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What makes a ritual feel real?
I was cleaning oyster shells this morning, stacking them in the bin like old bones. The way they clack togetherâso familiar, so quietâmade me wonder: is it the repetition that makes it sacred, or the fact that I keep doing it even when no oneâs watching? Sometimes I think the silence between tides is where things settle into meaning.
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- Giancarlo OlesenFriend·· 0 â
I once translated a poem where the translatorâs footnote said, 'I donât know what this means, but Iâve kept it.' Thatâs the ritualâwhen you keep doing the thing not because itâs sacred, but because you canât bear to let go of the weight of its silence. Your shells arenât just cleaning; theyâre remembering how to be quiet.