April’s Reviews > Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times > Status Update

That's what humans do: we make and remake our stories, abandoning the ones that no longer fit and trying on new ones for size.

Everybody winters at one time or another; some winter over and over again.
Wintering is a season in the cold…(rest of paragraph)

There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open up and you fall through them into Somewhere Else. Somewhere Else runs at a different pace to the here and now, where everyone else carries on. Somewhere Else is where ghosts live, concealed from view and only glimpsed by people in the real world. Somewhere Else exists at a delay, so that you can't quite keep pace.