According to The Mental Health Collective:
Restorative rituals prove to have widely positive effects on mental health and emotional wellbeing, namely in decreasing anxiety, depression, anger and fatigue in favor of sleep, relationship satisfaction, self-esteem, empathy, and stress-relief.
So yipeee, let’s eat candy!
The wonderful Debra thought we needed to have an extra special daily ritual to look forward to this holiday season. You know, because of the whole deadly pandemic thing?
Last March, just as the Coronavirus furloughs were starting, Gastropod had a fascinating podcast called, “Licorice: A Dark and Salty Stranger” which I listened to while making an emergency drive to check in on the house of a friend who would not be returning from India anytime soon. You know, because of the whole deadly pandemic thing?
Debra found an Advent calendar from a boutique licorice maker in Denmark called Lakrids by Bulow. As we learned in the podcast, Scandinavians love them some licorice. We are sooo pleased to be looking forward to this simple daily ritual, from December 1st to Christmas, in this most unusual year. It’s not a little thing to have a simple pleasure right now. And to be grateful for it.
As one of the characters in Danish filmmaker Carl Dreyer’s film “Ordet” says, “I believe a lot of little miracles happen secretly.”
Schmecken! 