When our lives pass through winter
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“You and I, let’s spend a wise winter together with this book. “Welcome a splendid spring.” _Choi In-a (CEO of Choi In-a Bookstore) Winter is a lonely time when no one can comfort you! Meet Wintering, the brilliant wisdom that helps you survive the cold season. An essay that we all must read as we stand at the threshold of winter has arrived. This is When Our Lives Pass Through Winter, which has been praised as “a therapeutic book in words” (Guardian) and “a book that captures the sense, beauty, and potential power of landscape in honest and precise language” (Wall Street Journal). This book is a memoir written by author Catherine May, who calmly records what happened to her during the winter from the Indian summer season in September to March of the following year. One day, just before her fortieth birthday, she faces a series of trials: her husband's sudden appendicitis, her own job loss due to health problems, and her son's refusal to go to school. And then, for the first time, he realizes that he is standing in the middle of the 'winter of life'. As we walk through the intellectual and lyrical landscape of wintering, a time of hibernation that no one can avoid, we encounter precious wisdom for enduring winter. |
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index
September Prologue - Indian Summer
october
Preparing for winter
warm up
Halloween
November
For the time being, rest
I need hibernation
december
light
Send a comrade
Bert's Winter
january
Tromsø travel
Wolf, hungry
february
The Day the White Witch Comes
sea swimming
March
The Ant, the Grasshopper, and Sylvia Plath
your voice
Epilogue at the end of March - After all the ice has melted
Acknowledgements
october
Preparing for winter
warm up
Halloween
November
For the time being, rest
I need hibernation
december
light
Send a comrade
Bert's Winter
january
Tromsø travel
Wolf, hungry
february
The Day the White Witch Comes
sea swimming
March
The Ant, the Grasshopper, and Sylvia Plath
your voice
Epilogue at the end of March - After all the ice has melted
Acknowledgements
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Into the book
Even if you have tremendous self-control and good luck to maintain good health and happiness throughout your life, you cannot avoid winter.
Our parents will grow old and pass away, our friends will betray us in small ways, and the world of power and intrigue will not work as we wish.
As we live, we all stumble at some point, and winter quietly enters our lives.
--- p.18
In today's relentlessly fast-paced world, we often try to postpone the arrival of winter forever.
We don't even try to fully experience winter, let alone understand how it torments us.
Sometimes harsh winters work to our advantage.
Therefore, we should not blindly dismiss winter as a meaningless, nerve-numbing, and weak-willed period.
Attempts to ignore or eliminate this period must also stop.
Because winter is real and it asks us questions.
We must learn to accept winter into our lives.
--- pp.20~21
After my grandmother's death, I believed that if anyone came back in ghostly form, it would be my grandmother.
I cannot express how bitterly disappointed I was when my grandmother, her comforting light, did not appear at my bedside in the middle of the night.
But, that's exactly what sadness is.
A desperate longing that makes it seem like everything will be okay if we can meet just one last time.
That feeling was most intense the first year after my grandmother passed away, but the longing hasn't subsided since.
When I was seventeen, I couldn't think of saying it, but now I have something to say.
There are things I didn't know then, but I know now.
--- p.80
I feel like I could make a living worrying if someone paid me.
What am I worrying about this long night? Money.
death.
failure.
The familiar knights of the quiet apocalypse that will only happen when the sun sets (referring to the four horsemen who destroy the world in the Book of Revelation? Translator's note).
I worry that my house, which stands on the edge of a cliff, will fall forever to the rocks below.
I'm more worried about missing out on a paycheck than about complete disappearance.
I have too much debt.
I have nothing.
I have nothing to boast about in my 40 years on this earth.
There is just a pile of dusty books.
--- pp.108~109
No matter how desperately I wanted my own time, I didn't want to ruin my son by sending him back to school.
It would be expected of a mother to worry about her child's future qualifications rather than her child's ability to be content, but that's not what I wanted to do.
I couldn't help but think that developing one's potential and not being unhappy were two conflicting concepts.
Happiness is one of the greatest skills we can learn.
It is not a part of us that should be relegated to a dark corner, a shameful area for those who deliberately play naively.
--- p.164
But if happiness is a skill, so is sadness.
Perhaps through our school years, or through hardships, we are taught to ignore sadness, to shove it in our backpacks and pretend it never existed.
But as adults, we must sometimes learn to listen to that clear cry.
That's wintering.
Actively accepting grief.
--- pp.164~165
Encountering extreme cold brought us back to the cliché, 'this moment.'
In this moment, our minds were forced to break free from dwelling on the past or the future or writing down endless to-do lists.
We had to focus all our attention on our bodies, right here, right now, guarding against the cold encroaching too heavily on us.
--- p.250
The female voice always faces challenges that the male voice never faces.
If a woman speaks too softly, she is treated like a friendly mouse, but if she raises her voice, she is criticized as being harsh.
It is a famous anecdote that Margaret Thatcher took public speaking classes to project authority when she began her political career.
Her voice had to bear the weight of the nation's fear of women and show that women possessed sound judgment.
Our parents will grow old and pass away, our friends will betray us in small ways, and the world of power and intrigue will not work as we wish.
As we live, we all stumble at some point, and winter quietly enters our lives.
--- p.18
In today's relentlessly fast-paced world, we often try to postpone the arrival of winter forever.
We don't even try to fully experience winter, let alone understand how it torments us.
Sometimes harsh winters work to our advantage.
Therefore, we should not blindly dismiss winter as a meaningless, nerve-numbing, and weak-willed period.
Attempts to ignore or eliminate this period must also stop.
Because winter is real and it asks us questions.
We must learn to accept winter into our lives.
--- pp.20~21
After my grandmother's death, I believed that if anyone came back in ghostly form, it would be my grandmother.
I cannot express how bitterly disappointed I was when my grandmother, her comforting light, did not appear at my bedside in the middle of the night.
But, that's exactly what sadness is.
A desperate longing that makes it seem like everything will be okay if we can meet just one last time.
That feeling was most intense the first year after my grandmother passed away, but the longing hasn't subsided since.
When I was seventeen, I couldn't think of saying it, but now I have something to say.
There are things I didn't know then, but I know now.
--- p.80
I feel like I could make a living worrying if someone paid me.
What am I worrying about this long night? Money.
death.
failure.
The familiar knights of the quiet apocalypse that will only happen when the sun sets (referring to the four horsemen who destroy the world in the Book of Revelation? Translator's note).
I worry that my house, which stands on the edge of a cliff, will fall forever to the rocks below.
I'm more worried about missing out on a paycheck than about complete disappearance.
I have too much debt.
I have nothing.
I have nothing to boast about in my 40 years on this earth.
There is just a pile of dusty books.
--- pp.108~109
No matter how desperately I wanted my own time, I didn't want to ruin my son by sending him back to school.
It would be expected of a mother to worry about her child's future qualifications rather than her child's ability to be content, but that's not what I wanted to do.
I couldn't help but think that developing one's potential and not being unhappy were two conflicting concepts.
Happiness is one of the greatest skills we can learn.
It is not a part of us that should be relegated to a dark corner, a shameful area for those who deliberately play naively.
--- p.164
But if happiness is a skill, so is sadness.
Perhaps through our school years, or through hardships, we are taught to ignore sadness, to shove it in our backpacks and pretend it never existed.
But as adults, we must sometimes learn to listen to that clear cry.
That's wintering.
Actively accepting grief.
--- pp.164~165
Encountering extreme cold brought us back to the cliché, 'this moment.'
In this moment, our minds were forced to break free from dwelling on the past or the future or writing down endless to-do lists.
We had to focus all our attention on our bodies, right here, right now, guarding against the cold encroaching too heavily on us.
--- p.250
The female voice always faces challenges that the male voice never faces.
If a woman speaks too softly, she is treated like a friendly mouse, but if she raises her voice, she is criticized as being harsh.
It is a famous anecdote that Margaret Thatcher took public speaking classes to project authority when she began her political career.
Her voice had to bear the weight of the nation's fear of women and show that women possessed sound judgment.
--- pp.292~293
Publisher's Review
★ Published in 24 countries worldwide ★
★ Overwhelming praise from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Guardian ★
★ Choi In-a Bookstore CEO Choi In-a, strongly recommends author Kim Dong-young of "Fish" ★
Winter is a lonely time when no one can comfort you!
Meet Wintering, the brilliant wisdom that helps you survive the cold season.
An essay that we all must read as we stand at the threshold of winter has arrived.
This is Wintering, which has been praised as “a therapeutic book in words” (Guardian) and “a book that captures the sense, beauty and potential power of landscape in honest and precise language” (Wall Street Journal).
This book, which was read by over 100,000 readers in just two months after its publication in the United States, has become a bestseller on Amazon, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the National Booksellers Association, and is meeting readers in 24 countries around the world, including Korea.
This book is a memoir covering the author's winter stay, from the Indian summer season in September to March of the following year.
One day, just before her fortieth birthday, Catherine May experiences her husband's acute appendicitis.
As she watches her husband, pushed around by other patients and sick in the waiting room all night, finally being put on the operating table after his appendix bursts, May senses that she has entered a new phase of her life, different from before.
“I’m just a little lost.”
With actions that are not bound by the poet's gaze
Finding Winter Rest and Meaning in the Midst of Misfortune
What would it feel like to be struck by a series of seemingly inexplicable misfortunes? What if, through no fault of their own, tragic events were unleashed upon you? After her husband's surgery, May's peaceful life is suddenly turned upside down, with unexplained health issues leading to unemployment and her child's refusal to attend school.
But don't be discouraged.
Instead, he takes a step back, faces the reality that he has entered the 'winter of life', and fully embraces that period of life, calling it 'wintering', and explores the meaning of winter.
May meets a Finnish friend and hears about the wisdom of Nordic people who survive the winter, and visits Finland herself.
Immersed in fairy tales and novels, I ponder the meaning of winter, the setting for the stories. I also hear stories of people overcoming bipolar disorder through cold water swimming, and experience firsthand the power of recovery and healing in the cold as I swim in the winter sea.
Observing a hibernating dormouse, he asks himself, who suffers from insomnia, what the meaning of sleep is, and realizes that trees that seem to lose their leaves and lose all life in winter are actually growing leaf buds for the next spring.
In this way, this book shows beautiful and poetic moments of finding rest and the meaning of winter through people, fairy tales, nature, and travel in the midst of the 'winter of life' that suddenly came.
In it, the reader realizes that “winter is not just a harsh season, but a season of recharging where, if you take a step back and use your energy carefully, you can encounter valuable wisdom” (Choi In-a, CEO of Choi In-a Bookstore).
Why is our voice
Should it be twisted to suit the needs of the world?
On living in a world that is colder only for women
We dream of “a life of unchanging, unending glory,” but that’s not the case, says May, and that’s okay.
Winter is a harsh season, but it also offers us unexpected benefits, which is why 'wintering' is such a meaningful activity.
But May discovers that some winters are particularly unfair, and only affect certain people.
This is the winter that women experience.
The female voice always faces challenges that the male voice never faces.
If a woman speaks too softly, she is treated like a friendly mouse, but if she raises her voice, she is criticized as being harsh.
It is a famous anecdote that Margaret Thatcher took public speaking classes to project authority when she began her political career.
Her voice had to bear the weight of the nation's fear of women and show that women possessed sound judgment.
Instead of challenging the patriarchy head-on, we had to use the power of words to take control of the system.
(Pages 292-293)
May says our society places more burdens on women than on men, meaning that the world feels a little more "wintery" to them.
From her own experience of returning to work immediately after giving birth out of fear of losing her position, to the story of Saint Lucia, who refused to be owned by men and ultimately met her death, to the anecdote of Sylvia Plath, who could not escape her husband even after death, May calmly depicts the winter that unfolds before women and shows the difficulty of women's voices being heard fully in this world.
We have survived the pandemic era
And have passed or are passing through the winter of life
A book for everyone who is tired and worn out
"When Our Lives Pass Through Winter" was published during the pandemic crisis in 2020 and received praise such as "the book I needed at the worst moment of my life" and "the author's perspective on the world purifies the heart."
Although the pandemic era seems to have come to an end as we move into the 'With Corona' era, the scars that remain in our hearts still remain.
Even without the coronavirus, the winter of life is upon us, and we need the wisdom to live those days faithfully.
The world we live in denies the coming of winter.
When you talk about depression, everyone turns away, and the person who always moves forward is treated well.
But this book argues:
Sometimes a retreat is necessary.
As there is light, there is shadow, and as warm summers are valuable, so too are cold winters useful.
May writes.
“I wonder if denying these feelings, which are perfectly normal, turns us into monsters.”
It tells us not to avoid the winter that lies before us, but to go through it, and thus transform into a more mature person and welcome the new spring.
It's a lovely and wonderful book.
It offers hope that embraces difficult times.
_The New York Times
A book that captures the sense, beauty, and potential power of landscape in honest and precise language.
_The Wall Street Journal
A fascinating re-examination of our 'hibernation period' through the poet's perspective and unexpected wit.
_《Observer》
It depicts the difficult times that come with life and teaches us how to lean into the time when we have nothing to do.
_《People》
It's fascinating.
A beautiful book that can be said to be a healing text.
_《The Guardian》
An inner meditation on solitude and change.
A tranquil respite from the gloomy season.
_《Kirkus Review》
beautiful.
It's full of quotable passages.
I want to read this book with all my friends.
_《Book Page》
★ Overwhelming praise from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Guardian ★
★ Choi In-a Bookstore CEO Choi In-a, strongly recommends author Kim Dong-young of "Fish" ★
Winter is a lonely time when no one can comfort you!
Meet Wintering, the brilliant wisdom that helps you survive the cold season.
An essay that we all must read as we stand at the threshold of winter has arrived.
This is Wintering, which has been praised as “a therapeutic book in words” (Guardian) and “a book that captures the sense, beauty and potential power of landscape in honest and precise language” (Wall Street Journal).
This book, which was read by over 100,000 readers in just two months after its publication in the United States, has become a bestseller on Amazon, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the National Booksellers Association, and is meeting readers in 24 countries around the world, including Korea.
This book is a memoir covering the author's winter stay, from the Indian summer season in September to March of the following year.
One day, just before her fortieth birthday, Catherine May experiences her husband's acute appendicitis.
As she watches her husband, pushed around by other patients and sick in the waiting room all night, finally being put on the operating table after his appendix bursts, May senses that she has entered a new phase of her life, different from before.
“I’m just a little lost.”
With actions that are not bound by the poet's gaze
Finding Winter Rest and Meaning in the Midst of Misfortune
What would it feel like to be struck by a series of seemingly inexplicable misfortunes? What if, through no fault of their own, tragic events were unleashed upon you? After her husband's surgery, May's peaceful life is suddenly turned upside down, with unexplained health issues leading to unemployment and her child's refusal to attend school.
But don't be discouraged.
Instead, he takes a step back, faces the reality that he has entered the 'winter of life', and fully embraces that period of life, calling it 'wintering', and explores the meaning of winter.
May meets a Finnish friend and hears about the wisdom of Nordic people who survive the winter, and visits Finland herself.
Immersed in fairy tales and novels, I ponder the meaning of winter, the setting for the stories. I also hear stories of people overcoming bipolar disorder through cold water swimming, and experience firsthand the power of recovery and healing in the cold as I swim in the winter sea.
Observing a hibernating dormouse, he asks himself, who suffers from insomnia, what the meaning of sleep is, and realizes that trees that seem to lose their leaves and lose all life in winter are actually growing leaf buds for the next spring.
In this way, this book shows beautiful and poetic moments of finding rest and the meaning of winter through people, fairy tales, nature, and travel in the midst of the 'winter of life' that suddenly came.
In it, the reader realizes that “winter is not just a harsh season, but a season of recharging where, if you take a step back and use your energy carefully, you can encounter valuable wisdom” (Choi In-a, CEO of Choi In-a Bookstore).
Why is our voice
Should it be twisted to suit the needs of the world?
On living in a world that is colder only for women
We dream of “a life of unchanging, unending glory,” but that’s not the case, says May, and that’s okay.
Winter is a harsh season, but it also offers us unexpected benefits, which is why 'wintering' is such a meaningful activity.
But May discovers that some winters are particularly unfair, and only affect certain people.
This is the winter that women experience.
The female voice always faces challenges that the male voice never faces.
If a woman speaks too softly, she is treated like a friendly mouse, but if she raises her voice, she is criticized as being harsh.
It is a famous anecdote that Margaret Thatcher took public speaking classes to project authority when she began her political career.
Her voice had to bear the weight of the nation's fear of women and show that women possessed sound judgment.
Instead of challenging the patriarchy head-on, we had to use the power of words to take control of the system.
(Pages 292-293)
May says our society places more burdens on women than on men, meaning that the world feels a little more "wintery" to them.
From her own experience of returning to work immediately after giving birth out of fear of losing her position, to the story of Saint Lucia, who refused to be owned by men and ultimately met her death, to the anecdote of Sylvia Plath, who could not escape her husband even after death, May calmly depicts the winter that unfolds before women and shows the difficulty of women's voices being heard fully in this world.
We have survived the pandemic era
And have passed or are passing through the winter of life
A book for everyone who is tired and worn out
"When Our Lives Pass Through Winter" was published during the pandemic crisis in 2020 and received praise such as "the book I needed at the worst moment of my life" and "the author's perspective on the world purifies the heart."
Although the pandemic era seems to have come to an end as we move into the 'With Corona' era, the scars that remain in our hearts still remain.
Even without the coronavirus, the winter of life is upon us, and we need the wisdom to live those days faithfully.
The world we live in denies the coming of winter.
When you talk about depression, everyone turns away, and the person who always moves forward is treated well.
But this book argues:
Sometimes a retreat is necessary.
As there is light, there is shadow, and as warm summers are valuable, so too are cold winters useful.
May writes.
“I wonder if denying these feelings, which are perfectly normal, turns us into monsters.”
It tells us not to avoid the winter that lies before us, but to go through it, and thus transform into a more mature person and welcome the new spring.
It's a lovely and wonderful book.
It offers hope that embraces difficult times.
_The New York Times
A book that captures the sense, beauty, and potential power of landscape in honest and precise language.
_The Wall Street Journal
A fascinating re-examination of our 'hibernation period' through the poet's perspective and unexpected wit.
_《Observer》
It depicts the difficult times that come with life and teaches us how to lean into the time when we have nothing to do.
_《People》
It's fascinating.
A beautiful book that can be said to be a healing text.
_《The Guardian》
An inner meditation on solitude and change.
A tranquil respite from the gloomy season.
_《Kirkus Review》
beautiful.
It's full of quotable passages.
I want to read this book with all my friends.
_《Book Page》
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: November 22, 2021
- Page count, weight, size: 316 pages | 388g | 130*213*20mm
- ISBN13: 9788901254456
- ISBN10: 890125445X
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