Goodbye 2019

They say it's darkest before the dawn. 2018 was a very dark time in my life and 2019 was definitely a new dawn. Some of the highlights of my year were: 

• helping start Idaho College of the Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis (SRICF); 

• being initiated into the Order of the Scarlet Cord at Masonic Week; 

• at the Grand York Rite sessions, receiving the Knight Commander of the Temple, and presiding as Most Excellent Grand High Priest and Pre-Eminent Governor; 

• being baptized sub conditione in the Apostolic Johannite Church and officially joining the Oblates of the Temple and St. John;

• being installed as Sovereign Master at the Northwest York Rite Conference; 

• knighting seven new members of the Valiant and Magnanimous Order of the Temple; 

• and, at the 2019 SRICF High Council meeting, being advanced to the Third Order and received the VIII° and IX°, the highest honor of my Masonic career.

As 2019 draws to a close, I'm spending the night with old friends and partying in the New Year. I look forward to 2020 with a lot of Masonic Rosicrucianism, lots of York Rite Masonry (particularly Cryptic Masonry), and a lot of work with the Committee on Masonic Research and Education.