How to Be Astonished by a Windowpane

In this poem we uses light, glass, and shadow to embody the miraculous clarity that emerges when we are truly present.

The ordinary is the only place where the miraculous can hide." This poem, "How to Be Astonished by a Windowpane," is an invitation to pause. What have you overlooked today? Stop rushing past the grace. ☀️

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The secret is to not be looking for the spectacular, the news, the coast, or any view you’d label “worth it.

Instead, choose a stillness near a pane where light is merely doing its work, a common, unadvertised afternoon.

You will see how the dust, when held by sun, is suddenly an unmapped galaxy, a silent, shifting, golden cloud. You will see the shadow of a wire that does not waver, a thin, perfect line cast across the table’s grain.

The ordinary is the only place where the miraculous can hide. It waits inside the steam of coffee, in the tiny, geometric crack that runs through plaster, an ancient map.

Your whole heart is required to perceive that nothing needs to change at all for the world to offer everything. We were only rushing past the grace.