A History of Burning Things
Humans are constantly bringing our traditions with us into new places, and new ages. This is something fundamental to the human condition, and when practices persist across cultures and history, it links us to each other in ways we'll probably never fully understand or even see. One such practice is the burning of scraps of paper with worries, or sins, or hopes, or dreams, or really whatever it is deep inside of us that we no longer want deep inside of us, that we want to be set free to the universe. Maybe to be gone forever, maybe as a call to come to us in the future, but throughout time and cultures, where there's fire and writing, there's offering our words to the universe.