The Wheel of Time

 

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there
was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
- Hal Borland

The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Honor a season for rest and renewal

Winter Blahs

A Joyous Season of Renewal
        

The Great Cycle of Life - Renewal and Rebirth

 

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there
was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
- Hal Borland

The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Honor a season for rest and renewal

Winter Blahs

A Joyous Season of Renewal
        

The Winter Season

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there
was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
- Hal Borland

The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Honor a season for rest and renewal

Winter Blahs

A Joyous Season of Renewal
        

Winter

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
- Hal Borland

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there
was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Winter Blahs

Honor a season for rest and renewal

Renewal

A Joyous Season of Renewal

Words of Encouragement

Words of Comfort

Inner Strength Quotes

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

What's the problem? Sometimes we have a generalized sense that something is not right, without not knowing the true problem. This is especially common when the weather is cold and gray, the days are short, and we are housebound.

If you are feeling the "winter blahs," try...

1. Get more physical exercise, even if it's on the treadmill.

2. Crank up the lights around you.

3. Focus on projects that keep you mentally and physically active and interacting with others.

Further reading: Inspiring Picture Quotes

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully. - jlh

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

Anais Nin: We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Gardening is all about optimism - Mary Anne Radmacher

Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Winter clings stubbornly to portions of the globe. Gardeners follow time honored practices in spite of what they see. In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts – a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted…believing that Spring will come.

Honor a season for rest and renewal

In agrarian days, the farm family worked long days Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Winter was a time to sit by the fire, eating from the root cellar and the smoke house.

Perhaps it is time to renew the tradition of honoring a season for rest and renewal.