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I moved to Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi nearly two years ago. I had a strong yearning to be part of a smaller community, surrounded by nature, experiencing a slower rhythm, with space for my child to run on a longer leash.

I had to juggle – I knew what I wanted, but making it happen took stacking uneven blocks on top of each other, not being able to connect all the dots in the future plan, and also not subscribing to fear.

Fear balls were hurled at me. You can’t move. And I stared fear in the face and said, I’m going.

Now in the time of the plague, I am so grateful for that decision. To be here just three blocks from the beach, in a community that has put their loving hands (now virtually) on me from the get go, to be here where there is breathing room, to be here where I walked through the wall of fear and found a better me on the other side – is the stuff of miracles.

Then I walk outside each night to take Stella out and I look up and there above me is a vast sea of stars visible in the inky sky. Last night, as I looked up with Venus high and bright surrounded by a constellation upon constellation, I said, “I came here for the stars.”

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