How To Slow Down Time
Rituals are the milestones of the soul
“Good grief!” I thought. “She’s not just adjusting her lipstick in a mirror, she’s got her whole make-up bag and she’s going through her whole routine! On the 98 bus!”
A couple of decades back, when I first noticed this, it felt like an intrusion, another puncture of the public space. This was the new tinny earbud noise, but felt more profane.
Like every…