It's a Small World After All

Last night, I had the absolute pleasure of having Kit and Desiree Carson over for dinner. To give a little background, I've known Desiree since I was in the 8th grade at Henderson and we continued as classmates through high school but I really didn't know her. When I became a Baha'i, someone asked me, where did I first learn of the Faith and I recanted the conversation I had on the school bus when I was in the 9th grade and Desiree in the 8th -- that was the first time I had been briefly exposed to the Faith an it's teachings and more than 10 years later, that conversation still resonated with me.

If I've learned anything, it's that there's two degrees of separation in the Baha'i Faith and not week later, I was put it touch with her via email. Every now and then, I cruise blogger for other Baha'is just to be exposed to new perspectives. Unbeknownst to me, I had been reading Desiree's husband, Kit's blog for a few months. It wasn't to a read some older post that I made the connection that he and Desiree were married.

Kit and Desiree were of tremendous help during my transition to Atlanta and in helping me get acclimated to a new community and since I was finally settled into my new home, furniture and all, I thought it would be a nice to idea to have them over for dinner.

The absolute hardest thing about my relocation has been leaving all of my friends in DC. Although I lived alone for my last year and a half there, my house was always bustling with activity - having friends over for dinner, watching movies, playing Taboo and best of all, great conversations/debates that would last until the wee hours of the morning and lay a real foundation for your own paradigm shifts.

My conversation with Kit and Desiree was the best that I've had in recent memory. It was so great to talk on a range of topics from career to goals to relationships with God and how it relates to relationships with others to love to marriage. Really amazing. Kit and Desiree have the most amazing meeting/marriage story ever... and it's told with so much animation and passion. It's absolutely hilarious and at the close of it, I actually felt hopeful. It was so interesting to hear her talk of the place she was prior to meeting Kit, because it's a one-to-one mirror of the impasse that I'm at now. To see how someone came out on the other side of this juncture and to be reminded that it's all a choice... Wow! Definitely hopeful...

For weeks, I have been struggling with making my space feel like home. Even though the furniture is the same, the set up is similar, I just couldn't get this to feel like my home and at the close of the evening with great company, I finally felt that familiar warmness in my home and I'm so excited to have met two new friends.