When I took this photo, I didn’t realize Maria was in it, she stood with her eyes closed reflecting for a moment on the beauty of the morning. I was actually look towards the sun, hanging in the sky to the right. I didn’t know she had her eyes closed, but it gave the photograph a soft and meditative feel, a Glory Of God photo. Curious, I’ve taken this photo from the vantage point a million times, but this picture makes me feel as if I had not ever seen it before. Seeing the world anew, the  unseen world.

Traces of light, sparks of a kind. Says the Kabbalah: “You should aim to raise these sparks hidden throughout the world, elevating them to holiness by the power of the soul.”