what is normal anyway?
my husband and i have a debate about whether i am normal or not. it’s an entirely loving and joking back and forth we do. i will make some kind of declarative statement or express a frustration with something, or other people, and he will reply “that’s because you are not normal.” and i always reply “i am so normal, i define normal”. neither of us really believes either extreme, but as in all generalizations there is often a kernel of… truth something to be considered. one night, during one of our “i’m normal”/”you’re not normal” exchanges, he decided to take the discussion public and texted a dozen of our friends asking simply “is MJ normal?” with no other explanation. interestingly, he got back 12 replies–6 saying “hell no, she not normal”*. and six saying, “yeah, pretty normal”. so, the jury is still out. but, i have to admit, while i was laying out my tendril collection today to make this photo, it did occur to me “most people don’t have tendril collections…maybe there’s a grain of truth in steve’s opinion.” and yet, the answer hardly matters, because the older i get, the less normal i care to be.
tendril collection
I am not normal, and to prove it I will spend this entire day, looking at the tendrils and figuring out which one looks like what. This is going to be fun. Thanks for being not normal. Normal people are boring.
I guess I’m not normal either because I’m going to spend the entire day. Looking at each one of these tendrils and figuring out what they all look like. I was once time told that I was not normal by a person who saw me photographing reflections in puddles. Normal people are boring.
If this is “not normal”…..then here’s to more of it! Not sure normal humans have such a deep curiosity.
You’re not normal, you’re exceptional! In the best sort of way. So I agree with Steve, I guess. Does normal mean ordinary?? Another topic to explore with friends over wine and cheese…
In my humble opinion, you are beyond “normal”. You have a way of seeing that the average person doesn’t, and it’s one of the reasons I enjoy visiting your blog so much. Your husband must surely be “beyond normal” in his own way, otherwise, why would you be married to him? (This is how I look at my marriage.)