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Katherine May – How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Wintering, the Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

The title of your book is wintering, the power of rest and retreat in difficult times. I'm not sure if i'd have thought about those things very much as a child. In a way, i had a very quiet childhood. My mother was not very keen on leaving the house. She was agraphobic. And i found my childhood very boring actually. We were always stuck inside. There wasn't the opportunities that i wanted to have to go out into the world and to see it really was there. So actually, in lots of ways, it was enforced retreat for me as aChild.

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