Tag: Ritual

• March 24, 2012

  In memoriam Compaq Presario, 2007-12

  This time my Compaq shut down for good. I was about to say hello when all went dark and pixely–all except the well-lit room and the glistening night and the buildings mocking my pixels. My childhood dog had grown glistening eyes and vacant ribs in the years before he died. He died in his sleep…
• October 29, 2011

  Burning Man: Spiritual experience, gift exchange, & primal ritual

  I ask again what we’re to make of spiritual experience in the early 21st C. and I hear again more first answers. And I think again of the place of gift exchange in this new order of being. And I read again about Burning Man–how strange, how primal, how elemental, how transient. Simone Ubaldi explores…