March 29

During my afternoon walk with Adam, we strolled by a row of bushes. They were rather unremarkable plants, and in fact, at first blush I thought their yellowish huge made them rather ugly. But then I looked closer and saw these sweet little faces grinning back at me:

A cluster of tiny, perfect, pinkish flowers amid all of that unattractiveness. I had to look pretty hard to see them, but when I did, they were right there.

I think that's an important truth to keep in mind as we're experiencing this bizarre reality of dismissed schools and working from home and sheltering in place and social distancing: there's beauty everywhere. We just have to be more deliberate than usual if we want to notice it.