Even-Keeled

As a further coda, the argument also involved mood swings on account of the first period since July, which helps explain the irrationality of the focus on "clearly" wrong.  Hyper attention to language and the need for patience, always.  This is the lesson of the first 6 weeks of AA's young life...  The value of a patient approach and attempts to try and stop worrying.  Constant, ever-present.  Find respite where you can in order to keep the mind balanced, to ensure smooth and stable sailing.

First father's day in Moncton.  Top Gun for the second time, followed by excessive wine consumption for the surf and turf.  Survived it all unscathed, easier and easier in terms of the assimilation into the Canadian family.  New home helping, and although it is not perfect it feels as if it is where you belong.  If you can figure out the routine, then you will be all the more settled.

Milestones for 7 weeks note that the "haze" of raising the newborn may slowly be lifting, and that seems to be the case.  Amazing the consistencies across the realm of different human birthing experiences, the magic in recognizing commonality in the stresses and challenges universally faced by all.  The same old stories. 

As is the forgetting.  How to remember what it feels like will be a constant struggle.  Then, in turn, relearning the joy to be found in a single, solid, uninterrupted night of sleep.  The refreshment.

Back in the office, overlooking the harbour.  How much, how much has changed, as the anniversary of the Zanzibar trip rolls around again.  The old self would have considered this new one to be trapped, by a mortgage and a marriage and a new life.  Instead, Zorba's full catastrophe is simply what is next, the proper order of things.