/ˈriː.ðɪŋ/
verb · continuous · etym: from wreathus + -ing
the slow circular work of a year.
a year is wreathing when it returns to itself by degrees. the same afternoon light reappears at a slightly different angle. the magnolia opens for the second, then the third, then the eighth time. wreathing is not repetition; it is the year revisiting its own gestures with a gentler hand each time. compare wreathus, and the naturating of any returning thing.
one wreathes a doorway with foliage in december; one is also wreathed, slowly, by the years one survives. the work is rarely visible from inside it. consult the ritual wing for catalogued instances; consult paginate for an alternative measure of circulation.
in a sentence: "the kitchen has been wreathing itself for the eighth winter; the same bowl on the same shelf, in slightly different light."
see also · naturating adundary paginate wreathus ritual