Yup, our collective ES&H is amazing, ain't it? Rather than turn this into an "I'm STAYING clean through..." thread, please check the Blurb-O-Blog on my profile. Most importantly, Mom's staying clean, too. HPs willing, I'll finally hit the double digits on June 11th, and she'll reap 19 big ones in early August. Love you!

{{{hugs}}},

Chris a/k/a fugi

....and mine! During 24 yrs of continuous sobriety, I have.....
chronologically: started my sobriety by not missing a day of work for the first year. Done one of the smartest things I could with what was left of my brain by also joining EA....then:
Rejoining the 'Dead' culture after 4 yrs. of refusing to feed Garcia's habit, finding the wharf rat community, doing performance art, finding and marrying my partner-9 yrs. of joy.... Shakespere Theater tours, poetry.....
Garcia's death hitting me like my own father....

..and my late wife's health decline, losing my home, her (and, consequently the stepdaughter I helped raise...)....
The glorious rise and crippling fall of my subsequent intentional community, four years of chronic underemployment in the desert, coupled with a wonderful conversion into self-sufficient food/homesteading with the other surviving member of the IC, whom I'm still happy to partner with ten yrs. later....losing the desert homestead and maintaining the goat herd...bedouin-like for five more years-usually with a home for the goats but not for me....losing the goats...having the sire and dame return to my life despite goatnappers two yrs. later ......
.....and new kids born this year! Still living in an apartment as a home base-boarding out the goats to a funny lil psychobilly household...but not -homeless-by-choice...and still working in my vocation of choice with a new ag biz gestating and peeps coming into my life....sometimes quickly sometimes slowly...but always if I work for them.....phew! zawunnerful life.....