Embrace the power of ritual with simple practices that slow us down to honor and mark the real moments in our lives. "Hello, Goodbye is the arrival of the kind of friend who arrives in secret in the night, with scarred hands, and shielding a faint flame. Then, slowly, over the rest of the night that flicker is fed with you into something that looks like warmth as that friend genuinely shares some hard earned understanding of what ritual might be and why it has been forgotten and why it might be mandatory to start to cultivate the skill, now, for all the joys and sorrows that arrive at our collective doorsteps. Page by page Day Schildkret is that friend to you in his generous and worthy book for a ritual-starved time and place. Find a way to be gathered in." -Matthew Stillman, author, Genesis Deflowered