It’s Thanksgiving week and most of us will gather this Thursday to count our blessings and offer thanks to God "from Whom all blessings flow.”

In giving thanks, it’s easy to remember the extraordinary things in life—promotions, luxuries, home, family, and friends. But there’s much to be said about the extraordinarily ordinary things of life.

Gerard Manley Hopkins gives us an example of praise for the ordinary. And this week Wyoming Catholic College president, Dr. Glenn Arbery discusses Hopkin’s poem, “Pied Beauty.”