“Feeling honest as a promise Troubled times have come upon us At the core of the cosmos We are so much more than particles Sonic to the subatomic You are a whisper and a scream You are, we are All part of this everything” --Eddie Vedder, Invincible This past week, I turned 49; it’s an interesting age to be. While being reminded that the milestone of “50” is just a year off, you also realize that in all likelihood there is more life left behind than ahead. Such an epiphany is not necessarily morose; instead, it’s a cause for reflection, a time to realize how many waves of reality have washed over you. When spoken aloud, recollections of change within your own near-half-century can be staggering…especially when you’re a GenXer who grew up during the height of the space age! My earliest memories all circled around spaceships, aliens, and the big bad universe! I vividly recall my brother and I playing with science fiction toys as young geeks in the 1970s. The plastic fantasy “handheld c