cleaning up her act

 


(posted from my phone)

 

perhaps I always suspected if I did not know that she had a substance abuse problem

she had all the classic signs although I thought when I met her she had already overcome most of them specially the rumors of cocaine

the problem is that at the end of her time in our little county she was associated with some of the most provocative Mobsters apparently and where Mobsters go so this abusive of substance

a recent post saying that she is now 3 years clean says a lot about her determination to make a new life for herself although what surprises me is I thought she had overcome these issues back in 2016 rather than 2021

her move out of the county to Manhattan and a prestigious job on Union square seem to be extreme positive sign that she had turned her life around now from our latest post it is clear she's still struggled and wasn't until she made her Way South where she managed to pull the pieces together into some sort of positive mosaic

the fact that she is saying this now is remarkable since she is someone who has kept her secrets very well and someone who has been determined to survive

I keep thinking of that poem she posted a few weeks before her resignation from the Virgin mayors enclave when she said she was tempted to do herself in but her will to survive out weighted at all

she is obviously working very hard at making her life positive again and the fact that she is revealing so much again says a lot about that progrress

meanwhile I have to wonder what her goals are now she seems incredibly content with her weekly or more often rides in the country a kind of symbiotic relationship with an animal that he could not get with human beings

as sneaky as animals can be they are not nearly as sneaky as human beings can be or mean and what they do is generally reaction to what they perceive their masters want or are and since she appears to be kindhearted the relationship tends to be kind as well

at the end of all of this you have to wonder what she is looking for now where she wants to go what she wants to do or is she merely content to do what she's doing now and feel that immense joy that comes from finding peace in these kinds of environments

whatever it is she appears to be opening up again the way she did over the summer of 2013 when she revealed more about herself then she ever had before in public

how far this will go is anybody's guess and what inspired it

I suppose we are coming back to that point of communication that I always suspect it happened back when we were at odds with each other this kind of honesty hidden behind the mask of her poetry only there's no poetry now and what she posts seems to be much more revealing and open without the metaphors

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