Creative midwinter is a ripe time for planting seeds like this, because while we can use this in-between month as a moment to breathe, a moment to percolate on things, it doesn’t mean not doing anything. Just like rest does not solely mean sleeping and taking naps (although, how nice does that sound?), creative rest doesn’t mean putting all the

It’s a month for allowing half-baked ideas to stay half-baked for just a little longer, to remove the pressure of needing to make any concrete decisions about them, or making a plan for how to bring them into the world.

In other words, it’s not a month of launching, it’s a month of ruminating. A month to hibernate, marinate, percolate.

we tell ourselves that, sure, the dead of winter is when we’ll finally pull off dreams we claimed to have no time or energy for last spring, when all the flowers were blooming and butterflies were practically landing right on our heads. None of it makes a bit of sense.