Gritty thinking

This is a picture of Michigan Avenue in Chicago, as seen from underneath. It's a great street, but pretty gritty down below. Down below there's rust and grime and smells that you don't really want to smell.

And an amazing canal that turns out to be a river once you get out from under the bridge. A river with old pilings, ancient buildings, and then new buildings and suddenly an outlet into Lake Michigan. It's quite wonderful.

But don't lose your head. Underneath Michigan Avenue it's pretty gritty. The bottom side is just the bottom side. The canal that turns into a river does that all by itself, as do we all.