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And so many stories and fables that shape us, cold and snow, the closing end of the light,

these have deep psychological as much as physical reality.

They draw us even force us to do what Catherine may calls deeply unfashionable things.

Slowing down, resting, retreating.

This is wintering, as she illuminates it in her book of that title.

Breathing as at once a season of the natural world, arrests our bodies require in a state

of mind, a cyclical, recurrent weather pattern, if you will, in any life.

I've come to think of our pandemic world as one vast communal experience of wintering.

And now here we are, as the enduringly strange year of 2021 draws to a close, still with

so much to metabolize and to carry, in an aching need of replenishment.

It feels like Catherine May opens up exactly what I and so many have needed to hear, but

haven't known how to name.

I'm Christa Tippett, and this is on Beeing.

Catherine May is the author of several books, including The Electricity of Every Living

Thing.

She writes widely and beautifully on subjects from her love of cold water swimming to her

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