Remarks:

1) Washington, D.C. is very much like another country -- or certainly a very distinct culture.

2) Pool is a good game to play when you want to discuss things (and feel English, if you please).

3)Learning to "let go" may be something that is hard to take seriously, but it is even harder to actually do.

4) It turns out, control (over what's going on in our lives, over what people think of us, over what's going to happen) is one of our favorite, favorite illusions, and we do not like it when the fact that it is an illusion is made clear to us.

5) Going a day without email, cell phone, or Internet use may be a healthy thing to do, but if you don't do it, it's no judgment of your self-worth.

6) Money makes people act strangely.

7) Even though it is often used as such, guilt is not a very good motivator.

8) The number 8 is my favorite number.

9) No matter how good or bad or righteous it might feel, comparing yourself to other people is not the way to assess yourself.

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With any luck, I'll understand half of one of these by the time I'm sixty. I'll let you know how it goes.