With the arrival of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, the winter season has truly arrived. And yet — though we are one day closer to spring — I try to remind myself that these darker winter days have a beauty of their own, a time of nurturing and repose … of creativity waiting to be born.
I love these two quotes for reminding me that winter has a magic all its own, and that warmer days will arrive when we — and the earth — is ready.
“I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ”
— Andrew Wyeth
“The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.”
— Gary Zukav
