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“If we don’t allow ourselves the fundamental honesty of our own sadness, then we miss an important cue to adapt. We seem to be living in an age when we’re bombarded with entreaties to be happy, but we’re suffering from an avalanche of depression. We’re urged to stop sweating the small stuff, yet we’re chronically anxious. I often wonder if these are just normal feelings that become monstrous when they’re denied. A great deal of life will always suck. There will be moments when we’re riding high and moments when we can’t bear to get out of bed. Both are normal. Both in fact require a little perspective.”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“If happiness is a skill, then sadness is, too. Perhaps through all those years at school, or perhaps through other terrors, we are taught to ignore sadness, to stuff it down into our satchels and pretend it isn’t there. As adults, we often have to learn to hear the clarity of its call. That is wintering. It is the active acceptance of sadness. It is the practice of allowing ourselves to feel it as a need. It 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.”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Am legat copacii la ochi
Cu-o basma verde
Şi le-am spus să mă găsească.
Şi copacii m-au găsit imediat
Cu un hohot de frunze.
Am legat păsările la ochi
Cu-o basma de nori
Şi le-am spus să mă găsească.
Şi păsările m-au găsit
Cu un cântec.
Am legat tristeţea la ochi
Cu un zâmbet,
Şi tristeţea m-a găsit a doua zi
Într-o iubire.
Am legat soarele la ochi
Cu nopţile mele
Şi i-am spus să mă găsească.
Eşti acolo, a zis soarele,
După timpul acela,
Nu te mai ascunde.
Nu te mai ascunde,
Mi-au zis toate lucrurile
Şi toate sentimentele
Pe care am încercat să le leg
La ochi.”
―
Cu-o basma verde
Şi le-am spus să mă găsească.
Şi copacii m-au găsit imediat
Cu un hohot de frunze.
Am legat păsările la ochi
Cu-o basma de nori
Şi le-am spus să mă găsească.
Şi păsările m-au găsit
Cu un cântec.
Am legat tristeţea la ochi
Cu un zâmbet,
Şi tristeţea m-a găsit a doua zi
Într-o iubire.
Am legat soarele la ochi
Cu nopţile mele
Şi i-am spus să mă găsească.
Eşti acolo, a zis soarele,
După timpul acela,
Nu te mai ascunde.
Nu te mai ascunde,
Mi-au zis toate lucrurile
Şi toate sentimentele
Pe care am încercat să le leg
La ochi.”
―
“In twenty-first-century Britain, we've linked singing with talent, and we've got that fundamentally wrong. The right to sing is an absolute, regardless of how it sounds to the outside world. We sing because we must. We sing because it fills our lungs with nourishing air, and lets our hearts soar with the notes we let out. We sing because it allows us to speak of love and loss, delight and desire, all encoded in lyrics that let us pretend that those feelings are not quite ours. In song, we have permission to rehearse all our heartbreaks, all our lusts. In song, we can console our children while they are still too young our rusty voices, and we can find shortcuts to ecstasy while performing the mundane duty of a daily shower or scrubbing down the kitchen after yet another meal.”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Brezoi’s 2024 Year in Books
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