"We"

    Alcoholism and drug addiction seem to be our culture’s biggest cancer (double the cases of biological cancer: add ice, stir, ignore).

    Ignorant disbelief.

    It took me decades to admit that I am an alcoholic and another ten years to learn to say “we”.

    “We are alcoholics.” There, I said it. ten years of discontinuous sobriety, then, finally, "We...".

(Sotto): "We," he said. "We." He said it and I’m repeating it. "We."


from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Day 50)