When you walk into the 1920s-era converted warehouse in central Brussels, you're confronted with an out-of-the-ordinary greeting: a five-meter-wide red sign stabbed through with knives whose handles spell out "Run Like Hell".
Such a greeting might drive ordinary folk out the door and relegate Philip to honorary curmudgeon status, but for those of us who know this 76-year-old and the apple-cheeked smile that makes you see the 12-year-old in him and his brain that whirs like a weathervane in a never-ending hurricane, it's like hugs and kisses.
This year, after the John Wick 2 afternoon screening, I began greeting Jake with an ordinary, not too fancy, "How are you doing?" His answer, always, was: "Fine".
Before and after services that blended the pain of loss and joy of remembrance, the gatherings were defiantly upbeat, with hugs and greetings not unlike the ordinary Shabbat mornings that had been a lifelong ritual for the victims.
"It's perfect because it sort of embodies the commonplace, ordinary low art of the 'happy days' greeting.
It was an effusive greeting, but this was no ordinary beach holiday - it had a Greek/Scottish wedding as its highlight.
When painters and photographers sell their artwork, or sell reproduction rights to those works–say for a box of greeting cards it's counted as ordinary earnings and taxed at federal income tax rates of up to 35%.
It's an unremarkable scene, doggedly ordinary even, but Gunaratne meticulously details their greetings (that slightly awry "side-hug and a palm on the back"), their small acknowledgments and terse exchanges.
The secular literati are greeting this slender volume of personal meditations as revelatory; ordinary readers simply respond to O'Connor's intimacy, openheartedness and humor.
There's power in the small, ordinary moments, like catching the subway before the doors close or your pet greeting your happily when you get home.
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