Winter isn’t a sign that spring got canceled. It’s the part of the year that makes spring possible.

A hard stretch is not evidence that the good part has been canceled. Cold is a phase of a cycle, and the fact that nothing visible is growing does not mean nothing is happening, though it is a bleak thing to be told while you are in it. Seasons are not verdicts on the ground they fall on.

Do winter things rather than summer things. Rest, maintenance, smaller expectations, warm ordinary routines, people you do not have to perform for. If the cold has lasted much longer than a season, that is worth telling somebody about, and asking is not a weakness.