Some sackcloth and ashes can do us all good – that’s why I love Lent by Dawn Foster for The Guardian In our fast-paced world of hyper-consumption, this period is a welcome chance to practise restraint and self-reflection, whatever your beliefs ‘Lent offers a brief period of slowness and abstention: it proves that you can exhibit self control, forces you to step back and take stock of what perturbs or disappoints you in your day-to-day habits.’ Photograph: Jed Leicester/Rex/Shutterstock It’s Shrove Tuesday, and by fortuitous circumstance, I’m in Brussels –…
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