As the leaves display a final blaze of glory before their return to the Earth- many societies celebrate the beginning of a New Year. How appropriate to celebrate that in every ending there is a new beginning.
Why then- when we know this are we all so afraid of endings and more specifically of change? Here once again, I return to the myth of Daphne and the Laurel Tree- which always reminds me to encounter rather than resist the challenges that life presents.
