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“We’re raised not to recognise wintering or acknowledge its inevitability. Instead, we tend to see it as a humiliation, something that should be hidden from view lest we shock the world too greatly. We put on a brave public face and grieve privately; we pretend not to see other people’s pain. We treat wintering as an embarrassing anomaly that should be hidden or ignored.”
— Nov 18, 2022 05:30AM
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Jess
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“As the days grow shorter, we bring light into the house to repel the multiple darknesses that lurk there. I raid the cupboards for candles and hang fairy lights in the murkier corners, and I start to retell my story again, if only to myself. That’s what humans do: we make and remake our stories, abandoning ones that no longer fit and trying on new ones for size”
— Nov 18, 2022 06:25AM
Jess
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“Wintering brings about some of the most profound and insightful moments of our human experience, and wisdom resides in those that have wintered”
— Nov 18, 2022 05:31AM
