I Am So Thankful...

I am so thankful!  A month or so ago I was part of a Zoom meeting that had to do with early Moon maps presented by a member of the Antique Telescope Society, who lives in Vermont.  He was having some difficulty at first setting up his Zoom connection and he apologized for his difficulties by saying, "I am having troubles adapting to this new technology since I am an octogenarian." And that hit me like a brick!  I am an octogenarian!  And have been one for a year now!  That word made me feel really old when I only feel as if I am perhaps 60 years old, or so.  I am thankful for my health that allows me to hammer out a ten mile ride 3 or 4 days a week. And I have friends who have been friends all my life and I have younger friends who are so much smarter than I am, but who inspire me.  I have a wonderful wife who is so loving and so talented and a wonderful family with two astounding daughters and their partners and an amazing 3 year-old granddaughter, and three lovely sisters, and Kathy's brother and his wife and nieces and nephews as well.  I have so many interesting things to do involving photography, of course and then astronomy and now flying a plane again.  Life at this late stage is filled with riches beyond imagining. Who could ask for more?