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Elaine Mansfield writes with a strong sense of place and an intimate connection to nature in her forthcoming memoir. Her writing reflects her 40 years as a student of Jungian psychology, mythology, philosophy, and meditation. Elaine facilitates bereavement support groups for people who have lost spouses or partners.
Elaine Mansfield Blog
3w ago
“That night, you turn in your bed to watch the moon rise, and once more see what a small coin it is against the darkness, and how everything else is a mystery, and you know nothing at all except the moonlight is beautiful – white rivers running together along the bare boughs of the trees […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
2M ago
I honor the winged Goddess Psyche, Greek Goddess of Soul and Butterflies, and all other Deities with wings who visited my land in 2024. Beloved Monarch Butterflies were scarce last season. May they get help and thrive again. Monarchs were just put on the Endangered Species List, so I hope this will help save their […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
2M ago
Awake at 7 am. November snow, wet and heavy, Dark face on the electric clock. No electric power today. Pine branches bow to Kiss the cold white earth. Graceful curving limbs break under The burden of wet snow. I cancel appointments and wait, Snow is too heavy for me to shovel. Electric poles and trees […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
2M ago
They disagreed about most everything. The right food to feed a baby. The best card game. How much a woman ought to weigh and whether or not she should wear a whalebone corset and stockings even in August heat. Whether she should sit by the pool at the country club or work in the garden […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
3M ago
I awaken with pale pink light flooding the eastern windows, illuminating the spruce and pine treetops in the National Forest. I pull a pillow over my head and float between waking and dreaming as I resist this post-election world. My dog Disco lies on top of the blankets pressing her black sleek body against my […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
3M ago
I cling to the calmness of nature’s autumn departure in these agitated times of elections and war. It isn’t easy, but I repeatedly bring myself back to the beauty surrounding me. We’re having an unusually dry autumn in the NY Finger Lakes, but no violent weather. The days are gentle and soft. Of course it […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
4M ago
I haven’t been on this trail all summer and didn’t plan to walk so far from home today. The trail marks the border between my land and the National Forest and occasionally there are hunters here, but not this early in the season. Today I don’t hear one human sound except my own footsteps and […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
4M ago
Brilliant and beautiful, Elaine Mansfield’s essay, “Wild Nights: Grief Dreams, Mythology, and the Inner Marriage,” delves into the depths of sorrow through the lens of dreams, mythology and poetry. Her work, which won first place in the C.G. Jung in the Heartland writing competition, explores the powerful emotions and spiritual journey that accompany the loss […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
5M ago
Good morning, my beautiful migrator. I see your orange wings through your black chrysalis shell. Are you ready to fly today? In the nursery in a mesh butterfly crate, your friends are eclosing from their chrysalises and getting ready to fly. They were the last to join the nursery and they’ll be the last to […]
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Elaine Mansfield Blog
6M ago
Will I always remember your laughter? Will I remember the dancing? Will you visit in dreams? We met in a motorcycle shop. I was in love, but you were afraid. We grilled sandwiches, Drank wine, and smoked Mexican pot. Your resistance vanished like smoke in the wind. I was 22 and you […]
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