A “Crumby” Morning
Well it’s Monday and I woke up with. A toothache that has lingered on from. The weekend. Given the current status of our health situation, the dentist’s.offices are not generally open so it’s going to be a bad deal for a while. It has been raining for a couple days straight and will be doing so all day. When the rain stops I’ll need to mow the grass again, however , my new mower is not working properly so it will likely need repaired, and it’s likely the bureaucracy needed to get the thing fixed under warranty would take till such time as small children and snow white’s dwarfs could easily get swallowed up by my lawn.
On the news (I rarely watch it anymore) there is a great cry too what is needed to get us “back to normal.” That tells me other people arenm’t having the best morning either. Yet, I did smile internally knowing my tooth will be fixed and my mower will cut grass long before we ever. Get “back to normal.” How do I know? That’s simple—we aren’t going “back” to normal or anything else. It’s seems many people would like to try the Hansel and Gretel play of following bread “crumbs” back to more familiar. Places. Life however moves. Only in one direction—forward and Normal? Normal changes. Over time and depends on some strange combination of ritual and power. Normal is something declared by those who.fear change or actively fight.against it. I have heard people talk. About how things used to be and how some folks. Want that again. Well go ahead tear out. Your indoor plumbing, disconnect your electricity, give your microwave, computer, and HD Tv to Goodwill because if you wangle to go back—well go for it. DOh and while you are at it be prepared to walk mud streets covered in horse droppings and an occasional dead horse.
Oh and not to beat a dead horse....so to speak... is I normal the same for everyone? How can we go back to a place that isn’t ther same for. Everyone? Can you use the same trail of bread crumbs to find your way to hundreds and thousands of destinations?
Maybe people would feel better. If they could use some familiar routines. That’s not getting back to normal—it’s getting back to an illusion of controlHuman beings often mistake “normal” for control. What if we didn’t need sat much control? Seeking peace and joy requires some experiements and outcomes are not to be controlled. Giving up control does not mean giving up resaponsibility it simply means accepting things as they evolve verses working hard to jam every.round peg into a square.hole. If we weren’t so invested in normal/control then maybe we wouldn’t need so many crumbs—however and Carlin used to remind us ‘crumbs are. Remarkable things—when you break. One in two you don’t have two half crumbs you have two crumbs”.
Normal is also about fear. We want to do the familiar becausae we aren’t afraid of the mountains we’ve already traversed. However, I see dong new things as creating new. Knowledge and I SUSPECT ALL WISAE PEOPLE HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF FEAR—BUT IT IS WEORTH WORKING. NOT TO HAVE A FEAR OF KNOWLEDGE.
In short, today may not be perfect. Yet, I will not hope for getting “back to normal,” when discovery is to be had.
Ready set Go
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