Quote of the Day (Mary Oliver, on ‘Small, Available Things’)

“I am scorched

to realize once again

how many small, available things

are in this world

that aren’t pieces of gold

or power."— Mary Oliver, “Summer Story,” in Red Bird (2009)

I took the picture accompanying this post at Harbourtown in Hilton Head, S.C.

(Thanks to my friend Gretel DeRuiter for bringing the poet Mary Oliver to my attention.)