MySpot: Winter Is on My Head

 

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, 

so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, 

so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

Jean Paul Richter

MySpot: The Cold of the Winter

"In the bleak midwinter

Frosty wind made moan,

Earth stood hard as iron,

Water like a stone;

Snow had fallen, snow on snow,

Snow on snow,

In the bleak midwinter,

Long ago."

Christina Rossetti - A Christmas Carol

MySpot: Brothers Come with the Territory

"Family - like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. 

Each of our lives will always be a special part of the others."

Author Unknown

MySpot: Gleaming in the Winter Sun

"Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. 

It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow."

Patience Strong

In the Bleak Midwinter

"My dear,

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.

In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.

In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.

I realized, through it all, that…

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. 

For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, 

within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Truly yours,

Albert Camus"

MySpot: Not Quite so Simple as Black and White

"It was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, 

when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewter rather than silver."

G. K. Chesterton

MySpot: Dull November

"Usually, I cannot just voluntarily sit down in deep thought and begin writing nor would I want to. 

Nearly everything that comes together, comes together in pieces, out of life."

Criss Jami

MySpot: Like an Yellow Leaf

"My way of life 

Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf,

And that which should accompany old age,

As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,

I must not look to have."

William Shakespeare