At Jekyll Island, Georgia on a cool April evening, I walked outside my hotel room after doing some work. Fortunately the hotel was about 100 yards from the beach and a lighted wooden walkway marked the way. Nearing the half-way point to the beach, the tree covering gave way and the emmense vastness of the starlit sky came into full view. The pounding of the waves and the eerie quiet of the sky in utter blackness was a stark contrast …