10 Weeks of Winter
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…
A journal style blog exploring the pleasure and enjoyment of winter.
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First Post — 10 Weeks of Winter: An Introduction
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the author
Michelle is an American born Canadian resident of the Pacific Northwest, hobby writer, book lover, and generally of the autodidact polymath smattering of knowledge, skills, and interests.
Category: Health and Wellness
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Winter sweet… I wanted to wrap up this blog project with a bit of sweetness, so I decided to dedicate this last daily post to the sweetest product of winter: syrup. It’s a little early yet for the syrup harvest, but it’s around the corner. When the daylight gets long and warm enough from around…
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Aging… I’m not yet in the “winter of my life”, but I am in early autumn. As the seasons and cycles of life take me toward my favorite time of year, I’m learning how to embrace the changes to my body, my appearance, and my wellbeing. I’ve never been a person to focus much on…
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The time is right… At this time of settling into the new year when there are several more weeks of winter ahead followed by a fast approaching spring, the conditions are ripe for cleansing and detoxing. Rather than jumping into a hardcore detox protocol starting January 1st, waiting until the end of January or early…
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Respiration… As the river flows, as the waves roll in and out from the shore, as branches sway, as winter comes and winter goes, so the breath moves through my being. Sometimes imperceptibly so. Sometimes as a squeezing or as a wide-opening force. No matter how it shows up, it’s always connected, to everything. How…
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Moving meditation… Step-by-step through sways and shifts walking stimulates a forward moving continual rebalancing. Legs swing out from the hips, articulating at the knee, and grounding through the ankle to the toes. Arms pump or sway or hang at the sides with moderate motion from the shoulders reaching down and out through the fingertips. The…
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Getting going… In the long morning dark of winter, when I intend to wake up and get going, the gravity of unconsciousness drags a stubborn resistance against my greatest intentions and strongest motivations. It’s like an ass pulling a cart in the opposite direction. It doesn’t care about the destination, it has a will of…
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Surrender… Deep in the dark of winter a persistent spirit calls me to rest. Weariness takes hold like a longing for the embrace of heavy covers over my body and for feather-light closed lids over my eyes. The sweet ease of not looking, not scanning or focusing or perceiving into things, feels like floating in…
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Week 3 begins… Today marks the beginning of the third week of winter for my 10 Weeks of Winter project. This is the point where I either lock in or fall off. Don’t know about you, but for me the third day and the third week of trying to make change is always so hard.…