interconnected

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Ritual

Ritual.

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Ritual

Ritual

Tradition

Out of the darkness of winter

Primal celebration

Holy Week

Passover

Easter

Some continue to come together

Honor

those who have gone before.

Some are too busy

or don’t believe rituals and traditions

are important anymore,

at least to them.

Have we lost a gift of community

leaving rituals and traditions

in the past?

Can we find a way to be grateful for the gifts

of life, light, new growth?

Seeing beauty

All around

Can bring dissonance

into harmony.

Seeing beauty, being grateful

for a bird’s song,

green shoots poking through layers,

for the smile of another.

Love is the ritual we can

all share.

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Out of the Box

Sleep on it.

You will know in the morning.

Big decision or small.

Solution appears.

Does it seem an out-of-the-box

answer?

Sleep gives our brain time

to work out

a lot of things.

Working on a problem

no solution comes.

Walk away from whatever it is.

Even a few moments break,

eureka!

The puzzle is clearly

seen and

with a confidence

that this is the right answer.

Neuroscientists

can view

the spark of electricity

inside the brain

that miraculously

brings simplicity out of complexity.

Out of the box thinking?

Really is inside the brain

when we don’t overwork

the question.

Insight.