Alicia has always been a picky eater. About a year ago (she's 4 now) I realized I could make her try something new changing names. She would refuse to eat white beans but liked chickpeas, so I lied and told her "nooo, these are chickpeas, it's just another type, smaller, but they are chickpeas". She tried the beans and liked them. Great. Yesterday she came home from school and I asked her: "What did you have for lunch?"
-Potatoes and chickpeas. But you know what? At school they call them beans! (and she gave me a look meaning "they don't know any better"...)
Btw: We talked about baptizing the girls last night. My husband said "it's so sad, it's like bringing a priest from some obscure tribe to cast away evil spirits..."
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Rituals have been an aid to humans for thousands of years. The ritual of getting up for work, how you organize your workspace, how the batter steps up to the plate, singing the national anthem before a sporting event, and burial rituals AKA funerals.
Rituals have symbolic value for humans. Even Pagans have rituals... you just can't avoid them. They give one and identity in this chaotic world.
WM
It is a whole lot like that - and worse if you have no belief.
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