Wintering original painting

Whitney Naomi original painting  8”x10” oil on panel. Painting is protected with a clear varnish. Poem printed on card stock included. Comes in a floating alder wood frame. Please allow for some color variance due to screen calibration. Ships in bubble wrap and sturdy box. Direct message for further questions.    I’ve been wintering. Leaning into some good hibernation. Lots of baths, tea, journaling, a cozy weighted blanket. Searching my soul, asking how it’s been since I last went this deep inside.  Wintering  She is in her full strength Cold winds biting. Fierce roars of the waves, ice chunks crashing into each other. The sun pokes through but no warmth is to be found.  She has struck her hard boundary. Her work seems only death and destruction.  And yet she has been rolling out her cold white blanket  for her real work deep within the ground.  She begins gently, tenderly caring for her tiny seeds  that have found their way to the ground.  They lay resting, warming softening.  Dream