Even though the end of winter is approaching

By Mike Schultz in Virginia Woolf on

> “Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.” - Virginia Woolf, Night and Day. #virginiawoolf [https://twitter.com/hashtag/virginiawoolf?src=hash&…

Thoreau Celebrates the Winter Solstice

By Mike Schultz in Thoreau on

The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20141221/] pointed the way to this thought of Henry David Thoreau about winter. > In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half concealed, but from…