Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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February 17, 2021 a project of ServiceSpace To get better at wintering, we need to address our very notion of time. We tend to imagine that our lives are linear, but they are in fact cyclical. - Katherine May - Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times "Wintering is a season in the cold. It is a fallow period in life when you're cut off from the world, feeing rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress, or cast into the role of an outsider. Perhaps it results from an illness or life event such as bereavement or the birth of a child; perhaps it comes from a humiliation or failure. Perhaps you're in a period of transition and have temporarily fallen between two worlds."Katherine May's poignant and personal book, "Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times," braids together insights from literature, mythology and the natural world. It makes a compelling case for the transformative power of slowing down and stepping back. Read an excerpt here. { read more } Submitted by: Wendy Berk Be The Change Learn more about the book and some of the personal struggles that May 'wintered' through in her own life, in this NPR interview. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Being Resilient During Coronavirus Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier Barbara Kingsolver on Knitting as Creation Story On Being Alone Orion's 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade The Monkey and the River 16 Teachings from COVID-19 Humanity's Wake Up Call DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 245,393 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More