If winter has seemed mythically long this year it's probably only a measure of the lack of time I've spent outdoors standing against the inclemency with the attitude Bobby Knight espouses, i.e. to "enjoy it".
Or perhaps the opposite tack is in order, recommended by Meister Eckhardt scholar John O'Donohue in Anam Cara:
“In wintertime, nature withdraws. A tree loses all its leaves and retires inward. When it is wintertime in your life, you are going thru pain, difficulty or turbulence. At such times it is wise to follow the instinct of nature and withdraw into yourself. You have to lie low and shelter until this bleak, emptying time passes on . This is nature’s remedy. It minds istelf in hibernation. “
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