Five things I have learned about…embracing the ordinary

Cathy Madavan encourages us to celebrate each day, and to savour the small moments as well as the big

I love this time of year as longer days and warmer weather are now on their way. There is much to look forward to but, as we set our expectations for the months ahead, let’s not lose our grip on reality.

Marketeers with their advertisements showing deliriously happy families on expensive holidays deliberately set up an ideal ‘over there’ or ‘out there’ to aspire to, which can somehow diminish what is ‘over here’ every day. You may or may not have 100 extraordinary experiences booked in the diary, but there is beauty in the ordinary all around us if we pause to ponder.