01/26/2026
"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation." - Sinclair Lewis
Anybody else feel like Winter is currently your full time job?
We are all glued to the Weather App, expecting 4-32 inches of snow, or maybe not ❄️🥶
Winter is just so … extra. Extra effort in everything, even getting dressed. So many layers 🧣🧦
Extra resources 🚰 (I’m collecting my drip water because it hurts my soul to waste it)
Extra trips to everywhere 🚗🥛 (we never did find milk)
Workloads back up from missed days, or increase as we try to reschedule, adjust client passes, and see our fiscal goals drop. 📉 … small biz friends, I see you.
The harsh storms of Winter demand participation. We can brace to live through it, or we can work with it. We can recognize this allowance of time as a gift and use it wisely. {What is wise is defined by the user.}
This is a time when we rely on our resilience and our ability to adapt to new routines. We can call on our circle for accountability with these new routines so that maybe we don’t end up eating chili dogs at 1am after 6 straight episodes of the latest Netflix doc 🌭
This part of Winter asks something of us. It requires a tax. We can’t ignore it without consequence. That tax gets real real when the utilities come due, or we end up needing a tow, or worse. * all my busted pipe peeps gather round *
Maybe we can reframe this time as a bonus rather than an interruption. We have that extra time we needed to finish a project, get around to that closet clean out, watch every single Owl Sound video on TikTok 🦉
This time is only wasted if we say it is. Maybe daydreaming, working a puzzle, skating on frozen snow, or working out with one of the great videos on the Stars In Motion YouTube is the work you choose today. This kind of break is also restful when we notice the shift from anxiety and recognize the peace of the present.
Right now we are all co-workers. We are employed by Winter Storm Fern, who apparently graduated from the Michael Scott school of leadership with a Chaos Integration degree and a minor in “make your own rules”.
We will make it through, together. By not living with worry about tomorrow, when we could be finding joy in today.
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