Sorrow prepares you for joy

ons day 6 - self portrait

“Sorrow prepares you for joy.
It violently sweeps everything out of your house,
so that new joy can find space to enter.
It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,
so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
It pulls up the rotten roots,
so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart,
far better things will take their place.”
-Rumi

[Taffy]

This is so creative and so powerful of an image.

[livvy]

Wow! Awesome!

[Graeme Stevens]

Awesome. That is all.

[Catherine]

Amazing Kali! And the narrative is so powerful and profound

[Katterina ❥]

FAV*)

[Ethel]

Fav

[Lisa]

Wow... Awesome work! Big Fav!

[Trinda Love]

wowie! awesome is right, FAV

[Pam Knowler]

So clever and creative!

[Robyn]

Very clever and creative. Fav

[emily tull]

fab

[Jasper]

Very powerful.

[Joan Robillard]

Great illustration of these poem.

[belinda]

Fabulous shot!

[Daweenie]

A disturbing shot that I keep looking at, trying to absorb every detail to gather a complete story. Beautiful quote.

[Anita Russell]

Very good, did you manage to get my get pushed challenge done?

[Bill Fenske]

Fav, what a wonderful concept, so well executed. Fabulous quote too.

[alta]

So clever!

[Joan Robillard]

Kali I am your get-pushed partner this week. I started following you because your pictures add a little spice to my feed. So I am calling on that for my challenge. I can't remember if I ever knew where you are from but in the States we celebrate Thanksgiving this week. SO I want you to use the theme "giving thanks" and your special brand of creativity.

[Krista Marson]

I love reading Rumi. Good choice of words and love the creative imagery.

[iCamera]

Very creative composite, interesting!

[kali]

@joansmor that will be lovely thankyou, there I started already ;-)

[kali]

@blueberry1222 I didn't 'get' him until this year, now every word he says rings a deep note in my soul :)

[kali]

@taffy @livvy @graemestevens @_catherine_ @katerinatina @ethelperry @lisatown @trinda @pamknowler @flyrobin @houdiniem @jasperc @adayinmallacoota @joansmor @daweenie @bill_fe @altadc @icamera thnakyou, the concept came before the poem, but I knew Rumi would have something to say that would be perfect, he says it better than I could have :)

[Wendy Bowden]

Beautiful concept

[Stephanie Swift]

Very clever and effective.

[Ukandie!]

So creative and thought provoking. Feel free to mock me and my feeble efforts of a selfie all you like :) You rock!

[Richard Sayer]

Whoo, this is clever and very believably done. Excellent work Kali.

[☠northy]

beautiful concept... and powerfully evocative...

[Sally Ings]

So creative, a very powerful shot and such a poignant quote. Fav

[Saxa van Eijnsbergen]

Powerful, great poem too!

[Jocasta]

Wonderfully creative and clever photo. Brilliant.

[Sandi]

Great idea!

[Wendy]

It must have been fate that had me stop in today... I should come read this every morning for the next month.... love the shot... love the creativity.... bravo Kali, bravo.