I like to feel warm and comfortable at home; especially during January. After coming down from the hype of year’s end and settling into a new season, I turn to my home as my sanctuary. A season full of promise at the beginning of the year. I don’t like to get out and play in the snow. I like to cook and try seasonal soups and dishes. So, I know the time is here. It’s time to winterize the house while I deconstruct and withdraw into the comfort of home and enjoy the season. I’d like to share four4 of my winter hermit ideas to keep active and social during the short days and long nights of January. The Winter Hermit will begin to stir in January. After the hoopla of closing out the previous year, this forces the hermit to find solace …show more content…
Winterize the home. Winterizing my space helps to keep my spirit bright is the first outward sign. I change the curtains, grow some greens, idle the time perusing sales. Home is a tonic for the winter hermit. Inside, the winter hermit is very busy. You will likely see an indoor herb garden, puzzle pieces on a card table, or scones on a baking rack. Sugar, cinnamon, and coffee are my personal trademarks. #2 A winter hermit is likely to have a winter exercise routine. The time to keep in shape and get those endorphins flowing is January. Yoga was a recent discovery for me; it brightens my spirit. 15 minutes of streaming a video of a yoga class on a beautiful beach energizes me when it’s chilly outside. By including visualizations and affirmations, I feel focused and bouncy as I greet the day; and sometimes a little sore. If a winter hermit invites you over to exercise, it’s a clear sign that other invitations will follow. Invitations are key. The winter hermit may not go out, but you can come …show more content…
The home may be beautiful and comfortable, but something is missing. People. Invitations may arrive from the winter hermit to celebrate National Fruitcake Toss Day, Data Privacy Day, or National Croissant Day. Potluck dinner invitations from winter hermits tend to include good music, good food and good friends. The magic of celebrating January through renewal of bonds and forming new ones is soulfully delicious. #4 New Experiences Take in a celestial winter night. A winter hermit discovers the unusual things to do at home during the short days and long nights. Get a spot, thermos, field glasses and do a little stargazing. The Blue Moon is January 31. It’s just another way to break the routine and appreciate the beauty of winter. A winter hermit is likely to invite you to tour their garden. Sometimes the more philosophical hermits will want to visit the sleeping winter gardens while waxing/waning on inner growth. On the surface, all is quiet, but this is a time of gathering energy. It is a time of rest and reflection. As I welcome my inner hermit to the season of winter, it is a frenzy of activity is occuring within the home. Celebrate your inner hermit and enjoy the quiet moments when snuggling inside and watching the brisk winds
Gioia, Dana; Kennedy, X.J. “Those Winter Sundays.” Backpack Literature. Fourth Edition. Terry, Joe. 2012. Longman, 2012. 382. Print.
The sun has been an endless source of inspiration, both physical and spiritual, throughout the ages. For its light, warmth, and the essential role it has played in the maintenance of the fragile balance of life on earth, the sun has been honored and celebrated in most of the world's religions. While the regeneration of light is constant, the relative length of time between the rising and setting of the sun is affected by the changing of the seasons. Hippocrates postulated centuries ago that these changing patterns of light and dark might cause mood changes (9). Seasonal downward mood changes of late fall and winter have been the subject of many sorrowful turn-of-the-century poems of lost love and empty souls. For some, however, “the relationship between darkness and despair is more than metaphoric (6).
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Winters can get severely into freezing temperatures. During the winter months December, January, and February, snow a...
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Winter Dreams." Print. Rpt. in English 102 Course Pack. By Megan Newell. Montreal: Eastman Systems, 2012. 33-40. Print.
To begin with, the understanding of loneliness and desolation is identified through the use of the dark night in one of Frost’s most popular poems, “Acquainted With the Night.” Briefly, this poem revolves around a lonely speaker who is endlessly taking a walk beyond the city he or she lives in but is not able to locate anything or anyone that would comfort the speaker in his or her stage of depression. Loneliness and isolation are actually two of the crucial themes associated with this poem. The speaker is being “acquainted with the night,” because the night shares the same emotion that the speaker carries. They carry the same emotion because from personal references, the nighttime is often referred to as the time of reflection, sadness, loneliness, and indeed isolation. There is and evident choice of diction to depict isolation like, “the furthest city light,” (L3) as the speaker grows farther away from the city and loses light, which contributes more to the idea of the dark night. This also heightens the understanding of the speaker’s depression and isolation. “The s...
...years later, it becomes clear that for all the emphasis put on art, on creation, and on mass production—nature is central to our human experience. We can symbolize this natural connection with art—but the art itself always harkens back to something that elicits an emotional response from the viewer. For Leontes, a statue of his presumably deceased wife, Hermione triggers a sorrowful reaction. Art indeed embellishes life as it does with flowers, but we are always working from some perspective, some emotion, before we are merely creating art. “The Winter’s Tale” takes on the challenge of investigating whether or not art can in fact breathe outside the womb of nature, and as we witness art break down, and nature hold the characters together, it becomes resoundingly clear that art seeks to react to nature, but that it cannot work without maintaining nature at its core.
The poem talks about people being sick of society, and want to be isolated from it. Even in the first line, he made an analogy between December being dark and dingy, by saying "A winter's day - in a deep and dark December." The month of December is usually likened to being cold, dark, and 'dangerous'. He also says that it is a lonely December in the second line where he says "I am alone gazing from my window to the street below" he feels left out, and now wants to be left alone, like an island, or a rock. Like in the second poem, where he says that he "has no need of friendship."
I step into the hall of my home in Chicago, Illinois, and into the kitchen. Rain cascades down the windowpane, such has been the case for much of Novmber. There is a plate of spaghetti Bolognese waiting right on the counter for me. I heat it up, and take it to my study, letting the aroma waft right past my nose. Turning on the stereo, I settle back in my leather, over-cushioned armchair with a long, relaxed sigh. The stereo always starts on Classic Rock radio station. Hard rock, that’s what I love best. I open the Wall Street Journal, sub-consciously listening to the music in the background. Bliss.
In winter, there are many great activities to do and play. First, winter contains something that no other season contains which is snow. A numerous amount of people like to play in the snow and play a variety of games. They are making a snowman, having a snowball fight, or even making snow angles. Then, there are more games to play that involve snow like skiing, hockey, even snowboarding. There are also some people who have never seen snow so they eventually become fascinated with it.Winter can make people feel a variety of emotions and make “your mood lighten up”
“The Snow Man,” by Wallace Stevens, dramatizes a metaphorical “mind of winter”, and introduces the idea that one must have a certain mindset in order to correctly perceive reality. The poet, or rather the Snow Man, is an interpreter of simple and ordinary things; “A cold wind, without interpretation, has no misery” (Poetry Genius). Through the use of imageries and metaphors relating to both wintery landscapes and the Snow Man itself, Stevens illustrates different ideas of human objectivity and the abstract concept of true nothingness. Looking through the eyes of the Snow Man, the readers are given an opportunity to perceive a reality that is free from objectivity; The Snow Man makes it clear that winter can possess qualities of beauty and also emptiness: both “natural wonder, and human misery”. He implies that winter can also be nothing at all: “just a bunch of solid water, dormant plants, and moving air.” (The Wondering Minstrels). “One must
I brush my eyes awake, feeling the cold seeping in from my window. It’s 9 AM and it’s winter in Minnesota. Feeling sleepy, I stand up and go outside. I love the winter air. It always refreshes my mind and there’s just a cold bite to it that I enjoy. Coming back inside, I boot up my computer, hoping to enjoy it a little before heading out. The winter days swim together, phasing throughout my mind, and I fall asleep again, or I have woken up.
Winter is a season for us to stay mostly inside the comfort of our homes. At this point, we make use of our talent especially around the kitchen. Yes, it is colder outside in order for us to stay warm we may need to feed ourselves for extra calories. For us to warm our bodies up, nothing is more satisfying on a brisk wintry day than a hearty hot bowl of soup. The idea of your oven compartments and stove top burners being more active in the winter is an idea in keeping with this focus on inner warmth, and we encourage you to think about winter as a time to celebrate the warmth of eating. Here are some adjustments and advantages for healthy winter nutrition.
Cold gloomy weather most likely can make even the most advantageous person want to curl up on the couch to have a lazy day every once in awhile but what matters is that the next day that person can pick themselves up and go on with the normal routine. This task of getting up to peruse the day may span from no effort, a small pep talk or professional help to exhibit the temperance needed to get one’s self going. Resistance to fall into temptation of staying at home and closing oneself off to the world during the rainy or snowy winter months can seem like an impassable obstacle to some. Once again temperance must be found to pull through by finding the method that works for them. In particular the method that has worked for many is finding support in the ones who love you by making a lunch date, having positive interaction with someone can be a mood lifter. Furthermore taking care of yourself getting an adequate amount of rest or joining an exercise program can help lift one’s spirits during gloomy days (“Coping