re.set [transitive verb] to set again or anew; to change the reading of often to zero.
change [verb] to become transformed or different; to make the form, nature, content or future course of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone.
Amanda and I left KC on a Saturday morning. It was bittersweet to see the skyline in our rearview mirror. Sad to leave the people we love but excited at the unknown possibilities that lie ahead for our weird little happy family.
It seems rare. Those moments in life that ask you to step outside of your routine. The moments that challenge you to make a decision to change or continue to stay the same. Coming face to face with that very opportunity, we decided to take the more adventurous route: CHANGE.
"Change is good." A trite but true cliche, depending on how you choose to see it.
I'm a Kansas City native. It's the place I'll always consider to be my home. We were lucky enough to spend the last two years in a cozy little nest in the Columbus Park area. Calling a weird, funky little neighborhood our home made us fall in love with the city we grew up in in an entirely new way. Our neighbor was a chef...like, a real one at a real restaurant. We had a favorite Saturday morning brunch hangout where we loved the staff and became regulars to the point that they would hug us when we came in. We loved waking up to church bells, sirens, and the whisper of city noise. We loved Monday night nerd shenanigans where laptops & entrepreneurial ideas dominated trendy locally owned bars, also known to a select group as Geek Night. We loved spending time with our friends and family and watching our nieces and nephews grow from tiny little people into miniature adults. We love Kansas City. It will always be home.
Our adventure took us from KC to Breckenridge, CO to Sundance, UT to Boise, ID and finally to Seattle. Four days in a car should test your relationship but the cross-country road trip was exactly what we needed to reconnect. The fields, the blue sky, the hundreds of miles of farmland, mountains, vineyards, sharing the road with people in airstream trailers. I'd forgotten how much I truly love being on a road trip. It never seemed like we had time for one...but I'm pretty sure it's going to become a new tradition, in smaller doses of course.
Some people probably think we're crazy. Afterall, we traded our cushy healthcare jobs in and replaced our 2400 sq ft 2-car garage townhome for an almost 900 sq ft apartment in a great location with amazing views and no a/c (because apparently you don't need that here).
It's all in perception. What's crazy to some makes perfect sense to us. This was the opportunity to downsize and to change -- to make the future course of our lives different from what it would have been if left alone. It's the opportunity to reinvent whatever we want our lives to look like.
So here's to change and the rediscovery that lies ahead...
