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January 2025

A Capsule Holding Pain
“When I tell myself how things should be, I’m saying that I understand how the world works, when I do not.”
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Recovery From Solitary Is An Illusion
“You can never go back to what you were, and what you could have been will always be out of reach.”
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Self-Denigration Is My Superpower
On negative voices and Pamela Anderson. New/Old Pema shit. Robley Wilson. Go Birds.
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We Are Everywhere and We Are Thriving
“I began to notice the parts of life I always rushed through.”
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Oldster Magazine
Interview with a 59-Year-Old Sober Person: Seth David Branitz
“Monstrous thoughts still form, but I recognize them and move quickly past. I no longer do terrible things to myself or others.”
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All My Best Friends Are Strangers
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…
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That Story Must Die
“It was always too easy for me to scrub away the faces of actual human beings.”
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A Normal, Tranquil State of Mind
What is that like?
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The Diagnosis of Bipolar Can Mean So Many Things
“My brain was in a constant push-pull battle to make the normal, less self-destructive choice.”
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New Ghosts in the Machines
Reconsiderations about the past. Stephen Mitchell. Mary Oliver. New old-tunes.
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