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Micro seasons! I agree that looking at parts of the whole can make just about anything more manageable, and also embracing the inflections between one stage and the next is kind of magical. Very curious about the book...now I'm going to go look it up at my library!

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Oh good!

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I will give this book a try! Thank you 🙏🏻

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My favourite is the Japanese 72 micro-seasons - it's so poetic: https://where-ever.co.uk/journal/japans-72-poetic-micro-seasons

I've got a plugin for it on my Gcal as well, and it makes me happy when we move to a new microseason.

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This is so enchanting

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I always tell new parents “the days are long, but the years are short”! He’ll be asking for the car keys soon enough.

One of my “well worn phrases” is a portion of a scripture verse…”And it came to pass”. I know it’s not IN CONTEXT but it’s so true. These phases don’t come to stay, but to pass ever so quickly. Take them in fully, the blowouts and babbling, the colic and the cooing, they all make up the fabric of the life you hold in your hands. And all will be held dear (some more so than others😜).

I love these posts that focus on your little one. ❤️

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I love this! After a decade of walking in nature, I have way more than four seasons too!

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Oh man I'm sure you do. Your photos could create a calendar by the day.

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Lovely Kelton! Such wisdom in this post.

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💞

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Congrats on the little one's achieving mastery of farting. Onward and upward.

And I LOVE the idea of specialty seasons. Both because they more accurately describe things and for how they make the bad parts more palatable.

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Your description of How to Winter reminds me of Wintering by Kathrine May which I found deeply comforting. Definitely adding to my TBR pile.

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That's on my TBR pile!

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I’ll trade you! 😊

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I just finished May’s Wintering, which I thoroughly enjoyed! Winter has always been my favorite season, but now, with a two-year-old who doesn’t go to sleep before 10 p.m., who’s currently in a no jacket or shoes phase, and this whole dark at 5 p.m. thing, I have never been so fearful of a season. Our only indoor evening activity option within an hour and fifteen-minute drive is the bookmobile, which only comes around once every two weeks. We're only on day five of "normal time," and I'm already out of ideas. It sounds like I may need Leibowitz's book as well.

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