Warm hot cocoa that melts the cold air from your numbed hands on a bitter night; watching the “Winter Break” episode of Craig of the Creek under a blanket (with heavy eyelids that are sluggishly fluttering with tiredness); dancing to classics as you nibble on a minty, red-and-white striped candy cane—those are the sweet, nostalgic memories that winter gave me.

GIFT-GIVING

There is less than a month left before winter starts in the Northern Hemisphere, and my heart is trying its absolute best to run toward December. I live in an area of the world where there is rarely snow, so I can count, with ten fingers, the number of times I’ve seen the fluffiness of solid, frozen water in person. Still, winter will always be my favorite season (with autumn following right behind it), and the winter that I’m used to is not that different from any other if you exclude snow. The coldness is still there. It never walks away. Nonetheless, I would love to experience a winter that lovingly gifts me snow each day until spring arrives.

Sincerely, Wordynora.