Full Circle
Someone, or to be more truthful, more than one person has noted that the times of our life and of the greater world travel in circles. There is a certain repetition to the world, the seasons, our history, ourselves and time itself. But, it has been said that rather than simply being a single circle, there are many circles, each one slightly offset from the last along a line of travel. Such a diagrammatic thought experiment allows us to envision that each circle repeats, but with slight modifications, slight changes and slight perturbations that give it a unique formula, similar to the original but also slightly more evolved. We often say that the repetitions in our lives create a sense of order and, for many, a sense of purpose. Ritual has reason and reason has its foundations in ritual. Societies and their peoples define their lives with the cyclical natures of the sun, in separate yet similar circadian rhythms. Waking up each morning, we submi...