![]() ![]() Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. “Now is the winter of our discontent.” – William Shakespeare, Richard IIIĪre the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. ![]() I was just thinking, if it really is religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheist in the wintertime. Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer this is how commencement speakers are caught. Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’ Robert Byrne Andy Williams, It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year It’s the most wonderful time of the year! There’ll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting, and caroling out in the snow. It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. The color of springtime is flowers the color of winter is in our imagination. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter. “One kind word can warm three winter months.” – Japanese Proverb I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting. In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold. I pray this winter be gentle and kind–a season of rest from the wheel of the mind. Now that I’m even older, and wiser, I hate both summer and winter. When I got older I loved winter and hated summer. When I was young, I loved summer and hated winter. I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter. The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without. How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! Thomas Wentworth Higginson “To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” – Marty Rubin To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. Hear! hear!’ screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, ‘winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.’ Henry David Thoreau No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. ![]() We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. Ali Smithīlow ye winds, like the trumpet blows, but without that noise. That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again. The problem with winter sports is that–follow me closely here–they generally take place in winter. I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. “Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” – Anamika Mishra ![]()
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