Life in the LBC

Lately,  I've been thinking a lot about "transitions" and how we're all perpetually in one.  It seems like every time I turn around someone is transitioning from one job to another, from school year schedule to summer vacation, from one apartment to another, or even from one mindset to another.

I must admit that part of my preoccupation with transition is that I have gone through some pretty big ones myself, leaving my friends in the midwest to begin a new life on the west coast.  Usually a pretty easy-going person who has moved numerous times to other countries even, I found this move to be the most difficult.

I  am proud to say I am finally feeling more settled in my new home after 8 months but is that because I am changing to adapt to the California lifestyle?  Things that once were so important to me, that constant need to acquire more stuff, is no long what I live for and I am looking at the world around me through new eyes it seems.  Although, I lay in bed at night now wondering if I have unconsciously been poisoning my family with the leaching of BPA's from plastic containers and wondering how big the pacific trash vortex will be when my children start having babies?    I am fully aware that moving to California has opened my eyes to see how small I am in the scheme of things but how my actions can have major impact on the environment.

I guess we are all transitioning, all the time.  We transition personally, as a community, as a country ~ the list is endless. It can be hard, liberating, and overwhelming. What seems to make the difference, what makes transition easier, is when we find support through it.  As I continue to transition to my new home, I am educating myself on an eco-friendly way of life and that can't be a bad thing so I continue to believe I am where I'm suppose to be........I look forward to sharing my adventure with you through this blog, I hope you enjoy!