Self-Doubt
+2
Who needs capacity anyway? The Wheel of Death. Louise Glück. New TSB Pod with Heather Havrilesky. New tunes for the doomed.
Death and Sobriety
+1
“How did I make this about me? Because I make everything about me. Christ.”
The Small Bow Family Orchestra
+7
February check-ins: This month, our inner critics have bullhorns.
+4
The HOKA baseball dads will crush your spirit if you let them. Thich Nhat Hanh. New tunes.
Love
“When I tell myself how things should be, I’m saying that I understand how the world works, when I do not.”
TSB Features
“You can never go back to what you were, and what you could have been will always be out of reach.”
On negative voices and Pamela Anderson. New/Old Pema shit. Robley Wilson. Go Birds.
Sober Oldster
+3
“I began to notice the parts of life I always rushed through.”
Poet
+6
“Monstrous thoughts still form, but I recognize them and move quickly past. I no longer do terrible things to myself or others.”
Recovery Journals
Most of the people I am closest to I've met through recovery and that makes me feel alone. Peaceful John. William Irvine. W.H. Auden. Stellar recovery week!
Depression
“It was always too easy for me to scrub away the faces of actual human beings.”
Lamictal
+5
What is that like?
An Interview with Jaime Lowe, author of "Mental"
Self-Forgiveness
Reconsiderations about the past. Stephen Mitchell. Mary Oliver. New old-tunes.
Heroin
“My process is to try and live my life without letting the grief consume me.”
A new batch of check-ins for the new year.
Fear
New year/new shit. Anthony De Mello. Wendell Berry, new tunes.
Sober parenting
“After ‘mono no aware’ came into my life, I obsessed about all the little things that disappeared each day without me noticing, which seemed like everything.”
Relapse
To quit drinking and drugs on January 1st, 2025.
Sunday Small Bow
Gratitude roundup 2024.
Edith Zimmerman
Plus, two of my favorite poems I discovered in 2024.
"I'll spend Christmas 2024 with my son, our first Christmas together in six years. ”
Every irrational one that lived in my head in 2024.
Grace
"The meeting went on as usual, and neither one shared or got into a fistfight with the other, but in the end, we all stood in a circle holding hands."
