I was driving to work this morning and saw an uplifting message while driving past a firehouse.

Not surprisingly, as I approached, a fire truck was leaving the station, lights ablaze, alarms sounding, cars nearby stopping and pulling over to the side of the road, etc. The works.

Then I noticed, in the midst of this, an image that turned the scene into one of those Norman Rockwell paintings.

One of the firemen wasn’t on the truck.

He was calmly tending to the grass out in front of the station with one of those old-timey reel grass cutters (the kind back in vogue due to energy savings measures). No anxiety, not even noticing the clamour a few yards away.

And then I heard the message.

Even in our crazy, calamitous, sometimes out-of-control situations, we can find the Regular Things. Those wonderfully dull, delightfully dreary, static things that keep us anchored and sometimes sane.

There’s a saying I think is attributed to the military as it relates to combat situations: “When you don’t know what to do, do what you know. ”

It’s a battle out there. Live long and keep your head down.

But most importantly, keep your eyes open for the regular things.

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