Nine years ago today, I did not know I could have a different life. I did not know I could live. It was as if I had forgotten. The rest of one's life is always about to start, but nine years ago today, a new life opened for me. #OneDayAtATime, with help, with friends, with many teachers, some departed, a life worth living opened for me. Sometimes the strongest guidance does not feel like there is a guide at all. I don't understand how I washed ashore "in the rooms" nine years ago, but I did and I do not need to understand. I live with #gratitudeandtrust and I stand to remind anyone and everyone that you are worthy of a life one can celebrate. How free do you want to be? as one friend asks. #ODAAT #sobriety (at New Paltz, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz8BZVUg-G8/?igshid=15qmbsje8cpg4