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Six DGs of Observation: October 2014
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Friday, October 17, 2014. A lot of recovery is corny. I spend a lot of time listening to long-past-shopworn phrases and breaking them down word by word to ascertain their meaning and then reconstruct them in ways that don’t make me cringe when I say them aloud. I’ve come to expect the old chestnuts in meetings or anytime a group of sober people gathers together (what should that be called, a group of sober people? A lot of those earlier, isolating trips are lost in a particularly, uh, damp.
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Six DGs of Observation: September 2014
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Thursday, September 25, 2014. When I was going through my rehab souvenir box last month on my sobriety anniversary, there were few surprises. A skimpily-used sketchbook, the folded daily schedules, a menu for one of the weeks, a rock, a piece of origami.all things I still had pretty vivid memories of. But one thing that I had forgotten about jumped out at me: a black lanyard. My hand shoots right up. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Nashville, TN, United States. View my complete profile.
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Six DGs of Observation: A List of Mabels
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015. A List of Mabels. I promise to not go all Marley and Me. With this, but Mabel figured into my recovery in two very significant ways and I want to define and explain them before the color starts to drain away from the photograph. I don't want to forget this. How I love a trust fall.). I was completely defeated by these stupid numbers. About a week in, friends and family brought me a couple of little care packages full of things I had asked for: a copy of Walden. It was a bit like ...
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Six DGs of Observation: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Favorite Thing #7: Stephen Foster's "Hard Times". As we pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears. Let us all taste the hungers of the poor. There's a song that will linger forever in our ears:. Hard times, come again no more. It's a song and a sigh of the weary. Hard times, hard times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered around my cabin door. Hard times, come again no more. As we seek mirth, and beauty, and music light and gay. Hard times, come again no more.
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Six DGs of Observation: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. The Lateness of the Hour. So here I am at the end of this year, which I have alternately called my annus horribilis. And my annus mirabilis. Depending upon what part of the year I'm talking about. Spare me the annus. Jokes The lateness of the hour will keep these notes short, but I wanted to get them in before the turn of the calendar year. At a time for a bit.which worked out so well that I turned around and offered it as advice to a friend in turmoil. That's not a de...
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Six DGs of Observation: August 2014
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Sunday, August 10, 2014. Will next July be the same? Will I refuse to bring one of those cut backyard hydrangeas into the house because they remind me of a vase of them that sat on my dining room table that horrible weekend? Will I avoid going to the funny little marina steakhouse with foil-wrapped baked potatoes because I'll remember too much. About the night I behaved so badly that I rendered five other people awkwardly silent for the better part of an hour? I'm going to get past August 12th and then I...
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Six DGs of Observation: October 2013
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Sunday, October 20, 2013. Monday, October 14, 2013. What is the weight of a single resentment? Of a particularly nagging fear? Of months of sadness and grief? What does the physical presence of those things look like? Because I can't do the rest until I do. It's not all sixty-day chips and free coffee, apparently. Let it go, let it go. Oh look, there it goes, in tandem with a half pound from my left side. I could drink at home! And then that would start a whole cycle of resentment: whoever I stood up wou...
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Six DGs of Observation: August 2015
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Thursday, August 13, 2015. The Map to Kansas. It seemed to be a year of occasionally noticing missing things - not like "oh, how I miss that! This second year felt steadier, though, more level than the previous one, with fewer extreme peaks and valleys; a drive across a flat, sober Kansas. It occasionally seemed less miraculous than the previous year, less astonishing. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Nashville, TN, United States. View my complete profile. The Curl Up and Diaries. Previous Blah Blah Blah-ing.
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Six DGs of Observation: June 2014
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Monday, June 16, 2014. This week marks a truly terrible anniversary. I hate using that word - anniversary - to mark tragic things because it's a word I always associate with party hats and clever, designed invitations and passed trays of finger foods. But I looked in the thesaurus. It all over our friend Marleen's picnic table as the sun rose. I did all the things I was supposed to. I'm beginning to suspect that it's never over, either. I miss my friend. Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Whoa, June. See, I wasn...
