Weather of the Mind

Weather of the Mind


How to Build a Non-Religious Sabbath Ritual

February 17, 2021

Episode # 98 Original Airdate: February 17, 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 30 minutes ((A real solid episode... much food for thought)) The key question I pose to you, the listener: Growing up, did your family have a weekly day of rest, of recharge?  Was it effective?  What were the best aspects of this day? In your life now, is there a weekly day of rest?  What is the ritual?  Is it working well? And looking forward, if you could build a ritual - what elements would you include - music? exercise? cooking? eating? reading? watching a movie? While this episode is practical in that it is meant to encourage an evaluation of our day of rest, It also drifts (wonderfully) to some deeper questions,  questions that are a relevant in contemporary social debate: how can we develop a nuanced relationship with human's past, human's old cultural institutions, and our collective human history? And of course, I also tell my own story of building a good 'day-of-rest-and-recharge' ritual. Tune in!