Ramadan Karim

Ramadan karim, everyone.

There's a lot said and published about Fasting Ramadan during a pandemic. It's possible that too much is being said about it, though I understand the trial and the feelings it causes.

But there has always been a private, if not an isolated, aspect to ritual fasting--this voluntary privation as a rite of worship, a sacred epistemology, that is, a pathway to knowledge that can only be attained by way of religious rites. You know ... to ascertain the extraordinary we have to do the extraordinary.

Fasting is invisible. It's unseen and perhaps connects more immediately with the larger Unseen realm of existence. 

Not sure what others feel about this. But either way, may this be a blessed Ramadan for us all, ia.