Haikus: November 2020

HAIKUS: November 2020

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.

Sunday, November 1, 2020, 3:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday;
Stayed home & listened to KNBR 104.5 Radio
on NFL Football: Seattle Seahawks beats SF 49ers 37-27;
"Sean Connery, Who Embodied James Bond and More, Dies at 90" (Played the part in the first five Bond films &
7 over all.) (By Aljean Harmetz, NY Times, 10-31-2020)

Connery won a best-actor award from British Academy of Film & Television Arts for "The Name of the Rose" (1986), based on Umberto Eco novel, in which he played a crime-solving medieval monk. Sunday, November 1, 2020, 3:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday;
Los Altos Library Books: Typed 5 books yesterday:
e.e. cummings: 73 Poems; Pablo Neruda: 100 Love Sonnets; Tomas Tranströmer: Half-Finished Heaven; Robert Creeley: Selected Poems, 1945-2005;
James Richardson: By the Numbers

Two more books to type
before returning them to Library—
Anna Akhmatova: Selected Poems and
Robert Bly: Stealing Sugar from the Castle.

Sunday, November 1, 2020, 3:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Los Altos Library Books:
Finished typing Anna Akhmatova: Selected Poems
and Robert Bly: Stealing Sugar from the Castle

Can now return seven books
due Oct. 31 to Los Altos Library;
Three more books due Nov. 6 to type. Sunday, November 1, 2020, 3:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: "Joseph Shakarchi: An Interview with Robert Bly" (Bly's poem "A Dream of an Afternoon with
a Woman I Did Not Know" on pp. 238-239 of Interview

The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 23, No. 2,
Summer, 1982, pp. 226-243— Poets should be shamans inspiring readers on a spiritual journey.

Monday, November 2, 2020, 5:25-6:34 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
for 10/30 "Daily News"; Empty bin for "Daily Post";
Got "Daily Post" at news bins near CVS Pharmacy;
Shopping at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd);
6:34 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

Bunch of Green Onions (7) @ 79¢;
6 Coconut Rolls @ $1.50 = $9.00 (raincheck);
3.49 lbs Roma Tomatoes (12) @ 98¢/lb = $3.42.
Monday, November 2, 2020, 7:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Write web page "Nazis: World War II"
Strategies in Winning the War: V-2 Rocket (Wernher Von Braun); German Nuclear Weapons Program (A-Bomb Blast); Spear of Destiny (Spear of Longinus); German Antarctic Expedition: 1938-1939 (submarines & UFOs)

Golem; Magic Wand; Zodiac and Swastika:
How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany;
Did occultist Aleister Crowley help Hitler?

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 4:47-5:56 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd);
Got receipt from yesterday's shopping ($13.21);
Shopping at Safeway (630 San Antonio Road);
5:56 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

Lucerne Hazelnut Coffee Creamer @ $2.80;
3 lbs Sig. Sel. Mustard Potato Salad @ $6.49;
Sig. Sel. Ultra-Thin Supreme Pizza ($3.50) Free.
Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 6:30-11:30 pm
Mountain View: "Needle Update: What to Expect on Election Night" (Our 3 "needle" battleground states
will be Florida, Georgia & North Carolina, If Biden
wins one of these states, he will win the presidency.)

Local's Tour of Asturias, Spain's 'Natural Paradise' (Photographer revels in beauty of her homeland)
(By Mónica R. Goya, NY Times, 11-2-2020).

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 5:13-5:21 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Gordon Hunt plays oboe
with Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra
to Domenico Zipoli's Elevazione (1716);
(CD); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); This is
one of my most cherished music

Zipoli's "Ascension" music played
as I was typing Su Tung-p'o poem
"Overgrown Garden Deserted in Fall". Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 3:15-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Typing Poems of Su Tung-p'o—
Poem #44: "Visiting Yung-lo Temple" (1074);
"I must hurry to Ch'ien-t'ang, look for Yüan-tse"
W.S. Merwin's poem: "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o";
Poem #45: "Overgrown Garden Deserted in Fall"

I stay awhile to watch cloudy peaks,
Not finding my hardworking poet friend,
what use is the jug of clear wine I brought?

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 3:15-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Listening Zipoli's Elevazione while
typing Su Tung-p'o poem (1074) is such a delight

Merwin's "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o"
poem is an extra delight to read
since they both loved Nature. Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 3:15-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Preface for Los Altos Library Books:
15 used to type quotes for Numbers 44, 45, 70, 71

Good to make this Table
in keeping track of books
typed for Numbers Project.

Thursday, Novemebr 5, 2020, 1:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Returning to Notes to "Letter Z"— Stanzas 9-10: 10 photos (1:03-4:32 pm); Type Text
(1:10-4:40 pm); Zanoni; Zanoni & Rosicrucians;
Zanoni in Love; Sydney Carton at Guillotine;
Zodiac Signs; Comet; Zzz Sleep; Zero Images;
Dalai Lama Mimicks Sleep; Ramana Maharshi

Chaldean immortal Zanoni knew secrets
of the Rosicrucians, after falling in love,
he became mortal & died at the guillotine—
Thursday, Novemebr 5, 2020, 5:30-7:30 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's place on Oregon Ave to see movie
"Blade Runner" (1982) directed by Ridley Scott with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer; Sean Young: Hy Pyke;
Edward James Olmos; M. Emmet Walsh; William Sanderson, Joe Turkel; Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Daryl Hannah; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard
assigned to kill four replicants stronger
than him from 1968 Philip K. Dick's novel.

Friday, November 6, 2020, 1:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: "Highest-Paid YouTube Stars of 2019:
The Kids Are Killing It" (8-year-old Ryan Kaji,
2019 top YouTube earner with $26 million.)
(By Madeline Berg, Forbes, Dec. 18, 2019)

Ryan ToysReview debuted in 2015,
has grown into a children's channel,
Ryan's World with 23 million subscribers. Friday, November 6, 2020, 1:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Notes to "Letter Z"— Stanzas 10-11:
5 photos (1:00-4:00 pm); Type Text (1:00-4:00 pm); Zuigan-ji Temple (en.japantravel.com); Mumonkan (amazon.com); William Blake (en.wikipedia.org)

Blake's The Four Zoas (en.wikipedia.org);
Spring Cherry Tree (wallpaperflare.com);
Lucky to find "Cherry Tree with Sunlight".

Friday, November 6, 2020, 5:00-5:20 pm
Mountain View: Got "Palo Alto Weekly" at Chef Chu's
news bins; Got "Daily Post" near CVS Pharmacy bins;
Shopping at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road);
5:57 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

0.81 lb Sweet Banana Chips @ $3.49/lb = $2.83;
1.21 lbs Whole Raw Almonds @ $3.99/lb = $4.83;
2.47 lbs Whole Raw Cashews @ $5.99/lb = $14.80.
Friday, November 6, 2020, 7:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Temperature dropped 15^o from
yesterday; Should have worn jacket; Lucky not
caught in rain; Notes to "Letter Z"— Stanzas 10-11:
Type Text with web links (8:00-9:48 pm)

Feel good to finish Notes
for "Letter Z" poem finding
all 64 images for this project.

Saturday, November 7, 2020, 4:45-5:05 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Daily News";
Shopped at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Avenue)
5:42 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave & walked home

Sig. Select Quiche Florentine @ $4.73;
Sig. Select Quiche Bacon & Cheese @ $4.73;
Sargento Swiss Cheese $1.99 (50% off) = 99¢;
Keto Frindly Black Cherry Yogurt ($1.69) Free. Saturday, November 7, 2020, 6:15-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Arline phoned Wednesday
9:00-10:00 am & told me what printers were
the best rated in 2020 Consumers Reports:
Told me to check model # on their web site—

Brothers DCP-L2550DW $159.99;
Canon ImageClassD1620 $249.00;
HP-LaserJetProM227fdw $269.99;
CanonColorImageClassMF644Cdw $319.99.

Sunday, November 8, 2020, 3:00-3:54 pm
Mountain View: Mary-Marcia, organizer
of Waverley Writers phoned to check out
how I'm doing; Last poetry reading was
on March 6; No August Potluck Party

Chatted about Waverley Writers poets;
Next reading at Friends Meeting House
in Palo Alto may be held in March 2021. Sunday, November 8, 2020, 3:00-3:54 pm
Mountain View: Told Mary-Marcia my website
WisdomPortal.com was offline for three years;
Al Guzman go me back online (5/18/2018) using
secure web hosting (https) with Network Solutions

My roommates at Columbia (Huai-Han),
Cornell (Leonard) & Brandeis (Steve)
got in touch with me to communicate.

Sunday, November 8, 2020, 5:00-10:45 pm
Mountain View: Registered on Aug. 1 for Cavada's
class LINC-66E (21769) "Cloud-Based Publishing
Tools" (1 unit) from November 2-December 11.

Just realized Cavada's class
started November 2 instead
of November 9. Need to catch up—
Tutorial to create website in Google Sites. Sunday, November 8, 2020, 5:00-10:45 pm
Mountain View: Assignment 2 due: Nov. 20, 2020:
Title of Website: Working Site; Your Page Title: Welcome; Content— One image that describes you.

One video that describes a hobby of yours.
Text box: Your Name (Title font size); Text box:
description of you (assignment 1): Normal font size; One link to a website you like.

Sunday, November 8, 2020, 5:00-10:45 pm
Mountain View: Page Title: "Peter the Rock";
Image describing me: "Leap into the Great Dark"
to explore Orion Galaxy (Construcion Process)

Video on a hobby (Enlightenment)—
Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myths";
Website I like: KDFC Classical Music. Sunday, November 8, 2020, 5:00-10:45 pm
Mountain View: Page Title: "Peter the Rock";
When I told Poet Laureate Kay Ryan to call me
"Peter Rabbit", she says "You're Peter the Rock".

Matthew 16:18-19—
"That thou art Peter, and upon
this rock I will build my church".

Monday, November 9, 2020, 2:30-3:03 pm
Mountain View: Ann picks me up at 2:30 pm,
Drives to Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro Street)
where I bought Humulin ($36) & Glipizide ($8.33)

Al Guzman drove me here on Aug. 6
for my diabetic medications;
Humulin running out tonight. Monday, November 9, 2020, 3:26-3:50 pm
Mountain View: Ann drives to Los Altos Library
for me to return 10 books; Checked out two
"Journey to the West" books but not right ones.

Right translator is Anthony Yu—
Journey to the West, Volume 2;
Journey to the West, Volume 3.

Monday, November 9, 2020, 7:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 2:
"Peter the Rock"— Rewrote Favorite Web Site
to KDFC— links to Beethoven's 5th Symphony—

Conductors of Beethoven's Symphony #5:
Herbert Blomstedt, Leonard Bernstein,
Herbert von Karajan, Arturo Toscanini. Monday, November 9, 2020, 7:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Hubert Jessup: WCVB "New Heaven, New Earth" interviews Swami Chinmayananda (1974);
Swami told me this was best interview he had in USA

Chinmayananda's message to students is
"Shut up! and Get out!"— Shut up your noisy
intellectual chatter & Get out of your little ego.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 12:00-2:18 am
Mountain View: Yesterday @ 1:00 pm, Zahira Pena
let me print out IRS Schedule D and #8949 Forms
in Computer Room (closed since March 2020);
Last night completed 1040-SR & California 540
forms; Will get $1476.48 Withholding refund

Taxes were due on July 15—
since these forms were missing,
I'm 4 months late mailing them out. Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 2:10-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Today's NY Times News Briefing on
"Viola Smith, 'Fastest Girl Drummer in the World' Dies"
at 107 (She became first female star of jazz drumming,
and performed at President Truman's inauguration gala)
(By Alex Vadukul, NY Times, 11-6-2020).

Her showcase tune was a jazzy arabesque
"Snake Charmer" in which she exhibited
her virtuosity in a flashy solo.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 4:40-5:19 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday;
Shopped at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
5:35 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

4 Bottles Ken's Salad Dressings @ $1.49;
Nestle's Coffee Mate Creamer @ $3.00;
Sargento Swiss Cheese $1.99 (50% off) = 99¢;
Turkey Hill Ice Cream $5.49 (50% off) = $2.78. Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 6:10-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Mary-Marcia emailed that her
pacbel.net email has changed to sonic.net;
Told me to send her two poem—

"Alone But Not Lonely" (4-27-2020),
"We Create a New World" (10-21-2020),
& web page "Peter the Rock" (11-9-2020),
links to Joseph Campbell & Chinmayananda.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
Create E-Portfolio of your college journey—
Home page: "Peter the Rock"; Add two more pages:
(1) College Journey: A brief text about your major;
Image of each school; Links to each school's website

(2) Careers: Images showing your current career;
Images that represent your future careers;
Two video related to your future or current career. Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
Create E-Portfolio of your college journey—
Majored in Chemical Engineering (Columbia, BS 1963),
Physical Chemistry (Cornell, Ph.D. 1970), Biochemistry (Brandeis University, Postdoctorate Associate 1970-1977)

Proteins— the language of life;
Poetry— language of the human heart;
Living in harmony between science and poetry.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
Create E-Portfolio of your college journey—
Home page: "Peter the Rock"; Add two more pages:
College Journey: A brief text about your major;
Image of each school: Columbia, Cornell, Brandeis.

Photos: Columbia University;
Cornell University; Brandeis University;
Platonic Λ in Cornell and Brandeis Towers. Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Today's NY Times News Briefings:
Could Listening to the Deep Sea Help Save It?
(A hydrothermal vent— or more precisely, one vent
from the Suiyo Seamount southeast of Japan)
(By Sabrina Imbler, NY Times, 11-10-2020)

Tzu-Hao Lin listened since 2008: generates a viscous, muffled burbling that recalls an ominous
pool of magma or a simmering pot of soup.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Brandeis roommate Steve Gould emailed
Nov. 8 with photo of Delaware River by Milford, NJ;
He liked my poem "Letter Z", mentioning I left out
Zamboni machine, an ice resurfacer vehicle used
to clean and smooth the surface of an ice rink.

Recalled a 1987 poem written "And I Disagree"
when student thanked Zamboni machine smoothing
the ice for her skating, & instructor called her mad. Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Searched through my poetry folders &
found the August 1, 1987 poem printed on Dot-Matrix
"And I Disagree", 112-lines long on two full pages;
Didn't mention "Zamboni machine" in original poem,
but it was the heated class discussions inspiring it.

"People talk back to you, stones don't!
and if you don't know the difference, you're mad!"
"And I disagree!" one student shouted out.

Thursday, November 12, 2020, 3:00-3:45 pm
Mountain View: Arline phoned and read from
Consumer Reports, Volume Guide 2021 on
"Printers All-in-One"— Top Color Printers: 1) Brother
MFCL8900CDW $550; 2) Canon MF642CDW $350;
3) Canon MF644CDW $320; 4) Brother MFCL3750CDW

B&W Printers: 1) Brother MFCL2750DW $250;
2) Canon MF267DW $250; 3) Canon MF269DW $170; 4) Canon MF264DW $200. Thursday, November 12, 2020, 4:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Today's NY Times News Briefings:
"BOOKS: The Power of Adrienne Rich Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet"" (Eight years after Rich's death, at 82, comes Hilary Holladay's The Power of Adrienne Rich.) (By Dwight Garner, November 9, 2020)

Book allows us to meet this prickly poet
fresh and entire. It's first proper biography
of her, lot to unpack. A good story well-told.

Thursday, November 12, 2020, 12:00-3:22 am
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
Create E-Portfolio of your college journeys—
Home page: "Peter the Rock"; Add two more pages:
My College Journeys: A brief text about your major;
Image of each school: Columbia, Cornell, Brandeis,
Stanford University, and Foothill College; Carried away writing highlights on learnings at these institutions

Web Links: Columbia University;
Cornell University; Brandeis University;
Stanford University and Foothill College. Thursday, November 12, 2020, 5:45-8:05 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's place on Oregon Ave to see movie
"Quiz Show" (1994) directed by Robert Redford with Ralph Fiennes; John Turturro; Rob Morrow; Paul Scofield; David Paymer; Hank Azaria; Christopher McDonald; Johann Carlo; Elizabeth Wilson; Mira Sorvino; Martin Scorsese; Allan Rich; George Martin;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Charles Van Doren sold his soul in
Faustian bargain for fame & fortune
in the rigged TV show "Twenty One".

Friday, November 13, 2020, 5:00-5:15 pm
Mountain View: Got "Palo Alto Weekly" at Chef Chu's
news bins; Got "Daily Post" near CVS Pharmacy bins;
Shopping at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road);
Forgot check to buy Magnesium Glycinate @ 20% off.

19 oz bag Raw Wheat Germ @ $2.79;
Unsalted Raw Cashew Pieces @ $3.99/lb Sold out;
1.81 lbs Salted Cashew Pieces @ $3.99/lb = $7.22. Friday, November 13, 2020, 5:25-5:51 pm
Mountain View: Dark clouds with slight drizzle;
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
for their Friday Specials; Caught just in time
6:00 pm Bus #40 to Central XPwy & walked home

3 lbs Reser Potato Salad @ $5.00;
2 Ultra-Thin Supreme Pizza @ $2.50 = $5.00;
Quaker Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal @ $1.29.

Friday, November 13, 2020, 6:40-11:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
Create E-Portfolio of your college journey—
Home page: "Peter the Rock"; Add two more pages:
(Page 1) My College Journeys: Brief text on your major;
Image of each school; Links to each school's website

Adding links to professors I've studied with—
Kenneth Koch, John Freccero, Scott Bukatman,
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Nina Holzer, and Kent Manske. Friday, November 13, 2020, 6:40-11:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
Create E-Portfolio of your college journey—
(Page 2) Careers: Images of your current career;
Images that represent your future careers;
Two video related to your future or current career.

Safari browser does not show LINC-66e
Assignments; Need to use Firefox browser
to see William Cavada's assignments in Canvas.

Saturday, November 14, 2020, 3:20-3:38 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Daily News";
Shopped at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Avenue);
4:00 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave & walked home

Lucerne Swiss Cheese ($3.13) 50% off = $1.56;
Lucerne Shredded Cheese ($2.33) 50% off = $1.17;
Quaker Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal @ $1.29;
8 oz. Sig. Farms Spinach for Salad @ $1.99. Saturday, November 14, 2020, 4:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Columbia's Charles Van Doren made
Faustian bargain in "Quiz Show" Twenty-One (1959);
Columbia University did the same in 1979 changing
dormitory name from Livingston Hall to Wallach Hall

Lived in Livingston Hall for 4 years at Columbia;
Robert Livingston was America's founding father;
administered Oath to President Washington 1789;
Ira D. Wallach was businessman & philanthropist.

Saturday, November 14, 2020, 4:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Since I belong to Stanford's
"Sarum Seminar" group of Medieval Studies,
received 11/13 email from Prof. Jacqueline Jung
of Yale on her latest book on Gothic Sculptues

Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression,
and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture
with sample chapters in Google Books. Saturday, November 14, 2020, 4:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
(Page 2) Careers: Images of your current career;
Images that represent your future careers;
Two video related to your future or current career.

Teaching poetry writing to students;
Find videos of poetry readings
to inspire students to write.

Saturday, November 14, 2020, 4:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: After searching for medieval
costumes in "Wizard Hat", Pinterest sends me
images on medieval costumes— Red Elise
medieval women's apron for sale @ $104

This girl looks like Flora
with a basket of herbs
to plant in your garden. Saturday, November 14, 2020, 4:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
(Page 2) Careers: Images of your current career;
Images that represent your future careers;
Two video related to your future or current career.

Poets I've studied with giving readings:
Kenneth Koch (1974), Robert Pinsky s(2018),
Robert Bly, Kay Ryan (2011) (Gioia & Ryan).

Sunday, November 15, 2020, 5:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: "Sophia Loren Makes Her
Return to Film: 'I'm a Perfectionist'"
(By Simon Abrams, NY Times, 11-13-2020)

Now 86, she looked for a personal connection
to a script. Then along came her director son
and the Netflix drama "The Life Ahead". Sunday, November 15, 2020, 5:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 2 (due 11-20):
Composed LINC-66e in Google Docs, not formatted
properly; "Peter the Rock" from website looks better

LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11):
Page 2: "My College Journeys""
Page 3: "Poetry Writings & Readings".

Monday, November 16, 2020, 3:50-4:11 pm
Mountain View: "Daily Post" near CVS Pharmacy bins;
Shopping at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Road);
4:30 pm Bus #40 to Central XPwy & walked home.

1 lb bag Organic Baby Carrots @ $1.25;
2.18 lbs Cluster Tomatoes @ 98¢/lb = $2.14;
2.22 lbs Organic Black Grapes @ $1.98/lb = $4.40. Monday, November 16, 2020, 5:15-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Images for Magic Wand—
Fairy Godmother & Wand; Blue Fairy & Pinocchio;
Harry Potter's Magic Wand; "Magic Wand of Wizard"

Paul Brunton advised me to study
fairy tales to understand the magic rod
invented by his first mentor Allan Bennett.

Monday, November 16, 2020, 4:50 pm
Mountain View: 111 Montebello Avenue
Walking home from shopping with noise above—

Fifty crows circling overhead
"Caw! Caw! Caw!" without stopping—
Distress warning or honoring the dead? Monday, November 16, 2020, 5:15-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Notes for Ernest Hemingway and
Aleister Crowley Chronology; When were they in Paris?

Hemingway's first novel "The Sun Also Rises"
published by Scribners in 1926; Will he
be free to track down Aleister Crowley?

Monday, November 16, 2020, 9:04-11:57 pm
Mountain View: LINC-66e Assignment 3 (due 12-11)—
"My E-Portfolio": Alphabet Blocks to construct this page

Three hours to compose this page
for Cavada's Assignment #3
in LINC-66e class. Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 2:00-2:36 pm
Mountain View: Zahira Pena lets me print
Safeway Specials in the Computer Room

Internet Explorer: No Preview to reduce pages—
Can't access Safeway; Printed "Peter the Rock"
& "My College Journeys" in two & three pages.

Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 4:45-5:05 pm
Mountain View: 4:16 pm Bus #40 to El Camino Real
& San Antonio Rd); Didn't get caught in the rain;
Shopped at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
to get their last day Cheese Specials @ 50% off.
5:30 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

Lucerne Swiss Cheese ($3.13) 50% off = $1.56;
Lucerne Shredded Cheese ($2.33) 50% off = $1.17;
2 Waterfront Coconut Shrimps @ $2.50 = $5.00;
32 oz Lucerne Strawberry Yogurt @ $2.18. Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 6:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: "PHOTOGRAHY: Have a Look at the Fabled Honey Forest" (Camlihemsin in northeastern Turkey, is home to Hemshin people, from Armenia who sustain a distinctive tradition: black hive beekeeping.)
(By Daniel Milroy Maher, NY Times, 11-16-2020)

ART: Italian researchers attribute newly discovered sketch of Christ to Leonardo da Vinci (Drawing
by Leonardo, squirreled away for centuries.)
(By Nick Squires, Yahoo News, 11-17-2020).

Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 6:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Tried to download Internet Explorer
for the Mac, but it didn't work following instructions
Using Agents in Safari's Browser's Developer Menu;
Tried Google Chrome Browser and could scale pages—

"My College Journeys" @ 70%;
"Peter the Rock" @ 49%;
"My E-Portfolio" @ 80%. Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 6:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: If Internet Explorer is
no longer available to reduce pages, will use
Google Chrome Browser to do this printing chore.
Need to visit Best Buy to get a B&W or Color Printer

Inserted 4 videos of Poetry mentors
reading their poems; Have to change
"2 videos" to "4" in "My E-Portfolio" page.

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 12:00-12:40 am
Mountain View: Finished Poetry Writings & Readings
with Stanford Workshops with Robert Pinsky (2007), Robert Bly (2008), and Kay Ryan (2010)

Robert Pinsky: "Small Talk" (1-31-2007);
Robert Bly: "The Aha Moment" (5-6-2008);
Kay Ryan: "Poetry & Prayer" (2-9-2010). Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 12:00-1:00 am
Mountain View: I just know Fairy Godmother & Blue Fairy with wands; Asked Ann if she knows any wands from Brothers Grimm; She sends "Sweetheart Roland"

Read this gruesome fairy tale
and found Arthur Rackham's 1916
illustration of girl with magic wand.

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 2:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: "BOOK REVIEW: A Monumental and
Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry"
(By Parul Sehgal, NY Times, November 10, 2020)

African American Poetry: 250 Years of
Struggle and Song edited by Kevin Young,
is a monumental tribute to that persistence,
from the colonial period to the present. Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 2:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Ann asks if the Wizard wields
a wand in The Wizard of Oz and whether the
Wicked Witch of the West has a magic wand

The Wizard of Oz does not have a wand and
neither does the Wicked Witch of the West,
but Glinda, the Good Witch of the South
has a wand tapping Dorothy's ruby red slippers.

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 2:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Magic Wand of Creativity—
Poets & Writers with a Pen: France B393 (1965):
Renoir's son Coco writing; Hand with Quill Pen;
Hand Holding Pen; Writing a Poem; Female Writers

More magical than a wand
is the writer's pen whose words
let reader's mind soar to distant worlds. Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 2:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Magic Wand of Creativity—
Artists with a Paintbrush: Hand with Brush;
Old Man Painting: Artist Painting Sunflower;
Oil Painting; Artist on Canvas: Female Painter

More magical than a wand
is the artist's paintbush that speaks
to viewers when the canvas is finished.

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 2:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Magic Wand of Creativity—
Conductors with a Baton: Toscanini; Leonard Bernstein;
Ormandy; Ozawa; Van Karajan; Dudamel; Baton History;
Conducting (Germany 2022, issued 11-12-1998)

More magical than a wand
is the conductor's baton, when lifted
a whole orchestra begins to play music. Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 2:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: In a book about destruction
"The Rod that Would Destroy the World", Ch. 8
will focus on creation— how Music, Art, Poetry
inspire us to heaven by the baton, paintbrush, & pen

Creation is birth,
Destruction is death—
Cycle from Brahma to Shiva?

Thursday, November 19, 2020, 6:00-6:40 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for today's "Daily Post" & "Metro";
No Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Avenue);
6:40 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave & walked home

Latest time going out— it's dark
without sunshine; Better not shop
so I'll catch a bus home tonight. Thursday, November 19, 2020, 7:18-11:00 pm
Mountain View: "WILDLIFE: Gorilla Tends To Injured Bird In Heart-Melting Display Of Kindness" (Zoo in
New South Wales, Australia: Video by Viral Ho.)
(By Ron Dicker, Huffpost, Yahoo News, 11-19-2020)

Strong preys on the weak—
but a giant gorilla tends
an injured bird to fly.

Friday, November 20, 2020, 12:00-2:04 am
Mountain View: Wrote Chapter 9: Wands of
Conductors, Artists, Poets for fiction book
The Rod That Would Destroy the World

Uploaded 22 images for this chapter—
8 batons showing 6 music conductors,
7 artist's paintbrushes, 7 holding pen. Friday, November 20, 2020, 1:20-1:53 pm
Mountain View: About That Maligned Christmas
Tree (and That Owl) at Rockefeller Center
(By Ed Shanahan, NY Times, 11-18-2020)

Norway spruce is 75-foot, 11-ton evergreen,
arrived in Midtown Manhattan after a
200-mile trip from upstate Oneonta.

Friday, November 20, 2020, 1:20-1:53 pm
Mountain View: 'I Had to See That Owl':
Central Park's New Celebrity Bird
(By Lisa M. Collins, NY Times, 11-17-2020)

New Yorkers are so obsessed with
Barry the barred owl that some are
concerned he could be scared away.
So far, he seems to like the attention. Friday, November 20, 2020, 2:00-5:40 pm
Mountain View: Found my Tales of Grimm
and Andersen (1952) edited by W.H. Auden,
and read Grimm's "Cinderella" (pp. 64-69)

Grimm's 1812 "Cinderella" has no fairy
godmother turning pumpkin to stagecoach,
but Charles Perrault's 1697 version does—
which was followed by Disney in their 1950 film.

Friday, November 20, 2020, 7:10-9:10 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's place on Oregon Ave to see movie
"Queen's Gambit" (2020) Netflix Miniseries #1-2 (of 7)
directed by Scott Frank starring Anya Taylor-Joy;
Bill Camp; Moses Ingram; Christiane Seidel; Rebecca Root; Chloe Pirrie; Akemnji Ndifornyen; Marielle Heller; Harry Melling ; Patrick Kennedy; Jacob Fortune-Lloyd; Thomas Brodie-Sangster; Marcin Dorociński;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Film based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel
that Stanford's "Another Look" had
a book discussion on Jan. 29, 2019. Friday, November 20, 2020, 9:30-12:00 pm
Mountain View: Writing "Chapter 8: Magic Wands in Fairy Tales" for fiction book The Rod That Would Destroy the World— Fairy Godmother in Cinderella; Blue Fairy
in Pinocchio; Glinda, Good Witch of the South in
The Wizard of Oz; Wizard Merlin in King Arthur; Stepdaughter in Sweetheart Roland; Cinderella; Make Pinocchio a real boy: Sending Dorothy home to Kansas; Merlin mentors King Arthur; Changing to Duck & Pond

Summary of each fairy tale
where magic wand was used
for transformation.

Saturday, November 21, 2020, 4:25-4:40 pm
Mountain View: 4:00 pm Red Bus to Showers Dr.
for "Daily Post" at Wal-Mart news bins; Walked
to Chef Chu's news bins for "Palo Alto Weekly";
CVS Vitamins Buy 1 Get 1 50% off not a good deal.

2 Whitman Dark Chocolate Sampler @ $10.99;
BOGO Free; Coupons (expiring 11/21) 30% off,
$3 off, and $2 off not honored on BOGO free deal. Saturday, November 21, 2020, 5:00-5:28 pm
Mountain View: No shopping yesterday with Karen;
just stopped by Valero bins for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Today shopped at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
6:20 pm Bus #40 to Central XPwy & walked home

2 Sig. Sel. Potato Tater Treats @ $2.38;
Lucerne Creamer No Sugar Hazelnut @ $1.99;
Lucerne Creamer No Sugar French Vanilla $1.99.

Sunday, November 22, 2020, 5:00-5:20 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
to get "Daily News" that I forgot to pick up on Friday;
Shopped at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Avenue);
5:50 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave & walked home

Sig. Select Quiche Florentine @ $4.73;
Sig. Select Quiche Bacon & Cheese @ $4.73;
2 Lucerne Coffee Creamers @ $1.99 = $3.98. Sunday, November 22, 2020, 6:30-10:40 pm
Mountain View: Rudy emailed 3:45 pm that he went
to Best Buy to have his laptop speedup; Suggested
I go to Best Buy to get a printer on Black Friday sale;
Wrote "Ch. 8: Magic Wands in Fairy Tales" (1:30 am)

Need to include an Elf Tikka's magic wand
in "Bright" film (2017) that Felix showed
during Richmond visit to his home (2-3-2019).

Monday, November 23, 2020, 2:35-2:49 pm
Mountain View: "Daily Post" at Lam's news bins;
$1.31 refund for two Safeway shopping overcharge;
Shopped at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road);
3:32 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

6 oz Basket of Blackberries @ $1.67;
1.01 lbs Cluster Tomatoes @ $1.25/lb = $1.26;
2.03 lbs Red Seedless Grapes @ $1.48/lb = $3.00. Monday, November 23, 2020, 4:15-11:30 pm
Mountain View: Rudy emailed 9:31 am that
Best Buy has Black Friday sale going on now;
Canon image Class MF642Cdw Wireless Color
All-In-One Laser Printer $350 on sale for $219.99

Consumer Reports ranked this model
#2 among color printers; Savings $130;
Good Reviews: 4.3/5 among 837 customers.

Monday, November 23, 2020, 4:15-11:30 pm
Mountain View: Making a cover for book
The Rod That Would Destroy the World;
Rotate images horizontally for typing—

Light Saber from Star Wars;
Antique Sword Handle to type "Iehi Aour"—
Ananda Metteya's motto "Let there be light". Monday, November 23, 2020, 4:15-11:30 pm
Mountain View: Because Ananda Metteya's motto
was "let there be light", selected Luminari font
72 pt to type Book Title & 60 pt for author—

Rotate Light Saber 45 degrees;
Background too bright;
Book Cover finished.

Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 1:30-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Zahira, Resident Services Coordinator
at MidPen Housing let me use Computer Room (closed
since March 2020) to print Safeway-Just-For-U Specials
(Expires 11/24) & Foothill's LINC-66e Assignments;
Internet Explorer no longer has Preview to reduce;
Used Google Chrome to reduce pages by scaling—

"Peter the Rock"; (49%); "College Journeys" (70%);
"Poetry Readings" (2 pp. 57%); "My E-Portfolio";
"ABC" Cover; Nazis: World War II (2 pp. 83%);
"Create a New World" (53%); Poems 2020 (46%). Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 6:00-6:15 pm
Mountain View: Today's NY Times News Briefings—
"Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (Blog & Argue)""
(Latest natural-language system tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages & even writes its own computer programs.)
(By Cade Metz, NY Times, 11-24-2020)

"AI POETRY: Elon Musk By Dr. Seuss (GPT-3)"
(Used OpenAI's GPT-3 to write Dr. Seuss poems about Elon Musk. It rhymes every other line)
(By Arram Sabeti, NY Times, July 14, 2020)

Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 3:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Lam's Hair & Nails Salon
(2464 El Camino Real); Haircut #1 Short for $15

Last haircut here was January 10 for $12;
Rudy trimmed my hair June 19 outside my apt;
Lam's Hair & Nails Salon opened two months ago. Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 4:15-4:35 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
4:52 pm Bus #40 to Central XPwy & walked home

34 oz. Frozen Sara Lee Apple Pie @ $2.99;
4 Planters Unsalted Peanuts 16 oz @ $1.99;
Milano, Brussels, 2 Chessman Cookies @ $1.99.

Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 6:30-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts"
Comics (11-23-2020) on Giving Thanks

"Let us be grateful to the people who
makes us happy. They are the charming
gardeners who make our souls blossom."
— Marcel Proust (1871-1922, Paris, France) Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 6:30-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts"
Comics (11-24-2020) on Giving Thanks

"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments
to find happines— it's right in front of me if
I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude."
— Brené Brown (born 1965, San Antonio, Texas)

Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 5:10-7:45 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's place on Oregon Ave to see movie
"Queen's Gambit" (2020) Netflix Miniseries #3-5 (of 7)
directed by Scott Frank starring Anya Taylor-Joy;
Bill Camp; Moses Ingram; Christiane Seidel; Rebecca Root; Chloe Pirrie; Akemnji Ndifornyen; Marielle Heller; Harry Melling ; Patrick Kennedy; Jacob Fortune-Lloyd; Thomas Brodie-Sangster; Marcin Dorociński; (YouTube:
Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Harmon'5 Best Games);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); After film, Karen drives to Valero Gas Station to get "Daily Post" and me home by 8:00 pm

Child chess prodigy Beth Harmon
is so obessive in winning with
drugs & alcohol to reach the top. Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 8:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Figured out why some images not showing up on "Ch. 8: Magic Wands in Fairy Tales" & Ch. 9: Wands of Conductors for fiction book The Rod That Would Destroy the World online when appearing on my USB on my laptop. Some images had Name changes after uploads like "Glinda Good Witch of North to South"; Conductor's Wand stamp from Germany 1998 (issue year) to Germany #2022 (Scott's catalog #); Got sidetracked writing "ABC for You & Me" (Cover)
& "The Rod that Would Destroy the World" (Cover)—

Need to return to "Platonic Lambda: Soul of
the Universe": Ch. 12: Flying Geese Formation; Ch. 13: Arrowheads; Ch. 14: Colliding Galaxies.

Thursday, November 26, 2020, 2:00-2:08 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Eugene Ormandy conducts
Philadelphia Orchestra to Johann Sebastian Bach's
"Anna Magdalena Notebook: Little Suite" (1722);
CD); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

One of my favorite Bach music
played as I was having breakfast
on this beautiful Thanksgiving Day. Thursday, November 26, 2020, 2:15-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts"
Comics (11-26-2020) on Giving Thanks;
Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"I awoke this morning
with devout thanksgiving
for my friends,
the old and the new."

Thursday, November 26, 2020, 2:15-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Ann sends "Happy Thanksgiving"
painting with snowy scene and turkeys which
I found from Grandma Moses 1943 painting
"Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey"

Calm landscape wintry scene
like Vivaldi's "Four Seasons: Winter"
with snowflakes falling in silence. Thursday, November 26, 2020, 2:15-6:30 pm
Mountain View: After reading Emerson's quote
counted 100 people (friends, instructors, scientists,
poets, & spiritual mentors) who inspired my life
to be thankful on Thanksgiving Day

Thankful to Dad & Mom
for their care & loving kindness,
for brother & sister companionship.

Thursday, November 26, 2020, 7:00-9:40 pm
Mountain View: Cooking Thanksgiving Stir-Fry—
Diced 20 baby carrots, 50 tender asparagus,
3 green onions, Microwave Tai-Pei Combination
Fried Rice, Diced 4 dried bean curds, Can of
Braised Gluten Chai Charng, Can of 17 Quail Eggs,

4 scrambled eggs, Fried rice in wok with almonds,
cashews, walnuts, sunflower & pumpkin seeds,
Vaingrette Balsamic & Asian Sesame Dressings, Thursday, November 26, 2019, 7:00-9:40 pm
Mountain View: Continue cooking: 14 oz bag C&W
Ultimate Stir Fry: broccoli, carrots, snap peas, baby corn, red peppers, water chestnuts, mushrooms, bamboo shoots,
onions; Fried in 4 tablespoon sesame oil: 5 sea scallops;
12 jumbo shrimps; Mixed 4 bowls in wok for stir-fry

Casserole of seafood & veggies
stir-fry that I have enough to eat
in 4 meals; Apple pie for dessert.

Friday, November 27, 2020, 4:40-5:13 pm
Mountain View: Wal-Mart (600 Showers Dr.)—
Black Friday Sale: 10 pack Large Boys' Boxer Briefs
$14.98 for $7.49 (too small; will return for refund)

5 pairs Dri-Tech Crew Work Socks $5.00;
70% Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol $1.24;
George Analog Watch $8.88. Friday, November 27, 2020, 5:30-6:13 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
$3.74 refund for Chessman Cookies w/o chess pieces;
6:27 pm Bus #40 to Central XPwy & walked home

Galbani Mozzarella Cheese Sticks @ $2.99;
Open Natural Almond-Coconut Milk @ $2.73;
4 Waterfront Chunk Imitation Crabmeat @ $1.43.

Friday, November 27, 2020, 7:15-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Wrote poem "People to Be Thankful"
yesterday (15 stanzas, 60 lines, 75 people) to 1:28 am

How these people came into my life
is a deep mystery— I treasure much
their friendship that has nourished me
like warm sunshine filled with blessings. Friday, November 27, 2020, 7:15-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Poem "100 People to Be Thankful"
(18 stanzas, 72 lines, 100 people) before dinner

Left out Peter Medawar, Joseph Campbell,
Buckminster Fuller, Adlai Stevenson,
Bobby Kennedy, Anthony Eden,
who autographed my books.

Saturday, November 28, 2020, 10:00 am-3:10 pm
Mountain View: Al Guzman came at 10 am to shop at
Best Buy for Canon image Class MF642Cdw Wireless
Color All-In-One Laser Printer $350 on sale for $219.99,
but it's sold out; can't sell display model or give raincheck;
Costco had Epson ET-2720 Color Printer For $299;
Office Depot all sold out; Will not sell display model.

Went to Target (555 Showers Dr.) and bought
Epson ET-2720 Color Printer For $199 + $18 tax
= $217.99 (to match Wal-Mart's lowest price). Saturday, November 28, 2020, 10:00 am-3:10 pm
Mountain View: After bringing Epson ET-2720 Color
Printer home at 12:20 pm, took Al almost 3 hours to get
the printer to work; Main problem was the password from
AT&T Wi-Fi, Al found underneath the Wi-Fi Black Box;
Revised Poem to "120 People to Be Thankful"
(20 stanzas, 80 lines, 120 people)

Along 6 people mentioned in 11/27 haiku, added
Ravi Shankar, Marcel Marceau, Albert Elsen,
Freeman Dyson, & 10 Waverley Writers poets.

Sunday, November 29, 2020, 6:15-8:15 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's place on Oregon Ave to see movie
"Queen's Gambit" (2020) Netflix Miniseries #6-7 (of 7)
directed by Scott Frank starring Anya Taylor-Joy;
Bill Camp; Moses Ingram; Christiane Seidel; Rebecca Root; Chloe Pirrie; Akemnji Ndifornyen; Marielle Heller; Harry Melling ; Patrick Kennedy; Jacob Fortune-Lloyd; Thomas Brodie-Sangster; Marcin Dorociński; (YouTube:
Episode 6, Episode 6 Review, Episode 7, Episode 7 Review); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Before film, shared my
stir-fry & apple pie with Karen for dinner (5:10-6:15 pm)

Beth Harmon beats Russian World Champion
Borguv at 1968 Moscow Invitational
to become World Chess Champion. Sunday, November 29, 2020, 9:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: NY Times News Briefings— "World's Most Glamorous Quarantine Project" (John Hatleberg worked on replicas of Hope Diamond for Smithsonian.)
(By Geraldine Fabrikant, NY Times, 11-28-2020);
"Myth of North America, in One Painting" ("The Death of General Wolfe" painted by Benjamin West in 1770, depicts Battle of the Plains of Abraham, outside Quebec City. It was the turning point in a war that would end with the British takeover of French colonies from Quebec to Florida.) (By Jason Farago, NY Times, 11-25-2020)

"7 Bay Area hikes to find beauty & renew the soul" (Old Tree at Portola Redwoods State Park)
(By Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11-24-2020)

Sunday, November 29, 2020, 9:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts"
Comics (11-27-2020) "Rest and be thankful"
— William Wordsworth (1770-1850, England)

"Mutts" (11-28-2020) on Giving Thanks—
"Gratitude... can turn a meal into a feast..."
— Melody Beattie (born 1948, St. Paul, MN) Sunday, November 29, 2020, 9:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Trimmed 5 Patrick McDonnell's
"Mutts" Comics this past week on Giving Thanks;
Mutts inspired "Be Thankful" poem (11-23-2012)

Composed "Gratitude" (1-15-2006)
on Art, Bible, Essays, Poetry, Quotes,
Resources, with Paul Brunton visit (1979).

Monday, November 30, 2020, 2:45-4:15 pm
Mountain View: Ann picked me up at 2:45 pm
to Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro Street) for
100 Simvastatin 40 mg tabs @ $9.00; Can't
renew two books due 11/30 on hold at Library

Los Altos Library: to pick up Anthony Yu's
Journey to the West, Volume 2 & Volume 3,
but no longer on hold and unavailable. Monday, November 30, 2020, 4:17-4:25 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Gustavo Dudamel conducts
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
to Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony #5 in c Op. 67 (1808); (CD); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); Wake Up!

Poem: "Beethoven's 5th Symphony";
Notes to Poem; Religious Beliefs;
Beethoven & Indian Philosophy.