"At moments like this, sleep feels like falling; you sink into luxurious...
...Blackness only to jolt awake again, staring at the darkness as if you might divine something in the grainy night." pp. 6-7
"Change was happening, and here was its cousin, mortality, not so much knocking on my door as kicking it down like some particularly brutal extra judicial force." p.8
D.H. Lawrence quote: “It is a question, practically of relationship. We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe . . . . For the truth is, we are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs, we are cut off from the great sources of our inward nourishment and renewal, sources which flow eternally in the universe. Vitally the human race is Dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.” p. 127
"Enchanted by our own bravery" p. 190
"For the truth is we are perishing for the lack of Fulfillment of our greater needs." ~ D.H. Lawrence
"Gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open up and you fall through them into somewhere else." p.8 "Gesture of abundance and thoughtfulness." p. 128 (Christmas Stockings)
"Happiness is the greatest skill we'll ever learn... Happiness is our potential, the product of a mind that's allowed to think as it needs to, that has enough of what it requires, that is free of the terrible weight of bullying and humiliation. " p. 119
"It's time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishment, for putting your house in order." p.14
"Joyous, stream-of-consciousness chatter" p. 190
"Keep my buffer broad. Keeping well is almost a full-time job. But ... a wonderful life." p. 186
"Life goes on abundantly in winter - changes made here will ... " p. 71 [see "U"]
"More than a nebulous sense of my own overwhelm." p. 19 Meditative Mornings
help ease the
Midwinter
Melancholy p. 91
"Nadir: the moment when things got so bad that you can't imagine a way out." p. 123
"Once we stop wishing it were summer, winter can be a glorious season in which the world takes on a sparse beauty and even the pavements sparkle." p.14
"Porridge-brain: the feeling that your head is so full that..." p. 184
"Quality of awe in the face of a power greater than ours." p.165
"Responsibility to listen to those who have wintered before us..." p. 122 [and] Retreat from the world... let it recede."
"Slowing down, letting your Spare time expand, getting enough Sleep, resting..." p. 14. Sleep is not a dead space, but a doorway to a different kind of consciousness- one that is reflective and restorative, full of tangential thought and unexpected insights.
"
That's what you learn in winter: there is a past, a present, and a future.
There is a time after the aftermath. " p. 38 "...
Trilling at the wonder of the cold" p. 190
"...Usher us into future glories [in the meantime] luxuriate in the space... drink in the silence] p. 83
Value of ritual over ...Vital fragments of identity squeezed out p. 19
"Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible (14) Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife (120). "We must once more practice the rituals of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath and the last. To these rituals we must return... For the truth is we are perishing for the lack of fulfillment of our greater needs." ~ D.H. Lawrence quote continued p. 127
eXpose all those painful nerve endings and feel sobraw that you'll need to take care of...
Yourself for awhile [not forever, Mom, just for awhile] p.14
Zzzzzs 
for Valentines
thanks, Ken!
thanks, Ken!
Mom's Valentine from Karen Ann
