Gifts of the Season – Christine Valters Paintner 

“One of the greatest gifts of the seasons to me as a writer and artist is this profound wisdom of cycles, how everything rises and falls and then rises again. When we are in a dry spell we may panic because the words or inspiration seems absent, but often it is a fallow time, a winter time of the soul to enter into some rest both inward and outward and allow time for the seeds to sprout again.”
— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD The Online Self-Study Retreat ~ A Midwinter God: Making a Conscious Underworld Journey