{"id":36,"date":"2009-05-08T16:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T16:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-05-08T16:44:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T16:44:56","slug":"there-will-always-be-darknessentry-for-july-26-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"There will always be darkness&#8230;&#8230;Entry for July 26, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in our lives. Stages of no way home&#8230;where am I&#8230;.how did I get here&#8230;and sometimes it is a comfortable place&#8230;I&#8217;ve erased my past one hundred times but it is always part of me. In the New York Times yesterday a bunch of educated scientist led by Marcia Ferri of the Italian Agency for worldwide public health came to the conclusion that 12-step programs&#8212;do not work. The review covered only carefully controlled trials. What a bunch of bleeping bleep! I would like to see these so-called scientists determinations explained to people I know who would be DEAD-institutionalized-or sleeping on the street-if it wasn&#8217;t for 12 step. IRONICALLY&#8212;-Glenn did it&#8212;&#8212;he took me to my first meeting many years ago. I knew right away that I belonged there&#8212;-although it took me a few years to get it. I should be dead. It was alot more than alochol for me. There were alot of layers to my onion&#8230;.I&#8217;m still peeling the damn thing. We are complicated human beings&#8230;.I woke up in a holding cell once&#8230;.and spent 17 days in jail&#8230;.it just wasn&#8217;t for me&#8230;.I wasn&#8217;t a good jail person&#8230;I never wanted to go back&#8230;.but if I should be dead&#8230;.I should have spent almost HALF of my life in jail&#8230;..like our brother Glenn. READ his letter&#8230;if you can. I know it&#8217;s hard sometimes&#8230;to help people that it seems have had so many chances&#8230;life is just too damn short&#8230;.he is always little Glenny&#8230;.to me&#8230;..in his droopy underwear singing &#8220;Downtown&#8230;..downtown&#8230;.&#8221; I have REVAMPED the ARTWORK PAGE&#8212;-check it out. There are also NEW PHOTOS in Our Childrens Children&#8212;Madison&#8212;&#8212;and an awesome new photo of Nicole and Maddy on the Nicole page&#8230;..thanks Nicole for sending them to me&#8230;&#8230;signing off<a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/glenndarkness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/glenndarkness.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"glenndarkness\" width=\"333\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in our lives. Stages of no way home&#8230;where am I&#8230;.how did I get here&#8230;and sometimes it is a comfortable place&#8230;I&#8217;ve erased my past one hundred times but it is always part of me. In the New York Times yesterday a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=36\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","tag-glenn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}