I just want to start this post off with saying THANK YOU for all the wonderful feedback I've gotten since launching my blog last week! I am so lucky to have the support from family and friends and even strangers to openly express myself in a way that seems to come natural to me. This afternoon my old girlfriends and I ventured to a new local café in SONO. For any of you guys who don't know what SONO is, it's the towns term for "South Norwalk"...I know SO very hip. Caffé Social just opened its doors last month and is already becoming a new hot spot for locals to check out. They serve up a menu full of breakfast dishes as well as lunch favorites that you can enjoy well into the afternoon (perfect for all my friends that wake up after 1pm everyday...you know who you are) as well as coffee classics. One of my favorite unique touches about this place is their signature motto... "A Taste From Home." I will always consider Norwalk, CT my home and this motto makes me think about how this town has shaped me into adulthood. I've only been living here since my Sophomore year of high school but it has been crucial to many firsts in my life. First major heartbreak, first driver's license, first rejections, and first big accomplishments. Caffé Social got me to reflect on the sweet and bitter tastes I have faced while living here and how I need to carry those tastes with me into my college life. One should never forget where they came from even if the past has broken them down or lifted them up. College is seen as a fresh start for many, but what happened before driving into those campus gates on move-in day will always be a part of who you are. Moving around a lot in my life (9 times to be exact) has taught me to be more aware that my past, no matter how hard I try to hide it sometimes, will never change. The only thing we can change is how the future will present itself. I haven't had many constants in my life but in Norwalk I have found my constants that'll always be there to come "home" to. First Congregational Church on the Green in Norwalk will always be a notable constant in my life. It has been the craziest yet most loving church I have been a part of while growing up. A church full of ALL types of personalities, it's often sometimes hard to keep everything straight. Lots of chaos and ideas that somehow give off a new found sense of community. Community is often defined as: a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. Even though this is true in some instances...it's almost better to have different ideas to then share collectively under one value. Which in this case would be to serve Christ and better our welcoming church atmosphere. I have learned that church doesn't always get easier, whether that be in your faith or have it be in social interactions with others. Church is hard, but it is a constant home I always want to have in my life. Church is like a coffee shop in many ways. It's a place of frequent social gatherings, a place where you can escape from the rest of the world for a while, a place where you can be alone while still having a community-like presence in your midst, and a place where you can have open discussions about anything over a simple cup of coffee. This week I found out through some research that kaleidoscopes can be made of lots of different material bases that then create the gateway for producing all of the wonderful color illusions. The viewing tube can be made of paper, plastic, cardboard, wood, copper, brass, silver and many other material goods. We all come from different backgrounds, we all have pasts that are sometimes hard to hold onto, and we don't like to always share where we have collected our different materials for our kaleidoscopes. So I guess its a good thing that kaleidoscopes, like our lives, can be made up of just about anything we pick up along the road.
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