New Home

So, life continues and I'm now a resident of Washington, D.C.

This place is quite surreal as I am minutes away from a street lined with embassies, the gathering place for congressional representatives, the home of the president, and countless breathtaking memorials.  The city is being developed quickly as you cannot walk one block without seeing a new luxury apartment/condo building being built.  And talk about culture!  People from around the world are gathered here and work at headquarters ranging from National Geographic to the Teamsters.  In the middle of it all are residents scraping by a living and many depending on welfare.  I guess it's a given in big cities.  But it makes you ponder possible solutions or circumstances that could improve the situations of the despondent.

I can see myself falling in love with this city, with the Metro system connected to almost every part of the city and the city wide programs of sharing bicycles and cars (just signed up for both programs).

On a tangent, my girlfriend recently made me think about the people in my life and how I've met my friends.  Sarah seeks deep relationships, and I later reflected on the relationships in my life and how most of them were not planned at all.  Of those I am closest to, none of them were people I met on the first day and said to myself...I will be good friends with them.  By God's providence, he's placed people in my life who I hold dear...and not by my own planning.

It comes down to holding firmly to your integrity.

Bring it on D.C.!