Tim Gorman
A guest post by my mother. Annotations by me, from the cheap seats. My mom has been in Al-Anon longer than I’ve been sober, which is a sentence that explains most of our family with very little effort. She wrote what follows for her group. I asked if I could put it up here. She … Read More
Location 05 · Reckoning — where a king’s edited version of himself finally collapses, a swindler up a tree pays back four times what he stole, and the monk who confessed for hours discovers he was fighting the wrong enemy Most people dread this room because they think it’s for punishment. It isn’t. The Confessional … Read More
Location 04 · Reckoning — where a widow demands to be renamed Bitter and no one corrects her, God himself stands at a tomb and cries, and a father in a prison cell insists the gap is meant to stay open Some losses never got a funeral. That’s the ache the Cemetery is built to … Read More
Let’s start with the uncomfortable version: you can be completely honest about what you don’t want and still end up nowhere. Not drunk, necessarily. Just nowhere. Parked. Sober and stranded, six months in, wondering why the thing you fought so hard for feels like an empty apartment. That’s not a willpower problem. That’s a navigation … Read More
Location 03 · Belief — where a ruined man demands an explanation and gets a tour of the cosmos instead, a shepherd counts the stars and feels wonderfully small, and the greatest mind of an age lays down his pen and calls it all straw Addiction is, among other things, a disease of the frame. … Read More
Location 02 · Belief — where a prophet collapses under a bush and hears God in a whisper instead of a whirlwind, a poet screams “how long?” straight at heaven, and a grieving Oxford scholar finds the door bolted from the inside You can do everything right and still hurt. You can pray and feel … Read More