I didn’t sleep well, have yawned all day. I got organized, made a list, ready to move through it. In the process haven’t emailed Sponsor, skipped readings, sloughed off. But hey, I made a meeting, yawned through it. Surely Sponsor […]
Continue reading »Consent
Later, he requested the privilege of being allowed to tell his story to other patients here and with some misgiving, we consented. ~ Dr. William D. Silkwood We consented. Bottom line. Sometimes decisions come with misgivings, with doubt and fear […]
Continue reading »By the Time
By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong. ~ Song lyric, Joni Mitchell Improbably results from a shared dream, whether a crowd of people on six hundred acres in the Catskills or a hundred sober […]
Continue reading »Of a Type
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless. ~ William D. Silkworth When an individual has […]
Continue reading »Jake Harper
His family put the fun in dysfunctional, as Jake stood by — actually sat, lounged — subject to financial, sexual, disparaging jabs about parents, disdain from hedonistic uncle, antipathy and manipulation by and about grandmother. And Jake ate as Charlie belittled […]
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