Wow, this is beautiful - thank you. This winter has felt/feels special. I grew up in Alberta and have had frost bite more times than can count but for the first time I’ve really felt a deep love for the cold. Strangely I never feel fully ready for Spring but this year connecting with the cold has brought new sensitivity around it and I’m in a happy in between place enjoying the colder and warmer days
I’ve also found the weather comforting here in the UK. Cold feels like such an important reset in so many ways, psychologically and physically - and for the land, of course, too. Had no idea about the climactic reason for it though, so thank you for that insight. I also refer to “the land” in a similar way and appreciate the succinct way you describe the term’s usage
As a biogeochemist, I always enjoy when people integrate such frameworks into their spirituality. I'm particularly interested in the scale people approach these things through, considering things like the water cycle operate at both a local and global scale. Offering multiple lens' with which to view ones place in the ecosystem. https://medium.com/p/5a3fb8457246
This is beautifully written, a balm. Thank you.
Thanks so much for reading 🙏
Wow, this is beautiful - thank you. This winter has felt/feels special. I grew up in Alberta and have had frost bite more times than can count but for the first time I’ve really felt a deep love for the cold. Strangely I never feel fully ready for Spring but this year connecting with the cold has brought new sensitivity around it and I’m in a happy in between place enjoying the colder and warmer days
Thanks so much for reading and sharing this!
Told it like it is.
Thank you for sharing this. I feel exactly the same.
Appreciate that 🙏
Yes, nothing has made the dangerous gift of human consciousness more endurable as quiet time observing nature. It always works for me.
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Yes, the land! Connecting to Mother Earth keeps us grounded and sane through the winter of our discontent...
I’ve also found the weather comforting here in the UK. Cold feels like such an important reset in so many ways, psychologically and physically - and for the land, of course, too. Had no idea about the climactic reason for it though, so thank you for that insight. I also refer to “the land” in a similar way and appreciate the succinct way you describe the term’s usage
I have a similar relationship to the cold; I love it and mourn its loss. Hopefully we get a few more like this.
As a biogeochemist, I always enjoy when people integrate such frameworks into their spirituality. I'm particularly interested in the scale people approach these things through, considering things like the water cycle operate at both a local and global scale. Offering multiple lens' with which to view ones place in the ecosystem. https://medium.com/p/5a3fb8457246
🙏appreciate it, thanks so much for reading!