Billions of sentences served.
Notes on the process of recovery from crack and cocaine addiction written daily as I go through it.

Archive for March 2006


Icicles & Hearts

I’m not the only one who’s blogging about me. Today I came across an Amazon author’s blog (yes, there are such things). Here’s an excerpt from an entry entitled “Saturday, Act II - The Swains” posted at 6:03 PM PST, February 26, 2006 (thinking that for safety’s sake, better not go any further with the […]

Beat

I hate it when people tell me their dreams all the time.
So, anyway, here’s two from last night. They’re not here to entertain, they’re here for me to consider:

I’m in one of those foreign dream places that you can’t really define in English. One of its aspects is as the former residence of an older […]

Alma Rocha

Okay, fine, it’s a dream journal. This afternoon I’m reading Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. I fall asleep (that should not be taken as an indication of my appreciation for the letters; I like them very much). I dream I’m going to a dinner at strangers’ house who have some connection to my family—in-laws’ […]

Pathetique

My uncle is the COO of the Utah Symphony and they were in town last night. He comped us tickets: Orchestra B 25-26. That’s front and center for the ignorami among us. The program included Shchedrin’s Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, aka Nauthy Limericks. Nice. Also Shostakovich’s Concerto for Violin in A minor, opus 77 […]

Melange

Let me dump a few little things here today:

“…the drum can…be a tool for personal transformation and healing.” Well, then! Putting bongo learning and practice into my daily regimen is even more powerfully beneficial than I thought. My instincts must have known and steered me in the right direction while my rational mind was happy […]