Ritual
Writ in Water: Remembering John Keats and My Friend Susan
And then there is the date that we don’t yet know. The last date—a meaningless number on a calendar until it isn’t.
A Year Without an Ending
Is it strange, in a vortex of absence, to cherish endings? Only if loss and endings are the same.
How Wild Swimming Keeps My Mental Health Afloat
Ironically, the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown gave me the time to embrace wild swimming—just when I needed my lifeline most.
Why We Open Our Doors on Halloween (Even If We Can’t This Year)
Our Halloween traditions hearken back to rituals of dispelling threats through communal acts of giving and receiving.
It Comes in Threes: Superstition, Ritual, and Action in 2020
If you feel more spiritual or superstitious than usual, it’s because you are.
It Took Me Ten Years and a Church Hall to Love Dance Again
It was never about exercise, nor changing my body. It was about doing something my body felt comfortable with.
How My Fear of Loss Became a Fear of Fire
On some level, we all know: Everyone who is etched into our being will one day vanish.
Finding My Inner Piece: How Puzzles Ease My Anxiety
It’s very calming, very methodical, very good if, say, someone you love has died, but you know the world cannot stop, and you can’t either.
Pleasures of The Highest Sense
Techno music is seldom experienced as technological, but as a modern gateway to hedonism and transcendence.
How I Learned to Stop Judging and Love Insta-Witches
“The whole idea of a spell is that you send your intention outward into the universe—what if the Internet is just another way to do that?”