When: Monday, Aug 11, 7:30pm EST

Where: https://youtube.com/live/hKCyzo5B52c?feature=sharec

Who gets 10%: https://www.moar-recovery.org (Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery)
I’ve never had a drink. Never smoked, shot or snorted anything.
But I come from an at-home history of alcoholism and violence. So I know.
This place’s mission is "to organize recovering individuals, families, and friends into a collective voice to educate the public about the value of recovery from alcohol and other addictions.”
OK, I’m in with 10% of whatever I make this trip.

http://paypal.me/vancevancevance or https://venmo.com/vancevancevance or VanceFunder P.O. Box 17, Arlington, MA 02476

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***CUSTOM SONGS - Expensive, but sure, you want one about you or your family or something.

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HEALING

~ IS IT A NAP? - If i get up at 8, do a bunch of things and I’m back in bed by 10 and I sleep until 12:45, is that a nap? Or a re-sleep? Or a “sleep’s finish” (sounds like an Irish hitman’s novella)? Remember, I’m healing, I get it, but still my waking manhood is at stake here.

~ AM I WATCHING TOO MUCH CABLE? - if my finger has gone completely through the soft 4-way button on the Comcast remote to where I had to trade it for a new one - you just take it out and show the Comcast guy and he hands me a new one. Remember, I’m healing and I need to be gentle with myself…

~ THE LITTLE GREY AFRO - I hold those of you close to me responsible for this. Howw’d you let me do that? It’s like I have an aureole, or a nimbus, or, if you willow a halo...how’d you let me get this little baby gray afro? I’m trying to heal over here, don’t you think self-image is a big par...oh never mind

~ $35 SMART PHONE - I dunno why I got it. Maybe I really liked the one I saw a friend sporting on her wrist...Maybe that and it was around midnight and I had taken an oxy for the throat pain thing. I guess you pay for miniaturization and I will concede that it’s like wearing an intermittently glowing hockey puck strapped to your wrist. Its need for remedial work in stopwatching, alarming, and spam call filtering I find unendingly entertaining, so for $35 I figure it’s a key part of my healing.

~ DIET - The taste/appetite issues are real. This 40lbs gone is not how I’d pictured doing that. So, vegan smoothies, Irish breakfast sausages, scrambled egg whites, and pork/mushroom dumplings from Number 1 Chinese in Arlington, MA (free advertisement because they’re good to me) is my diet at present for my recovery. I’m healing over here...

And hotdogs from Whole Foods.