Good Morning š
How’s winter going for you?
Do you love it or loathe it? Or perhaps you are completely indifferent and don’t take much notice of the seasons?
I love the changing seasons, each one bringing it’s own unique gifts.
Winter brings bundles of warm Joy. The ambience and warmth of a fire, a great excuse to stay at home wrapped up in your cosiest blanket, to read one of the books stacked up on your bed side table, days up the mountain -whatever your way of interacting with those marvellous snowy peaks whether it’s skiing/ cross country skiing/ boarding/tobogganing/ or simply sitting and soaking in the majesty. Winter brings invigorating crisp walks and pink rosy cheeks, apple crumble, and slow cooked casseroles.
Like anything though, winter can have it’s challenges. Many find themselves demotivated and low. Some chastise themselves for not wanting to be as social as they are in summer.
I used to feel pretty blah in winter but now the early dark nights are welcome. I realised I was resisting the “turning in”. Now I just try and go with it. It’s a time of cocooning. Warm soups, slower runs ( if they could get any slower !), melting into yoga in 30 degree rooms. Plus I get to wear my sparkly leg warmers and yellow woolly hat. Yay. š
Our bodies are supposed to adapt and change with the seasons. It’s ok to have some down time in winter. We are so used to being ON all the time. As someone once said, we don’t get applause for the pause. But the pause is everything. It allows us to restock, to tend to, to notice. Winter gives us a great excuse to just ease up a little on the accelerator.
Winter also gives us an opportunity to focus more energy into our creative home projects. We don’t have to feel pulled away to another bbq with friends at the beach or another trip to Mitre 10 to buy more plants to add to your garden which you already don’t have time to manage.
What creative project do you like to focus on? So many options! Writing, creating a family photo album, painting, making jewellery, perfecting that carrot cake recipe? Or perhaps, you are finally tending to that box of receipts and invoices that has been glaring at you from the cupboard for months. JUST DO IT! Sit down by the fire with your favourite warm beverage and Spotify playlist, and before you know it it will all be sorted! Ahhh, the relief and inner deep cleanse afterwards is so worth it.
Or perhaps you are content simply BEing. Which is an art in itself. A life time creative project.
Enjoy the rest of winter however you choose to embrace it. Already there is a sense of the changing of seasons, a lightening of the days.
Nothing stays the same and everything changes.
This photo for me encapsulates it all.
Family, card games, laughter, cat, fire.
What else do you need?
This is everything.
Heart warm
Jo xx