Today I'm grateful for the peaceful, safe community in which I live. Southlake is a small town (27,706 people) in a very large Metroplex (6.6 million people). When I first moved here, I often remarked that it had all the inconveniences of a small town plus all the inconveniences of a big city, all rolled into one. Now I'd have to say the reverse.
The DFW Metroplex is a big city, with a lot of big city advantages (for example and of particular interest to me, teams in all big league sports). Yet Southlake is pretty much a small town, and has some of the nicest facets of small town life: people care about the community. The economy is stable. Crime pretty much stays under control. We citizens have relatively a lot to say about what life will be like in our little corner of the world. And quality of life is a genuine consideration in making decisions about the town's future.
Mostly, though, I pretty much don't have to worry about stray bullets. That's a lot.
So I'm grateful for the circumstances—one of which is that I've been just plain lucky—that led me to live here instead of many other places in the world.
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| The view from our carport. Yes, I'm lucky! |
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