Addiction

Classic example of arrested emotional, intellectual, and spiritual ripening due,in part, to chronic alcoholism and substance abuse. I've been clean for a little over two years now. The fog is slowly lifting. Hopelessness is evaporating and being replaced with a sense of anticipation and wonder that I have'nt felt in years. Having fun is fun again. Thank You God.

fresh breezes; compasses; lichen;

gristle;

Elvis Costello w/ Burt Bacharach(Painted from Memory Albums); Brook Benton(Rainy Night in Georgia); Hendrix; Chet Atkins; Sinatra; Aimee Mann; Hugh Masekela; Brian Setzer;

The Beak of the Finch; Beautiful Swimmers; The Shipping News(anything Proulx); Underworld(DeLillo); Dispatches(Herr); The Flamingo Rising(Baker); Angela's Ashes; On the Rez(Frazier); Childhood's End(Clarke); The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven(and anything Alexie); The Gods Themselves(Asimov); Half Past Human(T.J. Bass); The Road(McCarthy);

The Wild One(1953); On the Waterfront(1954); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World(1963); In Harms Way(1965); The Sand Pebbles(1966); The Sterile Cuckoo(1969); Tribes(1970); THX 1138(1971); The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(1972); The Last Detail(1973); Harry and Tonto(1974); Rancho Deluxe(1975); The Man Who Fell to Earth(1976); Slap Shot(1977); Days of Heaven(1978); Breaking Away(1979); Foxes(1980); Gallipoli(1981); Fandango(1985); Smoke Signals(1998); The Station Agent(2003);

Sea Kayaking; beachcombing; skywatching; motorcycling; reading; living;