Jack of hearts, dirty and forgotten

Bad hand
London, ON
January 2020
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Noticed this forlorn scene on the sidewalk as I was walking the dog early Wednesday morning, and all I could think of was how we're all dealt a hand of cards, and it's entirely our call how we choose to play them.

A dirty card on a dirty, frozen sidewalk probably shouldn't be much of a theme for an Instagram post, but I can't see in advance what will trigger me as I move through the day. On this morning it was a discarded playing card. Some other day it might be a giant root. Or a butterfly, or some cracked pavement. I'm weird that way.

It's been two days since I took this, yet I'm only sharing it now. Some things take time to settle. Your brain needs to percolate them first, figure out what they mean, if they mean anything at all. Even if they're seemingly trivial things like dirty cards on dirty, frozen sidewalks.

There's beauty in the trivial. I have to remind myself to keep looking for it. Or, as increasingly seems to be the case, to allow it to keep finding me.

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