Winter can be dreary, depressing, and dead. If you choose to see it that way. Winter can also be alive.

If you live in a place that gets snow, consider walking through a park; better yet, a forest.
While walking, stop periodically and listen.

Listen to the sounds of birds chirping, woodpeckers looking for bugs, snow falling, or squirrels scurrying.

Look at the branches close to the forest floor. Pay attention to the scaled over buds waiting to burst when spring arrives.

We underestimate how much life winter brings.

It’s a beautiful time of year.

I hope you get to enjoy it.