Normalcy

 

My life is slowly returning to normal and while I used to kid about living in a town actually named Normal, Illinois, I am grateful for this return. Yesterday I had coffee with a friend I've known for a very long time in a place I used to hang out all the time. Today I will go to lunch with my brother and sister and later to a concert in the park with my granddaughter. These are time honored parts of my life.

My apartment looks like home. It is no longer quite as minimalist as I thought I once wanted, but it is now gently cluttered with the stuff of my life. I have a life! I want a life! That is a welcome return to normalcy.

I have pursuits! 

Thanks to a kind and persistent Muse I am writing, painting and playing music again. Another part of my life that screams normalcy for me. And I seem to have added one more important thing to my life. Whereas I used, long ago, to play tennis, now I walk nearly every day, so my life is no longer quite as sedentary.

And I meditate. That is another part of my normal life that I have practiced for many many years. I am still striving for living in the moment, but that is returning too. 

I know progress ebbs and flows. That is part of the normalcy of living, but right now I'm feeling hopeful. I have no idea what the future may bring. A great love affair and being successful by world standards in one of the things I love would be nice, but I can live with this.

Right now. In this moment. Normalcy feel imminent and good.