In addition to the almost immediate weight loss, the second thing I noticed about being sober was the anxiety. It’s been 21 years since I’ve had a drink. For years I even steered away from Ny-Quill because I was terrified of becoming again who I had recently stopped being. And while I was haunted by images of Michael Keaton drinking vanilla extract in the movie
Oooooo i love that quote of yours!! It's squishy but clinical. Thank you for the recommendation - i've looked it up and will see if I can find it to view. Thanks, Dane!
Holy smokes lady, blast from the past! What serendipity you came across me. Ha, I texted Craig to ask "Is Wendy Quillen "our" Wendy?" Would love to connect - you still in town?
"One less hand and an additional boneless finger" sounds like the second line of a poem.
For more on the existential compression -- of mind, mood, and moment -- in a car wash, cf The Seventh Continent, Michael Haneke, 1989
Oooooo i love that quote of yours!! It's squishy but clinical. Thank you for the recommendation - i've looked it up and will see if I can find it to view. Thanks, Dane!
Thanks for sharing these insights, Trilety. Especially: "being reborn with angles instead of curves" is very evocative.
(I am always amazed by being drawn through the car wash.)
Thank you for reading!
Oh, lady.
I feel this on so many levels, thank you.
We haven't seen each other since our drinking days but somehow I stumbled upon your little corner of the internet and I am SO GLAD I did.
Holy smokes lady, blast from the past! What serendipity you came across me. Ha, I texted Craig to ask "Is Wendy Quillen "our" Wendy?" Would love to connect - you still in town?