When you start tuning in to winter, you realise that we live through a thousand winters in our lives – some big, some small… Some winters creep up on us so slowly that they have infiltrated every part of our lives before we truly feel them. […] To get better at wintering, we need to address our very notion of time. We tend to imagine that our lives are linear, but they are in fact cyclical.

Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of rest and Retreat in Difficult Times