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3 rituals for this time
On marking loss and time with ritual.
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This past week marked the one-year anniversary of the beginning of lockdown and the pandemic changing our lives in the United States. It has also been a year marked by continued violence of white supremacy, the loss and violence inflicted on communities and individuals by it, and reckonings for many of us with our own complicity in white supremacy and racism.
These 12 months will have looked and felt very different for every single person reading this newsletter. Some of you will have experienced significant loss; death, loss of job, loss of time or even identity.
Others of you may not have experienced loss, exactly, but were still faced with other reckonings; the fragility of support for working parents; the stripping away of the wool of busy-ness that had covered your eyes to something painful that you needed to see. Friendships and other relationships may have fallen…
