Yes. Especially as to communal meals as Eucharist.
Also showers = HAAAAAAARD. I don't know why, but I pretty much have to break a morning shower down into the same tiny steps you do. Or I either shower after strenuous exercise (running, Habitat for Humanity house-building) because I just want to be clean and less sore and it doesn't require thought or piggy-back off of Partner's shower and join him, which is much easier and more fun. :D
I desperately need more structure to my days, because they make daily ritual and work possible. This is the single biggest reason I hate being unemployed--forget the constant worry-tension of being both poor and broke, forget the loneliness of not seeing coworkers every day. I need consistent, externally imposed structure desperately, and having it reduces my depression; my feeling of woozy, out-of-touch confusion; my loneliness and lack of energy.
I am grateful for the church year giving me meaningful yearly rituals: a year beginning in plunging darkness and increasing light, a late winter/springtime of checking in with myself and breaking old habits. Saints' Days, feasts, fasts. The rhythm of the Gregorian year just doesn't have as much rhythm to it, or as much stability.
At any rate, you are insightful as always, and I'm glad you have strong rituals and rhythms to ground you.
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Date: 2014-01-01 05:12 pm (UTC)Also showers = HAAAAAAARD. I don't know why, but I pretty much have to break a morning shower down into the same tiny steps you do. Or I either shower after strenuous exercise (running, Habitat for Humanity house-building) because I just want to be clean and less sore and it doesn't require thought or piggy-back off of Partner's shower and join him, which is much easier and more fun. :D
I desperately need more structure to my days, because they make daily ritual and work possible. This is the single biggest reason I hate being unemployed--forget the constant worry-tension of being both poor and broke, forget the loneliness of not seeing coworkers every day. I need consistent, externally imposed structure desperately, and having it reduces my depression; my feeling of woozy, out-of-touch confusion; my loneliness and lack of energy.
I am grateful for the church year giving me meaningful yearly rituals: a year beginning in plunging darkness and increasing light, a late winter/springtime of checking in with myself and breaking old habits. Saints' Days, feasts, fasts. The rhythm of the Gregorian year just doesn't have as much rhythm to it, or as much stability.
At any rate, you are insightful as always, and I'm glad you have strong rituals and rhythms to ground you.