The power of mirrors.
Written in May of 2023: I moved to Australia in December of 2018, right as I entered my 30 th year of life. To be more specific, I moved to Western Australia. The entire state of Western Australia (WA) has a population of only about 2.8 million people in total. It’s geographical equivalent would be from about Montana, Wyoming and Western Texas to the Pacific Coast. Perth has approximately 2.2 million people in the greater metropolitan area, and only about 30k living in the actual city itself. The context is important when I try to place some of the drastic shifts that happened in my life moving from Seattle, Washington to the Hills of Western Australia. I spent the bulk of my 20s living in my favorite neighborhood with everything I loved from my running trail to my yoga studio to my favorite Korean fusion restaurant to my favorite brewery; all being walkable. Even working downtown, I enjoyed walking home along Lake Union, taking in the beauty of the city, crossing the Fremont brid