"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." - Cynthia Ozick
Inn her 1984 essay, "The Riddle of the Ordinary.," Cynthia Ozick pointed out the paradoxical way we experience extraordinary versus ordinary things: "The Extraordinary does not let you walk away and shrug your shoulders. But the Ordinary is a much harder case," she wrote. "In the first place, by making itself so noticeable — it is around us all the time — the Ordinary has got itself in bad fix with us: we hardly ever notice it."
It doesn't get more ordinary than a set of stairs at an apartment complex and some black metal handrails. Neither is very important...unless you live above the ground floor. This one caught my eye for the different tones and the interplay of light and shadow. Today is a good time to find something ordinary and be grateful for its presence in your life.
