Some get up early. Some sleep late. All eat a right smart. We have a big Luncheon Blowout at Neiman Marcus' Iris Room where they clear off a wide space for us and try to stay out of our way. We share news, tell yearns, make jokes, and do what we can to keep one another appropriately humble.
Nobody has an agenda.
We are totally and happily relaxed. It really doesn't. When righteousness, or justice, come out on top of all our strivings, peace prevails. This is not just an absence of hostility but a shalom of heavenly proportions, a peace that has surmounted injustice, soared above strife, and broken down middle walls of partition. Some great points of light during the past year have been the incredible work of many who have done the things that make for peace.