The photo albums on my computer are filled with views, many of them breathtaking but most of them only temporary, a scene enjoyed for a few minutes before, in our busy lives, we moved on to something else. This is an example, Dinosaur National Park in southeastern Alberta, where we only spent part of a day and which deserved so much longer.
To be special, a view doesn't have to be of things natural. This panorama is seen across the rooftops of Florence but, again, we only stayed a few minutes up the bell tower before we went in search of other quickly-savoured pleasures.
Occasionally we've fortunate enough to enjoy a view for a few days. This one is seen from a room at the small resort hotel of Lazy Lagoon to the north of Dar-es-Salaam where we stayed twice, each time for only a few days though we would love to have stayed forever.
It is, therefore, a great privilege, one for which we should be deeply thankful, to have spent some of our lives living with a view, day in and day out, watching it but never allowing familiarity to dim its wonder.
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