Negotiating the bleak midwinter
Taken from Doing December Differently - Book
contributor: Floe Shakespeare (Wild Goose Publ)
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Negotiating the bleak midwinter
Somewhere around the beginning of December, a hole appears in my life. It is the kind of hole that requires sturdy bollards and much red and white tape around itsperimeter to prevent accidental fatality.
So I make a small altar and light a daily candle. I find myself remembering theanticipation, restlessness and sheer physical discomfort of the last month of pregnancy. I remember long, complicated, boring journeys, undertaken with the expectation of wondrous happenings – the first glimpse of the sea, connection with a friend not seen for too long. I remember long nights of waiting, not expecting
anything to happen at all...
Taken from Doing December Differently by Nicola Slee and Rosie Miles. Click Here
Somewhere around the beginning of December, a hole appears in my life. It is the kind of hole that requires sturdy bollards and much red and white tape around itsperimeter to prevent accidental fatality.
So I make a small altar and light a daily candle. I find myself remembering theanticipation, restlessness and sheer physical discomfort of the last month of pregnancy. I remember long, complicated, boring journeys, undertaken with the expectation of wondrous happenings – the first glimpse of the sea, connection with a friend not seen for too long. I remember long nights of waiting, not expecting
anything to happen at all...
Taken from Doing December Differently by Nicola Slee and Rosie Miles. Click Here
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