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 9
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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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Silver winter magic… Pause before it slips away. Stay a moment in the place where the world is old and the world is new. Listen to the sound of wind and ice and the dampened quiet of snow. Listen closer to the music of growing roots, moaning caves, and crisp cries of winter creatures. Glinting…
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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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A winter treat… Besides snow, the best most wintery treat in the world is a steaming mug of hot chocolate. It’s the stuff of dreams and happiness to sip sweet creamy chocolate as the bitter cold winter day drifts by. I have been experimenting with brewing batches and mugs of hot chocolate for many years…
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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 lighter… Leeks and cabbages pile high in grocery store shelves in January. Keeping with a trend of eating seasonal fare calls for recipes that make good use of these vegetables. Leeks are great in frittatas and quiches, but cabbages can be a little trickier to incorporate into a meal plan, especially in the winter…
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Waiting for snow… This winter has been warm, with scarcely any frost let alone snow. It has been warm, and it has been wet. Yesterday graced us here in the Pacific Northwest with a clear blue sky. My neighbor and I went out for coffee, and she remarked that traffic resembled summer densities with everyone…