your relationship to winter is your relationship to cold is your relationship to darkness is your relationship to depth is your relationship to death is your relationship to spirituality
In the winter, we like to look out of the window and see snow, pure and white, making our experience of deadly cold air meaningful. If it must be cold, could we at least have snow? If I must shiver, might I at least look good in wool and argyle? If I must live in hell, I'll look for anything to convince me I'm alive. But in the winter, I'm not sure
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- In winter: Days get shorter, the air gets crisper, and something about that coziness can bring up deep emotions. It’s reflective, almost like the world is slowing down, and so are we.
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“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
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