80th Birthday Cake 80th Birthday Celebration How time flies— I'm 80 today! Quatre-vingts is 80 in French, came from China to America to study, work, and play. Here are my favorite artists and what they did at age 80— to inspire us that we too can be creative as time marches onward. At 80, Plato completed his Dialogues of Socrates on philosophical wisdom to guide us for a lifetime. At 80, Goethe would finish his magnum opus Faust: Part II in two more years with "Eternal Feminine leading us above". At 80, Hokusai still prolific painting lions, dragons, waves, and Mt. Fuji— each dot & line having a life of its own. At 80, Henry Moore had a large exhibition at Kensington Gardens of sculptures & works in progress— reclining figures and "The Arch". At 80, Pablo Casals married his 20-year-old pupil Marta, playing cello music of Bach & 1961 White House performnce. At 80, Buckminster Fuller published Synergetics— met him at age 86 when he signed "the brain is temporal but the Mind is eternal". Spent a week with 80-year-old sage Paul Brunton in Vevey living in peace & harmony— may I share this vision on my birthday and everyday to come.     — Peter Y. Chou         Mountain View, 6-25-2021

Plato (428 BC-347 BC) Greece 1925 (issued 12-18-1998) Goethe (1749-1832) Germany 10NB9 (issued 7-20-1949) Hokusai (1760-1849) Sumida Hokusai Museum Henry Moore (1898-1986) Kensington Gardens 1978 Pablo Casals (1876-1973) White House 1961 Buckminster Fuller U.S. 3780 (issued 7-12-2004) Paul Brunton (1898-1981) 1978 Conversations