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aagabriel's avatar

I'm commenting and sharing my thoughts. I liked listening to your stammering exposition because it's nice to recognise voices that speak honestly.

I'm interested:;found a handful of substackers in the last few days. All of which aren't thrashing around inside a quagmire and trying to escape it by using either a chat-gpt augmented or masochistically manifested essay which is then posted here. Here where many other contemporaneously relevant attention vacuums struggle against the same black hole sun's dismal interplanetary suck.

Bless!

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Jody J. Sperling's avatar

Thank you, I think. I do stutter, and ramble at times. It's my hope that the payoff is what you said, a real sense of authenticity. I rarely have answers, but I frequently have notable experiences. If that helps writers in their journey, yes, bless!

Thanks for listening and for the comment. I love hearing others' thoughts.

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aagabriel's avatar

Answers are served up boilerplate these days. Stone cold rhetorical and nothing for the audience to resonate or ponder on.

Looking forward to hearing more 😃

More questions that is

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Heather O'Brien's avatar

I totally miss smoking. I LOVED it. But between the cost, the smell, and ultimate the asthma/lung issues, I just can't. I quit cold turkey in October 2005.

Ironically, Randy was never a smoker but loved when I did. He's weird. My husband is weird.

Mexican food is my favorite (that and Italian, but more so Mexican). But I'm not a fan of Chipotle, to be honest.

I won't rehash my personal philosophy here. You have a good idea about it. I've just done this for so long - admittedly wrong. But for all my supposed negativity, I couldn't continue this course without some level of true belief and maybe a bit of "expectation" of the ultimate outcome.

As for alcohol, I probably drank most in my early 20s. I left advertising because I just couldn't continue all the drinking. There was a LOT of it going on. I enjoy it, but it seems I just can't "commit" to it.

You're going to be okay, Jody. That may sound glib or dismissive, but I don't mean it that way - and I know you know that. You have my love and friendship and my utmost belief in you and your journey.

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Jody J. Sperling's avatar

You have my love and friendship as well. I'm grateful for your continued support and kindness.

And, unlike the last hole I fell in, this one lasted just a couple days and I stood, brushed off, cleaned my cuts and now I'm carrying on. It feels good.

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