2008. Already it is so yesterday. Before I close the portals of the last year, I offer you an inevitable year-end tally (though you will see no inevitable resolutions for the new year in this space), an accounting rooted in things personal, more or less, less or more.
1. Yes, we can; yes, we did.
2. One can reinvent one's work life, given the grace of talent, opportunity, and others' graciousness and generosity -- all critically important givens.
3. Loss happens. Sometimes it's surprising, sometimes it's unfathomable, sometimes it rewarding. It is always inevitable.
4. The 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. scenario, give or take a few hours, is something I may never return to.
5. I like my MacBook; had hated laptops; never owned a laptop until my newly formed business called for one.
6. My office can extend to anywhere I am. This is not news, but it is something I understood empirically in 2008.
7. Follow-up, even of the most mundane prior minutiae, is one of my most daunting challenges each day.
8. It's all on paper, but is it real?
9. Words like "socialism" and "capitalism" either mean nothing or mean things we never were taught.
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