The World Below the Surface

I spent twenty minutes this morning trying to find my keys, only to realize they were sitting right in front of me on the kitchen counter. It is funny how we look past things that are right under our noses. We get so caught up in the rush of the day, scanning the horizon for what we need, that we forget to look down. There is a whole other world waiting in the quiet spaces beneath our feet. Sometimes, the most honest version of a place isn’t the one standing tall in the sun, but the one shivering in the dark, still water. It is a reminder that everything has a twin, a hidden side that only reveals itself when the wind dies down and the surface stops trembling. If we could just learn to be still for a moment, what else might we see looking back at us from the depths?

Minh Nghia Le has captured this beautiful, quiet duality in the image titled Reflection. It feels like a secret conversation between the city and its own shadow. Does it make you want to stop and look a little closer at the ground today?