Living in London

Today marks the one year anniversary of our first post in this blog. 154 posts later the frequency of our updates may have slowed as we acclimated to our new world, but our fascination with our ever shrinking world continues to grow.

Lately we have been thinking a lot on the meaning of “citizenship” in a world that’s really becoming flat. Merriam-Webster defines citizenship as “the quality of an individual's response to membership in a community.” When we lived in the U.S. we never thought much about the communities in which we hold citizenship. But living abroad has made us think more deeply about we you are

We are naturally members of communities of our nation, our neighbourhood, and even the people with whom we work. But now we also feel increasingly connected with virtual communities of people around the world who write the blogs we read and record the podcasts we listen to. We are realizing that we have more in common with some Europeans and Asians than we do with many of the people in our own country and we can begin to find the other citizens of the world who share our interests, our outlook and our values. In addition to our natural communities that are a by-product of geography, we have become citizens of a global world that is knit together by technology and the internet.

In the last year, since we posted our first entry on this site, we have changed and grown. We are curious as to the impact on our family, our friends, and our communities?  Are we different people now? Or the same people, reinforced by the world wide virtual community to which we choose to belong?

Onward and upward in year two!