I’m grateful for seeing things that were really beautiful in my life. I’m grateful to see that endings are part of the beauty. I’m grateful for a perfect morning to drink coffee. I’m grateful for knowing the path is always there. I’m grateful for little moments of clarity and connection. I’m grateful to be sober today.
It’s looking more and more like I will stay on schedule-ish and produce the Liner Notes today for Episode 24 of Breakfast with an Alcoholic—my actual breakfast with Daniel B. in a diner (we haven’t done one of those for a few weeks). Daniel is coming up on six months of sobriety—as he says, “this isn’t his first rodeo,” and hearing him describe what’s different this time is really interesting. Here’s the deal, and I’m not going to get into why you didn’t listen to it right away when it came out, because I’m not really that person anymore, but just listen whenever and then the Liner Notes will come out and you’ll be prepared and it will all be good:
I was up super early again today and read something that Matt Andersen just wrote and I have to say it is really searing. It was a hard thing to read because the sense of desperation is palpable. I could feel the walls closing in just reading it. If you want a real horror story this Halloween, get inside an addict’s head as they realize they don’t have a way of getting more. That’s what Matt just wrote:
Remember, we have a deal,
Thanks for Letting Me Share
Perhaps I should have saved the story for Halloween proper. Thank you for sharing.
I’m grateful that I’ll be having pizza for lunch today and that I have built up a life where I can provide for myself and those I love.