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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (vuoden 2020 painos)

Tekijä: Katherine May (Tekijä)

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"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May's story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing Arctic seas. Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season"--… (lisätietoja)
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Teoksen nimi:Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Kirjailijat:Katherine May (Tekijä)
Info:Riverhead Books (2020)
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One of the most powerful and sensorial books I ever read about a woman's courage to 'lean in' to her withdrawal from the frantic disjointness of modern life. Courage, wisdom, moderation, insight. Loved this very much! ( )
  KKBucher | Feb 12, 2024 |
I hesitate to give this two stars because I can tell the author was frank about their life experience, opinions, and tried to cover a lot of subject matter.

The info about first and second sleep existing before artificial lighting is cool, and I know there is evidence that artificial lighting messes with peoples' circadian rhythm, but I am not sure how much of what she shares is founded or pseudoscience because I feel like she makes a lot of other biased presumptions throughout the book.

The moment that killed it for me was her saying Halloween is a role-reversal holiday for poor people to get a taste of anarchy because they have the gall to ring rich people's doorbells and ask for candy at the threat of a trick. I could not roll my eyes far back enough. It seemed like such a overgeneralization of a holiday for kids and a really bad take.

I also felt bad for her struggles with various health issues, but could not relate that she seemed to be able to get immediate treatment and accommodation for all of her needs. Must be nice! Maybe it's a British thing? A rich white lady thing? Idk.

The luxurious vacations also made me feel completely alienated from her experience as opposed to Comfort of Crows being more about the author's home, nature, and family. In this book nature seems more like some kind of accessory, like something in a zoo for her to look at and comment on versus something she feels part of.

Overall this book was a slog-fest. I really tried to sympathize with them and care about some of the subject matter, but I could not and had to speed-read/skim through the rest of it just to get it over with. ( )
  nessie_arduin | Feb 1, 2024 |
Winter as a metaphor for hard times in your life.

"We like to imagine that it's possible for life to be one eternal summer & that we have uniquely failed to achieve that for ourselves." That's why I recommend the anti-gratitude journal.

Regarding someone with bouts of mania and depression, a GP changed her life by saying, "This isn't about you getting better. This is about you living the best life you can with the parameters that you have." Isn't that what it's about for all of us?

"Have we really got so far into the realm of electric light and central heating that the rhythm of the year is irrelevant to us..." That was me when I lived in the city. All I cared about was how heavy a jacket to wear. Or maybe it was because I was young. I have such a yearly rhythm now, though.

"Misery is not an option [sarcasm]. We must carry on looking jolly for the sake of the crowd." Ha. I always hated the mandate to be happy. ( )
  Tytania | Jan 24, 2024 |
The title of this book is clickbait.

I truly felt as if someone handed me a book and completely lied to me when telling me what it was about. While May uses the term "Wintering" throughout, she uses it in multiple ways - not just the season of winter, but also as a colloquial word meaning 'a challenging time in life'. However, the subtitle, "The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times"? It is not until the March chapter "Survival", near the end of the book, that rest and retreat is really discussed. A quick discussion of staying home and knitting. And then we move on.

If this is what rest and retreat is, I am not interested. The vast majority of this book is about being outside of your home, doing things, meeting people, trying new experiences and learning from them. Which, yes, is a very important part of life. But that is not what the book promised me. When I want to rest and retreat I don't think about flying to Iceland or jumping in freezing water or visiting Stonehenge at 6am - I think about staying home and taking care of myself.

More noteworthy disappointments were the chapter titled "Midwinter" (the aforementioned Stonhenge trip) which is a strange dump of othering as the author is clearly trying, and failing, to toe the line of being respectful while at the same time othering and making fun of groups of people whose actions don't align with her own. And near the end of the book, the chapter "Cold Water" where she interviews a woman who claims to have cured her Bipolar Disorder with taking ice baths. Not just a laughable concept, but an incredibly dangerous one to put in print.

There is some substance here. The author's own journey with cold sea bathing and her introduction to saunas both were lovely stories - and I intend to find myself a sauna this winter as a result. But overall this is not the book that the blurbs, nor the title, promised. ( )
  sublunarie | Jan 5, 2024 |
Author uses a slur against Romani people in the first 2 minutes of the book ( )
  EmberMantles | Jan 1, 2024 |
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This timely memoir details seven months that the author, suffering from a mysterious illness, spent sequestered at home. For May, who saw life as “linear, a long march from birth to death,” the enforced hiatus comes to feel like nonexistence. Yet it inspires unusual investigations—into hibernating animals, deciduous trees, the cultures of places with long winters, and the ritual pauses that once shaped human society. May’s message isn’t about how to be cheery during a personal winter but about how to embrace the “negative presence” of these moments, and to allow the rebirth they naturally engender. “We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us,” she writes. “Given time, they grow again.”
lisäsi shervinafshar | muokkaaThe New Yorker (Dec 7, 2020)
 

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Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed

The speculating rooks at their nests cawed

And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass,

What we below could not see, Winter pass.

Edward Thomas, "Thaw"
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
For all who have wintered
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Some winters happen in the sun.
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"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May's story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing Arctic seas. Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season"--

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