Winter
While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me. The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Learning the soulcraft of seasonal healing can bring new depth to our journey toward Wholeness.
Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of
... See moreKatherine May • Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Wintering brings about some of the most profound and insightful moments of our human experience, and wisdom resides in those who have wintered.