Good morning, Bom dia, Boker tov and Shabbat Shalom to all!It’s winter.I want to say welcome to the new month, new season but I don’t like winter so it’s hard to feel celebratory.I want to write about waking up in a dark and cold (two things I dislike tremendously) and feeling exhausted.I want to write about the anger, pain and fear we all been feeling for the last two months.I want to write about the barrage of negative news that has turned into an exhausting tsunami.But do I want to add to all that negative aura that seems to permeate the very air we breathe?It’s Shabbat and for us it’s a day of rest.A day to take a break from the world and enjoy the little things, the things that don’t make the news and don’t count in a great scheme of things but count to us.Little things that comprise our lives.Yes, those things.Shabbat is the day to recharge your energy!Shabbat is the day to look around and be grateful for family and friends.For love and support we share and show each other.Let’s be grateful for food and shelter, and for myriad of reasons to get up every day, and for little banal things that in reality are big and important because they are happening to us, to me, to you.They matter!So I chose this artwork to share with you today.The Tree of Life.This artwork is round and quite big.I already know that I like to create vertical rather then horizontal pieces but looking through the photos on my phone I was struck by how many of my artworks are round.It started as a sketch for a stained glass project. Which means it started as large shapes of colour (just a nature of stained glass) and then it became a project onto itself.I took a pen and started to break large spaces into little details (papercutter in me 😇) and the little details gave it life.Life (word at the bottom under the roots) and Grace (above) are the most important, most Jewish elements of all.So in my meandering way I come to the point.Don’t get tired and discouraged by the world at large. We live in the world.We are all part of this whole big circle…little stitches in a great tapestry!But don’t forget that each of us is unique and one of a kind special being.Be grateful for who you are, for the unique contribution YOU make to the whole.Every life is a grace and every one of us matters!You matter!Shabbat Shalom everyone 🖖#JewishLivesMatter #amisraelchai #mothersforisrael #BringThemHomeNow #jewishart #jewishartist #judaicaart #jewishwoman #womanartist #judaicaartist