Wintering is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.
-- Katherine May (Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times)

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A beautiful reflection on the importance of playfulness by Katherine May.

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Wintering is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.
-- Katherine May (Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times)

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One book a day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.

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4/20

A new book spine poem, for the season that’s in it.

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Wintering

When things fall apart,
Leave the world behind:
Lurking underworld,
Wintering underland,
The beginning of spring,
The will to change
Almost there.

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With thanks to the authors: Pema Chödrön, Rumaan Alam, Joanne McNeil, Don DeLillo, Katherine May, Robert Macfarlane, Penelope Fitzgerald, bell hooks, and Nuala Ó Faoláin; and thanks to Nina Katchadourian for the idea.

Don DeLillo has appeared in a couple of posts on Sentence first, on wordable awareness (Falling Man) and Jack Gladney’s German lessons (White Noise). Robert Macfarlane has featured a few times, including in the book spine poem ‘Secret Place’, while bell hooks appeared in ‘Useless Crazy Heart’, another bookmash.

Penelope Fitzgerald and Nuala Ó Faoláin featured in ‘Not Scared’, with the same books as the one above. This is something I try to avoid, but it was 10 years ago and I’d lost track when I put this one together.

Let me know if you make one of your own.

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/12/08/book-spine-poem-wintering/

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Enjoying the slowness of this Sunday morning to listen to the conversation between Katherine May and Marjolijn van Heemstra which echoes what I'm trying to do in the face of the climate crisis: protect spaces in my days for experiencing the wonder of the world around me (scientific communication is one approach for me), people, human creativity, choosing it consciously, despite everything.

https://katherine-may.co.uk/how-we-live-now-season-2/marjolijn

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