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Choices Lead To Loss

joe on Aug 21 2008 | Filed under: homelessness, Choices, 2008, Homeleaving, Accountability, Authenticity

This choice I have made is very difficult for Kirstin. It is very difficult for my children.
For the record, Kirstin and I separated over six months ago after a turbulent seven years. We both feel a divorce is in the best interest of everybody. She has decided that she wants to stay and live […]

July 25 2008

joe on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: Higher Power, Methadone, Sobriety Date, Brightness, Recovery, Zen, Addiction, 2008, Accountability

My first day clean and sober. Methadone detox has been an extended visit in hell. Beyond any thing I can describe except extremely fierce throughout this body of mine. But I awoke yesterday free of the worst of it and returned home to my house in the great eastern woods of North Carolina.
It wasn’t easy […]