About
HOW THIS WORK CAME TO BE
Mother Tree of Life grew from personal experience and a desire to bring more peace, meaning, and connection into everyday life.
This is the story of how it began.
Founder - Penny Barton
Mother Tree of Life creates simple tools that bring moments of peace, meaning, curiosity, and connection into everyday life. They offer personal grounding while encouraging care for one another, our communities, and the Earth. Nothing needs to be completed or kept up with. You can simply return whenever you need something steady.
I created this work to help strengthen connection—with ourselves, with one another, and with the living world we share.
For many years, I have been drawn to humanitarian and environmental efforts that restore dignity, encourage care, and support greater balance. Mother Tree of Life allows me to bring those values into daily life through simple, meaningful practices without pressure, perfection, or overwhelm.
This work also supports my own life by giving me greater freedom to choose when, where, and how I participate in the humanitarian projects closest to my heart. I believe meaningful change grows from genuine connection, personal experience, and thoughtful choices.
My hope is that these offerings meet you where you are. Choose one sentence or question and let it be enough. Small moments of awareness and care can create lasting change.
—Penny Barton
Founder, Mother Tree of Life
The spirit of this work eventually found its way into music as well, becoming the Mother Tree of Life theme song, “7 Days, One Light.”
If you would ever like to reach out, you are welcome to send a message.
mothertreeoflife@mothertreeoflife.org
The Mother Tree of Life
She has stood through ages
that had no names.
Her roots remember what we forget—
that all life is connected,
and nothing stands alone.
She does not hurry.
She does not demand.
She offers shade without asking who arrives beneath her.
In her trunk lives endurance.
In her branches, possibility.
In her quiet presence, a steady knowing
that growth does not need force to be real.
The Mother Tree of Life is not a destination.
She is a companion.
A place to rest your attention.
A place to return when the world feels loud
or the path feels unclear.
She holds the seasons without judgment—
beginnings and endings,
stillness and motion,
what is visible
and what is quietly becoming.
The Wheel and Calendar are invitation’s
to walk the year in her company.
To move gently.
To listen more deeply.
To remember that even small moments
are part of something vast and living.
May her presence remind you
that you are rooted,
you are connected,
and you are never walking alone.