The natural world fluctuates around a “happy medium,” or “a bell-shaped curve” where daily things are mostly what they “always have been and what they will be.” Carl Jung said, “We are who we always have been and who we will be.” We belong to the natural world and are as it is, preferring stability, balance and harmony, to the disruption of earth quakes and hurricanes, tooth aches and war.
Getting back to and maintaining the rhythm of the centering AUM is the goal of life throughout the Cosmos. We know when we are there and when we are not, and we haven’t been there for much too long. “The news cycles” are about disruption and anomalies, and we have had enough. Each of us has to seek out our own refuge offering peace and quiet, stability and rest in doing what needs to be done to meet the requirements of daily life without being traumatized some more again today by the news of the day.
Emptiness, stillness and silence provide us with breathing room in which we can take stock, find our balance, seek out the rhythm and harmony of a comfortable routine within which we can reclaim our soul, “recover from the past and store up for the future” (Robert Ruark in The Old Man and the Boy).
May it be so often enough for all of us.
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
Do what you can to re-establish a normal routine into everyday and allow the abnormal to pass without being blown away by it. “I see you and I am not going to go where you want to take me!” repeated as often as necessary throughout the day.
LikeLiked by 1 person