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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (edición 2020)

por Katherine May (Autor)

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Un libro íntimo y revelador que explora las formas en que podemos cuidarnos y repararnos cuando la vida nos derriba. MÁS DE 250.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN MENOS DE UN MES. BEST SELLER EN ESTADOS UNIDOS E INGLATERRA. A veces te escapas por las grietas: circunstancias imprevistas como una enfermedad repentina, la muerte de un ser querido, una ruptura o la pérdida del trabajo pueden descarrilar una vida. Estos períodos de dislocación pueden ser solitarios e inesperados. Para May, su esposo se enfermó, su hijo dejó de asistir a la escuela y sus propios problemas médicos la llevaron a dejar un trabajo exigente. Invernando explora cómo ella no solo soportó este doloroso momento, sino que aprovechó las oportunidades singulares que le ofrecía. Una conmovedora narración personal repleta de lecciones de la literatura, la mitología y el mundo natural, la historia de May ofrece instrucción sobre el poder transformador del descanso y el retiro. La iluminación surge de muchas fuentes: las celebraciones del solsticio y la hibernación del lirón, C.S. Lewis y Sylvia Plath, nadando en aguas heladas y navegando por los mares árticos. En última instancia, Invernando nos invita a cambiar la forma en que nos relacionamos con nuestros propios tiempos de barbecho. May modela una aceptación activa de la tristeza y encuentra alimento en un retiro profundo, alegría en la belleza silenciosa del invierno y estímulo para entender la vida como cíclica, no lineal. May, un místico secular, forma una filosofía rectora para transformar las dificultades que surgen antes del inicio de una nueva temporada. «May escribe maravillosamente. Un libro contemplativo, esperanzador y consolador.» NPR «Un libro tan hermoso y curativo como la estación misma. Katherine May examina atentamente la realidad emocional, espiritual y geográfica de los tiempos fríos, los días oscuros y aquellos períodos de nuestras vidas en los que las cosas no son ni suaves ni fáciles. Al hacerlo, ofrece un gran y humano servicio a sus lectores: nos muestra que la invernada no se puede evitar, pero no hay que temer. Este es realmente un libro hermoso.» Elizabeth Gilbert «Este libro es el equivalente a un abrazo perfectamente sincronizado que no sabías que necesitabas, una manta caliente en un día frío. Muchos libros sobre la adversidad se enfocan en formas de escapar de la incomodidad, y este libro de manera tan maravillosa y sincera dice que está bien estar aquí, incluso cuando duele. Es exactamente lo que el mundo necesita en este momento.» Nora McInerny «Encantadora. May tiene un don para desencadenar comedias inesperadas. Hay tanto que atesorar aquí. Su conocimiento sensual es una alegría.» The Guardian «May trae el ojo de un poeta y una comedia inesperada a esta fascinante celebración de nuestra temporada de barbecho.» Observer London «Una lectura empoderadora y conmovedora que inspirará un espíritu de supervivencia incluso en los días más oscuros del invierno.» Town & Country UK «Una elegante investigación sobre los consuelos de la naturaleza y cómo puede ser maravillosamente reconstituyente incluso en los días más sombríos.» Sunday Express «Una mezcla bellamente escrita de memorias y filosofía. Con una pandemia que nos mantiene aislados de tantas maneras, May ofrece el consuelo y la comodidad que tanto necesitamos y un recordatorio de que las estaciones eventualmente cambian.» Booklist «Una meditación íntima sobre la soledad y la transformación. Una evocación serena de una temporada oscura.» Kirkus Reviews «En estas elegantes memorias, la periodista May encuentra la belleza y la transformación en un período difícil de su vida.» Publishers Weekly ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AS HEARD ON NPR MORNING EDITION AND ON BEING WITH KRISTA TIPPETT "Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven''t known how to name." --Krista Tippett, On Being "Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book." --Elizabeth Gilbert   "Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed observer and her language is steady, honest and accurate--capturing the sense, the beauty and the latent power of our resting landscapes." --Wall Street Journal An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May''s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season.… (más)
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Título:Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Autores:Katherine May (Autor)
Información:Riverhead Books (2020), 256 pages
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This time of Social Isolation seemed a timely moment to read about Wintering, about drawing back from the world through illness, depression, or simply from being too cold to engage with the world beyond. This book, part memoir, part researched observation shows how winter can bring strength, and inspiration as we bring different ways of coping to this most demanding of seasons. May looks at the animal world (bees for instance), at different cultures who know a lot about winter (the Finns for example), and at her own experiences to show that winter can be far from negative. Instead, it can be one of healing, renewal, acceptance and a source of strength. A lovely book, which gave this cold-weather refuser plenty to think about. ( )
  Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 |
Summary: A memoir exploring the importance of winters in our lives and the importance of the inward turn and care for ourselves in such seasons.

In the autumn of a recent year, in rapid succession, Katherine May’s husband faced a long recovery from a burst appendix. As he recovered, Katherine got sicker with worrisome intestinal symptoms of her own. Meanwhile, her son’s struggles with school became so severe that he refused to attend. With all this, Katherine gave her notice at her teaching job. She realized this was a time of wintering, not only as autumn turned to winter, but a winter of difficulties settled into their lives. Out of this experience, as well as a formative earlier “wintering” experience of depression at seventeen, she wrote this book, arguing it is not only our physical world that needs winter but that wintering can be formative in our lives:

“Once we stop wishing it were summer, winter can be a glorious season in which the world takes on a sparse beauty and even the pavements sparkle. It’s a time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishments, for putting your house in order” (p. 14).

May’s book was published February of 2020, when many of us were facing the long winter of the COVID pandemic. Her book gave words to the inchoate experience of many trying to understand what had been happening and could happen in their lives during these experiences. The book traverses seven months from September through late March. The struggles leading to this onset of “winter”, the forced rest of her condition, the re-centering of life around home, including cooking to occupy the hands as well as to eat. She realizes the tension she has lived under that may be coming out in her body. She has time for books waiting to have been read. She rediscovers sleep and even the first and second sleeps with an hour or so of wakefulness between, the longer hours of sleep in winter, mimicking the hibernation of other creatures

She also discovers the life of winter. She takes saunas as part of a cruise to Iceland. She delves into the pagan festival of Samhain, at Halloween, this liminal moment between light and darkness, living and dying. With the turn to November, Samhain gives way to Cailleach, the hag deity who freezes the ground until Brighde takes over in spring. In all this she becomes newly aware of life’s cyclical character–the dropping of leaves and the buds already present for the new year. She celebrates Saint Lucy and the lighting of candles in a Swedish church. She rises early to watch the winter solstice sun rise at Stonehenge and considers the earthward religion Christianity replaced and develops both practices religious and secular to mark a pagan counterpart to Christmastide. January takes them to Norway and the northern lights. She considers the significance of wolves in nature and literature, including Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles. She describes the powerful effect of swimming in cold water with friends, even for three minutes. And as spring emerges she draws lessons from observing the merger of two colonies of bees in a hive when the queen of one is dying. She describes the re-emergence of her lost voice and her ability to sing once more under the care of a voice teacher. She speaks of how wrong it is to tie singing to talent:

“The right to sing is an absolute, regardless o how it sounds to the outside world. We sing because we must. We sing because it fills our lungs with nourishing air, and lets our hearts sour with the notes we let out” (p. 228).

May faced the onslaught of winter. Her encouragement is not to evade winter but learn from it. Take time to query our unhappiness. Slow down to take care of oneself with sleep and food and fresh air. Learn from winter in the world about us. Discover the richness in winter.

There is much of beauty in this book. I also found it a striking reflection of a turn from Christian faith while retaining its language of retreat and rest. The author recognizes what Christian spiritual directors have long known of how the liminal space of spiritual winters refine and renew, a knowledge I find many Christians trying to evade. I cannot commend the turn to pagan gods and rituals but the recognition of seasons and the importance of the practices that remind us of the story in which we live is worth reflection. For those who come across this book post-pandemic, it may offer language to reflect upon that winter in our lives. Winter comes to all of us, for many of us multiple times. Will we be spiritual “snowbirds” who flee it or will we lean into its lessons, bundle up, and grow resilient? ( )
  BobonBooks | Apr 4, 2024 |
One of the most powerful and sensorial books I ever read about a woman's courage to 'lean in' to her withdrawal from the frantic disjointness of modern life. Courage, wisdom, moderation, insight. Loved this very much! ( )
  KKBucher | Feb 12, 2024 |
I hesitate to give this two stars because I can tell the author was frank about their life experience, opinions, and tried to cover a lot of subject matter.

The info about first and second sleep existing before artificial lighting is cool, and I know there is evidence that artificial lighting messes with peoples' circadian rhythm, but I am not sure how much of what she shares is founded or pseudoscience because I feel like she makes a lot of other biased presumptions throughout the book.

The moment that killed it for me was her saying Halloween is a role-reversal holiday for poor people to get a taste of anarchy because they have the gall to ring rich people's doorbells and ask for candy at the threat of a trick. I could not roll my eyes far back enough. It seemed like such a overgeneralization of a holiday for kids and a really bad take.

I also felt bad for her struggles with various health issues, but could not relate that she seemed to be able to get immediate treatment and accommodation for all of her needs. Must be nice! Maybe it's a British thing? A rich white lady thing? Idk.

The luxurious vacations also made me feel completely alienated from her experience as opposed to Comfort of Crows being more about the author's home, nature, and family. In this book nature seems more like some kind of accessory, like something in a zoo for her to look at and comment on versus something she feels part of.

Overall this book was a slog-fest. I really tried to sympathize with them and care about some of the subject matter, but I could not and had to speed-read/skim through the rest of it just to get it over with. ( )
  nessie_arduin | Feb 1, 2024 |
Winter as a metaphor for hard times in your life.

"We like to imagine that it's possible for life to be one eternal summer & that we have uniquely failed to achieve that for ourselves." That's why I recommend the anti-gratitude journal.

Regarding someone with bouts of mania and depression, a GP changed her life by saying, "This isn't about you getting better. This is about you living the best life you can with the parameters that you have." Isn't that what it's about for all of us?

"Have we really got so far into the realm of electric light and central heating that the rhythm of the year is irrelevant to us..." That was me when I lived in the city. All I cared about was how heavy a jacket to wear. Or maybe it was because I was young. I have such a yearly rhythm now, though.

"Misery is not an option [sarcasm]. We must carry on looking jolly for the sake of the crowd." Ha. I always hated the mandate to be happy. ( )
  Tytania | Jan 24, 2024 |
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This timely memoir details seven months that the author, suffering from a mysterious illness, spent sequestered at home. For May, who saw life as “linear, a long march from birth to death,” the enforced hiatus comes to feel like nonexistence. Yet it inspires unusual investigations—into hibernating animals, deciduous trees, the cultures of places with long winters, and the ritual pauses that once shaped human society. May’s message isn’t about how to be cheery during a personal winter but about how to embrace the “negative presence” of these moments, and to allow the rebirth they naturally engender. “We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us,” she writes. “Given time, they grow again.”
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Un libro íntimo y revelador que explora las formas en que podemos cuidarnos y repararnos cuando la vida nos derriba. MÁS DE 250.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN MENOS DE UN MES. BEST SELLER EN ESTADOS UNIDOS E INGLATERRA. A veces te escapas por las grietas: circunstancias imprevistas como una enfermedad repentina, la muerte de un ser querido, una ruptura o la pérdida del trabajo pueden descarrilar una vida. Estos períodos de dislocación pueden ser solitarios e inesperados. Para May, su esposo se enfermó, su hijo dejó de asistir a la escuela y sus propios problemas médicos la llevaron a dejar un trabajo exigente. Invernando explora cómo ella no solo soportó este doloroso momento, sino que aprovechó las oportunidades singulares que le ofrecía. Una conmovedora narración personal repleta de lecciones de la literatura, la mitología y el mundo natural, la historia de May ofrece instrucción sobre el poder transformador del descanso y el retiro. La iluminación surge de muchas fuentes: las celebraciones del solsticio y la hibernación del lirón, C.S. Lewis y Sylvia Plath, nadando en aguas heladas y navegando por los mares árticos. En última instancia, Invernando nos invita a cambiar la forma en que nos relacionamos con nuestros propios tiempos de barbecho. May modela una aceptación activa de la tristeza y encuentra alimento en un retiro profundo, alegría en la belleza silenciosa del invierno y estímulo para entender la vida como cíclica, no lineal. May, un místico secular, forma una filosofía rectora para transformar las dificultades que surgen antes del inicio de una nueva temporada. «May escribe maravillosamente. Un libro contemplativo, esperanzador y consolador.» NPR «Un libro tan hermoso y curativo como la estación misma. Katherine May examina atentamente la realidad emocional, espiritual y geográfica de los tiempos fríos, los días oscuros y aquellos períodos de nuestras vidas en los que las cosas no son ni suaves ni fáciles. Al hacerlo, ofrece un gran y humano servicio a sus lectores: nos muestra que la invernada no se puede evitar, pero no hay que temer. Este es realmente un libro hermoso.» Elizabeth Gilbert «Este libro es el equivalente a un abrazo perfectamente sincronizado que no sabías que necesitabas, una manta caliente en un día frío. Muchos libros sobre la adversidad se enfocan en formas de escapar de la incomodidad, y este libro de manera tan maravillosa y sincera dice que está bien estar aquí, incluso cuando duele. Es exactamente lo que el mundo necesita en este momento.» Nora McInerny «Encantadora. May tiene un don para desencadenar comedias inesperadas. Hay tanto que atesorar aquí. Su conocimiento sensual es una alegría.» The Guardian «May trae el ojo de un poeta y una comedia inesperada a esta fascinante celebración de nuestra temporada de barbecho.» Observer London «Una lectura empoderadora y conmovedora que inspirará un espíritu de supervivencia incluso en los días más oscuros del invierno.» Town & Country UK «Una elegante investigación sobre los consuelos de la naturaleza y cómo puede ser maravillosamente reconstituyente incluso en los días más sombríos.» Sunday Express «Una mezcla bellamente escrita de memorias y filosofía. Con una pandemia que nos mantiene aislados de tantas maneras, May ofrece el consuelo y la comodidad que tanto necesitamos y un recordatorio de que las estaciones eventualmente cambian.» Booklist «Una meditación íntima sobre la soledad y la transformación. Una evocación serena de una temporada oscura.» Kirkus Reviews «En estas elegantes memorias, la periodista May encuentra la belleza y la transformación en un período difícil de su vida.» Publishers Weekly ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AS HEARD ON NPR MORNING EDITION AND ON BEING WITH KRISTA TIPPETT "Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven''t known how to name." --Krista Tippett, On Being "Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book." --Elizabeth Gilbert   "Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed observer and her language is steady, honest and accurate--capturing the sense, the beauty and the latent power of our resting landscapes." --Wall Street Journal An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May''s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season.

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