Week 2 — “What is Normal?”

Hi friends!

Happy Sunday! I hope this letter finds you healthy, happy and safe.

What a week! I am so grateful for each and every one of you and so very energized by what this community of movers has managed to do in just seven days! Truly, amazing. THANK YOU!

In thinking about what I wanted to share with you this week, I kept returning to one question - what is normal?

Normally, (see what I did there) I hate the word "normal," because seriously, don't even with that. It doesn't exist. BUT, right now, it feels appropriate to wonder about and use the word.

Because even on the spectrum of "normal," this feels wildly different and has turned our "rules" on their heads, which can be a good thing, but is also leaving a lot of space for structureless wandering. Maybe not physically, while we're all still in quarantine, but mentally, emotionally and technologically for sure.

Several times over the past week, I've found myself wanting to say, "Sorry, I promise I'm not normally like this."

I'm not normally a person who just says what she thinks and feels without thinking hard about the delivery and its effect first. I'm not normally someone who is attached to their phone - in fact, many would argue that I used to be someone who was very hard to get a hold of. And I'm not normally someone who sits inside all day and drinks a glass of something every night.

But in this past week, all of those things have become my new normal.

And while I'm maybe not the most excited about some of those realities, it's got me thinking - in a world without rules and a sense of normalcy, what are we finally free to find?

I'm already discovering a greater sense of connection - to the people in my life and my self - a willingness to be open, honest and vulnerable that never used to exist before, and a sense of patience that is certainly coming and going, but it's finally there in even the smallest amount.

So as we move through this week together, I encourage you to throw the rules and your old normal out the window while we work on exploring what is left behind in their absence.

I'm still here with and for you friends. Always.

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay openly abnormal.

All my love,

C

(3/29/20)