~Wintering~

What if we wintered?
Collectively?
What if we used the language of nature?
What if we planned for, prepared for, gathered for, and practiced winter?
Wintering instead of de-growth?
Words shape our thoughts, our feelings, and how we respond.
De-growth sounds like death.
De-growth sounds like disease.
De-growth sounds imposed and PART of the actual system that requires our dismantling and our energy re-imagining.

If we were to study winter with our hearts, re-incorporate four seasons into our beings and livelihoods instead of trying to control, dismiss, numb out, hide out from—

perhaps winter, an attitude of winter, a choice of winter, could save our planet…

Just what might that look like?

Was Covid a global winter?
Imposed from within or without?
A discipline of Mother Earth?
An experiment in natural consequence?
Cause and Effect?
A lesson of If this, Then that?
Like computer programming—
Not for an individual’s wrong or right—

But so, we might winter together and learn that WE CAN, collectively, if we choose, LOVE HER and LOVE ONE ANOTHER.