Just about the time we made the decision to give it a whirl, the distinctive and wonderfully mood-setting title theme (written by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein) was featured on one of my all-time favorite podcasts: Hrishikesh Hirway's Song Exploder. 

"And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 
     'Twill be in the valley of love and delight."

"Low Earth Orbit is a zone between earth's surface and 2,000km, where we find most of our satellite system orbiting around our planet, together with the international space station."

Great suffering there was, surely; both physical and emotional. Suffering which he offered up with a stubbornness and humility (and even joy) that astonishes me to this day. But the anger and guilt mentioned by Goldman and Fuller and The Times? The bitterness? The forgetfulness? Those, I never saw.

What's so interesting about 1966, you ask? ...Watch this, when you get a chance. I bet the answer'll jump right out at you.

"He’s been in over 14 Bond films, set sail (and sunk) aboard the Titanic, and swashbuckled alongside Indiana Jones. With a career spanning 54 years, Rocky Taylor has lived the adventures most of us only see on screen. He’s the oldest working stuntman in England, and he’s got the Guinness Record to prove it."

"...staring at a haboob with a stacked shelf cloud above it near the border of Mexico, I had a feeling it would be a unique monsoon."

For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confess,
Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest,
Alleluia! Alleluia!