Welcome to My Ordinary Life!
I grew up in a tiny town in South Africa, where I hunted with lions…mmmmh….no, that’s not quite true. I grew up in a tiny town in South Africa, where I ran with wolves. Actually, there are no wolves in South Africa. I grew up in a tiny town in South Africa, where nothing really happened. It gave me an appreciation for the minutae of life. I have lived on three continents and now call Australia home. I have been privileged to set foot on all six continents and work in roles that I loved and blossomed in. I have an ordinary life, with an ordinary husband, an ordinary daughter, an ordinary dog, cat and three goldfish. I have learned that nothing is ordinary and every day is actually extraordinary and the poetry of my ordinary life is pretty exceptional. Well, to me, anyway!
Turning the ordinary into the extraordinary is the dream, the fantasy, the battle. Looks like you are well on your way.
Stopping the extraodinary from turning back into the ordinary is the challenge! I spent time with Greer explaining how wonderful it is that we finally have a female prime minister and her name is Julia. Clearly the media has been carried away by the phenomenon too. However, this morning, Greer was channel surfing looking for a kid’s program when Julia’s face appeared yet again on our screen. My child’s response: “not her again!”
Greer, being five, now lives with something extraordinary, which she categorizes as normal. So our challenge is keeping the perspective without sounding like nags! And when you want your morning cartoon, that is what you want! Not political commentary when you are five…