Happy birthday! Thank you for all you do. Hope you took a day off!

A specific picture so they can be on the lookout for it and not have these real life consequences lost in chaos fog.

No more meals on wheels for your orderly neighbor or grandpa. No more extra funding to support struggling low income students. No more Headstart so some kids will get to kindergarten knowing their letters and others won’t. Even if people don’t feel the impact immediately or directly, we need to /3

We need to translate this flood of orders and gutting of federal workers into concrete examples of their impact. I.E. Longer wait times at VA. No breakfast or lunch at school which will affect ability of kids to learn and teacher to teach. (As if teachers’ lives aren’t already hard enough.) 2/

immediately in an unpleasant way which tells me my body doesn't want it. Maybe the biggest gift of sobriety is that the experience of tuning into myself no longer feels like a foray into enemy territory. I don't always like what I find, but the exploration always feels worthwhile and often joyful.

fear and shame, and kept me from figuring out what made me happy. My life has truly gotten so much better in every way since I stopped. And yet I'm not sure I will remain a non-drinker forever. Sometimes I'll have a sip of champagne or a mixed drink to see how it tastes, and I'll feel the effect 5/

up in an alcoholic household. That prevented me from seeing myself as someone who would benefit from quitting drinking. Then I tried going without on a whim and liked how it felt and so kept not drinking. Now I wish I had seen sooner how much time I wasted drinking too much, how much it fueled my 4/

chronicling the harm done by our drinking or drugging family members. It seemed so unfair! Now on the other side, I appreciate the importance of sharing your recovery story because there are so many ways to be sober. For a long time, I had a fixed idea of what an alcoholic was like from growing 3/