Wintering

“When you start tuning in to winter, you realise that we live through a thousand winters in our lives – some big, some small …Some winters creep up on us so slowly that they have infiltrated every part of our lives before we truly feel them …

We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.” 

Katherine May

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times