Ritual is a machine for the destruction of time.
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Thu Apr 1 11:10:11 EDT 2021
Dear, dear you,
I hope you're well. How long has it been -- a year, a decade, an aeon --
since we last spoke?
Time feels a bit slippery these days. There's so much uncertainty in the
air -- hours melt into days melt into weeks. Sometimes it's only the
regularity of certain rituals that keeps us grounded. Just the other day,
I encountered a phrase that's remained with me:
'Ritual is a machine for the destruction of time.'
'Ritual is a machine for the destruction of time.'
'Ritual is a machine for the destruction of time.'
Just repeating it several times feels like a mantra. In my mind, rituals
are structures for survival -- individual and collective methods that
allow us to maintain continuity with the past and the future while also
dwelling in this hard-to-grasp thing called the 'present.' They can be
especially important in times such as these: moments of epic reckoning
with catastrophes of public health, climate change, social and racial
injustice, and the collapse of familiar systems.
Many artists maintain rituals: daily, weekly, yearly repetitions that
allow them to sense their own existence. For the past couple of years, my
annual early-year ritual has been to re-edit and re-release P!DF . . .
(Prem Krishnamurthy from
https://pompeiicommitment.org/en/commitment/prem-krishnamurthy)
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O-R-G small softwares is happy to re-release a new version of P!DF today,
April 1, 2021. It marks the fourth year in a row on the same date, but
this time it's free. Use the link below to download your copy or go for
contactless delivery with the QR code attached.
https://bit.ly/PompeiiPDF
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More?
http://www.o-r-g.com/apps/p-df
http://www.o-r-g.com
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