When the holidays are over...

There's this part of winter that isn't always talked about. The time between holidays and parties. There's nothing special about those days. No time off from work or class. It's lonely. It's cold. It's beautiful. It's the "rest" of winter.

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Our Anishinaabemowin phrase of the day is: Biindaakoojigeyaan minwendamoog manidoog. ("When I am making a tobacco offering, the spirits are happy.")

Image created by Manitou Mounds

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In the north woods of Michigan.

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After the Winter

Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning’s white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night, We’ll turn our faces southward, love, Toward the summer isle -Claude McKay

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Dust of Snow

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued -Robert Frost

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In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird with its white eyes shoves and pushes among the branches -Mary Oliver

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