Some other things to give up for Lent:

Lighting yourself on fire
Driving at night with no headlights
Buying unlabeled mystery canned goods from the grocery store
Drinking 20 cups of coffee in the morning before your three hour team meeting.


"I made the wall of shadow draw back,
beyond desire and act, I walked on.

Oh flesh, my own flesh, woman whom I loved and lost,
I summon you in the moist hour, I raise my song to you."