Something Exceptional

This year, as a collective species, we’ve all been through something pretty exceptional. A shift on a global scale that’s affected pretty much all of us in some way. Our lives and routines shaken up. Things we took for granted for so long, disrupted for extended periods of time. Our physical proximity and access to places and people we love, blocked and regulated. Unusual daily lives for which we were unprepared.

Now that we’re starting to make our way out of it I’m starting to notice how much people have started to recognise and honour the unusual or exceptional in themselves too. I don’t think it’s just me; I’ve been on a very unexpected journey coming to terms with and in some way magnifying ways that I’m different from what might have been seen as the “norm” before. Maybe there is no more norm and we’re just starting to see more clearly what was always there: the ways we’re each diversely and wonderfully made.