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Conversation about our long collective pandemic winter.

About how times of retreat can allow for personal and political transformation.

About how we might carry some new wisdom with us as we emerge into spring.

Here is Segold.

I want to confess a secret to you.

I hate the pandemic as much as the next person.

But there's a part of me that actually likes some aspect of it.

Even though it has caused me a ton of misery and anxiety, I've also felt like it's forced

me to do an unusual amount of reflecting.

That's opened up some space for me to learn hard truths about who I am and who I want

to be.

Going through this kind of experience is what the British writer Catherine May calls

Wintering.

In her new book of that title, she explores the idea of winter, not just literally as a season

of cold weather, but also metaphorically as a personal season that we all go through

at various points in life.

When you're wintering, you're in a mode that's slow and reflective and detached from everyone

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