My initial embrace of spirituality could easily be put down to my desire for an owned change in trajectory: the belief that if I could become a more palatable human being, perhaps I could cultivate a simpler, more blessed life. I didn’t do any research, didn’t lay the religions out side by side and evaluate their efficacy as ideologies or walks of life. It coincided with my friend wanting to visit the little church on the corner, where they played acoustic guitar and all had tattoos. She wanted to laugh at it. And we did laugh at the pews and the liturgy and the priest and the song lyrics. But
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