Home base moving?

Now that I'm out and about I am considering other places to set up a reasonable home base. The more time I spend away from it, the more time I have to think about how much I really hate Minnesota's passive aggressiveness. I'm still going to come back because I have built a very healthy environment in Minnesota, but when Trump is out of office it's time to seek a new home base. The place that has been sitting on my mind the longest is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I like Pennsylvania's politics and general, but I'm already the most familiar with Pittsburgh and I had a 90% horrible time in Philadelphia.

I love Arizona, but it's just too damn hot! I also love New Mexico, but it's damn poor! Missouri is okay, but only okay and I need more than okay to function. And really the only places that are okay are St Louis and Kansas City. And, I also need health care. I would not live in Massachusetts. It's a lovely place like any other place but the radicals are too college-educated to be down to earth.

More to see, though!

Forgiven// Getting ready to go!

I had to come to terms with an event that happened a long time ago. Someone I cared about very deeply died, and I wasn't at her bedside. I was a self-centered teen, and I thought she would get better, so I put off visiting her while she was in the hospital. She didn't recover as we had predicted, and she died a while later. If I had any inkling of a feeling that she wouldn't recover, I swear I would have been there, but the narrative around the situation was that she was going to be alright. And, it's not like I put my own thoughts into it. After getting the news she died, I had sudden chest pain that didn't completely subside for a while.

Soon, she came to me in my dreams and I cried and apologized for not being at her side before she left. She forgave me without hesitation. I had more dreams with her in them and she had the same comforting, forgiving presents she had in life. After a while the dreams stopped, and so did my chest pains. I wasn't in an environment where forgiveness was readily available, so I didn't know what it was back then, and all these years later I'm glad I see it now. I'm glad I know what true love is.