
Ancient Efforts at Ceremony and Celebration
Joy mattered among our hunter-gatherer ancestors who expressed it in their rituals. As Barbara Ehrenreich observes in her iconic study on ritual, Dancing in the Streets, ecstatic ritual
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Joy mattered among our hunter-gatherer ancestors who expressed it in their rituals. As Barbara Ehrenreich observes in her iconic study on ritual, Dancing in the Streets, ecstatic ritual

We are meditating these days on the final of the “10 C’s” by which we are naming what it is to be human. We have

We have been exploring for several months the primal question: What does it mean to be human? We have sought answers by meditating on the

Having treated “Community” as the ninth of the “10 C’s” we are now ready to treat the tenth “C” which is: Ceremony or ritual. “There

Elections are efforts at making community and choosing directions and leadership for community. Sometimes they can be very bruising to the soul. I offer here

We have been meditating for several months on the foundational question of our era: What does it mean to be a human being? We have

Is an election a referendum on What it means to be Human? Is it a referendum on our shared values, on the common good, on

The Celtic New Year occurred this weekend and New Years often elicits a kind of examination of conscience and a critical look into one’s soul

We are meditating on what animals have to teach us about spirituality and community. And it is plenty. In yesterday’s DM we considered seven lessons.

Some animals go out of their way to make community with humans and to join our families and our clan. Dogs, cats, horses and many
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