On January 7, 2013, I turned 78. I'm amazed and grateful that I'm in such good health and spirits, with all my faculties relatively intact.  A few friends have asked me what it feels like to be 78. I think it is best expressed by the last few lines of the poem, Morituri Salutamus, by Longfellow:

          For age is opportunity no less
          Than youth itself, though in another dress,
          And as the evening twilight fades away
          The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

● Born 7 January 1935, New York City
● US Army, 1953-1955 in Korea
● BSEE, University of Miami
● MS Applied Math, Florida Tech
● Cape Canaveral '60-'69, Apollo Mission
● California 70's, early Star Wars program
● Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 30 years:
      Viking, Voyager, Galileo, Cassini

A Good Beginning	Alternate Universe #1	Alternate Universe #2	Alternate Universe #3

And my favorite Universe,
as it contains my delightful wife, Sandi

Freemasonry
  ● Tujunga Lodge, California - Past Master
  ● Pasadena Scottish Rite - 32°, KCCH
  ● SRICF - VII° Adeptus Exemptus
  ● Philalethes Society - Member
  ● TMS, The Masonic Society - Member

T'ai Chi
  ● Teaching Assistant, Dan Lee Academy (retired)

These are a few of my Favorite Things
  ● Theosophy
  ● Sophia (aka Isis, Mary, etc.)
  ● Modern Physics
  ● Dreaming
  ● Heresies
  ● Knights Templar*
  ● The I Ching
  ● Guitar
  ● Silversmithing
  ● Watching the moon rise over the Sea of Cortez from my front porch
     right on the beach, the Milky Way overhead, my wife at my side.
  ● T'ai Chi on the beach at low tide, watched only by a heron wading at
     the shore a few meters away.

* You can tell (a lunatic) ... by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars   -Umberto Eco