Generations that shared a view of life

÷ Sir — As I sat looking out of the window on a silent Covid Saturday morning, enjoying the full flavour of my coffee in a sunny pastoral setting, I thought about my grandfather, his grandfather and his grandfather, all of whom looked out on the same view that I now embraced.

I wondered what they enjoyed on a Saturday morning: a mug of warm milk fresh from the cow perhaps, or a newly laid egg freshly boiled. Surely, each one of them, of each generation, had a special moment in the week when they just sat there and absorbed their abundant environment. They did not need a coronavirus to open their eyes to those moments. James Harnett, Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick