Remembering Arizona

January 29, 2024, Monday afternoon, waiting to pick my daughter up from school, 3:44pm, pacific standard time, parking lot in Laguna Hills, California, USA. Three years ago today I accepted a job offer in Phoenix, Arizona. Three weeks later I moved into my apartment in Chandler and kept it for two years. I worked there for 15 months, job hunted for three, then spent 7 months visiting occasionally as travel for this job allowed. the two years I lived there are such a nexus between past and present me. Everything in my relationship with place, work, people changed, mostly for the better. Arizona wasn’t perfect but it does sit well in my heart. I think about it often and am thankful for what it has meant to me all this time.