“I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.” Bill Withers
The windows of local residential flats as seen from a hallway near one of my classrooms (Daugavpils, Latvia)Side windows of a Stalin-era building along. November Street, one of our major thoroughfares here in Daugavpils, LatviaLooking north and west toward the Daugava River from my office in “The New Building,” at Daugavpils University. I hold lunchtime conversation classes here. (Daugavpils, Latvia)Looking out from a synagogue window. At the Green Synagogue (1845), one of the oldest wooden structures in the city of Rezekne, population 27,000. (Latvia)From the window of Tallinn’s oldest coffee shop, Cafe Maiasmokk (circa 1864). That’s the Russian Embassy across the street–note the protest paraphernalia. (Tallinn, Estonia)
Christmas window of shop in the Old Town. (Tallinn, Estonia)
Windows overlooking nuns. Location of the Vilnius Theater. (Vilnius, Lithuania)Artist Mark Rothko, born in Daugavpils, Latvia, stands near a window, shortly before his death. There is a marvelous art museum in his name here in Daugavpils.View from the window of a recently renovated flat in Daugavpils, LatviaWindows reflecting a brilliant Tallinn sunset. (Tallinn, Estonia)
Short Talks Through a Wide World 