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A Warm Welcome
A Warm Welcome
Welcome to the Fall installation of A YEAR OF HYGGE. There is no better time of year in the Northern Hemisphere to begin the conversation of how we work to craft comfort for ourselves and others than then in Autumn. Right now as I type this I am cozied up under endless covers with my two snuggly babies, sipping on warm apple cider in a dimly lit room. The sound of rain tap, tap, tapping on the window of my room, and the drip, drip, drip of rain hitting the gutters. The darkening of the year is the time where we all must work tirelessly to keep spirits afloat as the days get shorter. I invite you to make time for yourself to rest and dive into the work of talented artsits, poets, photographers, and storytellers, and as you do this, meditate on what comfort means to you, and what lengths you go to in order to create it for yourself and your own communities.
Calvin Shaw
Calvin Shaw
Calvin Shaw is from Missouri and currently resides in Colorado. He has works published in his alma mater Lincoln Universities (MO) publication Arts & Letters. He has works published in Wingless Dreamer Publishing, Inlandia, and Audience Askew. Calvin loves listening to music and watching sports. He can be followed on his Instagram page @1995calshaw.
I enjoy coziness and being comfortable in my everyday life. For my works being published, they all have their own interpretation of hygge within them. For "earth tone", I discuss the loneliness and difficulty of losing a significant other and how the comfort of a small gesture can bring someone in their time of grief. A heart with initials carved in wood is a relationship gesture that can be engraved in nature for a lifetime but now I feel social media can easily erase memories of a relationship that shouldn't be thrown away easily especially when a life can easily be erased from earth in the blink of an eye.
Waterfalls by Calvin Jones.docxCalvin Jones
Calvin Jones
The moment of half-sleep as one lies against a rock—comfort. When one is just conscious enough to be considered alive but not enough that they are aware of the aches/woes/fears/etc. that nibble at the inside of their skull. I wanted to nurture, in this poem, the sort of white noise of passive bliss. And especially the rapture of sharing the sensation with another: head on lap, on shoulder. Alone and silent together. No matter how inconvenient the fact, I find greater comfort in the arms of another, and thu
Scribbler by Emma Wells.docxEmma Wells
Emma Wells
'Scirbbler’ navigates the push and pull dichotomy within the creative writing process but draws on the positive aspects. This is akin to the philosophy of hygge with writing acting as a warm embrace. It also bears the ability to greatly cheer, warm, comfort, stabilising poets, novelists and scribblers of any form, in times of trouble and uncertainty.
Hiding in the Berry Bush by Angela Townsend.docx
The Essence of One Week of My Life By Andy BetzAndy Betz
Andy Betz
'Edna's Clothesline' by Willy Conely
Journaling Prompts
Think about a place or a moment where you've felt the most comfort in your life. It could be a specific room in your home, a cozy childhood memory, or a serene natural setting. Describe that place or moment in detail - the sights, sounds, smells, and the way it made you feel. Then, reflect on what elements contributed to that sense of comfort. What can you do to recreate or incorporate those elements into your daily life to foster more comfort and tranquility?
What were the specific actions or strategies you used to create comfort for yourself during the last stressful time you experienced? Did you seek solace in the company of loved ones, engage in a calming activity, or practice mindfulness and deep breathing? Write about the ways in which you provided yourself with comfort during that stressful experience.
What does your rest practice look like? How do you interrupt the grind to craft r&r for yourself and those around you?
Consider sharing your responses to submissions@theglacehouse.com to be included in the next installation of A YEAR OF HYGGE
Mushrooms.pdf'Mushrooms'
Oil Paintings by Donald Patten
The Legend of the Diamond Fairy by Jessica Arzola-Grissom.docxSharnta Bullard
Sharnta Bullard
Sharnta Bullard is an African American poet. She started writing poetry at a very young age and published her first poem at eleven. Sharnta has poems published in several anthologies. Additionally, she is a United States Air Force retiree with a master's degree in Human Service Counseling. She is an advocate of helping people find their why and voice.
Ana Marie Boyd
Ana Marie Boyd
Many of my poems are centered around finding comfort and healing in spaces of grief. My poems are very interested in the ways that grief asks— to be witnessed. In so doing, the poems themselves have become my witnesses at various times in my grief-journey.
Ana Marie Boyd is a poet, writer, and educator who lives in Eugene, Oregon. Raised in a multiracial and multigenerational home, her writing proudly incorporates her Spanish-American culture and explores themes around family heritage, collective memory, grief/loss, mental health de-stigmatization, community-love, spirituality, and reckoning. Her writing has been published in Bee Infinite Publishing's Future Splendor and the literary magazines All My Relations and the Bitchin’ Kitsch.
In what ways are your pleasure and grief intertwined? How do you make comfort for the parts of you that are grieving as much as the parts of you that are full of joy?
In what ways are your pleasure and grief intertwined? How do you make comfort for the parts of you that are grieving as much as the parts of you that are full of joy?
Ashley Ernst
Ashley Ernst
I wrote this at an airBnB during a work trip in B.C. Canada in July, 2022. My dad had passed away in late May and I had just celebrated my birthday with coworkers the day before. This little apartment above a garage was the solitude I needed and caught sunsets just right in the evening with views over a forest on the side of a mountain. This was the first time in two months that I noticed feeling peaceful and wrote about it to mark the occasion and this picture was my view as I typed on my phone.
Ashley is a desert transplant building a life she loves in Michigan at her home, Wanderer's Roost.
B.C. Sunlight by Ashely Ernst.docx
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