I've recently returned from a 10-day trip to England with my older sister. We rented a car and braved the roads to visit Cornwall, Devon, Dartmour, and the Cotswolds. Some of the highlights were meeting Larkin, a Harris's hawk, on the streets of Holsworthy; seeing The Rites of Dionysus installation at The Eden Project; and wandering the Lost Gardens of Heligan.

These are the Greek medicinal herbs I reach for most often when First Aid or acute health issues arise…

Oh, the famous “Mountain Tea”; every Greek villager seems to know the power of this herb! Also known in English as Ironwort or in Greek as τσάι του βουνού, this herb is high in antioxidants and is traditionally drunk as a tea to support…

Music accompanied most, if not all, rites of passage, communal events, and private life in ancient Greece. Here is an introduction to a few of the most well-known and important instruments of the ancient Greek world, including their myths and origin stories — the gods, places, and plants that were connected to the sounds of the ancient landscape.

I recorded this last October, when the Bees were pollinating the Ivy and the Pomegranates were ripe on the tree.

The lyre, kithara, aulos, frame drum…ancient instruments that create a sound so earthen, it makes the hairs on my arms stand on end.
Here is a curated selection of modern artists playing the ancient Greek sounds, as well as modern interpretations of the ancient Greek songs.

The Narcissus are blooming in the garden, and so today’s post is dedicated to the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Their myth is one of my favorites — a meditation on desire, numbness, and reflections. Like many artists, I’m a bit fascinated by the concept of witnessing as explored in the myth: what it means to see and be seen, the way our hearts seek for mirroring in our Beloveds. Below you’ll find a curated collection of music playlists, self-portraiture, poetry, a podcast episode, and plant profile — all celebrating the theme of self-love, narcissism, mirroring, and the story of the beautiful youth who transformed into a flower beside a reflecting pool — and the nymph whose obsession with him led to her dissolution.

October 2023 and all the Pomegranate fruits are dead. By dead, I mean eaten; devoured by a creature, perhaps bird, perhaps squirrel, perhaps Persephone herself. They hung on the tree, hollow and rotting. I picked them all — as if they’d been ripe — and peered into the basket. It seemed fitting that…

I was recently called to lead a Wine meditation during a Harvest ceremony. Ironically, I’m not much of a drinker. In fact, I’ve never even been drunk.

I will be the first to admit that I am prone to dramatics. I love to embellish a story, especially one that involves me doing anything even remotely “sporty.” And yet I am being totally honest when I say my hike on Mount Olympus was perhaps one of the most physically and emotionally demanding hikes I’ve done in the past ten years.

The short answer: Sweden. The long answer: 2022 marked my 7-year anniversary of…

I know this blog is about Greece, but I wanted to share some photos with you from my time abroad in Sweden…

As I was doing research for the Cypress materia mythica, I came across these articles…

Learn the difference between the most common evergreen conifers of the mythic Greek landscape: the Pine, Spruce, Fir, and Cypress. Then we’ll look at a few other evergreens that you might come across in the Mediterranean (like the Juniper, Strawberry Tree, Yew, and more). And of course, along the way, we’ll touch on the myths, gods, and goddesses that are sacred to each of them.

In the summer of 2021, in two weeks alone, wildfires burned over 100,000 hectares of land across Greece, including the island of Evia, areas of Attica, the Peloponnese, and northern Greece. Wildfires of this magnitude seem to be, from the research I’ve been doing, completely avoidable. But are all wildfires "bad"?