The Seekers – Stuart Segall

“A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.” — Carl Joe Burns I have been the boy on the ground looking and longing upward at the plane. And I have often been looking out the window of the plane. Here are thoughts on longing, perspective, and the way desire bends toward what we don’t have. This is so simple, and yet so real to most people.The child, rooted in the soil and what once was the simplicity of rural life, looks up and sees possibility: the sky, major movement, the speed, or, for others, the escape. The plane is not just metal and ...