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1054: A winter tree that looks dead, but inside new energy, new strength

Day 1054: Friday, February 3, 2023

A winter tree that looks dead, but inside new energy, new strength, soon ready for the burst of new life in Spring.



I always loved this tree image, that I call “Balance of Life” and I want to share the words that came to me, looking at it. I am curious about what comes up for you,


Balance of Life

A reflection ____ ghostly roots

Balance of the seen and the unseen

Family tree with many branches

Mystery of the past life

All connected

The present, the past and the future

It is like it is and like it is not.


- By Hermine Glaser



A winter tree that looks dead, but inside new energy, new strength, soon ready for the burst of new life in Spring.


I took the photo in New York City’s Central Park, when I lived in Manhattan for 5 1/2 years in the 1970’s


I transformed the black into white and pasted the two opposites together in the darkroom at the Grail Conference Center upstate New York, where I was on staff for 2 1/2 years.


The Grail is an international lay women’s movement, which started in 1921 at a Catholic University in Holland, to heal the world by focusing on women and children.



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