30 days

Had 30 days of sobriety yesterday.  I am grateful for my success.  Had lunch with Philly Mark in Woodinville.  We always go to the same teriyaki place by Top Foods at 1 PM.  It is quiet and the food is good.

I don't have many men friends.  Mark and I have been sporadically meeting for lunch for 6 or 8 years.  My relationship with him is of great importance to me and at least a priority for him.  We don't have many commonalities beyond a good education, a history of depression and a desire to stay sober.  We have a good time and good conversation when we get together.

Yesterday Mark challenged me to make another male friend.  I am going to do that.  The phrase is meet for coffee.  I don't drink coffee.  There is an easy solution there somewhere such as tea (get it?  tea = solution—as in chemistry water soluble solution…  arrgghh, it was funny the first time in my head… J).

I am grateful for my 31 days and for the miraculously improved quality of my relationships with other men in my life—as a direct result of my using a more frank and open communication all the fervor of the  drowning  seizing a life preserver.