Succulent Sunday: A Lesson of Humility

Photo by Meg Boscov

[Editor’s Note: This ongoing Sunday feature pairs photographs from Meg Boscov with a thought (or two) from the managing editor about focusing on tiny things to find something significant. Click on the picture itself to view at full size.]

 

 

It’s Passover, and there’s so many things we might pass over in our daily lives, tiny things that, when focused upon, reveal the largeness of life.

 

As Charles Glassman said, “Passover is the story of the liberation of body and spirit. In it comes a lesson of humility that belief in something larger than ourselves…can free us from the bondage of our primitive instincts and those of others.” Is it perhaps an attention to the “tiny” that shows our belief in something larger? That is this Sunday’s question from the succulents.

 

♥

 

Meg Boscov lives and works outside of Philadelphia where she continues to pursue her careers in animal-assisted education & dog training, along with her burgeoning interests in photography & gardening.

 

 

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