Comments on: Ritual as Reminder http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/ Time is not a force to be managed, but a dimension to be shaped. Learn to sculpt it. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:37:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Cairene http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 Cairene Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:23:36 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1516#comment-1016 @Hiro First, I adore you and your writing - such beauty in just this little comment. Thank you for sharing it. A reminder to "open and close, rather than just open and keep on opening!" Well, that's spring and summer isn't it? Maybe that's why I don't think to do rituals in the first half of the year? I mean, I need them just as much, I'm just so caught up in opening I forget about them. Which just brings us back to wanting reminders... Hoping the rituals I'm inspired to create and practice in the second half of the year will continue to be used and serve me in the next first half... @Hiro
First, I adore you and your writing – such beauty in just this little comment. Thank you for sharing it.

A reminder to “open and close, rather than just open and keep on opening!” Well, that’s spring and summer isn’t it? Maybe that’s why I don’t think to do rituals in the first half of the year? I mean, I need them just as much, I’m just so caught up in opening I forget about them. Which just brings us back to wanting reminders… Hoping the rituals I’m inspired to create and practice in the second half of the year will continue to be used and serve me in the next first half…

]]> By: Hiro Boga http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 Hiro Boga Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:43:54 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1516#comment-1015 Cairene, thanks for this lovely reminder of "that spark of yearning for ceremony, for slower observation, for more stillness." I seem to need stillness, ceremony, slow observation even more in the summer than in the winter. Maybe it helps balance these long, lovely, outward-leaning days. The bright ballooning of heat and sun. Morning and evening rituals in the summer remind me to open and close, rather than just open and keep on opening! :-) Love, Hiro Cairene, thanks for this lovely reminder of “that spark of yearning for ceremony, for slower observation, for more stillness.”

I seem to need stillness, ceremony, slow observation even more in the summer than in the winter. Maybe it helps balance these long, lovely, outward-leaning days. The bright ballooning of heat and sun.

Morning and evening rituals in the summer remind me to open and close, rather than just open and keep on opening! :-)

Love, Hiro

]]> By: Cairene http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1014 Cairene Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:29:08 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1516#comment-1014 @Melly I love that you've found a way to be grounded (which is not at all the same as being boring and predictable). Inspired by your example! @Melly
I love that you’ve found a way to be grounded (which is not at all the same as being boring and predictable). Inspired by your example!

]]> By: Cairene http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 Cairene Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:24:22 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1516#comment-1013 @Jamie Celebration! That's it. That's what I was reaching for with "<em>get into it</em>." Darling, you are no end of inspiration! Thank you again. @Jamie
Celebration! That’s it. That’s what I was reaching for with “get into it.” Darling, you are no end of inspiration! Thank you again.

]]> By: mellyhocking http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 mellyhocking Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:23:45 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1516#comment-1012 i used to think rituals would make me a boring, predictable person (which is a huge fear of mine). now I love the thought of them. introducing some into my day has been fun and the process of finding ones that work for me, is exciting. Right now, I am trying a night time ritual as a way of moving into the next day (per the phone call we had last week). i find it comforting & a really good way to look at my next steps more proactive and not from a state of pushy and panicked. i'm eager to see where this journey takes you, cairene... Waverly Fitzgerald stuff is way cool. I like her thoughts about seasons. Intriguing. i used to think rituals would make me a boring, predictable person (which is a huge fear of mine). now I love the thought of them.
introducing some into my day has been fun and the process of finding ones that work for me, is exciting. Right now, I am trying a night time ritual as a way of moving into the next day (per the phone call we had last week). i find it comforting & a really good way to look at my next steps more proactive and not from a state of pushy and panicked.

i’m eager to see where this journey takes you, cairene…

Waverly Fitzgerald stuff is way cool. I like her thoughts about seasons. Intriguing.

]]> By: jamieridlerstudios http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1011 jamieridlerstudios Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:20:02 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1516#comment-1011 What a delicious post and a beautiful conversation. I'm a ritual lovebug too and a part of it for me is celebration, a deep celebration of life and of the moment. I'll be excited to see what you create :) What a delicious post and a beautiful conversation. I’m a ritual lovebug too and a part of it for me is celebration, a deep celebration of life and of the moment.

I’ll be excited to see what you create :)

]]> By: Cairene http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1010 Cairene Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:08:59 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1516#comment-1010 @randomling Thanks! I'm really into <a href="http://www.livinginseason.com/" rel="nofollow">Waverly Fitzgerald</a>'s stuff right now - which relates to rituals - so the plan in my head is to share what comes from working through her material... we'll see how it turns out and if/when it makes it onto the blog. ;-) @randomling
Thanks! I’m really into Waverly Fitzgerald‘s stuff right now – which relates to rituals – so the plan in my head is to share what comes from working through her material… we’ll see how it turns out and if/when it makes it onto the blog. ;-)

]]> By: randomling http://thirdhandworks.com/2009/07/ritual-as-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1009 randomling Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:54:42 +0000 http://thirdhandworks.wordpress.com/?p=1516#comment-1009 Oh how interesting! I want rituals too! Because they are so cool and useful for reminding you to be in the place where you want to be. What a lovely post. I hope you keep us updated with what you decide on. :D Oh how interesting! I want rituals too! Because they are so cool and useful for reminding you to be in the place where you want to be.

What a lovely post. I hope you keep us updated with what you decide on. :D

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