But people who live with something every day can become so accustomed to it that they don't even see it.
Outsiders see our everyday world with fresh eyes.
And so it has been for my wife and me since our arrival in Bulgaria. One of the first things we noticed were the death notices. They are everywhere. Not in the newspaper, but in neighborhoods in every village and city we have been in. They are plastered to doors and walls all over town - much as we would post notices of a missing dog or cat throughout a neighborhood.