What Ritual Is: A Quiet Introduction

You’ve just passed through security at the airport. You find your gate. Light pours through giant windows, where you can see a colossal 747—your plane—sitting on the tarmac. The umbilical catwalk which will connect your gate to the plane is slowly extending. Technicians begin to fasten it to the cabin door, where the fuselage extends [...]

Beginnings Upon Beginnings

Let me start this in a dramatic way: I believe that there have been times in human history that have proved exceptionally formative to the way that we think. These times are when we are at our most vulnerable or our most strong–I mean such things in the most broad terms. We are in a [...]