After two days of intense training and a third day of co-facilitating a group coaching session, my brain is usually done for the week. With unseasonably perfect weather in July in Washington, DC, THIS is how we spent our evening — outside, settled into comfortable outdoor seating, each of us buried in our books, companionable in our introverted reading. Grateful for the presence of like-minded friends who exert no expectation for chatter or activity but who are content to simply “be” together.