Many quiet rituals have submerged into the sea of everyday life to the point of invisibility — dressing the children for school, going out jogging, pausing for tea and sweets each afternoon, crawling into bed with a glass of warm milk, getting dolled up before an evening out. Rituals of self-care, planned and savored, can rise up like a shimmering oasis at the end of a long dry day.
— Diane Ackerman, Deep Play