Photo: Kathryn Cameron
This is my second response to this week’s photo-challenge. However, I post it not for me but in memory of the photographer who’d taken it, Kathryn Cameron. This week marks five years since her passing and she is deeply missed by all who knew her. I know she’s thought of every single day.
Kathryn had sent me this photo of Swiss Chard from that day’s Farmer’s Market haul. She was washing the greens and something about that leaf’s structure and composition led her to position it on the window-sill and photograph it.
Beyond the stunning beauty of this natural masterpiece of leaf, I remember finding the pink veins as somehow representative of the tenacious carriers of both nutrients and chemotherapy inside Kathryn, who at the time was battling a recurrence of the cancer that would not long after take her life. The vibrant green and light shining through mirrored Kathryn’s indomitable spirit and her love of nature and all growing, flowering, living things. The leaf, placed against the sky, became a miniature Tree of Life, the manifestation of her loving heart and dedication to healing pain and trauma, offering succor, and living as a compassionate soul upon this earth. Now in the beyond.
This post is for you, Kathryn.
I love you more.
Na'ama Yehuda 
Hi Na’ama, I just read this online. The photo is lovely, and I’m partial to rainbow chard, but I know your being is feeling very tender right now, remembering Kathryn and her love for you, her illness and her death. I just wanted to let you know you’re in my loving thoughts right now.
Love you, Shielagh
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Thank you, my friend. Kathryn was special, and I’m glad to have this tribute to her. Anyone she’d met loved her. A real gift to this world, she was, still is, though the memories that live in her friends and those who knew her through our stories. xoxo
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Beautiful photography and a wonderful tribute. Thank you for sharing. ⚘⚘⚘
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Thank you. Yes, Kathryn was a gifted photographer–it was her first vocation before she found yet another way to heal people. I was fortunate to know her and am richer for the friendship we’d had.
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A beautiful tribute to your friend and the image as a tree of life is very moving 💜 xxx
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Thank you, whippetwisdom! 🙂 Kathryn loved the Tree Of Life concept and healing potential … I’m so glad you stopped by and commented. xoxo
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How wonderful you felt the pull of that time and memorialized it here and now. You and she were blessed to share such a friendship. But you knew that!
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Thank you, Sunny! How amazing that you came across this today, again, when it is coming right close to the anniversary of her passing (next week). She was a gift to all who knew her. Certainly a great gift to me!
Thank you for being a friend!
XOXO
Na’ama
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