In her beautiful book, The Goodness of Rain: Developing an Ecological Identity in Young Children, Ann Pelo writes of rituals she and her young friend, Dylan, created together when she spent a year as Dylan’s caregiver. This is how she explains the importance of ritual – to child and adult alike:
"A ritual is a gesture of hope and faith. Something happens that matters to us, that touches our hearts, stirs our spirits, engages our minds, and we memorialize that experience with a ritual. We re-enact it, in the hope that it will happen again. With ritual, we acknowledge that we have been fortunate and blessed, and we align ourselves with the possibility of further fortune, further blessing. Through ritual, we keep faith with what has mattered to us, and with ritual we position ourselves for another encounter with goodness, with gladness, with the reverberant generosity of life."
Developing an Ecological Identity in Young Children |
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