Sara Long

I see elegant, stylish, intelligent people on our socials, in our reviews, our inboxes, and out & about – pretty hands, lush as rose petals and gleaming with gems, collars encircled with glimmering solid gold, locks of hair tucked lovingly behind ears adorned with the apotropaic Medusa. It’s equal parts exciting and staggering to see Common Era in the wild, and hearing your voices is nothing short of inspiring.

Persephone is, being that deathless goddess of waxing spring and waning autumn, a symbol of renewal. After Orpheus, son of Calliope and uncommonly talented musical savant, lost his nymph bride Eurydice to a fatal snakebite, his search for her (for love, for meaning, for justice) led him beyond the lands of the living into those fog-shrouded, blue-gray meadows of Asphodel. Over the Styx and past the banks of fiery Acheron, he supplicated to Persephone for the years stolen from his wife.

“...being virtuous is more than having a particular habit of acting, e.g. generosity. Rather, it means having a fundamental set of related virtues that enable a person to live and act morally well." James F Keenan, Proposing Cardinal Virtues, Theological Studies, 1995 Hello my muses! If you have been following our history for the last two and a half years, you may know me as your Poet-in-Residence, Sara Long.