"The way everything changes.
The way everything stays the same.
The way those things are bigger than I am,
and more than I can hold.
More than any other season,
winter requires a kind of metronome
that ticks away its darkest beats,
giving us a melody to follow into spring.
The year will move on no matter what,
but by paying attention to it,
feeling its beat,
and noticing the moments of transition -
perhaps even taking time to think about what we want
from the next phase in the year -
we can get the measure of it."
{Wintering : Katherine May}