Hot air and hubris, I like that. It's not an apt description, but it has a nifty sound to it. And many tell you that? I don't know all that many who can spell hubris, let alone pronounce it. The party thing, absolutely, fun and plenty of it. Someday maybe we'll have to construct a list of things you (or me or whomever) would never stop believing in, no matter what. I'm curious what might come up on such a list.

Most of us don't necessarily like to change, including myself for sure, though curiously, at the same time, most of us have things we'd like to change about ourselves. Even so, I have concluded, as much from experience and observation as anything else, that almost anything about anyone can change. I've seen people change in astonishing (sometimes unnerving) ways. I think most of the promises and commands in the Bible are predicated on the premise that all of us have the capacity for change, growth, improvement. It would be one thing to say someone doesn't want to change, another to say someone won't change, and quite another still to say someone can't change. The first would probably often be true, the last very seldom, the middle dependant on many things, including attitude and/or perception, including experiences, including much that is unpredictable and beyond our control.