Rewild Your New Year, Winter

New Year's Resolutions? Who needs resolutions? First in a series of four installments, we'll unravel the domesticated, tease-out the knots that are our busy schedules and 'to-do' lists, let a little air into the climate-controlled boxes we call home. Why tackle the year all at once when you can take it step-by-step, season by season? A seasonal list of books, projects, workshops, recipes, articles, experiences, prompts to creativity and contemplation, and just plain interesting things.

So, open a window onto the natural world: earth, stone, bone, tooth, lichen and bark. Better yet, open the door and walk right out!

Begin with wolves and a fox

Winter

Folklore of winter

Dreaming deep, Dream Journal

Maine Farmland Trust Residencies

Why I Adore the Night by Jeanette Winterson

Unravel Your Year

Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times

Why Creativity Thrives in the Dark

Winter herbalism class

Ice, water, land, change, the art of Katie Ione Crane

Tips for taking ice photos, (some good ideas even if you're using a phone camera)

Venus and the moon will make a striking (and close) pair on the nights of January 28th and February 27th. The article also defines earthshine or 'the old moon in the young moon's arms'. Definitely worth a read!

Winter Gardening

Dark art for dark times

Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale

Start a morning candle-lighting ritual and Match: Bringing Heart and Will Into Alignment

Winter of life, croning

The Living Experiment's Winter Episode

A meditative cup of tea

Marriage of elder wisdom and technology

Fire Magic

Blizzard sounds

This guy hiked the AT in winter

150 mile Winter Challenge