Haikus: October 2020

HAIKUS: October 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.

Thursday, October 1, 2020, 5:25-7:15 pm
Palo Alto: Karen picks me up at 5:00 pm & drives to
her apt to see "Judy" (2019) directed by Rupert Goold with Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Richard Cordery, Bella Ramsey, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Darci Shaw, Gus Barry; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Saw 15 Judy Garland movies (Spring 2001)
at Stanford Theatre that are happy & sweet;
This film on last year of her life is depressing. Thursday, October 1, 2020, 7:30-7:40 pm
Mountain View: Karen stops at Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro" papers;
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave);
She gave me half-pound Green Seedless Grapes;
Gave her box of 10 packs Quaker Instant Oatmeal;
2 coupons for $2 off on 4 boxes but just took off $1.

4 bottles Planter's Peanuts @ $1.99;
4 boxes Quaker Instant Oatmeal @ $1.38;
Sig. Farms 8 oz Spinach for Salad @ $1.99.

Thursday, October 1, 2020, 8:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Back to work on "Numbers 99"
Collectibles— Coins Section: #100-104.

1899 Gold Half Sovereign,
1899 Morgan Silver Dollar,
1899 Coronet Head Gold $10 Eagle. Thursday, October 1, 2020, 8:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Back to work on "Numbers 99"
Collectibles— Topps Cards Section: #106-109.

Wings #99— Yak-15, Russian Fighter Jet;
Wheels #99— Buick 1953 Roadmaster;
Scoop #99— Fort Sumter Surrenders.

Friday, October 2, 2020, 5:00-5:11 pm
Mountain View: 4:48 pm Bus #40 to Chef Chu's
news bins for "Palo Alto Weekly" & "Daily Post";
Shopping at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd);
5:22 pm Bus #40 didn't stop; 5:56 pm Bus #40 home

2.63 lbs Roma Tomatoes @ 77¢/lb = $2.03;
4.11 lbs Red Seedless Grapes @ 98¢/lb = $4.03;
Priced @ $2.49/lb but Ad showed 98¢/lb this week. Friday, October 2, 2020, 6:10-7:00 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Ultimate Playlist Choice #1
is Beethoven's "Choral Symphony #9" (YouTube);
Four more Beethoven on top: 5. Symphony #6,
6. Symphony 7, 7. Piano Concerto 5, 8. Symphony 5.

2. George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue,
3. Antonin Dvorak: Symphony #9,
4. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2.

Friday, October 2, 2020, 7:00-12:00 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"
Collectibles— Stamps Section: #112:
Monaco 0.99 Euro stamps issued 2000

Monaco 2155 Golden Retriever,
Monaco 2175: Golden Rato,
Monaco 2193: First Sardinia Stamps. Friday, October 2, 2020, 7:00-12:00 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"
Art #123: Hiroshige's "100 Views of Edo"
(1856), Woodcut #99 inspired haiku:

Winter snow covered trees,
red paper lantern welcomes
guests to the temple.

Saturday, October 3, 2020, 4:00-4:31 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Daily News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave);
Refund $1 on overcharge Quaker Instant Oatmeal

Cinnamon Apple Sauce (6 cups) @ $1.88;
4 bottles Planter's Unsalted Peanuts @ $1.99;
2 Gorton Fish Fillets (12) BOGO Free = $8.99;
Sig. Select Ultra-Thin Supreme Pizza @ $3.88. Saturday, October 3, 2020, 5:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Item #117: Books with "99" in the title:
Katie Cotugno, 99 Days; Karen Costa, 99 Tips for Creating Simple Videos; Sally Thorne, 99 Percent Mine;

Greer Macallister, Woman 99;
Matt Madden, 99 Ways to Tell a Story:
Carolyn Keene, Mystery of the 99 Steps;
Wayne Gretzsky, 99: Stories of the Game.

Sunday, October 4, 2020, 12:00-2:00 am
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Item #125-129: Bach Cantata 99, Haydn Symphony 99,
Beethoven Op. 99, Mendelssohn Op. 99,
Brahms Op. 99 Cello Sonata 2; YouTube—

Jacqueline Du Pre & Daniel Barenboim;
Mstislav Rostropovich & Sviatoslav Richter;
Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax (11-6-1989, Tokyo). Sunday, October 4, 2020, 12:00-2:00 am
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Item #130-131: Rolling Stones' 99th Best Song:
Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son";
Nena's "99 Red Balloons" (1983)

YouTube: "Fortunate Son";
"99 Red Balloons" 1985 Live;
2016 NYC Live Performance.

Sunday, October 4, 2020, 4:30-11:40 pm
Mountain View: Listening to KNBR 104.5 Radio on
NFL Football: Philadelphia Eagles beats SF 49ers 25-20;
while working on "Numbers 99"— Films Item #133-135:

"The Ninety and Nine" (1922);
"99 River Street" (1953);
"99 Women" (1969). Sunday, October 4, 2020, 4:30-11:40 pm
Mountain View: Listening to KNBR 104.5 Radio on
NFL Football: Philadelphia Eagles beats SF 49ers 25-20;
while working on "Numbers 99"— Films Item #136-138:

"99 and 44/100 Percent Dead" (1974);
"99" (Indian Hindi-language, 2009);
"99" (Indian Kannada-language, 2019).

Monday, October 5, 2020, 3:30-4:09 pm
Mountain View: New York Times News Briefings—
"Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus" (Awarded jointly to Dr. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice)
(Katherine J. Wu & Daniel Victor, NY Times, 10-5-2020)

Discovery of the hepatitis C virus
made possible blood tests and new
medicines saving millions of lives. Monday, October 5, 2020, 3:30-4:09 pm
Mountain View: "Bob Gibson, Feared Flamethrower for the Cardinals, Dies at 84" (Career 251-174; ERA 2.91; Won both NL's MVP & Cy Young Award, as best pitcher, in 1968, won 22 games, struck out 268, 13 shutouts with ERA 1.12); (By Richard Goldstein, NY Times, 10-2-2020

Threw 56 career shutouts; Record for most strikeouts in a World Series game, 17, against Detroit Tigers in 1968; Hall of Fame 1981.

Monday, October 5, 2020, 5:18-5:43 pm
Mountain View: Paid Oct. rent; 5:18 pm Bus #40
to Chef Chu's news bins for today's "Daily Post";
Shopping at CVS (2630 W. El Camino Real);
6:00 pm Bus #40 to Central XPwy & walked home

2 CVS Men Multivitamins (120 tablets)
(reg. $10.79) BOBO Free; $2 off
rewards, $8.79 (tax 0.79) = $9.58. Monday, October 5, 2020, 6:30-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Bible Section: Item #139-144: 2 citations of "99'
in Genesis 17:1; Genesis 17:24; 4 citations of "99' in Matthew 18:12; Matthew 18:13; Luke 15:7; Luke 15:4:

"What man of you, having 100 sheep, if he lose one
of them, does not leave the 99 in the wilderness,
and go after that which is lost, until he find it?"

Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 4:48-5:53 pm
Mountain View: 4:48 pm Bus #40 to El Camino Real
& San Antonio Rd.; Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd);
0.55 lb Banana Chips @ $2.99/lb = $1.64; Safeway;
6:27 pm Bus #40 to Central XPwy & walked home

10 Yoplait Yogurts @ 29¢ = $2.90;
2 Cheerios ($3.99) @ $1.29 = $2.58 (for Rudy);
16 oz Watermelon Energy Drink ($2.99) Free. Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 7:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Philosophy Section: Item #146: Chapter 99
in The Papyrus of Ani, Egyptian Book of the Dead
is titled "Bringing a ferryboat in the God's domain:

I am a magician.
I am complete.
I am equipped.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 7:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Philosophy Section: Item #153: Swami Chinmayananda's
1972 translation of Ashtavakra Gita Ashtavakra Gita

The Liberated-in-Life does not feel pleased when
praised; nor does he feel annoyed when blamed.
He neither rejoices in life, nor fears death.
— Ashtavakra Gita 18: 99 (circa 400 B.C.)
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 2:40-10:30 pm
Mountain View: While sleeping last night,
realized that I forgot about Balzac's novel
Louis Lambert (1832) for poem "The Letter L"—

Louis Lambert— Balzac's novel leading
to hundred more in La Comédie humaine
about a boy genius lost in mysticism—
inspired my own search for illuminaton.

Thursday, October 8, 2020, 3:00-3:15 pm
Mountain View: 2:46 pm Bus #40 to Chef Chu's
news bins for "Daily Post" & "Metro" newpapers;
Shopping at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd);
4:02 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

2 lbs Mandarin Oranges (8) @ $2.50;
Bunch Organic Green Onions (7) @ 79¢;
1.16 lbs Sunflower Seeds @ $3.29/lb = $3.82;
1.05 Whole Raw Almonds @ $3.99/lb = $4.19. Thursday, October 8, 2020, 4:50-7:00 pm
Mountain View: After finishing "Alphabet Poems",
Design book cover "ABC for You & Me" using
Alphabet blocks— ABC Blocks, A-Z Alphabet Blocks; Two hours to design book cover in Adobe Photoshop—

1) Yellow to Cyan Radial Glow Background;
2) Alphabet blocks: F, O, R, Y, O, U, M, E
3) Type "&" in a block, arrange on page;
4) Paste in background for Book Cover.

Thursday, October 8, 2020, 7:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Philosophy: Item #166-176: Santideva to Swedenborg
Item #172: Case 99 of Hekiganroku: Setcho's Verse:

In the three thousand worlds
The lands and seas lie sleeping.
Who will dare enter
The dragon's cave? Thursday, October 8, 2020, 7:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Item #175: Section 99 of Wang Yang Ming's
Instructions for Practical Living (1518)

Reason the sage has become a sage is that his
mind has become completely identified with
Principle of Nature and is no longer mixed
with any impurity of selfish human desires.

Friday, October 9, 2020, 6:00-6:21 pm
Mountain View: 5:45 pm Bus #40 to Chef Chu's
news bins for "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly";
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
6:36 pm Bus $40 didn't come; VTA Driver says
my December 28, 2019 Schedule is out of date;
7:18 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

4 Quaker Instant Oatmeal @ $1.19 = $6.76;
Waterfront Bistro Firecracker Shrimp @ $3.50;
Waterfront Bistro BBQ Sriacha Shrimp @ $3.50;
Free 4.2 oz Crest Toothpaste 87¢ ($1 off coupon). Friday, October 9, 2020, 8:00-pm-1:40 am
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Philosophy Section: Item #179: Wei Wu Wei's Ch. 99
Ask the Awakened; #180: Paul Brunton's Notebooks; #181: Master Subramuniya's Merging with Siva;
#182: Zen Master Seung Sahn's Whole World Is a
Single Flower; #183: Chinmayananda's Say Cheese—

Here are five enlightened sages who
guided me on my spiritual quest—
it's delightful to type their words
of wisdom to share with readers.

Saturday, October 10, 2020, 5:00-5:32 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Daily News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave);
5:47 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave & walked home

8 oz Sig. Farms Spinach for Salad @ $1.99;
3 lbs Reser's Potato Salad @ $2.99 ($1 off coupon);
4 Quaker Instant Oatmeal @ $1.19; $2 off coupons;
15.4 oz Honey-Nut Cheerios $1.29 ($1 off) = 29¢. Saturday, October 10, 2020, 6:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Stayed up to 1:40 am last night to finish Philosophy Section: Items #179-183: Wei Wu Wei's Ch. 99
Ask the Awakened to Chinmayananda's Say Cheese—

Para #99 from Volume 16, Part 4 of Paul Brunton's Notebooks: "The Alone"— The universal Mind is also unique in that while comprehending all things, it is itself incomprehensible. (1.99)

Saturday, October 10, 2020, 6:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: 12 books due at Los Altos Library;
Went online to www.sccl.org and renewed them;
They are due now on Halloween October 31, 2020

This is the last renewal—
so need to type quotes for
next birthdays at 44 and 70. Saturday, October 10, 2020, 6:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: After renewing 12 books at
Los Altos Library, put holds on Su Tung-p'o Poems
& Journey to the West Volume IV for "Numbers 99"

Need these two books for
quotes on Poem 99 and Chapter 99 in
Poetry & Literature Section of "Numbers 99".

Sunday, October 11, 2020, 3:55-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Listening to KNBR 104.5 Radio on
NFL Football: Miami Dolphns beats SF 49ers 43-17;
12:13 am last night: "Numbers 99"— Poetry #184-201;
Dante's Commedia Canto 99, Paradiso 32:142-144:

and turn our vision to the Primal Love,
that, gazing at Him, you may penetrate—
as far as that can be— His radiance. Sunday, October 11, 2020, 3:55 pm-12:40 am
Mountain View: Listening to KNBR 104.5 Radio on
NFL Football: Seattle Seahawks beats Minnesota Vikings
27-26 in closing seconds; "Numbers 99"— Poetry Items #202-219; 99th Page of A.E.'s Song and Its Fountains—

seers who had gone into the highest being
said that the soul in the profoundest
deep of sleep touches on infinity.

Monday, October 12, 2020, 4:20-4:32 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for today's "Daily Post" newspapers;
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave);
4:52 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave & walked home

Gallon Value Corners Nonfat Milk @ $2.98;
Didn't buy 4 bottles 64 oz V-8 Splash Juice
@ $1.99 since it's too heavy to carry home. Monday, October 12, 2020, 5:25-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Work on "Numbers 99"—
Stayed up to 12:40 am last night to finish Poetry Section:
Items #202-219: Emily Dickinson to Jane Hirshfield
Item #213; Tomas Tranströmer's Poem 99 (1986):

"Tired of all who come with words, words but no language / I went to the snow-covered island. /
The wild does not have words."

Monday, October 12, 2020, 5:25-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Today is the 22nd anniversary
of my web site WisdomPortal.com, began on
October 12, 1998; Chose Columbus Day since
it symbolized adventure of discovering New World

Columbus Statue in San Jose City Hall
removed because he is no longer regarded
as hero since he maltreated Native Americans. Monday, October 12, 2020, 5:25-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Finishing "Numbers 99" project:
Item #220: Numerology of Words adding to 99—
Hour & 20 minutes finding words with "99" sum
(6:10-7:30 pm); Hour to type with web inks (8:36 pm)

Of 12 samples, best is—
Mirror Reflection =
(499969) + (9563532965) = 46 + 53 = 99

Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 3:30-4:46 pm
Mountain View: Dana gives me ride to CVS Pharmacy
(2630 El Camino Real) to buy 8 oz Folger's Instant Coffee
($8.79 Special $2.99) for 64¢ ($2 off + 35% off coupons);
Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd); William gives me a $5
Safeway Reward Card for overcharge on Crest Toothpaste

2 Coffee Mate Coffee Creamers @ $2.85;
4 bottles 64 oz V-8 Splash Juice @ $1.99;
Hidden Valley Cilantro Lime Dressing @ 99¢. Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 7:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: While sleeping last night realized
my poem "The Letter N: Neti Neti to Nirvana" didn't describe what is Nirvana, as I was concentrating on including 59 "N" words in the poem. Rewrote a new
poem "Nirvana" with quotes from 3 enlightened sages

Nirvana is not extiction
but the Void, Unmanifest,
Emptiness— the Mind Itself.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 7:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: "Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature" (Alexandra Alter & Alex Marshall, NY Times, 10-8-2020); "AN APPRAISAL: Louise Glück, Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling"
(By Dwight Garner, NY Times, 10-8-2020)

Honored for writing "that with austere beauty makes
individual existence universal." Pulitzer Prize for
The Wild Iris (1993); US poet laureate (2003). Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 7:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: "8 poems by Kenneth Koch + a conversation between Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery
+ links + Kenneth Koch talks to Mr. Rogers"
(By Dennis Cooper, denniscooperblog.com, 8-28-2017)
Found this while searching for Koch's poem "In Bed"

Koch & Ashberry talk about poetry
and their poems plus video
of Koch with Fred Rogers.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 7:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: "Whitey Ford, Beloved Yankees Pitcher Who Confounded Batters, Dies at 91" (Pitching for 11 pennant-winners and six World Series champions,
Ford won236 games, with career winning % of .690.
(By Richard Goldstein, NY Times, 10-9-2020)

"Joe Morgan, Hall of Fame Second Baseman,
Is Dead at 77" (among greatest second basemen)
(By Bruce Weber, NY Times, 10-12-2020). Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 7:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: "PHOTOGRAPHY: Hidden camera's hugging tiger wins wildlife photo award" (Sergey Gorshkov won title Wildlife Photographer of the Year)
(By Jonathan Amos, BBC, Yahoo News, 10-13-2020)
Tiger's tail blends with roots of tree, as if they are one.

The female tiger is seen embracing a tree, rubbing
herself up against the bark to leave her scent
and mark territory in Leopard National Park.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 3:00-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Interesting article: "Six Verbs That
Make You Sound Weak (No Matter Your Job Title)"
(By Judith Humphrey, Fast Company, 10-14-2020)
Words that shape how you're perceived at the office.

Trim these verbs from your vocabulary—
1. "Think", 2. "Need",
3. "Want", 4. "Guess",
5. "Hope", 6. "Suppose". Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 3:00-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Five hours (3:30-8:30 pm) to write "Meditations on 99" using "Notes-Meditations on 98" as template; Source of 2nd stanza: Buddha's Dhammapada; Saint Hesychios the Priest; Kabir; Emily Dickinson

The holy ones find delight in the forest,
always in constant spiritual prayers
where they sing His praise, there I live
with children playing upon the green.

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 12:00 am-6:00 am
Mountain View: Tried Ann's method of counting trees
from A-Z while falling asleep, but got stuck naming
trees starting with letters I, K, N, Q, U, V, X, Z. Consult
Zim's Trees (1956) & Taylor's Guide to Trees (1961).

Six hours to compose
Trees(I-Z) web page with
24 trees to get acquainted. Thursday, October 15, 2020, 3:40-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Found interesting article "Science: A 600-year-old life comes to an end" (For some 600 years, great white oak looked over the people of Basking Ridge, N.J.) (By Amy Ellis Nutt, Washington Post, 4-25-2017)

Oak tree close to 100 feet tall,
branches over 130 feet side to side.
One limb tipped scales at 8,000 pounds.

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 3:40-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Listing of Trees by their common
names from A-Z with their botantical names

Two trees not in my books—
Nectarine Tree
Xylosma. Thursday, October 15, 2020, 5:30-5:55 pm
Mountain View: Karen picks me up @ 5:30 pm; drives to
her Palo Alto apt to see Kevin Costner in "Robin Hood"

Can't find "Robin Hood" movie;
See instead Tom Cruise in
"Mission Impossible: Fallout".

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 5:55-8:20 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's apt on Oregon Ave to see
"Mission Impossible: Fallout" (2018) directed by Christopher McQuarrie with Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill; Ving Rhames; Simon Pegg; Rebecca Ferguson; Sean Harris; Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Kirby, Kristoffer Joner, Wes Bentley; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
does all the stunts, jumping through
windows, across buildings, into helicopters. Thursday, October 15, 2020, 8:30-8:35 pm
Mountain View: Checked old Haikus to see that
I saw Mission Impossible: Fallout with Al Guzman
on 8-12-2018 at Cinelux Almaden Café & Lounge;
Karen stops at Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd)
for today's "Daily Post" & "Metro" newspapers;
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)
Gave Karen 16 oz Fruit Punch Energy Drink.

Sig. Select Florentine Quiche @ $4.72;
Sig. Select Bacon & Cheese Quiche @ $4.72;
Sig. Select Ultra-Thin Supreme Pizza @ $3.41.

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 9:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Spencer Tracy dancing with
Joan Bennett to "Goodnight Sweetheart" at end of movie "Father of the Bride" (1950) is not by The Platters (1954)
but by Wayne King (1931); Wrong bookmark 8-31-2018

Rudy Vallée crooning "Goodnight Sweetheart"
to Claudette Colbert in the movie
"The Palm Beach Story" (1942). Thursday, October 15, 2020, 9:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Poem "Meditations on 99" not finished
since Los Altos Library has not informed me to pick up Journey to the West Volume IV needed to complete "Numbers 99"; Line in 4th stanza is from Chapter 98

The jewels take root everywhere,
turn our vision to the Primal Love,
of gemlike flowers and jasperlike grasses.

Friday, October 16, 2020, 12:27 am
Mountain View: Los Altos Library must have a Robot
to inform me @ 12:27 am on 10/16 to pick up three
books needed to complete "Numbers 99" project—

Anthony Yu, Journey to the West Volume IV;
Watson, Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o (1994);
J. Reichhold, Basho: The Complete Haiku (2008). Friday, October 16, 2020, 4:20-4:49 pm
Los Altos Library: Picked up three books on hold
to complete "Numbers 99" project; Bus #40 didn't
stop @ 3:50 pm at San Antonio Rd & El Camino Real

Waiting an hour for Bus #40 while
watching Armadillo Willy balloon
beside restaurant across the street.

Friday, October 16, 2020, 5:45-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Complete "Numbers 99" project—
Type Poems #99 of Su Tung-p'o & Basho, plus
Chapter 99 of Wu Ch'eng-en's Journey to the West

#184: Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o (1094);
#193: Journey to the West Volume IV (1518);
#195: Basho: The Complete Haiku (1678). Friday, October 16, 2020, 5:45-10:30 pm
Mountain View: In Poem 99, Su Tung-p'o writes
of boatman while Basho writes of shipbuilder's boat;
Dante says his boat sails where none has gone before

Basho's "river of heaven"
refers to the Milky Way, used as
subtitle to "Meditations on 99" poem.

Saturday, October 17, 2020, 3:30-4:10 pm
Mountain View: Arline phones & tells me after
buying "Paul Revere's Midnight Ride" painting
from her friend Pearl Kruss, she had to close her
Pearl Kruss Gallery due to COVID-19 pandemic

We visited her art gallery on 3-8-2020;
Chatted about Arline's cousins, Yorn brothers;
early death of psychiatrists, longevity of painters. Saturday, October 17, 2020, 5:00-5:16 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Daily News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)
5:30 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave & walk home

Sig. Select Ultra-Thin Supreme Pizza @ $3.41;
2 Sig. Select Apple Sauce (6 ct) @ $1.50;
76¢ refund (Apple Sauce overcharge @ $1.88).

Saturday, October 17, 2020, 6:30-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Typing Table of Contents
to ABC for You & Me in Chronological Order
and Alphabetical Order; Preface not written yet

Add subtitles to poems: Attention!,
Beautiful Blessings, Experience Enlightenment,
Sufi Spins, Wisdom & Wonder, Zero in on Zeus. Saturday, October 17, 2020, 6:30-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Lost my USB on 8-28-2016 at
Los Altos Library with 16 months of work not
backed up, since web site went offline on 4-26-2015

Can't find Notes to Poem "The Letter Z";
Found hard copies of "The Letter W" &
Notes to Poem; Need to reconstruct them.

Sunday, October 18, 2020, 2:00-11:30 pm
Mountain View: Kurt Snibbe, "2020 Election:
College Clout" (Mercury News, 10-18-2020, B19)—
5 Presidents won despite losing popular vote
in 1824: Quincy Adams beats Andrew Jackson;
1876: Rutherford B. Hayes beats Thomas Hendricks;

1888: Benjamin Harrison beats Grover Cleveland;
2000: George W. Bush beats Al Gore;
2016: Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton. Sunday, October 18, 2020, 2:00-11:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday;
Stayed home & listened to KNBR 104.5 Radio on
NFL Football: SF 49ers beats Los Angeles Rams 24-16
while reconstructing "The Letter W" poem with
"W-shaped" constellation Cassiopeia image

Type poem "The Letter W" with Cassiopeia;
Need a week to find all 44 images used
in Notes to Poem for "The Letter W".

Monday, October 19, 2020, 2:00-3:02 pm
Mountain View: Ann picks me up at 2:00 pm;
Gives her two weeks of newspapers; Drives to
Smart & Final (141 E. El Camino): 3 lbs Cuties
tangerines @ $2.99 sold out; Didn't buy 99¢
large eggs since $25 purchase needed; Went to
Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd); Picked up
"Daily Post" at bins near Ditmer's & CVS Pharmacy

1.14 lbs Dried Cranberries @ $4.29/lb = $4.89;
2.60 lbs Cluster Tomatoes @ $1.48/lb = $3.85;
2.60 lbs Holidy Grapes @ $1.98/lb = $5.15;
18 oz bag of Raw Wheat Germ @ $2.79. Monday, October 19, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: From 3:08-11:28 pm yesterday, rounded up 12 images to compose first 3 stanzas of Notes to Poem "Letter W". Some images from 2015 are gone, so had to look for new images; 9 images in stanza 4: Find photos of Wünderlich Park, Windy Hill. Alambique & Eagle Trails on hikes with Connie; 3 photos of wildflowers plus the
watercress wreath on Dürer's Melencolia Angel

Walking in Wünderlich Park at Woodside
and the Eagle Trail at Windy Hill, I gather
wildflowers— Woodland Phlox, Watercress,
Whispering Bells to weave a wreath for healing.

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 3:30-4:10 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Middlefield Rd
for shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)
6:45 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave & walk home

3 lbs Sig. Select Mustard Potato Salad @ $6.49;
2 Quiches (Florentine, Cheese & Bacon) @ $4.72;
Danish Bear Claws $2.50 ($2 off Rewards) = 50¢. Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 7:12 pm-11:55 pm
Mountain View: 9 hours (4:30 pm-1:31 am) yesterday rounding up 18 images to compose Stanzas 4-5 of Notes
to Poem "Letter W"; Ballroom dancing in Stanza 5

Couldn't find Wünderlich (5-1-2015) & Eagle Trail
Hike (6-26-2015) photos for Stanza 4— they were
in USB lost at Los Altos Library on 8-28-2016.

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 7:12 pm-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Found clip-art of boy dreaming
by Kristian Russell; Need to place Albrecht Altdorfer's
"Battle of Alexander at Issus" inside the dream bubble.

Forgot how to do this in Photoshop;
all my Photoshop books in storage;
need to find method on the web. Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 7:12 pm-11:55 pm
Mountain View: While sleeping last night,
thought how we create a new world (poem)
when asleep with effortless ease like gods—

we're director, producer, actors all in one,
an amazing dream world we've fashioned
with cast of thousands fighting battles.

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 3:22 pm-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Tutorials on the web not helpful in
placing Altdorfer's "Battle of Alexander at Issus"
inside the dream bubble of boy asleep

Trials & errors in Adobe Photoshop
without using mask, but layers to
create "Boy Dreaming Battle". Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 3:22 pm-11:55 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed today;
Stayed home to finish "We Create a New World"
poem with image; Bookmarked NY Times articles—

John Herrman's "A Spooky Fall Poem" (10-21);
"Nicole Kidman Leans Into the Pain" (10-5);
"Movie Star Rhonda Fleming, Dead at 97" (10-16).

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 3:22 pm-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Writing poem "We Create a New World" has sidetracked me from "Letter W" project; Rounding up 4 images for Stanza 6 of Notes to Poem "Letter W"

Stanza 6—
wonderful friends along with those who share
Wind in the Willows, "Ode to the West Wind",
and Wen Fu— The Art of Writing, join forces
with Warriors of Light to conquer the darkness. Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 3:22 pm-11:55 pm
Mountain View: "Warriors of Light" in Paul Brunton's Notebooks (XII.5.6): "To attempt this book will be
an adventure for the Warriors of Light,

but the wanderers of night will put it down with
much celerity. For these pages are enchanted
with a white magic which can inflict no greater
injury on adversaries than to permit them to
resist the principles contained therein."

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 2:30-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Returning to "Letter W" project;
Rounding up 8 images for Stanzas 7-8 of Notes
to Poem "Letter W"— Wang Yang Ming; Wei Wu Wei; Ask the Awakened; King Wen; Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs, Which, Mrs. Who; A Wrinkle in Time; Wishing Well by Waterfall (Postcard Painting); Three Warm Welcome Roses;
Karen picking me up @ 5:20 pm to see a movie

Need "Warm Welcome Roses" for
"Letter W" poem, but original photo
is gone; found another photo to use. Thursday, October 22, 2020, 5:35-8:30 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's apt on Oregon Ave to see
"War Horse" (2011) directed by Steven Spielberg
with Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan; Emily Watson;
Niels Arestrup; David Thewlis; Tom Hiddleston;
Benedict Cumberbatch, Céline Buckens, Toby Kebbell, Patrick Kennedy, Leonard Carow, David Kross; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

On January 2, 2012, Al Guzman & Rudy
invited me to see War Horse, but I didn't go;
Rudy said "Al, Felix & I cried at end of film."

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 2:30-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Bookmarked NY Times News Briefing:
Jacob Lawrence Painting, Missing for Decades, Found by Met Visitor (Hilarie M. Sheets, NY Times, 10-21-2020)

Panel by Black artist, part of his "Struggle"
series, was last seen in 1960. Was hanging in her
neighbors' Upper West Side apartment for decades. Thursday, October 22, 2020, 8:40-8:50 pm
Mountain View: Karen stops at Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for today's "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)

Just bought one item tonight—
8 oz Select Farms Spinach for Salad @ $1.67;
Forgot to buy 2 lbs Cuties Tangerines @ $2.88.

Friday, October 23, 2020, 5:30-5:54 pm
Mountain View: "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly"
pickup at news bins by Chef Chu's & CVS Pharmacy;
Shopping at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd);
6:26 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

1.64 lbs Dried Cranberries @ $2.99/lb = $4.90;
1.78 lbs Cluster Tomatoes @ $1.48/lb = $2.63;
1.81 lbs Holiday Red Grapes @ 98¢/lb = $1.77. Friday, October 23, 2020, 7:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Stamps for Stanza 9 of Notes to Poem "Letter W": Uruguay C59 Pegasus (Wings for Poetry); Greece 395 Athena (Wisdom Goddess); U.S. 1285 Einstein (Wonder)— "Keep a holy curiosity"

I wish for wings to inspire my poetry,
wisdom in my heart to do the Great Work,
and wonder to keep my mind fresh every day.

Saturday, October 24, 2020, 2:44-3:54 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Daily News";
3:15 pm Bus #40 to Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd)
for missing receipt from yesterday's shopping

Estimate of $9.66 purchase slightly
over actual price of $9.30 receipt;
Caught 3:54 pm Bus #40 home. Saturday, October 24, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Bookmarked Thursday's NY Times—
"Marge Champion, Dancer, Actor & Choreographer, Dies at 101" (Model for Disney's heroine in "Snow White & 7 Dwarfs"); (By Robert D. McFadden, NYT, 10-22-2020)

She & her husband, Gower, epitomized
clean-cut, all-American dance
team of Hollywood musicals.

Saturday, October 24, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Stanza 9 of Notes to Poem "Letter W": Uruguay C59 Pegasus: Stamp misidentified at two web sites after checking my 1975 Scott's Stamp Catalog—

Uruguay C27: 1 centavos red lilac (7-25-1930);
Uruguay C59: $4.50 black (8-20-1929);
Uruguay C60: $4.50 violet (12-22-1930). Saturday, October 24, 2020, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Took five days to complete
Notes to Poem "Letter W"; 12 images from 2015
missing, had to replace them with new images

Without hard copy of Notes
(4 pages), it would have taken
me much longer to finish this project.

Sunday, October 25, 2020, 3:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday;
Stayed home & listened to KNBR 104.5 Radio on
NFL Football: SF 49ers vs New England Patriots
"49ers-Patriots is a football nerd's dream"
(By Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 10-23-2020)

Interesting football game since
Bill Belichick is greatest defensive mind,
Kyle Shanahan is his offensive counterpart. Sunday, October 25, 2020, 3:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday;
Stayed home & listened to KNBR 104.5 Radio on
NFL Football: SF 49ers beats NE Patriots 33-6
while reconstructing Notes to "The Letter Z" poem
Delighted to find 5 pages of "Notes to Z" in a folder—

There are 68 "z" words in this poem
with 64 images for 11 stanzas in Notes;
Two weeks to complete this project?

Sunday, October 25, 2020, 3:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: "TRILOBITES: Footprints
Mark a Toddler's Perilous Prehistoric Journey"
(By Katherine Kornei, NY Times, 10-23-2020)

Mammoths & giant sloths roamed same terrain
that a young adult swiftly moved through while
toting a young child, several thousands years ago. Sunday, October 25, 2020, 3:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Reconstructing Notes to
"The Letter Z" poem; Surprised to find
25 of 64 images in "Poems 2015" folder—

Z derived from Hebrew Zayin (arrow)
the sound of weapon cleaving the air—
onomatopoeia zap, zing, zip, zoom.

Monday, October 26, 2020, 4:30-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Bookmarked NY Times News Briefing:
Edith O'Hara, a Fixture of Off Off Broadway, Dies at 103
(By Neil Genzlinger, NY Times, 10-24-2020)

Ann enjoyed Marge Champion's obituary,
& sent me a YouTube video "I Won't Dance"
with her husband: they were quite exuberant
dancing with wheeled mannequin at the end. Monday, October 26, 2020, 5:28-6:26 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas
Station (Middlefield Rd) for today's "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)

2 lbs. Devil-Eggs Potato Salad @ $6.49;
1.05 lbs tender Asparagus @ $1.99/lb = $2.09;
12 oz Waterfront Firecracker Shrimps @ $4.00:
Nonni's Cinnamon Raisin Almond Cookies $2.00.

Monday, October 26, 2020, 7:22 pm-2:30 am
Mountain View: Notes to "The Letter Z", Stanza 7

Zen breeze: working with zeal in the zone.
David Bowie always on the razor's edge—
playing Ziggy Stardust and Lazarus,
a star-gazer singing blazing music. Monday, October 26, 2020, 7:22 pm-2:30 am
Mountain View: Notes to "The Letter Z", Stanza 7

Hour to type text; two hours for 33 web links;
Listened to David Bowie's songs—
"Heroes" (6-6-1987, Live Berlin 2002);
"Ziggy Stardust"; "Starman"; "Lazarus".

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 1:20-1:54 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Alfred Brendel plays piano,
James van Demark, double bass, & Cleveland Quartet
to Franz Schubert's Piano Quintet "Trout" in A, D 667
(1819); (CD); (YouTube: 5 star musicians, 2, 3, 4)

Listen to classical music on KDFC
every day, but have not bookmarked
their performances since July 19. Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 2:15-2:24 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Matthias Bamert conducts
BBC Philharmonic to Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's
Andante Cantabile (1871); (CD); (YouTube:
Mischa Maisky, Han Na Chang , Yo-Yo Ma, 4).

Second movement of String Quartet #1
based on a folk "Song of the Volga Boatmen"
brought tears to Tolstoy's eyes on hearing it.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 4:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Just found image of Zubin Mehta for Notes to "The Letter Z"; Surprised to see him performing
Schubert's Trout Quintet with double bass along with—

24-year-old Itzak Perlman on violin,
21-year-old Pincus Zuckerman on viola,
24-year-old Jacquelin du Pré on cello,
27-year old Daniel Barenboim on piano. Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 4:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Find images for Notes to "Letter Z",
Stanza 8: Zosimos; Zazen; Zohar; Z-axis; Levitation; Transfiguration; Franny and Zooey; St. Francis; Zurbaran

Alchemist Zosimos taught zazen & Zohar—
ascending the Z-axis to transcendence
like Franny & Zooey in constant prayer or
Zurbaran's paintings of monks in ecstasy.

Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 4:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Was up to 10:47 pm last night for
Notes to "Letter Z", Stanza 8: 9 photos (6:08-8:51 pm); Type Text (9:12-9:52 pm); 17 Web links (9:52-10:39 pm); Upload 10 files 10:47 pm; Karen picks me up @ 5:15 pm; Drove to San Antonio Rd Safeway (5:31 pm) to return
V-8 Splash Juice for refund; then to her apt to see movie;
Need to type from 12 Los Altos Library books due 10/31

Returned 3 bottles of V-8 Splash Juice
@ $1.99 + 10¢ fee for $6.27 refund
as it had high fructose corn syrup. Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 5:55-7:50 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's place on Oregon Ave to see movie;
She wants to see Korean film Parasite (2019), but I chose
instead "Gemini Man" (2019) directed by Ang Lee with
Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead; Clive Owen;
Benedict Wong; Ralph Brown; Linda Emond;
Douglas Hodge, Ilia Volok, E. J. Bonilla, Björn Freiberg; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Former assassin Will Smith as
Henry Brogan, fighting a younger
clone of himself sent out to kill him.

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 4:20-4:38 pm
Mountain View: Bookmarked "Cecilia Chiang, Who Brought Authentic Chinese Food to America, Dies at 100"; (By William Grimes, NY Times, 10-28-2020)

With her famed Mandarin restaurant in San
Francisco, she enticed diners with dishes
she grew up with, leaving the American
chop suey and chow mein era far behind.. Thursday, October 29, 2020, 4:50-5:42 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro" papers;
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave)

Ultra-Thin Supreme Pizza ($5.99) Free;
Didn't buy Nonni's Toffee Almond Biscotti @ $2
since $1.00 Off Coupon not honored (date expired).
6 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave & walked home.

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 6:15 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Since 12 books are due Oct. 31
at Los Altos Library, need to type quotes from
these books for Elisa's 44th and 45th birthdays
and Cathy's 70th and 71st birthdays.

Made a Table "Los Altos Library Books"
with book titles & Birthday #s 44, 45, 70, 71
to keep track of books typed for each number. Thursday, October 29, 2020, 6:15 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Table "Los Altos Library Books"
to keep track of books typed for each number—
Faster to do one book at a time, typing page #s from
each book instead of jumping from one book to the next

Took five hours (8:00 pm-1:00 am)
to type 4 numbers from Hafiz's The Gift,
Emily's New Poems, and Prager's 100 Years.

Friday, October 30, 2020, 4:04-4:49 pm
Mountain View: "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly"
pickup at news bins by Chef Chu's & CVS Pharmacy;
Shopping at Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd);
5:26 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

1 lb package Strawberries @ $1.25;
2 lbs bag Cuties Tangerines @ $2.48;
2 Terra Exotic Chips @ $2.50 = $5.00;
2.41 lbs Raw Pumpkin Seeds @ $3.99/lb = $9.62. Friday, October 23, 2020, 6:18-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Table "Los Altos Library Books"
to keep track of books typed for each number—
Faster to do one book at a time, typing page #s from
each book instead of jumping from one book to the next

Do heavier books first like Collected Poems: Kenneth Koch & e.e. cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 in case Al Guzman comes tommorrow to help dropping due books at Los Altos Library.

Saturday, October 31, 2020, 1:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Al Guzman picks me up at 1:00 pm;
Drives to Rudy's apt in Sunnyvale; Drives to Costco
@ Corner of Capitol Expressway and Quimby Road,
San Jose with Rudy following us; Walk through all
the aisles including Cold Room from 1:55-2:40 pm
for our walking exercise; Not a hike in the woods

Stopped at In-N-Out Burger where
Al & Rudy had burgers & fries with drinks,
while I had nothing with big breakfast at noon. Saturday, October 31, 2020, 4:30-4:55 pm
Mountain View: Al drove to Los Altos Library
where I returned 5 books due today; Picked up
today's "Daily Post" at Chef Chu's news bins;
Shopped at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
(Gave Rudy two 12-grains Whole Wheat Breads free);
Gave Al 2 jars of 16 oz No-salt Planters Peanuts free).

Value Corner Gallon of 1% Milk @ $2.98;
Nonni's Limone & Toffee Almond Biscotti
@ $2.00 ($1.00 off expired coupons accepted).