Winter: Leave it or love it!
Enjoying winter so far? If you think the plunging temperatures, snow drifts and a wind-whipped face make it the most challenging season, you may be surprised to know some people prefer it to the non-chilly months.
Consider T.S. Eliot's musings from his 1922 poem, The Waste Land: "April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." For Eliot, it was all about expectations, apparently.
That might explain why he praised winter as the season that "kept us warm, covering earth in forgetful snow."
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