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Katherine May
“We need friends who wince along with our pain, who tolerate our gloom, and who allow us to be weak for a while when we're finding our feet again. We need people who acknowledge that we can't always hang on. That sometimes everything breaks. Short of that, we need to perform those functions for ourselves: to give ourselves a break when we need it, and to be kind. To find our own grit, in our own time.”
Katherine May

Barry Lopez
“It strikes me often on our journey how a distracted life, a life strung between competing desires, has now become ordinary life for many people in Western cultures. Conscientious devotion to a single task...not only seems tedious to many, it's even disparaged now as obsessive.”
Barry Lopez, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays

Katherine May
“When I started feeling the drag of winter, I began to treat myself like a favored child: with kindness and love. I assumed my needs were reasonable and that my feelings were signals of something important. I kept myself well fed and made sure I was getting enough sleep. I took myself for walks in the fresh air and spent time doing things that soothed me. I asked myself: What is winter all about? I asked myself: What change is coming?”
Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Barry Lopez
“The scope of what must be resisted today -- imagine, by itself, the juggernaut of ever present advertising, its promises of wealth, power, beauty, ease, youth, its beguiling dead ends -- is breathtaking.”
Barry Lopez, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays

Katherine May
“Unhappiness is one of the simple things in life: a pure, basic emotion to be respected, if not savored. I would never dream of suggesting that we should wallow in misery or shring from doing everything we can to alleviate it, but it's instructive. After all, unhappiness has a function: it tells us something is going wrong. If we don't allow ourselves the fundamental honesty of our own sadness, then we miss an important cue to adapt....normal feelings become monstrous when they're denied.”
Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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