Embracing current reality

I spent many years — decades and decades — either performing for or attending musical events throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Starting in my teens and lasting until I moved first to Europe and eventually to Ananda Village, late nights were the rule and a wide variety of music venues were my most accustomed milieu.

But today I’m faced with the reality that all that is very much in the past. Last night’s hour and a half drive to Chico and then another hour and a half to get home again — on a weeknight, no less! — left me pretty much wiped out all day long.

The concert and the night out with friends was a lot of fun, but I’m fairly confident we won’t be in a hurry to repeat it.

Huh. Maybe this is how I know I’m getting old. 🤔

“Normal” is postponed (again)

This was the opening paragraph of an article I saw in the New York Times today:

“Google said on Tuesday that it would delay reopening its offices until Jan. 10. The new date is a postponement from October, which was a postponement from September, which was a postponement from July, which was a postponement from January.”

All those repetitions of “postponement from” seemed almost like a joke to me!

The good news is that after reading that paragraph I don’t feel quite so bad about our music ministry not being back to “normal” yet.

It’s still frustrating, of course. But right now there’s simply no getting around the ever-changing landscape that is our current pandemic reality.

Anyway, all I can say is thank goodness for perspective!