Especially on a morning like this and so many others with clear skies, winter crisp air, a full moon, the train whistle and somewhere just behind, the river running.
And did I mention the daily 6:00 pm hymn of the bells? I've never learned where it comes from exactly but at the drop of a hat of an evening stroll the bells begin and you are suddenly in OUR TOWN.
I just learned that friends and neighbors who stand for all of us in fighting to keep our local arboretum alive have won the battle!
Though I come from the very rural country roads of little Galena, OH, the hood is where I want to be (only minutes, don't forget, from rural beauty in every direction). It is a re-creation of sorts of University Village Married Student Housing, where we lived for 10 years, only with wider borders, where we get to greet one another, meet together, play & sing together, worship together.
When we first moved onto Portage, knowing very little about buying the right house (the first one we wanted had 0 closets; we hadn't noticed) not everyone was happy about it. But some 12 or so years later, I love it more than ever.
Community is where it's at for me, and I get to live among people who feel passionately the same.
Good times.
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