Home Again

"We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring


Will be to arrive where we started


And know the place for the first time."

~T.S. Eliot

It's interesting to be back where I grew-up. There are all sorts of new things to notice being an adult in this place loaded with childhood memories. It has changed a bit---there are good changes (a budding local beer culture) and bad changes (the giant Target across from the giant Wal-Mart). My eyes are drawn to different things now (is our house in the right school district?) than they were ten years ago. Naturally I had a lot of complaints being a kid in this town, but I am here by choice now as a mother and wife. Few days have gone by that I have not thought of Eliot's line at the beginning of this post. I really have arrived where I started and seem to be knowing it again for the first time.

Despite the fact that when Anderson is sixteen, I will have to explain to him why we move from beautiful Santa Barbara to beautiful (but very wet) Eugene, I am excited to continue growing with my family in this place.