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It was a conversation I couldn’t have imagined having a year ago, let alone two years. ‘What do you want to do for Lent?’ I asked PDB11 . Last year’s attempt at fasting one day a week had not gone well, to say the least. I had written a list of goals in my diary, including the following: Lent Aspirations 2022 – joint Fast at least one day a week Make the community soup-and-roll lunch our lunch one day a week Read Embracing Justice by Isabelle Hamley Have one prayer session together per day Lent Aspirations 2022 – me Go on at least one all-day walk per week (weather permitting) Practise playing hymns every day Practise meditating where possible Write at least one blog post per week Go on litter-picking walks Most importantly – try to stay sane In practice, I/we didn’t manage any of these – and particularly not staying sane. We did eventually get back to reading Embracing Justice , and found it a very interesting book – but to be able to engage with it, I neede