People often don't pay attention to how weather or even different seasons can effect them. If you have low energy or a low mood at this time of year, know that you're not alone. If you can, use this time to recharge. Listen to your body. What is it telling you? What does it need right now?
Like other creatures, like the bare trees, sometimes we just need to go inside ourselves.
Winter Tree
I feel at ease
when I look at you.
Your bare-ness is soothing.
As if you have withdrawn
into yourself
as you must do
from time to time.
You can not be full and lush
always.
There must be a time
for quiet,
introspection.
Less aesthetics,
less surface richness
and outward abundance.
Less attention to the external.
There is so much happening
beneath the surface.
Life
still breathes in this rooted being,
in its trunk,
in its branches,
in its roots,
day in and day out.
I yearn
for a similar quiet time
when I can retreat
within myself
and feel into my aliveness
without the distraction
of the outer world
and its expectations.
You are a reminder of life's cycles.
You are a reminder to trust.
-Monica R.