Most of my life I’ve been animated by a deep desire to travel widely. But I’ve also sought depth, hoping to spend as much time as possible in each place. The Foreign Service is such a draw to me because of the opportunity to spend 2-3 years in a place before moving on. But lately I’ve been increasingly drawn to the idea of devoting oneself to a particular place. Nominally Kim and I are committed to community, friends, and the bettering of the places we live. How can those values be lived out during an itinerant life where we continually put down and pull up roots? I know that most relationships and things worth building take many, many years of cultivation but the direction we’re currently heading seems antithetical to those ideals. How well we reconcile those two facts will likely influence our level of satisfaction with life.
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