Chapter 6 – I believe it is fairly common for neglected children who do not get enough love, attention, and guidance at home to seek substitute parental figures outside the home. At least, that was true in my case, even if it is only in retrospect that I can see and understand what I was searching for.
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These are my personal reasons for not formally venerating my ancestors, and some things I have done instead to root my practice and connect with death.
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Curating, unfriending, blocking, and banning in online spaces creates peace and has magical application for both social justice and personal wellbeing.
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Last August I began writing a book about my life. It is biographical in nature, but I don’t consider it a biography, because the focus of the book is not my journey as a creative individual, or anything else I am happily proud of accomplishing or doing. It is about the abuses I endured as a child through young adult, mostly from my immediate family, how those abuses affected me, and how I worked to recover from them and become a person I could be proud of.
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