The Joyful Solace of Routines and Rituals

Seeking out the new within the structures of our past

Niall Stewart
Counter Arts
Published in
5 min readSep 9, 2023

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How sordidly often our lives feature unwelcome hard resets — the sort of gut-wrenching change no one saw coming and even fewer people wanted — and that’s why I place such emphasis in my own life on routines and habits and time-honoured conventions.

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