I grew up to be the kind of woman who prays to God, and who lights Palo Santo in the mornings to set my intentions. I grew up to be the kind of woman who believes in spiritual pluralism, a sort of cafeteria approach to faith and religion that puts about as much stock in my star chart and my own self as I do in a benevolent (and probably female) God. It’s all just different ways to make sense of the world around us, and our place in it. We are who we are maybe because of some big, omniscient force, because of when and where the planets were in relation to when and where we were born, because of
...more
