context: this is a poem i drafted a long time ago, for the secular solstice crowd
my family was raised catholic i still find saying grace before meals to be homely and comforting
and i seem to recall some pop-science that “rituals before meals make them taste better” … that just feels like the kind of finding that doesn’t replicate, but it is a funny thing to say when gathering with other bay-area-rationalists for a meal
context: this is a poem i drafted a long time ago, for the secular solstice crowd
my family was raised catholic
i still find saying grace before meals to be homely and comforting
and i seem to recall some pop-science that “rituals before meals make them taste better”
… that just feels like the kind of finding that doesn’t replicate, but it is a funny thing to say when gathering with other bay-area-rationalists for a meal