====== Rituals ======


Rituals – one should add in ineffiiciency to provide moments for reflection

===== RELIGION and DEATH =====


Cemetries as useful spaces

Organic by-laws

Only native plants – bird and butterfly sanctuary

Remembering the Dead – rituals of rememberance

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossuary|Ossuaries]]

*Dougald has a new job

Cemetary architecture?

Bart – Bench as memorial – they sit on their father to remember

Rituals of rememberence outside of cemetaries?

Day of the Dead for outside of Mexico?

Meeting the moment to die – Animals leave society – go hide

**EXISTING v New Rituals**

Do we need more rituals?

Seasonal events – herbologies and foraging / midsummer

**Can we revive traditions?**

Mending as a ritual of thanks to old and loved objects

Charlie Davies – Green stickers as a way of recording good purchases within a community


==== Traditions of TRAVEL ====


Security lines
Flight safety

rhythms of transition

Swimming pools and gardens – Changi – Architecture that can encourage contemplation

=== Rituals of arrival ===

waiting for the waters to arrive / catch up
Spirit travels slower – let it catch up
Aquarium in Vancouver – Jellyfish in arrival space

Sitting Down before you leave – Russian / Eastern European



==== Rituals of DAY and NIGHT ====


Starting things at odd hours
4am v 4pm – significance of times

Sleeping and Waking

Night time consciousness

**Should we Cut Away Rituals?**
Prune them?


Cut away :
regular meals

**Rituals in the workplace**

Stories

Expectations

Salad days – everyone contributes something that makes a salad

**Dice rolling**
School of Everything
  * Double 1 – everyone tidies
  * Double 6 – excursion for the office!

Recording on a calendar when money will arrive (without a plan) – money arrives

Looking at the fire as universal ritualising


The ritual of //**HOW ARE YOU?**// And actually being careful in your response

Only talk about money and business on Mondays (both in home and office) get on with it the rest of the week

Undesignated talks – a meeting about anything turns into ritualised play

The ritual of making time

Anticipation as a ritual