Julie’s Reviews > Wintering: How I learned to flourish when life became frozen > Status Update

It’s a time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishment, for putting your house in order

“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living as they did in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; thats where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle but it’s crucible”