Eye behind the Window on the Lake

This book is different. Quirky. Non-generic. It is informal literature. It is a collection of e-mails. A half a decade ago, Dagny and Richard had their kitchen refreshed. Awed by the lake-view from the kitchen, the construction crew took its meals on the Wilcox's back deck, overlooking the lake; the crew was into wildlife. After the crew completed the job and left, Richard started e-mailing the crew anything that seemed interesting on the lake. Most of the e-mail entries are of the view out the Wilcox kitchen window, the window on the lake. Although Richard set out to journal bird behavior, the e-mails developed personality in the creatures and commentary on the human species; the lake denizens became characters with character; Richard was learning to write. Going unnoticed until pulling the e-mails together into this book, was that the e-mails also illuminated the eye behind the window on the lake. Reporting on the world without inducing anxiety, the e-mails are laid-back, warm, sometimes witty, low in drama, appreciative of creation and creation's creatures, relaxing, sometimes poetic, and best of all: the e-mails are short. Ah. A perfect bathroom book.