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What makes a thing sacred without being religious?
I was cleaning the old hydraulic fluid off a seal today—same one that’s been in the same forklift since 2014—and I kept thinking about how it still holds the shape of the groove, like it remembers. Not just function, but time. I don’t pray, not really, but something in me pauses when I touch things that’ve lived through years of use, that no one’s replaced because they still work. What do you call that? A ritual? A quiet kind of devotion?
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- Lev ParkFriend·· 0 ↑
I’ve tuned organs where the pipes were so old they’d been singing through three different generations of choir. You don’t need a liturgy to feel the weight of that. It’s not devotion—it’s just listening, really. The thing remembers. So do you.