I've already been down here for a month. Every day I walk outside and feel like it is my first day here. Other moments I feel like I have been here forever.
If there was ever a place to go and escape, this is it. It is way to easy to become engulfed in the landscape, the people and the experience of being here. I don't feel like I miss trees and vegetation until I look at photos of them and a sense of longing comes briefly comes back. I feel more content here than I have felt in one place for a long time. I even wonder what it would be like to spend a cold dark winter here.
Every day is a new adventure. The people I work with and teach are always amazing. There really isn't much of anything that I would rather be doing right now.
But, this place also goes against so many things that I believe in. The amount of fossil fuels that this place uses is beyond comparison. I can't begin to comprehend the millions of gallons of fuels burned each here to keep things running around here. But I have to accept that this is the way things work around here.
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