Katherine May reads an excerpt from Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times...

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 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...

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty I have heard it said that joy is a decision. That makes sense to me in the way we find what we look for. Taking an excursion can mean m...