Reorient Express

I always mosey on my way out of the little publishing company where I labor. Make a five minute walk ten minutes, as I need to carry 20 dailys across the street for the newspaper "morgue".

From the factory floor, through a series of combination lock doors, I come out into a beautiful hall that reminds me we have a public face. In this hall is a mural and I tie clip a little section of it now and then. All in all, it's an "Our Town" melange. Some is very good, some is contemptable. I guess that means it "succeeds".

It succeeds with me when it's good.

Got out of work early so Florie could go in early. Took me a minute to realize what I was doing, at first it seemed like I was doing her a favor somehow. Then I thought, oh my, (and an inner demon, which ever one of those is still hanging around, goes HAHAHA!) oh my.

Then it turned out well. I dropped her off at the kip and just as I was pulling out onto the busy highway to go home, she set my cell phone vibrating. "Come back! I'm off work today!"

Oh, good! Nice she gets a break sometimes. Well. 180 then. Happy North Point.

So we've had a good afternoon and evening, actually napping a lot. Not sure why, for me, but I know why she sleeps.

What I'm learning about the poor. I'm poor too, I guess, from now on. Good to be together, that's one thing. Also learning about uncanny bad luck...that or prejudice, and I'm coming to believe it's the latter.
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I feel good after an after meeting, far ranging conversation with my new foster Sponsor, Grehgory I, a fellow anti-commie iconoclast. Good for the soul to share some hilarious agreements for once, instead of hilarious debate. Also, being a former Greenwich village 'artist', now living in rural Missouri making a living as a mechanic (has his own shop! Lives there!) makes him ideal as a sponsor , for this east-coast-phile.

Tomorrow is a good day. Because I will go to work and finish and be back here feeling amazed I've done it again. Each day in recovery can be like that when you remember to contrast.

It's just not me. Wow. Not me at all. That also is good.