Windows
“A Window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.”—Saul Leiter, artist and photographer.
California Sunset Amber Elkover
“View From My Window” is a social media group that calls me out of bed each morning as I long to refocus my life from more than the world outside my own window. Stunning photography from all over the world enlarges my connection to universal beauty from Europe, Africa, South America, Australia, Canada and other parts of North America. Flowers of every possible species, forests, elephants, bobcats, oceans, tidal pools, mountain ranges, snow in Austin, Texas, northern lights in Iceland and Alaska, wake me up each morning to beauty beyond my normal vision.
My experience is that being in or seeing nature is one of my best ways of connecting to God. Each morning I take a visual journey into the presence of creation in all its splendor beyond the bounds of my own home to someone else’s view that I will most probably never meet. Each morning I see a part of the beauty of the outdoors that I would have never seen in my lifetime. From time to time I share the view outside of my window of woodpeckers and cardinals and Carolina chickadees, and blue jays who visit the feeder beyond my large floor to ceiling window in my office.
My favorite view, however, is when my granddaughter comes by with a dog she is walking to wave and say hello, or when my daughter leaves taped outside my window a colorful “I love you” hand drawn message with lots of hearts.
During this year long pandemic, I have rarely left my house. The view from my window where I spend most of the day is my connection to the outside world. I am so fortunate that my view encompasses a great deal of nature where Parker Palmer tells us that the plants photosynthesize our nervous energy into a peace passing understanding.
Now I connect to the window views of people all over the world who are experiencing the same, and who are led to respond by sharing their windows.
Joanna joannaseibert.com