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Jennifer Searls

Window Thinking

It’s not always easy to tell the difference between looking out the window and thinking.

Wallace Stevens

When our family moved to Anchorage ten years ago, we rented a house with a west-facing wall of windows and a wide, unobstructed view across the Cook Inlet to the Alaska Range beyond. From those windows I watched seasons come and go and come again. The dramatic patterns of change were easy to see and to track through those windows and I learned a lot about Alaska that way. I started this blog back then and I called it Window Thinking because as I sat at my computer, looking out through those fabulous windows…..that is exactly what I was doing. A decade gone by and I no longer sit at those particular windows, but I am window thinking still.

The window is a form
of consciousness, pattern
of formed sense
through which to look
into the world
that is a pattern too….

Wendell Berry, Window Poems



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