Rituals

we revived a Christmas ritual and purchased a puzzle— one with 1000 pieces, small pieces, quirky pieces that deceive and a picture that offers a challenge but we’re determined to finish by  Christmas in part because that’s what we always did and rituals by definition follow similar patterns but we changed because originally we set the puzzle up and invited people over Christmas Day for a brunch and then a walk in the woods or around a pond except if the weather— as it was one year— too frigid and too windy to leave the warmth of a house and a chance to place the last piece of a puzzle

now and for a number of years we go out for brunch with friends and then take a walk and that too has become a ritual