The Courage of the Ordinary Faithful

Nobody is going to write a song about what you did today. The thing you did this morning, the small and unremarkable and completely unwitnessed thing that cost you something real and that no one will ever know about and that will not appear in any accounting of the significant moments of your life, will not be celebrated in any gathering of people who admire you and will not be referenced in any obituary and will not be the thing that your children's children point to when they try to explain who you were and why it mattered that you were here. The thing you did today was too small for that. Too quiet. Too ordinary. Too thoroughly embedded in the unremarkable texture of a daily life that is being lived without fanfare and without the kind of external confirmation that would make it easier to keep living it well.