Mixing it up.
I love Seattle. I loved it the first time. It started rocky, but I loved it the second time, too: old friends and familiar restaurants, but also new ones, plus a new job, new neighborhood, new relationship status, new sport, new understanding of my body as I moved from idle to athletic. I had, I thought, made lots of changes. I can see now that my five years in Seattle were not about change but about safety, recovery, and rediscovering delight. There's a lot of delight here, too, but Raleigh and grad school are fundamental state changes, movement forward, the ways I am redefining myself for the next decade or more.
...is the plan.
...is the plan.