Five weeks in California. The days seem so long on the one hand but the weeks fly by - how can that be? The boxes are unpacked and stashed away and most moving-in projects are completed. Today I passed my California driver's test so I'm an official resident. That's the externals. The internal "moving in" isn't quite so measurable and has been harder than I expected. There can sometimes be a real disconnect between the "head" (thankfulness for all we've been blessed with) and the "heart" (feeling like life is suddenly formless and void without all the normal parameters and identity mirrors).
California factoid - distance measures are pretty meaningless here. We live only 4.9 miles from Joel and TeeTee's house. But consider that there are 29 stoplights along that stretch and the distance seems to grow exponentially, especially mornings and evenings. When looking up a destination on GoogleMaps it's not uncommon to see the travel time given as 20 minutes with "may take up to 1 hour and 30 minutes during peak travel times" in parentheses. I love their honesty!
It doesn't seem quite so strange to me now, though, to walk out of the house and see palm trees and mountains instead of corn fields and red barns. Yesterday the thermometer said 92 degrees so I'm trying to reconcile that with the end of October. The morning glories I planted in front of the house are sprouting like crazy and the lemon tree on the balcony is starting to bud and blossom. This is a whole new season of life but I'm not sure what defines "season" out here. Guess I'll just have to call it the "LA Times" of my life.
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