COMMENTARY: There is life in the darker months, in winter. It’s just harder to see, writes Liz Vago.
There is life unseen in the winter, writes Liz Vago. In the woods and the woodpile, in the soft dirt where toads burrow down to hibernate — animals survive by going deep.
But there is life in the darker months, in winter. It’s just harder to see. Ok, the birdfeeders, yes, a burst of chatter and flying millet as blue jays search for sunflower seeds. The nasal drone of nuthatches, the Cirque du Soleil acrobats of the avian world, feeding upside down or upright. I get nauseous just thinking about it. And the woodpeckers! Ladder-backed in black and white, the males with a ring of red at their throats, banging their beaks into a brick of suet.
One bleak January, I stumbled on a notice for free meditation classes at a local massage therapist’s studio. Five Tuesday evening sessions. Maybe meditation could stop the anxious chipmunk chatter in my brain. Understanding started to seep into my brain. It was just a glimmer, but I have tried to hold onto it. How would I appreciate the light, the sun, the flowers, the life of other seasons, without the dark? Is that what snowbirds miss in their quest to avoid the cold? Even sun becomes boring, underappreciated, shunned to avoid skin cancer. Every season has its dark side.
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