Each season of life brings both joy and pain. Exciting new opportunities replace old, dear traditions; grief can polish the best, richest parts of our character. Just as the tide rises and falls, the bitter and the sweet in life balance each other, give each other purpose and meaning.

This piece was created with ash, symbolizing the beauty that can come from loss and sorrow. Even amid our lamentations, there is a seed of beauty. We may not recognize it immediately, but with time, pain fades to something gentler, more refined, even lovely- and we are all the more able to cherish it for the deep water we passed through to find it.

- Bobbi Jo

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