Looking for Treasure in the Everyday
January 18, 2013
Dawn at Green Lake with dock
The Everyday
by Ursula Le Guin, from Finding My Elegy
First light. The arc of the old moon was rising
in a windy dawn that quickly grew behind it.
Silver-bright at first, it dimmed and thinned
’till it was lost in a vast radiance.
What happens everyday is what’s surprising.
The treasure’s never where I look to find it
but where I simply look — the sky, the wind,
sunrise, a silver arc, the moment’s chance.
Dawn with picnic table
The vast radiance of a winter sunrise
Sunrise with blurred jogger
January 20, 2013 at 2:09 am
A beautiful post – thank you!
January 20, 2013 at 10:05 am
That photo of the blogger is superb. With the focus on the jogger, it would have been (dare I say) pedestrian. This photo’s mysterious, evocative, thought-provoking.