When we journey out to discover something, we do not always find what we wish or think we need. When the little boy in Laura E. Richards’s short story “The Golden Windows“ sets out to find gold and diamonds, he learns that one’s perspective and wonder for life is what is true and worthy.
The little boy lives in a house on a hill. Across from his house, there sits another house on another hill. This house is special because it has “windows of clear gold and diamonds” and, every evening, the windows glow and shine.
