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, March 1, 2007, 11:25 am Chopin on KDFC 102.1 FM Radio: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66 My canoe coasts up the Amazon River and bird songs fill the air.	Thursday, March 1, 2007, 2:15 pm Mountain View Recycle Center Terra Bella Ave. (Highway 101/85) The highway wall blocks traffic noise, but on this side— art sculptures of cranes.
Friday, March 2, 2007, 5:55 pm Including Albert Einstein for Pinsky's Poetry Anthology It's monumental! E=mc2— so simple, so precise.	Saturday, March 3, 2007, 6:45 pm Shopping Express, El Camino, Palo Alto Seeing Full Moon in window on bus Maple Sugar Moon— warm fuzzy glow shines on me on my bus ride home.
Sunday, March 4, 2007, 3:00 pm Pinsky's Stanford Poetry Workshop Rachel's "I'm Trying to Reason with You" Mozart and Monet— morning light and morning life— Are they not the same?	Sunday, March 4, 2007, 3:45 pm Pinsky suggests doing anonymous poems for last class, and Nadja requests: Couldn't we pick your brain instead of doing our poems?— "Sure, we can do that."
Sunday, March 4, 2007, 5:55 pm Stanford Green Library: Finding the text of Han Yu's "Address to the Crocodiles" (819 AD) Poet in action— "If you don't leave, I'll shoot you with poison arrows."	Monday, March 5, 2007, 10:30 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM Radio Fritz Kreisler, "Liebesfreud & Liebesleid" Love's joy, Love's sorrow— sunrise, sunset— day & night Sun's always shining!"
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 12:30 pm Pinsky signed 4 books for Bill Morrison after Pinsky's Stanford Poetry Colloquium Bill shows me Pinsky's autograph— big R and P so round, so open!	Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 8:30 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM Radio Beethoven, "Piano Concerto #3" Should I catch my bus? No! I'm not running out while Beethoven's playing!"
Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 8:50 am Walking to Showers Drive for Bus #23 on Latham Street, Mountain View Crow flies, lands, and stops at the middle of the road playing traffic cop.	Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 1:00 pm Krause Center, Foothill College Compiling Poetry Anthology for Pinsky I regret to say so many good poets are left behind my Ark.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 6:00 pm Pinsky asked class to send three letters critiquing each other's poetry. Received three letters— John and Rachel from the class and my Professor!	Thursday, March 8, 2007, 12:30 am Seeing the Moon at Stanford Oval waiting for Midnight Express Bus The Moon smiles at me: "Anthology is finished— You may relax now."
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 12:30 pm Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Tamaso Albinoni, "Adagio in G Minor" Sleeping by the stream, Chuang Tzu dreams: "Am I a man or a butterfly?"	Thursday, March 8, 2007, 9:00 pm I prove to Rudy that his soul is not in his brain but his heart. Someone shouts "Rudy!" You don't point to your head but to your heart— "Who, me?"
Friday, March 9, 2007, 10:15 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Johann Pachelbel "Canon in D" Blondin on tightrope crossing the Niagara calmly on his toes!	Friday, March 9, 2007, 11:45 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Boccherini, Guitar Quintet #4 in D, "Fandango" The matador's dance— Snaps his fingers! Stomps his feet! and the bull is tranced!
Friday, March 9, 2007, 3:50 pm Barchas Room, Stanford Green Library Jay Fliegelman: marginalia of Phyllis Wheatley 17-year old black girl finds Shakespeare's Twelfth Night misquoted in book.	Friday, March 9, 2007, 4:30 pm Barchas Room, Stanford Green Library Jay Fliegelman, "Collecting Early Americana" Paradise Lost signed by Jefferson, John Adams— I touch both their names.
Friday, March 9, 2007, 9:00 pm History Corner, Room 002, Stanford Film on Gendun Choephel: "Angry Monk" Some disturbed by film— I like him— a Tibetan Siddhartha! Bravo!	Saturday, March 10, 2007, 10:09 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Tchaikovsky, "Serenade for Strings in C", Op. 48 "Wrote this with my heart," he tells Madame von Meck— my homage to Mozart."
Sunday, March 11, 2007, 9:00 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto Lee Garmes, cinematographer, Morocco (1930) Chiaroscuro— light and shadows, white pearls, black dress, Muslims cloaked in white.	Sunday, March 11, 2007, 11:00 pm "The Love Parade" (1929) Maurice Chevalier sings to Jeanette MacDonald: The Prince is singing "I will make my Queen happy morning, noon, and night."
Monday, March 12, 2007, 12:50 pm Milk Pail, Mountain View A friend takes me shopping Black grapes, green onions, alfafa sprouts, tomatoes, and three bananas.	Monday, March 12, 2007, 3:00 pm Stanford Green Library Postcard ad for Drama Lone shoe on purple Splendour by Abi Morgan— Beautiful postcard!
Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 1:20 pm Hoover Tower Fountain, Stanford Beautiful clear day—, No clouds in the pure blue sky. My mind be like this.	Wednesday, March 13, 2007, 2:00 am Stanford Green Library Exit What a great surprise— My good friend Jack came this late to give me ride home!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 4:00 pm Notice posted on my apartment door Mtn View Annual Inspection Friday Inspection time's here— Throwing away newspapers on Einstein's birthday.	Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 9:00 pm Pigott Hall, Room 113, Stanford University Jean Renoir, "The Whirlpool of Fate" (1925) Delirious Dream— He rescues her on white horse. She's floating in clouds.
Thursday, March 15, 2007, 10:40 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Gluck, "Orfeo: Dance of the Blessed Spirits" His songs charmed birds and streams, almost got his wife back from Land of the Dead.	Friday, March 16, 2007, 11:58 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Percy Grainger, "Irish Tune from County Derry" Tranquil Irish Tune— I'm under a giant oak tree watching clouds go by.
Friday, March 16, 2007, 1:00 pm Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Haydn's Symphony #94, "Surprise" If you fall asleep during Haydn's symphony— Drums will wake you up!	Friday, March 16, 2007, 9:30 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto James Cagney in "White Heat" (1949) The gangster's last cry: "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"— Cagney at his best!
Friday, March 16, 2007, 11 pm "The Body Snatcher" (1945): Gray (Boris Karloff) asks Dr. 'Toddy' MacFarlane (Henry Daniell): Where do thoughts arise? How do we remember and how do we forget?	Saturday, March 17, 2007, 10:50 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio George Pinto's "Rondo on an Irish Air" (1801) Ah! Saint Patrick's Day! I'm dancing an Irish Jig— Jumping like an elf!
Sunday, March 18, 2007, 12 pm "Mercury News" front page story (3/18/07, 1A) "A tale of sorrow and survival" Can the mind harbor love and hate at the same time? The Bagby's did it!	Sunday, March 18, 2007, 3:00 pm A family at Stanford's Clock Tower looking at the pendulum mechanism Clock Tower strikes three— Pulley propellers spin as Dad and daughter watch.
Sunday, March 18, 2007, 9:00 pm Stanford Theatre, Frank Capra's poetic film: "Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933) We don't die, just change— He's now a cherry tree or the wind in your hair.	Sunday, March 18, 2007, 10:40 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto "Flying Down to Rio" (1933) Fred and Ginger do the Carioca— bumping head to head dancing!
Monday, March 19, 2007, 11:20 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Haydn, Symphony #83 "La Poule" (1785) Lots of clucking sounds— Hens pecking in the farm yard! Free-ranging chickens!	Monday, March 19, 2007, 3:15 pm Kids at Day Care, Cubberley Center 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Girl twirls hula-hoop, two giggling, running from their supervisor.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 3:45 pm March 20 issue: "Palo Alto Daily News" Siblings win national haiku contest Many words, one wish: Salaam, shalom, an, paix, paz— Peace around the world.	Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 11:52 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Vivaldi, "Four Seasons: Spring" Springing out of bed to Vivaldi's Four Seasons— Flowers all blooming!
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 2:53 pm Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Karl Maria von Weber, "Invitation to the Dance" Music in Camille: She's playing the piano— the love of her life.	Thursday, March 22, 2007, 8:00 pm Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Greg Reppen asks about my Rilke poem Rilke's in-seeing: Become one with the panther— that's contemplation.
Friday, March 23, 2007, 1:25 pm Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Joaquín Rodrigo, "Fantasy for a Gentleman" (1954) Spring breeze in the air— Strolling in the olive grove, I see green, green, green.	Friday, March 23, 2007, 2:15 pm Cal-Train Station, Palo Alto Large ad on side of Bus #390 Billboard ad on bus— "Love is fleeting. Knowledge lasts. Get HIV Test."
Friday, March 23, 2007, 7:30 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto Film Noir: "The Seventh Victim" (1943) Donne's "Holy Sonnet"— "pleasures are like yesterday" "death meets me as fast".	Friday, March 23, 2007, 9:00 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto Film Noir: "Hollow Triumph" (1948) It's Victor Laslo— hero now playing gangster and psychiatrist.
Friday, March 23, 2007, 7:30 pm Reading Marlo Thomas, The Right Words at the Right Time , Chapter written by Paul McCartney Paul is down and out— His dead Mom comes in a dream, tells him "Let It Be".	Friday, March 23, 2007, 10:30 pm University Ave. & Bryant, Palo Alto A couple with two Yorkshire terriers Two baby Yorkies— one and two years old cuties— Peanut and Jojo.
Saturday, March 24, 2007, 10:30 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Johann Strauss, "Artist's Life Waltz" (1867) Strauss waltz wakes me up— Music playing for an hour, still I'm fast asleep.	Saturday, March 24, 2007, 12:00 pm Bookstore Fountain, Stanford University Passing a boy learning to walk He's just two— wobbles, clings to three-year old sister who can't hold him up.
Sunday, March 25, 2007, 7:30 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto Maurice Chevalier in "One Hour with You" (1932) Just one hour with you— What would you do but love. Oh love me tonight!	Sunday, March 25, 2007, 9:20 pm "Dinner at Eight" (1933)— Closing lines Kitty (Jean Harlow) & Carlotta (Marie Dressler): Machinery will replace every profession— You need not worry.
Monday, March 26, 2007, 9:48 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio 180th Anniversary of Beethoven's death Storm, thunder, and snow when Beethoven died this day— 1827.	Monday, March 26, 2007, 10:22 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Georges Enesco, Romanian Rhapsody #1 Russian cossack spins on stage like a tornado— Audience goes wild!
Monday, March 26, 2007, 6:00 pm Reading Katha Upanishad, VI.1 (1400 B.C.) on the Tree of Eternity. The Tree of Heaven— Roots above, branches below, nourishing the Earth.	Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 9:30 pm New Scientist article (3-27-2007): "Bizarre hexagon circles Saturn's north pole" Snowflakes, beehives, and now a hexagon circles north pole of Saturn!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 10:10 am Waking up to Hilary Hahn playing Nicolo Paganini, Violin Concerto #1 in D Walk in the garden— Bees and more bees busily gathering honey.	Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 11:11 am KDFC 102.1 FM: Roy Eaton plays Mozart, Variations on a Nursery Song, K. 265 (1782) Stomping in the sand: Twinkle, twinkle, little star— That's how stars are made!
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 10:08 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Robert Schumann, "Rhenish" Symphony #3 in Eb Thunder on the Rhine— The castles are all alit Songs of Lorelei.	Thursday, March 29, 2007, 1:48 pm Los Altos Library Parking Lot Seeing a giant bowl-shaped cloud Giant Bowl cloud in sky— I raise my arms to receive this blessing of grace.
Friday, March 30, 2007, 11:20 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Johann Strauss, Artist's Life Waltz (1867) Three letters written to students in Pinsky's class— I feel like dancing!	Friday, March 30, 2007, 5:55 pm University Avenue, Palo Alto Sticker sign on back of Volvo Sign on back of car— "If only closed minds could have closed mouths."— that's heaven!
Friday, March 30, 2007, 7:20 pm Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto Boris Karloff in "Bedlam" (1946) Mad dark asylum, Hogarth's Rake's Progress, but Cockatoo is bright!	Friday, March 30, 2007, 9:05 pm Ray Milland & Charles Laughton star in "The Big Clock" (1948) His boss assigned him to find the killer who's none other than himself!
Saturday, March 31, 2007, 10:36 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Haydn, Symphony #101 in D "Clock" (1794) The clock is ticking— Early morning and the birds are chirping, singing!	Saturday, March 31, 2007, 10:45 am Listening to KDFC 102.1 FM radio Johann Strauss, Blue Danube Waltz (1867) It's Brahms' favorite and mine too— wonder whom I'll be waltzing tonight?
Saturday, March 31, 2007, 4:50 pm Tressider Union, Stanford University Three newly planted date palms like giant pineapples perched on three tall thrones.	Saturday, March 31, 2007, 6:00 pm Latham Street, Mountain View Wispy clouds in sky. On top of eucalyptus, crow cries "caw caw caw!"

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