Next to Normal Bowling Team

Last December I reported on the rock musical Next to Normal, story about a “mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family.”

It is a powerful commentary on a disease one of four people experience and it touches all of us. The music touches our very being and wakes us up to a true understanding of this incurable disease. People with this brain disease need treatment and support of love ones but must learn, along with family and friends, that being “next to normal” is okay.

So when we heard about a bowling event to raise funds for a local food pantry a few of us that consider ourselves “next to normal” decided to form a bowling team. There was only one name for our team, the ‘Next to Normal Bowling Team’. At least three of us consider ourselves ‘next to normal’ persons and the fourth person is questionable.

This picture shot with my phone camera is evidence that we are “next to normal”, as one of us, I, had his team bowling T shirt on backwards. We did not win the team trophy, two of us were okay bowlers and two of us were just terrible. However, one of our team members did take the third place trophy for highest individual score.

When I was young bowling was big activity. There were bowling alleys everywhere. There were competitive bowling teams for men, woman, couples, young adults and children. Although there are fewer bowling alleys these days the bowling alleys have become major bowling centers. The one today might have had close to 50 or more bowling alleys on each side of the building. Today, bowling for parties, social events and fundraisers are popular. In this kind of bowling we enjoyed today scores are not so important. The primary thing is having fun. Bowling for food is fun.

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