Always be ordinary

What if we all just put down our clever and picked up our ordinary?

(Magritte, “The Mystery of the Ordinary”)

“You’re always more unreal to yourself than other people are.”

-Marguerite Duras, Practicalities (1990)

I got an email this week with this subject line: “Never Be Ordinary.”

Dang, that’s a lot of pressure, I thought to myself. I felt immediately exhausted.

We are our most potent selves when we allow ourselves to be …