recovery
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Vacuum of loss, A faithful sidearm. But failure lingers, Cries out in alarms. Death beckons of finality, Lost words irrelevant. Like smoke, memories, reality, Opportunity lost heaven-sent? Regret but wasted thought, Time flows relentless. For every second, won and fought, Your harshness purely groundless. Amends for amends, A downward spiral spins. Eye for an eye…
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It was fitting that after a long day worrying over a woman, over yet another situation I have absolutely zero control of, a friend of mine called and offered me tickets to an Opera performance of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” which translated means, “All women are like that”, I’m told but upon researching a little…
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Temporary Empty Should that teardrop reverberate in the emptiness? Would that spark ignite the void? For that which felt like loneliness, Was preparation for this noise. Explosions need space to expand, Love was never lost, just reorganizing. Exponential tidal wave, emotional reprimand: Be it real and true, Then patience will allow it growth, No jealousy…
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In 2008 I had just finished over a year of grueling, miserable Interferon Treatment which cured my Hep C, but which was hell. Even after quitting the Interferon I continued to suffer extreme headaches and it felt like some days I was better off while on Interferon. All you can do at that point though…
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Pharmaceuticals, Doctors, AA and Sobriety It is clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Alcoholics Anonymous, has no stance on outside issues, and this includes the use of pharmaceuticals, prescribed by Doctors to help the newcomer get off alcohol and more illicit drugs. I used Librium to fight detox on two occasions, and I’m…
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So recently I’ve been asked a few times about the dedication in the beginning of my book, given to Rand Hopkins who was a mentor to me in my writing from early on. He, my Uncle and my father were good friends dating years back in the Atlanta theater scene as they worked on such…
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For years and years I jumped at the excuse for a fight, and a grudge, hell I collected those. Having had a spiritual awakening though, and being relieved of the obsession to drink and drug, and having turned over my will to God, I know for damned sure he doesn’t ever want me to be…
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Researching the three I know of, Steven Tyler, Anthony Kiedis, and Pam Anderson, I was glad to find at least Steven wasn’t babbling about some pie in the sky treatment like Ozone, but had in fact gone through 11 months of Interferon treatment and was actually free of the virus in his bloodstream, or otherwise…
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