The Invincible Summer

Living in Canada, people often ask how we manage the long, frozen winters.
The secret is: Do not fight the cold.
It is tempting to crush the ice, to shatter the oppression of the freeze.
But force does not work; it only creates dangerous shards.

What works best is sunlight and steady warmth.
We do not attack the structure; we change the atmosphere around it.
By raising the heat, we render it impossible for the ice to flourish.

Some winters are harsher than others,
requiring us to find what Albert Camus called
"an invincible summer" within us.