They're just so cozy! anne_theriault
I am not a winter person. I’ve lived in Canada for my entire life—including stints in snow-heavy cities like Halifax and Montreal—and I’ve tried my hardest to tug a bit of enjoyment out of our flagship season, but I just can’t. I know all about the toboganning and skating and horse-drawn sleighs and mulled wine and the velvet hush of a January twilight, but none of those are enough compensation for the long stretches of misery in between.
When I was a kid, it was the cold that bothered me the most. There’s a damp chill that settles in my bones in November and doesn’t leave until April, no matter how many layers of wool and down and fleece I pile on. As an adult, though, I find the darkness even harder to tolerate. I can feel it at the end of the summer, lurking at the edges of even the sunniest days.
I’ve tried a lot of different coping methods for those times when the night seems endless and sleep seems impossible, but the one thing that has been the most helpful is a self-care strategy so basic that I’m almost embarrassed to mention it: candles. Specifically, scented candles. I’m a bit skeptical of self-care as a concept, because it so often tips into consumerism, selling the idea that the path to a stress-free life is paved with expensive eye creams.
Candles, as it turns out, play an important part in the Danish concept of Hygge, the idea of cultivating coziness and comfort during the long winter darkness. The Danish word for candlelight translates roughly as “living light,” and they’re a way of having a bit of the natural world indoors when the outdoors feels so lifeless.
I still dread the winter months, but spending some time by candelight at night definitely helps. The whole thing feels like a ritual, from picking one out at the store to watching the match strike and catch to settling in next to it with a book and a drink. Sometimes I’ll get extra fancy and take a bath by candlelight, floating and daydreaming beneath the long, strange shadows.
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