Parting the Veil

Steven Homestead

Digital Photography

At the edge of a lake in Colorado, I stepped under the bending canopy of a golden tree and into a glowing halo, instantly surrounded as heaven met earth and earth reflected heaven. Through Christ-like leaves—ever more beautiful in their dying—golden light fell down, only to be resurrected upward by water, to touch again the luminous leaves. Let us learn from the gold of the trees, trees that we say are “fading” even as they become more vibrant. And like them, let us get caught at the edge in a swirling illumination of ceasing and becoming.