challenge and community

I am all settled into this eclectic place called Los Angeles. The smog is thick and the people are less than eager to be life-long friends, but for the most part, LA is treating me more than well. The more and more I explore the city and all the fun things to do, the more I am enticed by the culture and economics of it all. The "big blue bus", I rides sometimes to work shows me people who are much different than me. People who are quiet and do not want to be bothered, or people who want to talk your ear off...LA is quite the experience.

I left a place that I called home for four years a little over seven weeks ago. Time is a flyin! and it is all uncharted territory from here on out. I know no one besides three friends who live near by, and other than that...I make friends with the people I work with. I keep telling myself, that the summer is fun and that I am excited to be around such a rich community come the fall ( like APU), but the richness is gone. Maybe not gone, but I guess I should say the richness will no longer be so easily accessible to me. I will have to search it out, seek it and desire the refinement it brings.

This whole process of not knowing when i will find that rich, filling community leaves me with some questions, but it also makes me more excited when the opportunity comes my way. this past weekend a good friend came up to visit me, and it was so good. i loved being around someone who knows me well and that i dont have to act as if we're "new" friends; where you have to put your best foot forward.

so for now, i desire a rich community, but I also know that when i get a taste of what has been, It is that much more exciting. To you who may be in the same boat as me, in a new place with a bunch of question marks hanging over your head, may you  experience little bouts of community, challenge and the great remembrance of true friendship.