Action 6: Look out the window until you find something of beauty you had not noticed before

Window-Gazing at the Folger

Window: Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library

 

These windows are miracles:

organizing the sky into squares 

and rectangles

of stained-glass blue,

contained in silver tracery:

a glass geometry,

a forever joy.

Order.

My living room window frames

other wonders: 

streets full of peaceful

homes, paved roads,

brick lined paths for 

people walking dogs,

pushing strollers,

patterns for movement.

Order.

An inestimable blessing to

live in this window of calm

on this clockwork planet,

in an unfinished utopia ready

for assembly, ready for our hands,

ready for the Architect

of all order.

[Action 7: Give 5 items of clothing to Goodwill.]