{"id":3190,"date":"2013-01-30T02:06:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T02:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2013-01-30T02:06:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T02:06:41","slug":"daily-prompt-through-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"Daily Prompt:  Through the window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Go to the nearest window. Look out for a full minute. Write about what you saw.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have to get off my chair for this prompt;\u00a0 the nearest window is twelve inches from the back of my computer screen.\u00a0 Or rather it&#8217;s a bank of windows which &#8216;look&#8217;, as they say, onto the front yard and the street.\u00a0 But I look, and I can&#8217;t see much of either.\u00a0 In a full minute, I see a small green forest, a patchwork of trees, some planted by us, others by nature.\u00a0 Leaves of diverse shapes sway in a light breeze.\u00a0 To the right are seven-lobed maple leaves and conventional one-lobed leaves of an unidentified shade tree which made its home where carnations once grew.\u00a0 To the left, three rich green ash trees grow up beyond the roof.\u00a0 The blue-grey needles of the spruce provide the only contrast, its branches inversely arching as it towers into the sky, blending with the blue heavens where today there&#8217;s no sign of fires or storms.\u00a0 A good day.\u00a0 From a small drawer beside the window, I take out a camera to photograph the scene and a black currawong flies into the frame and sits on a branch, keeping his eye on me.\u00a0 I move to get a better view of him but he doesn&#8217;t trust me and jumps to another branch, then another, and flies away.<\/p>\n<p>In this full minute I neither saw nor heard another human.\u00a0 But now, as I write, toddlers are squealing and mothers chatting in the flats opposite.\u00a0 Always a comforting sound, like a promise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/30\/daily-prompt-through-the-window\/view_from_front_window\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3194\" alt=\"View_from_front_window\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/view_from_front_window.jpg\" width=\"1843\" height=\"1382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/view_from_front_window.jpg 3072w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/view_from_front_window-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/view_from_front_window-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/view_from_front_window-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/view_from_front_window-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to the nearest window. Look out for a full minute. Write about what you saw. 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