Frost is usually an unpleasant experience for us, but I take the arrival of a much needed cold front here as an opportunity to look at its benefits.
There is for instance hibernation — and I don’t mean some form of revocable death, but a state of reduced activity of body and soul. Reportedly, bacteria in Antarctica have not only survived hundred of thousands of years in the ice, but stayed active repairing their DNA during the entire time.
100 Years of Solitude are nothing compared to this, and one year of covid should also be survivable, in proper hibernation.
The contemplation of beauty in the frozen landscape has become my personal way of hibernation these days.
The Inner Frame 