We don’t appreciate normal in our culture until something changes and suddenly nothing seems as we thought it to be. But then, that is how life works. Normal is accepted in disdainful neglect until either death, failure, disaster, or unusual good fortune  changes everything. After the funeral, the communal clean up, or even the fabulous party of celebration, there is an almost universal need for a period in a person for normalcy.  This yearning for our life’s circadian rhythm to find its own unique tune again overrides the disruption of change; an override that can be dangerous. We recompose our sense of normal and hang on for dear life. Normalcy returns for better or worse like a tsunami sweeping away the internal experience of all change except those elements we in our true committed decisions have instituted. 

We are entering a period of danger in the political part of our lives as we watch the news, read the papers, or listen to favorite podcasts.  Our national sense of normal seems to have hit the Titanic iceberg, and what is happening is partially so far out of our rhythm as a nation that we are beginning to see we aren’t who we thought we were.  The screams of fear, rage, disbelief are changing not much, and we are beginning to recognize that things may never be the same for a long time or if ever in our lifetime.  The Tsunami of Normal is on the horizon. ‘Normal’ is a normal human response. Normal is a non-conscious expression of a person’s chosen profile of health.  

We need now to commit to what we consciously know as good before the Tsunami of Normal erases the crimes of these days for us.  We just might normalize the lack of due process, the return of colonization of other nations, the pick pocket approach to economy, the distress of neighbors and community seeking solace. We share the normal desire to belong our tribe as any person might. The good decision is deciding to build an alter in your mind, and the alter need not be necessarily religious, but must be a committed decision to the human or spiritual values that will serve to anchor to our souls before the Tsunami of Normal hits us.  Believe me, this political and economic change phase in the United States is with us for a tsunami-of-normal  term of time. Good is not accepting today’s crimes as tomorrow’s normal.