“Wintering” by Katherine May
This is a series of posts from reading Katherine May’s book, Wintering.
“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximizing scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”
Winter is coming. It’s still autumn here in Huskvarna, and it’s a wet one.
I started reading Wintering by Katherine May last week. If you recall Enchantment, also by the same author, I wrote a series of posts to share about the book and my thoughts. Both Wintering and Enchantment are great reads, especially for this time of the year.
For now, I just wanted to share the above passage. I don’t think I would’ve been able to express it better than the author herself. It’s beautiful.
