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The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do by Casper ter Kuile

November 13, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

That’s what this book is all about–taking things we do every day and layering meaning and ritual onto them, even experiences as ordinary as reading or eating–by thinking of them as spiritual practices. ― Casper ter Kuile, The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do As a control freak and a lover of routine, I appreciate and find calm in performing my daily rituals: making my coffee, showering with my favorite tunes playing, checking and culling my collections in […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Casper ter Kuile, community, rituals, routines, social isolation, spiritualism

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:39 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Casper ter Kuile, community, rituals, routines, social isolation, spiritualism ·
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The traditions endure, but the perspective evolves

For Small Creatures Such as We by Sasha Sagan

August 27, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

CBR15Bingo: You are here You are here on this planet, in this life. How you are moved to celebrate and acknowledge the passing of time and all of the joy and pain that is part of it is up to you. Rituals are, among other things, tools that help us process change. There is so much change in this universe, so many entrances and exits, and ways to mark them…each one astonishing in its own way. ― Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Carl Sagan, cbr15bingo, cosmos, Judaism, Outer Space, Religion, rituals, Sasha Sagan, Spirituality, the meaning of life

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:36 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Carl Sagan, cbr15bingo, cosmos, Judaism, Outer Space, Religion, rituals, Sasha Sagan, Spirituality, the meaning of life ·
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“‘Willfully withholding. Unnecessarily inaccessible. Not delivering on its premise.'”

Bunny by Mona Awad

July 3, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

You know those moments when you’re battling a fever, you’re in and out of fitful sleep, and you’re not entirely sure what is real and what is imagined? Those fever tinged experiences that you just want to be over but time stretches way beyond what it should be allowed to stretch? That was what reading Bunny was like. Samantha is a Narrative Arts graduate student at Warren, a prestigious university known for its experimental approach to both pedagogy and writing style it tries to pull out […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Bunny, cbr13bingo, cults, graduate school, MFA program, mona awad, rituals

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Bunny, cbr13bingo, cults, graduate school, MFA program, mona awad, rituals ·
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