This morning while dropping my kids off at school, it occurred to me that California is now my home. I’ve lived here longer than I’ve lived anywhere else.
\nI spent seventeen years on the east coast, interrupted by five years as a kid in Holland. Meanwhile, my California experience will hit nineteen years this coming July.
\nOh, I’ve been keeping one eye out for the “when will I have spent half my life out here?” milestone — it’s waving at me from about 3 years down the road. But this subtler calendar-flip slipped past me in the night.
\nIf I was super-dooper rich, I think I would hire someone to scan my personal numerology, looking for just this sort of Highly Significant Moment.
\n“Mr. Vortex, did you know that your heart has now beaten more times than a bumblebee’s wings will flap, using standard bumblebee life expectancy charts and such?”
\n“Thank you, Harold.”
\n“Also, if all the work emails you’ve sent were compiled into one document, it would be eight times longer than Finnegan’s Wake<\/i>.”
\n“That’s fascinating, Harold. Here’s a gold doubloon with my face on it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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