How to Savor Winter: A Century-Old Poetic Recipe for Bliss in the Bleakest Season
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Author: Maria Popova
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Full Title: How to Savor Winter: A Century-Old Poetic Recipe for Bliss in the Bleakest Season
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Document Tags: reflection winter
Highlights
- Winter, when the leaves are off, the ground bare, the birds and flowers gone, and all is reduced to singleness and simplicity — winter is the time to observe the shapes, colors, varieties, and growth of the lichens. ()
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- Note: Winter is a good time for reflection, to observe our inner selves and prepare for the coming year.
- See the winter bleak and cheerless as at times you will, and as at times you ought; still if you will look twice, and think as you look, you will see… the bare empty woodland fresh budded to the tip of each tiny twig — life all over the trees thrust forward to catch the touch of spring! You will see the wide flinty fields thick sown with seeds — life, more life than the sun and the soil can feed, sleeping there under “the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow”! ()
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- Note: Indeed, winter is a time for to look forward. To manage the winter blues we just need to look twice, once around us and once ahead.
- A storm in summer is only an incident; in winter it is an event, a part of the main design. ()
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