became like a sweater for me, sort of like an extra sweater for my soul and in the midst the 80's, carland prose and quickly became the intellectual living room in washington and carla for all intensive purposes was giving off peace in thenx center. sometimes it was too hot for comfort. [laughter]nx for instance, i left, unwillingly i left washington in the mid 80's, no, 1988, and so when i came back to washington it really was my home away from home and one time i guess i had been a a leal over the unusual and i said hi, carla and she said you gotten so old. [laughter] and i said thanks, steve, i needed that. and she said we all are. [laughter] it was said the best are mur of old age is a well spent life preceding it. and i would ask if carla enabled us to do the same. she created that third place between your house and your work. a third place people went who were hungry for ideas for good writing, good conversation and to ease the loneliness that descends upon human beings no matter how many people you are surrounded with. finally, when i am thinking about carla, and i sort of laid aw