Tag: winter

All Hail The Inbetween

All Hail The Inbetween

It’s amazing how disorienting the “inbetween” can be. I couldn’t sleep this morning. The lightning flashes were unexpected. My brain wanted to attribute their bright light to my phone alerting me, but the thunder and rain came soon after. A Spring storm in Winter.  Daybreak 

Bird Song

Bird Song

Each time I step outside, bird song (chickadees especially) has been keeping me afloat.  It’s as if they know that Spring is coming even though it looks and feels very much like Winter. There is a levity and a brightness in their music that is 

Lonely Goose

Lonely Goose

To paraphrase Veruca Salt, “Gooses – Geeses – I feel like a frozen, lonely goose this mid-winter!” This is the cover that I illustrated for the Winter Issue of Woolgathering, in which I wrote about the practice of Wintering that author Katherine May wrote about 

Dark Dream for Dark Times

Dark Dream for Dark Times

I wrote a piece called “dreamtime in the daynight” for the Winter Issue of Woolgathering, in which I explored how the darkness of Winter allows for active dream time that  generates  new growth in Spring.  Unfortunately I have been plagued by the most exhausting and