Normandy Park City Scene      Fall 2026
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Mayor’sMessage
Eric Zimmerman ezimmerman@NormandyParkWA.gov
had, but would like to. I’ve lived near some for 10 
years now, and there are still lots of things I’d like 
to know about them but haven’t yet asked. For 
anyone reading this, if we are strangers I know I’d 
like to meet you and find out what we’d talk about. 
With busy lives we might end up having only one 
or two chances with that, but I’d be glad we had 
the one-or-two (and maybe more)!
I tend to think our lives are shaped just as much 
by our small choices as our big ones, and our 
small choices seem to be mostly about what we do 
with our time. In Normandy Park, our summers 
are usually pristine: 
sunny and mild, ocean 
breezes, quiet streets 
and parks. There are 
plenty of choices for 
how we might slow 
down, and even stop 
in the “right now” 
moment, not thinking 
about yesterday or 
tomorrow. 
Living in Normandy 
Park is a special time 
in my life, I have heard 
from almost everyone 
who lives here that it’s 
a special time in their 
lives too. There are a lot of small and special 
things we could “do instead” today, if we take-
stock of where we are right now, remember what’s 
important, and swap to doing something we 
might be glad we did. 
As Summer turns to Fall, I hope you have many 
moments in Normandy Park where you enjoy the 
special things you chose to do instead.
H
appy end-
of-Summer, 
Normandy Park! 
I am writing this article 
awhile before you’ll read it, 
and by the time my “right 
now” becomes your “right 
now” I’ll have just gotten 
back from a family trip to 
Denmark. Thinking ahead 
to our special vacation 
together, I am focused on the phrase “This 
moment, right now.” 
It is difficult to pause 
and disconnect the past 
and the future from 
“right now”, because our 
brains tend to push us to 
constantly jump back and 
forth with our concerns 
and our goals. In the 
morning we probably think 
too much about yesterday, 
or about later today, or 
about tomorrow, and at 
night we think too much 
about tomorrow or earlier 
today. Do you often think 
about “right now”?
Earlier today, my son was available “right now”, 
and I was working! I worked for 11 hours today. My 
5-year-old son was certainly thinking about “right 
now”, he doesn’t spend much time thinking about 
yesterday or tomorrow and he was having a great 
time playing. I wonder now what silly thing we 
would have done, playing together. 
There are conversations with neighbors I haven’t 
Our lives are shaped just as much 
by our small choices as our big 
ones, and our small choices seem 
to be mostly about what we do 
with our time. There are plenty 
of choices for how we might slow 
down, and even stop in the “right 
now” moment, not thinking about 
yesterday or tomorrow.

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