Martha Graham & Richard Feynman "Apple: Think Different" Posters on Foothill College I-11 Middlefield Computer Lab Wall, Palo Alto

Twin Luminaries She is a dancer. He's a physicist. Side by side they grace the wall of I-11. Their posters greet me each day when I come to work in the Lab of Foothill College. She inspired me to dance— her spirit of wind flows through me whenever I ponder on art & poetry. His chutzpah made me fearless in research— predicting protein structures without the aid of computers. Both were born on May 11 in the sign of Taurus and year of the Horse— she 24 years earlier. Her dances— pure audacity— Primitive Mysteries, Appalachian Spring, Acrobats of God. His mind— holy curiosity— quantum electrodynamics, understanding electrons and all things mysterious. Their fingers in wisdom mudra pose like Einstein's— perhaps old Bodhisattvas coming back to illumine us. Their photos beam on me— these twin luminaries with waves of energy— Martha Graham & Richard Feynman.       Peter Y. Chou       Mountain View, 3-23-2015