Caitlin Kelch

Sights & Sounds For Your Winter Morning

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I’ve met a few people who classify themselves as “winter people” and I have never quite understood them. Like so-called “morning people,” these rare creatures seem to revel in a time that is especially inhospitable. Bitterly cold, arid, and icy, winter typically finds me holed up inside my home, layers upon layers of knits covering my body. The days that fall between December and March don’t even really register as “real” to me, but seem more as a bleak, purgatorial ellipses between more forgiving months.

That said, waiting idly for spring to come seems like an awful waste of time. As much as I tend to hate winter and its sun-deprived days and subzero nights, I need to remind myself that each season contains beauty — and something worth savoring. To me, the beauty that winter holds is its bleakness. If summer is the drunken party animal of seasons, filled with riotous celebration and explosive color, winter is its sober, harshly minimal counterpart. Winter is subdued. It’s slow. And above all — winter is quiet. I think, if I had to choose, that this is what I love best about winter. Even if you are walking down a bustling city street, all of the sound seems to have been utterly consumed — muffled by the snow, ice, and cold. It’s a time when you can hear your thoughts, a time to let your mind wander, if you let it.

If you need some inspiration to get out of your own winter funk and into a more silence-embracing mindset, here are seven beautiful photos and songs to start your day on the right foot. —Max

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