Arizona, flowers bright and vivid blooming on short prickly trees that don’t need trimming. No grass to cut, sand squishing in between your toes beachlike, but without an ocean rippling in to cool them. Flat airy houses where eclectic doesn’t seem to fit. But work is there.
Connecticut, flowers all more vivid for their hiding under snow for half the year. Soft green grass and colored leaves that leave as litter on a brittle ground of autumn. Soft white snow for but a day before it’s muddied by the sanders. And the work is not here.
It all comes down to nature, down to sand. Beneath our feet, running down the hourglass.
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I find Arizona to be beautiful, but there are only a few parts of the state where I could live comfortably. I’m not a hot weather person, need the cooling effect of mountains or an ocean nearby. It is beautiful, though, even the hot places.
Are you considering moving to Arizona?
Yes, there’s a job prospect there for my husband, and though neither one of us are crazy about leaving, we need to make up our minds within a few days. My family’s not here anymore, and Jim’s dad is still alive but he has four siblings to care for him. I’m not hot-weather either; I’m not against leaving but would sooner consider Virginia or New Hampshire. We do have close friends who spend half the year in Tucson, so it wouldn’t be totally alien to us. It’s a tough decision.