TALKING POINTS . . .

One of the many, many, innumerably wonderful things about being with Sun and Mr. Sun is the conversation. We can sit around, pinching ourselves awake until the wee hours of the morning -- less wee now, now that we are older and ... older -- yammering about everything under the sun. These conversations inevitably range from the utterly stupid and hilarious, to the tense and nearly argumentative, to the deep and soul-searching, often in the span of mere minutes. And then, they can start all over again the next day.

So far this week, we have covered:
- the L.A. school system
- private schools
- God
- the point of the IQ test
- rubber vaginas
- male-female relationships
- why I don't like to talk on the phone
- Sun's mother-in-law
- Mr. Sun's medical practice
- God
- housing costs in L.A.
- housing costs in New York
- why New York is better than L.A.
- 4" pile shag rugs
- women who are dumb, vapid, shallow, materialistic and don't like to sweat, run, go for walks, or go camping
- men who are afraid of commitment
- God
- gay marriage
- church life
- dysfunctional families
- living a life of faith
- God
- the countless virtues of Costco
- mean girls
- North Korea
- the Supreme Court
- God
- why New York is still better than L.A.
- taking sunlight for granted
- flattering haircuts
- why we are elitist and proud of it
- why Sun can only play Scrabble with certain people at her church
- God
- why, when confronted with a sale, we are obligated to buy something
- Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey
- why organic is better
- how Oprah makes us cry every time, but we are still scared of her cult of personality
- how we hope Conan O'Brien doesn't change even after he takes over "The Tonight Show"
- God

So there. With one-and-a-half days to go, we have already covered anything and everything. And as you can see, we talked of God, our faith, our souls, our hearts, a lot. It was refreshing and freeing and liberating. Even across three thousand miles, He is great and He binds us together.

That He gives us airplanes to use to see each other and to share in each other's lives even more closely is just a bonus.