Ratika Deshpande on the subject of windows

Short quote of a quote from Ratika Deshpande on the subject of windows, “How beautiful to have a window that offers such a view! Ruskin Bond, one of my all-time favorite authors, has a lot to say about windows. My copy of his Notes from a Small Room has three essays on windows. Here’s an excerpt (from an essay that’s not about windows)”:

“I have lived with these two windows for twenty-five years, and I haven’t tired of them. The view hasn’t changed, but the cloud patterns are never the same, the bird-song varies, so does the blue dome of the sky, which at night is like a tent of deep purple spangled all over. Some nights are dark, lit up only by glow-worms or fireflies. Other nights are bright, with the full moon coming up over the crest of the mountain and sending a moonbeam in at my window, over my bed and then across my desk to light up the face of the little laughing Buddha who reposes there.”