“[Ritual] gives you a sense of time passing, which is really helpful when you’re struggling, because time can begin to drag, and you can get mired in hopelessness. You get a kind of marker of your progress, so the next time that something comes up in the calendar, you can feel how far away you are from the last time you celebrated, and that helps you to move through. And you can start to look towards the next [ritual]… perhaps, as a way of dividing up those long months. And I thought that was very beautiful and very wise and very insightful.”
–Katherine May, “How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes”, On Being with Krista Tippett, Jan. 21, 2021
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