There is a two-month countdown until I will find myself, yet again, in a new community. Of course I have many ideas about where I might be headed. So now I must be busy planning and organizing. It's hard to be two places at once; one where you know is just temporary and another that is a mystery waiting to be discovered.
I've found that my identity is different in each place I inhabit. In high school the island of Maui and rural Vermont transformed me into two entirely different people. It was not just the entirely different people that were surrounding me and helping to form my identity, it was also the entirely different environments that changed my attitude and lifestyle.
And for every community I become older even if my youth is more pronounced in a particular community.
I must go back to the office now... I just took an hour off to run seven kilometers in the sun of the hills surrounding the junior high school and it felt good. Now it's lunchtime....
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