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Give me winter people any day
Wintering well requires not taking one’s self too seriously.
Despite our resolve, we all get a little fatter during a good northern winter.
Cookies and candy are not things I eat much of normally. But put me on a snowy downtown block lined with treat shops on a January day and it’s time for business.
Anyone who sticks to a kale and hummus diet through a north country winter clearly possesses an abundance of self discipline and no sense of humor whatsoever.
Any celebration of winter should start with admitting that winter — northern-below-zero-deep-snow-thick-ice-deadly-wind-chill winter — is hard, and getting through it with good humor requires going a bit easy on yourself.
But while going easy, we winter-dwellers need to also remember the great strengths winter brings out. Or can. If we let it.
People who deal well with winter deal well with other challenges.
There’s an old story about a woman selling newspapers in a train station:
A young man exiting the train stops to buy a paper. He asks her, “I’m new here, what kind of town is this?”
