Winter’s firm handshake is a reminder of your journey. He doesn’t crush your hand unless you’ve not shook it every day in the months preceding. At your return from every journey, you should enter your door unannounced and armed, ready to slay any suitors that dared court your wife while you were gone. I come home from my work shift every day like that. When we lost three masts off the coast of Japan, when I was scrambling to gain control of the ship during that gale, I was not thinking about ...
