After the wintry pain,     And the long, long sorrow,  Sing, heart!—for thee again    Joy comes with the morrow.From "After the Winter Rain" by Ina Donna Coolbrith I am thinking about "Winte...

In those depths of stillness and doing, living and dying, we see what we are capable of, what we can and cannot control—and we rest. Then, we return with something more valuable, and perhaps more innately practical: the next version of ourselves. I...

We must learn to invite the winter in. That is what this book is about: learning to recognise the process, engage with it mindfully, even to cherish it. We may never choose to winter, but we can choose how.”Katherine May as quoted in Kate Kalloway'...

In so many stories and fables that shape us, cold and snow, the closing in of the light — these have deep psychological, as much as physical, reality. This is “wintering,” as the English writer Katherine May illuminates in her beautiful, medita...