Modern life often demands that we be in productive mode all the time. At the holiday season, with its frantic rush to get everything done in time, people tend to feel even more pressured and anxious than at other times. For many, the holiday rush is unavoidable, but then comes the blessed dormancy of Winter.  We will explore, in song and spoken word, the rightness of accepting that — like the Earth herself –we need times of rest and regeneration.