Jamie Quatro | The Fine Delight

Jamie Quatro | The Fine Delight: We need ritual, whether it feels imbued with grace or merely rote, because it draws us back to the physical world--which seems, always, like a distraction from the silence of pure communion. It’s a temptation, for me: the longing to withdraw from action and other people and become a contemplative. I could easily spend the rest of my life reading, writing, thinking, with a little running thrown in. My children are a gift in this regard; they pull me outside myself at every turn.