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Highlights
- Slow down, sit, and savor the beauty and wisdom of winter--around us and within.
- Author(s): Marilyn McEntyre
- 175 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Holidays
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About the Book
"In poems and life-affirming reflections on freedom, growth, quietude, and keenly felt hope, we learn to live in simple contentment. Without being saccharine, Midwinter Light guides us to seek and find what we need, right where we are-a read for all walks of life that we can turn to again and again when we need to recenter"--Book Synopsis
Slow down, sit, and savor the beauty and wisdom of winter--around us and within.
Award-winning writer Marilyn McEntyre invites us into winter--when stars assume heightened significance and the ambient quiet of snowscapes (or fogscapes or rainscapes) stills us. Winter is quieter than other seasons, sometimes lonelier, and it opens us to pay attention. We may at first feel the ache of diminishment as days grow more silent, but even as melancholy befits winter, this season also bears its own fruit. In the precarious waiting and unknowing, we surrender to natural forces and rhythms; our lives may be changed utterly as we grow deeper, more patient, more attentive to what's outside our doors, in the night sky, or hibernating deep within ourselves.
Perhaps now is the time to grab that cup of tea, that warm mug of whatever brings you comfort and cheer, and with each sip engage the wisdom of winter, the poems, the reflections to make the long season richer, warmer. As the author writes, "We live with less when the world grows cold and quiet, but lessening is a lesson: we can live with less. We need the silences that allow us to hear small glass chimes. And simple warmth can offer an occasion to be grateful for small things."
In poems and life-affirming reflections on freedom, growth, quietude, and keenly felt hope, we learn to live in simple contentment. Without being saccharine, Midwinter Light guides us to seek and find what we need, right where we are--a read for all walks of life that we can turn to again and again when we need to recenter.
Review Quotes
"Midwinter Light is a worthy companion for the whole season. Marilyn McEntyre's selections from poetry and her personal reflections welcome the reader into a sacred conversation that honors the pace and treasures of hibernation. This book offers a confluence of solitude and connection for the layers of grief and gratitude that find us anew each year. Marilyn is a trusted guide and gentle witness for the depths of winter." --Meta Herrick Carlson, author of Ordinary Blessings
"The poet Mary Oliver once suggested that the endless and proper work of human persons is to pay attention. In the pages of Midwinter Light, Marilyn McEntyre artfully helps us do just that through an evocative marriage of winter poetry and her own vivid meditations in response to it. The net result is a book that teems with wisdom, wonder, and light and prompts us to pay attention to landscapes both internal and external in whatever season we may find ourselves. In reading this book, I felt as if I was standing on something like holy ground." --Jeff Crosby, author of The Language of the Soul