By the time I entered the world as a refugee, children being born without a true home had already become a terrible normality.
Yet, after 46 years, it has also become a kind of normality.
Disasters like we saw in Staffordshire will become a thing of normality.
When the world is in war on terror, or when countries sanction other countries, or when states constrain their own citizens, this becomes a new normality.
Greek banks, newly opened after three weeks of enforced closure, have become a weather vane for normality in a country whose close brush with bankruptcy has kept it on the frontline of Europe's debt drama.
In Otsuchi he found a vending machine which has become a symbol of Japan's gradual return to normality.
The hunt for more dramatic as they're often described images drives the photographic enterprise, and is part of the normality of a culture in which shock has become a leading stimulus of consumption and source of value.
But if your normality has become 'I can get really cheap and convenient food', then a shift to buying fresh and cooking it which is a bit more hassle can become a big barrier".
Ms. Kuritsyna has stood out for her very normality and has become an accidental celebrity after an innocent, and somewhat inarticulate, video interview in which she glowingly praised Mr. Putin.
And because it was my job to ground him, I became a co-conspirator in normality, or at least the pretence of normality.
