Rooted

“Bloom where you are planted,” my wife and I were told soon after we moved back to Middle Georgia. We were skeptical. We had not intended to return.

Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash

The trip back was a return because we both grew up here, in the middle of the state. My wife was raised in the city we now live, an Air Force community that brings a diversity to an area that is typically rural and homogenous. The area where I grew up was rural and homogenous, where diversity would mean…