Wanderlust

It's fall here in Cleveland and the weather is admittedly taking a turn for the worse. There are some nice things about this, including it being much easier to stay inside all day at the hospital. The trees are beautiful, though not quite as stunning as in Virginia. That said, it's funny how little I miss VA. I spent the majority of my childhood there and feel I should have more attachment to it. I was very happy there most of the time and certainly was formed by the environment in Blacksburg, but I suppose I'm attached more to the people in my life than the places(my family moved to Nebraska years ago). This is healthy, of course, but when people ask me where I plan on practicing someday, VA is never on my list. I feel a twinge of disloyalty when I say this, but it is very concrete for me.

I suppose I view my relationship with the Commonwealth as one that was a great maturing experience with much joy and spare sorrows, but definitely one that has run it's course. I sense that something else is out there for me......

One of my favorite quotes;

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted too long for a series of generations in the same worn out soil. My children shall strike their roots in unaccustomed earth. -Nathaniel Hawthorne