Evergreen
A story of growth 🌲
Hello there!
Last week, we wrapped up our latest season of Dandelion Seeds. It was a season to honor new seasons — in the natural world, and in our lives.
Here’s a look back at everything it held:
Four new illustrated essays, which I ultimately wove together into this anthology for spring
Our third community edition of Dandelion Seeds, How We Tell Time
And a special daffodil art download for paid subscribers.
Or rather, I thought we had wrapped up our latest season — but then, the very next day after I published last week’s post, I took a walk here in Antwerp and found another moment of inspiration waiting for me.
It seems spring still had one more story to tell, which I’m thinking of as an epilogue to the series of new essays I’ve loved sharing with you these past few weeks.
This, my friends, is Evergreen.
With love,
Candace
So much unfolds in this story, Candace. Old self evolves into new self, but really it’s oddly reversed. The newest incarnation of us is our oldest self, in terms of time passing. “The child is the father of the man,” says Wordsworth. We couldn’t evolve into who we are now, if it weren’t for who we were when we were younger. All those “mistakes” and naive notions helped to build our wiser beings. And yet, we would do well to hang on to the best parts of our younger selves as we grow along. Hopefully we can keep honing our skills by using the tools of youth, such as curiosity, wonder, and appreciation, to help us stay open to change. I love the image of bright green needles arranged neatly beside dark green to represent the experiences of our lives. This is a very wise tree that can teach us so much about how to live. Thank you for using your wonder-full tools to share it with us!
Beautiful. I can see this as a textile wall art piece!