A circle is completed as August comes to a close, and I mark ten full years in Charlottesville . I'm beginning a second decade here. What a long, strange trip it has been. There have been moments of joy, moments of sadness and at least one moment where a gun was pointed at me. I've met many people, have had many chapters, and in general I feel blessed to be here in this community. "You're going to make a ton of friends here," said my first wife when we moved here. We'd been in Roanoke ever since we moved back from Calgary. I liked the Star City, and was somewhat hesitant to leave because she was in the process of establishing her career there. And, I liked being a public radio journalist working for WVTF. But, I needed a job, and it was here. And so we moved here, even though she spent the first four months commuting back and forth. Our first house was up in Albemarle County on the land where the North Pointe community will one day be built
Striking down the mundane and dastardly while retaining a certain obscure turn of phrase, denoting something elusive yet concrete.