Home is a Window Seat
Stories of perspective.
Hello there! And welcome to Dandelion Seeds, an illustrated newsletter that’s hand-painted and hand-lettered, from my desk to yours.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve loved taking a close look at the beauty of spring, and all that it has to teach us; from the first crocus shoots of the season, to the branches of a Deodar cedar tree, where new needles grow right next to the old.
Now, what do you say we zoom out a little?
One of my favorite ways to get a fresh sense of perspective is to get on a plane. This story is called “Home is a Window Seat,” and it’s the first illustrated essay I ever created for Dandelion Seeds. It’s officially been a year since I published it last April, and today feels like a perfect moment to share it again.
There’s a different kind of beauty found at 30,000 feet — what we might call big-picture beauty. I love how it can remind us of how vast the world is, and even more, how it can reconnect us with our own larger journey through life.
See you up in the air,
Candace
Thanks so much for these beautiful odes to window seats! I am 100% a window seat person. I also take photos out the window to make art in my art journal. One of my favorites is fields with center pivot irrigation circles 😁
That was such a beautiful read - the illustrations perfectly in tune with the words.
I'm not sure what seat I prefer anymore as I am tired of planes, crowds and travel and having found our quiet (mostly) niche on a tiny piece of the Australian coast, my perspective comes from tides and seasons, from the growing intellect of my little grandson, of the way my son has approached an horrendous medical diagnosis and grown with it to become the man he is today. And from my husband, whose quiet surefootedness leads us as no one else could.
It's enough...