recovery
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I try to make no secret that I spent many years in active addiction. That I spent years with untreated mental illness. No secret that I have been to jail more than once. No secret that I have spent time unhoused and that there is trauma in my past. I make no secrets about being…
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Years ago while active in my addiction I walked from my living room to my fourth floor balcony with several beers, a pack of cigarettes, and a cellphone. I sat down on the floor as there had never been furniture on the balcony despite living there with other people for several years. It was cool…
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In the spring of 2023 I determined that, perhaps inadvisably but totally on brand, I should take up stick and poke tattoos. Stick and poke tattoos are not done with a tattoo machine but instead with the needle held in the hand and the ink manually applied spot by spot one drop at a time. …
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe. John Muir The act of picking something, and t doesn’t really matter what, often introduces an almost next level sense of “oh shit oh shit…
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