“Our mindsets shape our attention: by influencing what we believe winter fundamentally is–dreadful or delightful, boring or fascination–and what we expect winter to be like, our mindsets subconsciously orient us to one version of reality or another.”― Kari Leibowitz, How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days
“It is easy to mistake the fallowness of winter for wasted time and space. But this view obscures the necessity of winter for sustaining the whole cycle, dismissing how crucial dormant times are for the growth and beauty that comes later. It ignores the critical work being done under the surface. It pretends that we can all go nonstop, all the time, working and living and loving at full capacity, unceasingly. But we can’t, and there is much to be gained by not trying, and by gifting ourselves a season to restore.”― Kari Leibowitz, How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days
First snow, more on the way.
Invitation to slow.
To partake in wintering.
Pause and restoration.
Reflection and being still.
Unseen seen.
Remain in fully the present season.
Find and unwrap the gifts in each one.
Rush to this day, not through it.
“Those who appreciate winter generally orient toward the season’s wonders: coziness and gathering around a fire, crisp air and starry skies, slowed-down rituals and chance for rest. For people with this mindset, winter is not a limiting time of year to dread but a time full of opportunity to anticipate. In Norway, I learned that we are not condemned to waste the winter months, throwing away the season, wishing for spring. We can change our mindsets and, as a result, change our experience of winter–and of our lives.”― Kari Leibowitz, How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Day
