Longreads<p>"One afternoon, as I stood in the aisles of the public library, the desire for a coherent cosmology, and rituals to go with it, hit me like a wave of homesickness."</p><p>In a new Longreads essay, Erika Howsare reflects on her search for secular ritual: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/07/10/attention-ritual-art-observation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/07/10/atten</span><span class="invisible">tion-ritual-art-observation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ritual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ceremony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ceremony</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Observation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PerformanceArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerformanceArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a></p>