Omer Meaning today is Tiferet Hesed
Tiferet is the value of compassion, beauty and balance. Hesed is love...so basically it is about the love of beauty...
My day started out taking dad to the vets for a blood draw and meeting with his new doctor. New beginnings and new relationships start. I thought about the venous system of our body and the venous system of a tree..especially now as the sap flows for spring.
This evening I was at the puppet theater which is like a busy bee hive as we get ready for the parade in a few weeks.
There at the back of the old theater is a huge Tree of Life... it is made of papier mache..birds fly around the large sculpted head of the proud puppet that has been raised in the park for over 35 years..It is a spring ritual here. Work has started onthe great parade made of so many small and wonderful creative efforts and then culminates at the park. No matter what the weather, or the public ritual after the sun is rowed across the lake from the island in Powderhorn Lake...As the Tree of Life is raised to the song of You are My sunshine at the end of the ritual. it is always moving and beautiful...the sun has come out many times at that moment after a cloudy day.
The old Kabbalists had their distinct and defined notions of what a tree of life is and exactly how it should be studied. I have my beloved tree with it;'s tangle of limbs right next to my house...and in the old theater and soon in the park we have this huge symbolic Tree of Life that is...as the puppeteer's on stilts call out every spring..Yes..it is here for everyone.
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