From the ashes. in Magma

Another small but important hurdle passed today. A trip to the hospital for outpatient surgery, my mother drove me as big would be under sedation and made for a return drive inadvisable. But it is over now and with that I had a long afternoon of thinking mainly about what is the right thing to do and how best to make this year my year of ridding this burden from my shoulders.

I owe it to a lot of people who could've run from me at my moment of critical mass. But they stayed, so for myself first and foremost but they deserve at the very least this.