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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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: Week 7
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Tired and sore… The first full week of January comes to a close, and many people are likely feeling the effects of a new workout routine or a compounding gloominess from living for several weeks now in the long dark of winter. The light is on its way. Evening is beginning closer to 5 PM…
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Call of the cold… Howling wind blows across frozen icescapes raising a low moan between mountains and across the gaping mouths of caves. A primal instinct stirs. The raging salt sea beats a drum against docked ships at the edge of a barren shoreline. A daunting voyage calls. A herd of bison move imperceptibly into…
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Winter soups… On a peaceful early January day with low cloudy skies and a gentle cold breeze that nudges at the moss-covered leafless branches of the oaks there’s a special calm that settles the mind. By this time when New Year has sufficiently passed people have returned to their regular day-to-day habits. I see them…
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A simple pleasure… A cup of tea is a simple pleasure. Fragrant steam enlivens the room while you sip warm delicious flavors of many kinds. Even the experience of making tea is a kind of calming pleasurable ritual. Putting on the water with the wooshes, clicks, and clinks offers a kind of cozy ASMR experience.…
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It’s coldest before the spring… That old expression, “it’s darkest before the dawn”, imparts figurative meaning from a kind of literal truth. But taken literally it should really say, “it’s coldest before the dawn” to get at the core of the matter. Night brings absence, and in that absence the remains of energy waft away…
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A winter palette… In parts of the world where winter denies us the sculptural beauty of ice and snow it grants us another kind of outdoor pleasure that can be cultivated into a rewarding winter experience: winter gardening. Here in the green and blue wet winter a temperate climate permits certain plants to showcase their…
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Of winter pale… Winter light peels away the dark of night like one sheer black veil lifted to reveal a pale white one. Diffuse rays of pale yellow light scatter across the otherwise blue land and cityscapes and tints the underside of long charcoal and cobalt clouds pale pink and apricot in the pale blue…