Day #756 - Roses

Transience and Scarcity

We visited Mottisfont over the weekend, which is famed for it’s roses. Not all year round, but just for around two weeks in the early summer, which is when they all bloom.

It holds one of the National Plant Collections, of historic roses, which means those that have not been bred to flower all summer long. The result is spectacular, but also crowded. More than three thousand people. Everyone is packed into these two weeks, because it’s a time limited event.

It made me think about transience and scarcity.

In the Quiet Leadership work we pay particular attention to the changing of the seasons, recognising that these are not a time of loss, but of transition, and that everything is part of the circle: the storms, the sunshine, the leaf mold and the shoots.

Mottisfont could grow a garden that was resplendent through the long summer, but instead embraces the transience.

Use your sixty seconds today to consider something you hold onto, and something you easily let go.

Things, beliefs, doubts, connections, whatever it is, use it to consider how fixed or fluid your own leadership is.

I hope you had a great weekend.