is founded
in Cambridge, MA. (Feb. 1876); Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco in 83 hours and
39 minutes after leaving NYC (6-4-1876);
Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 10:03 am-5:45 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
68th Street Manhattan: Most New Yorkers, especially subway commuters, associate East 68th Street with Hunter College. However Manhattan Sideways

found some hidden gems on 68th Street—
Church of St. Catherine of Siena (411 E. 68th St.);
Padoca Bakery (359 East 68th Street);
Michael Strauss Silversmiths (164 East 68th St.);
David Segal Violins Ltd (74 West 68th St.);
Joanne Trattoria (70 West 68th St.).

Thursday, August 8, 2019, 8:32-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Michael Landrum plays piano
to Fanny Mendelssohn's Nocturne in g (1838); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1838 in Music History:

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, serialized
in London magazine The Spectator (3-31);
Coronation of Queen Victoria takes place
at Westminster Abbey (6-28); Pastry War:
Mexico is invaded by French forces (11-27-1838);
Thursday, August 8, 2019, 10:36 am-5:45 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Continuing "Number 68" for Cathy's birthday—
Jeremy Baker, Tolstoy's Bicycle (1982), pp. 443-447—

At Age 68— Giotto designed the Campanile; Girolamo Fracastoro publishes De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis; William Henry Harrison becomes 9th U.S. President; Cornelius Vanderbilt buys NY Central Railroad and is worth $15 million.

Friday, August 9, 2019, 8:33-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Alexander Walker conducts
New Russia State Symphony Orchestra to Ignatz Waghalter's Mandragola: Overture (1914); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2); Year 1914 in Music History:

Ford Motor Company starts an 8-hour workday with $5 daily wage (1-5); Copyright: In NYC, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers established (2-13); Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation (5--1914). Friday, August 9, 2019, 2:22-4:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Continuing "Number 68" for Cathy's birthday—
Jeremy Baker, Tolstoy's Bicycle (1982), pp. 443-447—

At Age 68— Buckminster Fuller publishes Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designs Seagram Building; Lillian Gordy Carter joins
the Peace Corps, and spends the next two years working as a nurse at a clinic near Bombay.

Friday, August 9, 2019, 5:40-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs "Cabin in the Sky" (1943), starring Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Lee Spencer, John W. Bubbles, Oscar Polk, Mantan Moreland, Willie Best, Bill Bailey, Buck Washington, Butterfly McQueen, Duke Ellington; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Minnelli's first film with all-black
cast as the Lord & Lucifer battles for
the soul of Little Joe with Lena Horne as Siren. Friday, August 9, 2019, 7:30-9:35 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs "Lust for Life" (1956), starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, Henry Daniell, Madge Kennedy, Noel Purcell, Niall MacGinnis, Jill Bennett, Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Naismith, Eric Pohlmann, Jeanette Sterke, Toni Gerry; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Minnelli's favorite film directed
on artist Vincent Van Gogh portrayed by
Kirk Douglas who should have won an Oscar.

Saturday, August 10, 2019, 11:40 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Library: "Number 68 Uniforms"—
Jaromir Jagr, Pittsburgh Penguins, Right Wing;
Gale Gillingham, Green Bay Packers, Guard

L.C. Greenwood, Pittsburgh Steelers Defensive;
Russ Grimm, Washington Redskins Guard;
Kevin Mawae, New York Jets, Center. Saturday, August 10, 2019, 5:10-5:32 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd):
O Organic Meatballs ($8.99 for 99¢) all sold out;
Silk Almond-Coconut Milk $1.49 ($1 Off coupon)

2 Quaker Instant Oatmeal @ $1.88;
2 International Delight Creamers @ $2.49;
Van Der Kamp 10 Frozen Fish Fillets $3.79.

Sunday, August 11, 2019, 3:14-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: "Number 68 Collectibles"—
1868 Seated Liberty Silver Dollar; Wings #68:
IL-2 Stormovik: Russian Assault Bomber;
Scoop #68: Jet Passes Sound Barrier (10-14-1947)

Look-'n-See #68: Sir Isaac Newton;
Marvel Value Stamp #68: Son of Satan:
World on Wheels #68: 1911 Oakland Roadster. Sunday, August 11, 2019, 5:30-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Karen picks me up at Library
and drives to her apartment to cook a tasty dinner; Reads my poem; Plays piano C.P.E. Bach's Solfeggietto (1766); See view on top of Quinnhill Road; Walk on Main Street

Soup with shelled-shrimps, corn,
hard-boiled egg, straw mushrooms;
fried tofu, scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Monday, August 12, 2019, 8:29-8:37 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Ivan Moravec plays piano
to Frederic Chopin's Nocturne #3 in B Op. 9 #3 B.54 #3 (1832); CD; (YouTube: Rubinstein, Ashkenazy, Arrau,
Saratovsky, Fedorva); Year 1832 in Music History:

Darwin & HMS Beagle arrives in South America (2-28); Andrew Jackson re-elected U.S. President (12-3); Lewis Carroll (1-27), Louisa May Alcott (11-29), Gustave Eiffel (12-15) all born in 1832. Monday, August 12, 2019, 10:11 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Resize photos for players wearing uniform #68
with summaries on each player's highlights;
Format collectible playing cards #68

Continuing "Number 68" for Cathy's birthday—
Card #68 for "Flags of the World" (New Zealand)
and "Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier"
Card #68: "Heavy Artillery" (Orange Back).

Monday, August 12, 2019, 6:45-7:05 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road):
O Organic Meatballs ($8.99 for 99¢) all sold out;
Caught 7:20 pm Bus #40 home

Rainchecks saved me $27.95 today—
4 Lucerne 8 oz Swiss Cheese (reg. $2.99) @ 99¢;
10 Gorton Salmon Fillets BOGO Free @ $3.99. Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 12:35-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 68"— Brought The Aquarian Gospel &
The Egyptian Book of the Dead from home to type:

#68: Chapter for going out into the day—
he shall walk on earth among the living
and he shall never suffer destruction.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 8:35-8:41 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Matthias Bamert conducts
London Mozart Players to Georg Joseph Vogler's
Erwin and Elmira: Overture (1776); CD; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1776 in Music History:

"Mission Dolores" of San Francisco, oldest surviving building in city. (6-17); Captain James Cook sets off from Plymouth, England, in HMS Resolution on his third voyage, to Pacific Ocean
(7-12); King George III says all is not going well for Britain, in war with the U.S.. (10-31-1776). Thursday, August 15, 2019, 8:52 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Resize photos for players wearing uniform #68
with summaries on each player's highlights;
Copied 15 quotes on Section #68 from books
last night to lighten the load of books to bring

Brought 4 books to Foothill Lab to type—
St. Nikodimos, The Philokalia (1979);
Wei Wu Wei, Ask the Awakened (1963);
Katsuki Sekida, Two Zen Classics (Blue Cliff);
Santideva, Entering the Path of Enlightenment.

Thursday, August 15, 2019, 8:00-8:45 am
Sunnyvale: Starbucks (460 N. Mathilda Ave.)
Al Guzman picks me up at my Mountain View apt
and picks up Mike Almasi at Foothill Sunnyvale:

First visit to Foothill Sunnyvale Campus;
Nice to meet Mike who ran Middlefield Lab
Palo Alto along with Al before closing in 2016.
Mike installed BBEdit today to write HTML. Thursday, August 15, 2019, 8:52 am-7:00 pm
Sunnyvale: Foothill College (1070 Innovation Way);
Jaromir Jagr #68, Pittsburgh Penguins photo & write-up

Brought 4 books to Sunnyvale Lab to type—
Radical Zen: The Sayings of Joshu;
Master Kido's Every End Exposed;
A.E.'s Song and its Fountains (1932);
Paul Brunton's Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind.

Thursday, August 15, 2019, 7:50-8:12 pm
Sunnyvale: Al drove me to Malthida Ave on
El Camino Real for Bus #22 (7:15-7:45 pm)
to San Antonio Rd (Faster than Light Rail);
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road):
Missed 8:12 pm Bus #40; Got 9:22 pm Bus #40 home

Deviled Egg Potato Salad (2 lbs) $6.29;
Pepperidge Farms Chessman Cookies $1.99;
Pepperidge Farms Orange Milano Cookies $1.99. Friday, August 16, 2019, 11:10 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Number 68"— Typed 12 Para #68 from Paul Brunton's Notebooks Volume 16 Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind yesterday; One more Para 2.68 from Part 4 to complete; Found Kay Ryan's poem "Turtle" at Poetry Foundation

Brought 2 books to Foothill Lab to type—
Stephen Mitchell's Parables and Portraits;
Tomas Tranströmer's Selected Poems 1954-1986.

Saturday, August 17, 2019, 7:53-8:03 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Andre Previn conducts Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March #1 "Land of Hope & Glory (1901); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Britain has no national anthem,
and this Elgar tune used in U.S.
graduations was often proposed. Saturday, August 17, 2019, 10:10 am-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Bookmarked Numbers-68 Literature:
e.e.cummings; James Richardson's Aphorism 68; Finnegans Wake; Moby Dick; Omar Khayyam:
Shakespeare's Sonnet 68; Hafiz; Kabir; Koran's 68

Section 68 of Swedenborg's Worlds in Space;
Dhammapada Verse 68, Canto V "The Fool"
Yoga Sutra Aphorism 68 (Book II.17).

Sunday, August 18, 2019, 2:00-5:10 pm
Los Altos Library: Sonnet 68 "To Jesus on His Birthday"
in Edna St. Vincent Millay' Collected Sonnets (1941); Bought 2011 edition of Millay's Collected Poems
(Retail $24.99) for $2 on Sales Shelves

O Prince of Peace! O Sharon's dewy Rose!
How mute you lie within your vaulted grave.
The stone the angel rolled away with tears
Is back upon your mouth these thousand years. Sunday, August 18, 2019, 5:15-5:40 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd);
Karen came to Los Altos Library by surprise,
took me to Safeway & gave me ride home,
saving me to carry groceries on the bus.

Sig. Select Cinnamon Apple Sauce (6 cups) $1.61;
2 Sig. Select Thin Crust Supreme Pizza @ $3.88;
2 Lucerne Almond-Coconut Milk @ $1.26;
2 lbs Deviled-Egg Potato Salad @ $6.29.

Monday, August 19, 2019, 8:32-8:41 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Claudio Abbado conducts
London Symphony Orchestra to Gioachino Rossini's
Cinderella: Overture (1817); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Year 1817 in Music History

James Monroe sworn in as 5th U.S. President (3-4);
Karl Drais drives his dandy horse, earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim. (6-12) The University of Michigan is founded in Ann Arbor (8-23-1817). Monday, August 19, 2019, 12:30-6:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro St.)
for Humulin $16; Foothill College for LINC-83F "Digital Video" $36.75; Email from LinkedIn on Congratulating Deborah for 10 years at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Haiku for my best student at WPI—
How time flies!— ten years
at UNLV-- Zen cheers—
Have a cup of tea!

Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 8:24-8:32 am & 8:32-8:41 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Sir Roger Norrington conducts
with London Classical Players to Gioachino Rossini's
Barber of Seville: Overture (1816); CD; Music used by Fellini in 8 1/2; • Fionnuala Hunt plays violin with RTÉ Concert Orchestra to Astor Piazzolla's Libertango (1974); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4; Year 1974 in Music History

After a record 84 days in orbit, crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth. (2-8); People magazine's 1st issue
released in U.S. with Mia Farrow on cover (3-4);
Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel
(6-12-1974)... • Karen will pick me up at Library
@ 6:15 pm for $7 movie on Tuesday at ICON. Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 6:50-9:31 pm
Mountain View: Karen picks me up at Library at 6:15 pm for movie at ICON Theatre 2575 California St, Suite 601)
Quentin Tarantino directs "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (2019), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Mike Moh, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Al Pacino, Rafał Zawierucha, Al Pacino, Gene LeBell, Gary Kent, Nicholas Hammond, Damon Herriman; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

DiCaprio & his stunt double Brad Pitt
are struggling to make it in Hollywood
with Sharon Tate as neighbor in 1969.

Wednesday, August 21, 2019, 8:31-8:40 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Stephen Hough plays piano
as Sakari Oramo conducts City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to Camille Saint-Saëns's
Rhapsodie d'Auvergne Op. 73 (1884); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1884 in Music History

Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJIA) created (7-3); Invention of local anesthesia by Karl Koller is made public (9-15); U.S. Naval War College established in Newport, Rhode Island (10-6); Washington Monument completed (12-6-1884). Wednesday, August 21, 2019, 11:36 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Bookmarked 16 news articles—
"Hiroshima survivor finds forgiveness after decades of vengeful anger"; "With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain"; "OP-ED: No, Facebook
Is Not Secretly Listening to You (Except when it is.)"

Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 (8-5-2019); Donald Klein, Who Expanded Psychiatric Toolbox, Dies at 90
(8-7-2019); Peter Fonda, 'Easy Rider' Actor & Screenwriter, Dead at 79 (8-16-2019).

Wednesday, August 21, 2019, 7:15-7:36 pm
Mountain View: (2630 W El Camino Real): 2 bottles 500 tablets Vitamin C (500 mg) BOGO free @ $16.88 (with tax); Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd); Wednesday Special Sale; Caught 7:43 pm Bus #40 home (5 minutes early)

2 Value Corner 18 Large Eggs @ 99¢;
Smithfield Bacon $2.99; Pringles Potato Chips
@ 69¢ (2 Sour Cream & Onion, 2 Pizza Flavored). Wednesday, August 21, 2019, 8:00-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Home heating 2 bowls of Chicken Broth Soup in Microwave Oven; Fried French Onion with Pumpkin & Sunflower Seeds, Cashews, Macadamia Nuts;
Blueberry Pudding Ring with Drumstick Ice Cream

Seaweed, Baby Carrots, Chunk Crabmeat,
8 Spinach Wontons, Peas, 2 Green Onions,
3 Scrambled Eggs, Pineapple Juice & Vinegar.

Thursday, August 22, 2019, 8:30-8:36 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Eric Kim plays cello
as Erich Kunzel conducts Cincinnati Pops Orchestra to Hans Zimmer's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Year 2006 in Music History

Walt Disney Co. buys Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion (1-25); Human Genome Project publishes last chromosome sequence (5-17); Pluto demoted to dwarf planet by IAU (8-24-2006). Thursday, August 22, 2019, 11:35 am-6:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Kenneth Koch's 68th poem is "Poem"
in his Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch (2005), p. 178:
"The thing / To do / Is organize / The sea / So boats will /
Automatically float / To their destinations. / Ah, the Greeks / Thought of that! / Well, what if / They / Did?
We have no / Gods / Of the winds! / And therefore /
Must use / Science!

Kenneth Koch was my Freshman English Professor
at Columbia 1959; He wasn't published at the time
but became a well known poet of the N.Y. School

Friday, August 23, 2019, 6:10-7:20 pm; 9:50-11:00 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise direct "The Curse of the Cat People" (1944), starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Julia Dean, Eve March, Elizabeth Russell, Memmo Carotenuto, Vittoria Crispo, Guglielmo Barnabò, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Missed 45 minutes as Bus #22 was late, so saw re-run

Not a sequel to The Cat People
but a child's fantasy whose playmate
is her Dad's dead first wife (Simone Simon). Friday, August 23, 2019, 7:30-9:40 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Elia Kazan directs "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945), starring Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, Ruth Nelson,
John Alexander, Laura Solari, Alfredo Rizzo, Gorella Gori; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, full film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Peggy Ann Garner's acting was superb—
so was her Dad James Dunn in this tender
relationship between father & daughter.

Saturday, August 24, 2019, 2:00-4:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Enlightenment News
"Be enlightened about the real you"
(The real you is far more extraordinary than the
counterfeit persona you have spent years hiding behind.)
(By Ronnie McBrayer, Detroit News, 8-24-2019)

The real you is created by God,
and far superior to anything spun
from your own imagination. Saturday, August 24, 2019, 2:00-4:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Bookmarked Poetry News
"Eureka's Poet Laureate David Holper"
(Holper's The Bridge was published 2019; 64 Questions)
(By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill, North Coast Journal,
8-23-2019); Poems in this journal:

"Unsaid",
"Gattara",
"Broken".

Sunday, August 25, 2019, 12:53-5:10 pm
Los Altos Library: Karen & Edie are sitting next to me;
Sent Karen: "Tech support scams are on the rise" (8-2-19)
& "How to outsmart smartphone scammers" (8-18-2019)

Met Edie on Bus #40 today;
Sent Edie "Maguari Stork" Poem & Notes
plus "Books To Write Projects" yesterday. Sunday, August 25, 2019, 5:30-5:50 pm
Mountain View: Lam's Hair & Nails
(2464 W. El Camino Real); Hair getting bushy over ears;
Near crew cut; time for Safeway & 6:26 pm Bus #40 home

After hair wash and showers,
did laundry— bed sheets, towels,
T-shirts, underwear shorts, and socks.

Monday, August 26, 2019, 8:31-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Martin West conducts
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra to Láo Delibes's
Sylvia: March and Procession of Bacchus (1886); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1876 in Music History

Richard Wagner inaugurates Bayreuth Festival
(8-13); Dewey Decimal System Used in Library (1876); Born 1876: Konrad Adenauer (1-5);
Jack London (1-12): Manuel de Falla (11-23-1876). Monday, August 26, 2019, 11:07 am-4:11 pm
Los Altos Library: e.e. cummings' Complete Poems 1904-1962 which I placed a hold (811.52Cumming) came in from Milpitas Library; Will type Poem 68 from Xaipe
(p. 666) "love our so right" and 95 Poems (p. 740) "the(oo)is"

This will complete Poetry section
of Number 68 (#162-#189) for me
to assemble poem "Meditations on 68".

Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 8:33-8:39 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra to Edvard Grieg's Symphonic Dance #1 Op. 64 (1896); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Year 1896 in Music History

Puccini's La Bohème premieres in Turin (2-1);
Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as longest-reigning monarch in Britain. (9-22); U.S. 1896 presidential election: McKinley
defeats William Jennings Bryan. (11-3-1896) Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 9:00 am-3:00 pm
San Francisco Zoo (Sloat Blvd & Great Highway)
Free Bus Ride, Admission, & Lunch from Paulson Park;
46 seniors went including neighbor Don Richards
Adult fee is $23, Seniors 65+ $19; Children(4-14) $17

Maguari Stork longevity is 20.4 years
The one seen on 1-24-2007 is no longer here.
Couldn't find it in the South American Aviary
cages & was 5 minutes late for 1:45 pm bus return;
Zahira did head count "45" & knew I was missing

Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 8:33-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Garry Clarke conducts
Baroque Band to Maurice Greene's Phoebe: Overture (1742); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); 1742 in Music History

Samuel Johnson"s "Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (6-16); Wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act (8-1);
College of New Jersey Founded and
Renamed Princeton University (10-1-1746); Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 12:04-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library: 270th anniversary birthday of
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; "What's great about Goethe?" (By Adam Kirsch, New Yorker, 1-24-2016)

commentating on Matthew Bell's thousand pages anthology "The Essential Goethe" (2016);
Goethe page 1, page 2; Step-by-Step Process—
with 10 links on my web site WisdomPortal.com
honoring my spiritual mentor of science & poetry.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 8:48-8:52 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Lawrence Power plays viola
as Andrew Manze conducts Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra to Jean-Paul-Égide Martini's Plaisir d'amour (1784); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Music inspired by de Florian's poem: "The pleasure of love lasts only a moment, / The grief of love lasts a lifetime."

Elvis "Can't Help Falling in Love"
has same tune as Plaisir d'amour
and topped the British charts for four weeks. Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 12:04-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library: On Sales Shelves: "Monet's Years
at Giverney: Beyond Impressionism" by Philippe de Montebello (1978) (Retail $37.52, Bought for $1.00)
"Monet in Normandy" 6-5-2006 Legion of Honor Exhibit; "Monet: Painting Light with the Mind's Eye" (4-25-1987); Poems: "Waterlilies I; "Waterlilies II"; "Waterlilies 3".

Monet's paintings of Haystacks, Garden Path,
Poplars, Mists on the Seine, and Waterlilies
are so soothing to see and calming the mind.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 6:40-7:11 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road)
Met Dave Pfeiffer at Los Altos Library; Gave me ride to
Chef Chu's to pick up "China Daily" for neighbor Don;
to Safeway for this week's flyer, and Sprouts for shopping
before driving me home; Chatted on Nikon & Canon cameras; Canon was named after Kuan Yin
Goddess of Mercy (Japanese: Kannon)

2 pkgs 2 lbs Strawberries @ $1.98 (Raincheck);
3.86 lbs Yellow Peaches @ 48¢/lb = $1.86;
1.35 lbs Dried Apricots @ $2.99/lb = $4.04. Thursday, August 29, 2019, 8:34-8:39 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Eric Vloeimans plays trumpet
with Holland Baroque to Eric Vloeimans's Armin (2017);
CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); History in Music Trivia 2017

United Kingdom triggers Article 50 of Lisbon Treaty, starting Brexit for UK to leave European Union (3-29); Great American Total Solar Eclipse spanned from Pacific to Atlantic Coasts (8-21);
Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US $450 million at Christie's in NY, a new record price for any work of art. (11-15-2017).

Friday, August 30, 2019, 8:30-8:37 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Maurizio Pollini plays piano
to Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise "Military" in A Op. 40/1 (1838); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Music Trivia 1838

Lowest temperature on Earth is made, at -60 ^oC (-76 ^oF) in Yakutsk. (1-21); Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens, released in London magazine, The Spectator (3-31); Born in 1838: Max Bruch
(1-6); John Muir (4-21): Georges Bizet (10-25) Friday, August 30, 2019, 12:00-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Transferred 40 lines of
"Meditations on 68" from Yahoo Drafts (can't print)
to Microsoft Word for easier editing to 36 lines,
so one line flows to another; All the words are
not mine but authors of philosophical texts,
Bible, poetry, and literature connected to #68

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
Doors of the sky are opened for me—
He pours his blessings forth like rain.

Saturday, August 31, 2019, 8:43-8:57 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM— Riccardo Chailly conducts
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestrato Johannes Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzes Op.52 & Op. 65 (1868);
CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Brahms' motivation for the songs was his
frustrated love for pianist Clara Schumann,
composer Robert Schumann's wife. Saturday, August 31, 2019, 11:11 am-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Al Guzman is busy on Monday 9/2,
but is free for movie and brunch on Sunday 9/1;
Phoned today @ 9 am— Al will pick me up @ 7:30 am;
Suggests we walk to ICON for 10:30 am "Hobbs & Shaw"

Scotty will meet us at ICON @ 10:00 am;
Karen will come to Sweet Tomatoes @ 1:00 pm;
Emailed Rudy to come for movie and lunch.