A Recovery Blog

This blog is about my continuing recovery from severe mental illness and addiction. I celebrate this recovery by continuing to write, by sharing my music and artwork and by exploring Buddhist and 12 Step ideas and concepts. I claim that the yin/yang symbol is representative of all of us because I have found that even in the midst of acute psychosis there is still sense, method and even a kind of balance. We are more resilient than we think. We can cross beyond the edge of the sane world and return to tell the tale. A deeper kind of balance takes hold when we get honest, when we reach out for help, when we tell our stories.

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Change Of Plans

A group of six young people would rather live with me and go through withdrawal from their addictions instead of me possibly buying a house. So instead of putting money into a house, I'm going to put some money into my house. I have a two story house and the downstairs is mostly a separate apartment. I will have to invest in an oven and a clothes dryer. By the end of next week I'm hoping to have a whole bunch of stuff removed and will clear out the garage and use it as a living space. I will get two bunk beds, one for downstairs and one for upstairs. For the most part the house is in good condition with heat, electricity, 2 bathrooms. I have plenty of THC treatment along with additive free pipe tobacco. Easy access to getting food from the Instacart app using Wegmans and getting it delivered here. I'm hoping we will get into cooking vegan recipes. 

If this happens and the young people contact me and move in and we have some success over the next couple of months, I will consider buying and installing a good storage house hopefully with access to electricity. This space could be used not only for storage, but as another meeting space for 12 Step groups. I would also like us to be creative and do craftwork and hopefully tie dyes and we could set up a space in the storage house to offer what we make for a donation once a week and see where that goes.

So this will be my work for the next couple of weeks and I am praying that the young people will contact me in that time, preferably coming to visit me and talk together and show them the house.   

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