Taylor Tippett is a Washington, D.C.-based flight attendant and the force behind the project Words From the Window Seat .

It started about a year ago with a single note, reading "Be Kind To Yourself," that Tippett stuck to a passenger's window. The message came to her when she was sitting in the back of an empty plane preparing for an early flight, thinking deeply about her life and the sunrise outside the plane's windows. Up until that point, she said, she had been hard on herself as she nursed a recent heartbreak. It was time to move past that, she realized.