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As I spend the last days of summer here in Greece, the pomegranate seems to be everywhere, alluding to Persephone’s annual journey to the Underworld. They are ripening on trees in my aunt’s yard, they are hanging with bells from tourist shops, they are speaking to me with bittersweet memories of childhood. As a little…

“We must find out how to get everything back into connection with everything else. We must resist the vice of intellectualism, and get it understood that we cannot only understand” – Carl Jung (1959) Many of us go about our lives, crossing off to do lists, being our best self, planning the next thing. We…

Today, as I look out my office window here at Ruscombe Mansion, admiring the graceful lines of the tree below, I am surprised as dry leaves begin to flutter and take flight. These are not leaves! Gathered above, in perfect stillness, had been a host of birds sharing the afternoon with me. With unfocused eyes,…

I am always amazed at how we can see our lives reflected in nature. Everywhere I look I see bright green, bursting with beauty and life, surrounded by the brown, the dry, and the dead. So, too, are we. Moving with purpose into new growth, and at the same time witnessing parts that no longer…

If I were to explore cultivating happiness, many things would come to mind. Gratitude. Awareness. Connection. And curiosity. Sometimes living with what you don’t know can be very hard. At times like this, shifting into curiosity lightens up the heaviness so that possibility can enter. Where in your life can you shift towards curiosity?