The Ultimate Endurance

Phillip K. Lu, CSU Distinguished Professor of Astronomy Emeritus, earned an MA from Wesleyan University, CT and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, published more than 100 research papers in Astronomical Journals, translated and edited a half of dozen books and seven volumes bilingual poetry collections. Recipients of Dr. Da-Yu Wu's Science Writer Prize, 2006 and Minor Planet 175450Phillipklu name by the International Astronomical Union in 2014. After retirement from teaching and research, he is living in a leisure life, writing, painting, listening to classical music. He grows vegetables in summer, chops wood in winter and love to repair things. He is in a reasonably good health and retirement income is sufficient. Writing is part of his passion. He uses keyboard, mouse and monitor as the chimney in venting out his past humiliation or glory, success or failure, happiness or sorrow and letting all of them dissipate as if smoke.