Why am I not a pro?
I have lived in the northern midwest my entire life, But the cold weather always seem unexpected and cruel
Trying to enjoy these dark and cold winter days.
Tips from the mother-land (atleast if you are a Knudsen it's the mother-land)
"Norwegians even have a term for describing this feeling of cozy togetherness: Koselig, a relative of the popular Danish term hygge.
Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are about to enter a punishing stretch of darkness. So how to cope? Maybe we can borrow a page from the residents of Tromso, Norway. In this city 200 mile north of the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn't rise at all from November to January.
The folks of Tromso show us that the best way to endure winter is to not endure it all - but to embrace it. This is called a "Wintertime Mindset" - an attitude that says, "Sure it's cold and dark and I have no idea what time it is . . . . but hey, I'm sipping a foamy late with friends and about to make a snowman." The Norwegians even have a term for describing this feeling of cozy togetherness: Koselig, a relative of the popular Danish term hygge.
The concept of koselig is so potent that researchers have found that as you go even farther north in Norway and encounter even more darkness, people have a significantly more positive winter mindset.
As the Norwegians like to say, "There's no such thing as bad weather only bad clothes"
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