Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is a time of dormancy for the plant and animal kingdoms alike. While it may look relatively still and quiet, it is in fact a period of unseen activity worth looking at and learning from – for perspective and possibilities. This is our final offering for your garden-based preparations for the Winter Solstice officially occurring on December 21st at a little before 8 am Pacific/11 am Eastern time.

The Solstice is not just a date and time, but a turning and inflection point in our annual cycle of growth. In honor of that cycle, and its periods of rest – daily, weekly, annually, and throughout cycles of years - we’re joined today in conversation with farmer, gardener and community advocate, Devorah Brous – with whom we explore the importance of rest, dormancy and sabbatical as a way to refuel, to rethink, and to rejuvenate in all health and creativity for our work and cycles ahead.

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Welcoming Dormancy & Sabbatical, Devorah Brous

A visualization to come your body. The winter body calls for warmth, lightness, and resists not the darkness of the winter.
By The Resilient Yogi

Thewinterbody

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Hiver

ahhh, sweet winter mornings…
the sweetest of mournings
comes out of your light lacking skies,
when words are unable
to put on the table
your beauty as seen by my eyes.

the wish for a sunbeam
removing my last dream
and teaching my hope how to glow,
the branch of a pine tree,
the taste of my sage tea,
the sound of my footsteps on snow.

the smoke growing idly
from chimneys, the widely
spread fields ‘neath a silence so deep,
and waiting the quiver
of morning, the river
renounces its ice-covered sleep.

the dark slowly rising,
the ever surprising
reflections of dawn on your white,
the sunlight that blesses
your frosty caresses –
my skin’s masochistic delight.

the only true anguish
is that i still languish
sometimes for the days of my green
whenever my old bones
feel more like some cold stones
because of your chilly routine.

my sweet dawns of yearning
for lost youth returning,
rush not into going away!
just pity a writer
whose tresses grow whiter
and whom words too little obey.

i’m old and i know it,
i know that i show it
the more in your presence of frost,
but sweet winter mornings,
the pain and the warnings
are nothing but part of the cost.

each life has its seasons,
each passage its reasons,
from spring unto summer and fall –
so now that you’re here,
my winter so dear,
i love you the way i loved all.

wintering

The winter is a time for home and inner knowing. Press play and let this arrangement of sine waves warm you.

Sirens

Progressive instrumental music. Two electric guitars.
CD out on JAN 2011.
www.reverbnation.com/pytre


Wintering TableauX I

Neptune

tracklist
1. till summer comes again
2. snowfall
3. snow globe world
4. time for home

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glow from wintering (spotify)

Live act at Wintering MMXIX @ Jonathan [03012019]
Thanks to @mishasultan and @echotourist crew

Wintering MMXIX

Digital

presidiomodelo - Wintering MMXIX

Where have we been? Listen in to hear about our recent adventures and a discussion on how to winter your hives.

Sarah Phelan's Album

Coming Out of Hibernation

Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring what we mean when we garden. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place illustrates the many ways in which gardens are integral to our natural and cultural literacy. These conversations celebrate how these interconnections support the places we cultivate, how they nourish our bodies, and feed our spirits. They change the world. Take a listen.

it's currently [2 PM/3 AM].
n' you just [woke up/can't sleep].
so you're both [coming and going].

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