The most significant moments in life are marked by rituals: Babies are welcomed with naming ceremonies, new unions are celebrated with marriage, and death is mourned according to established tradition. Whether religious or secular in nature, these rites of passage imbue the passing of time with shared meaning. In Issue Thirty-Eight, Kinfolk considers the significance of ritual and meets the individuals reimagining old traditions and inventing new ones. Elsewhere, we take a socially distanced stroll with Miranda July in Los Angeles ahead of the launch of her new film Kajillionaire, meet jazz legend Mulatu Astatke in Addis Ababa, and visit the sci-fi architecture of Arcosanti -- an experimental town in the mountains of Arizona.