Ritual and Consciousness in Daily Practice

 
How does ritual find its way into our lives?  How do we raise our consciousness of the moments that strung together become an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year?  I have marked the last 11 months with the residue of each day.  It is normally hard to stay a float, to reflect, to give ourselves the time to think and hold fast to the changing of the seasons.  Life is temporally unstable and yet, I may remember this year.  I have 41 days remaining.  I have worn my uniform for 325 days.  2016 was a leap year, with 366 days.  I worry, that without my uniform, that I will not know, see, or feel the passage of days.  My talisman has heightened my consciousness of the weight of each day-felt the significance of each week, month, year. 

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