Winter Solitude

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout

Yeah, that.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot