{a coastal view out of Cali}
I’m back!
I snuck away to my home away from home for a long weekend and decided to take a little breather.
As always, it did not disappoint.
{Ohio River}
One of the most common reactions I get since becoming a regular visitor to the Kentucky/Ohio area, is why?
What on earth is an LA girl like me, doing in a small town on a regular basis? It throws people off. So many perceive Los Angeles as the city of dreams and as an outsider looking in, they see me having the world at my finger tips. They say they envy me, but what they don’t know, is I so desperately envy them.
You see, my life has never been simple. Ever since I was a little girl things were always chaotic. Lots of change. Lots of uncertainty. I’ve come to realize that the simplicity of this place, balances me out. A sense of calm hoovers over me when I am there and I am happy. I am aware of the push and pull of two very different lives, the complexity that I know so well, and the simplicity I crave. Who said you can’t have the best of both worlds anyways?
Chris said something to me this past weekend that got me thinking…
“Babe, I feel like you’re always culturing me because you’ve seen so much, but I’m not sure if I culture you… it’s simple here”.
And while this is a very valid statement, what is not realized, is how much culture we get from simplicity. Simplicity is a culture in and of it’s self. It amazes me how far I have stretched myself to a life so different than what I have always known.
Life where you bump into your cousins at the convenience store, spend the afternoon riding 4 wheelers through the back roads into dusk, have you waitress call you by your first name, use your driveway to create the perfect hopscotch game with sidewalk chalk, pump your gas and THEN pay, sweet tea on front porch swings, getting taken by the hand to an open dance floor when that perfect song comes on and just dance….this is culture.
{2 of my favorite peeps}
And while I may have taught him to appreciate a good wine and shown him the Hollywood sign, my takeaway goes deeper than that. Each time I visit, I fill my cup up a little bit more with culture, values, and love. We live in a world so wide that it feels good to find what shakes us at the center of our core. This place is it for me.
{My bestie and I}
A trip with Landyn is in the works. I can’t wait to share this part of my life with her.
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