Two Years and almost 5 months sober! Hurray!
Today I am grateful, thankful, and my mind is at ease. Such is my daily routine... free of worry and remorse. Free from stinky thinking and obsessions of the mind and body. I don't need any drugs today to calm my nerves or get me through the day. I am ok just the way I am. Not even tobacco has a hold on me anymore. Life is good. We live, we die. Life goes on. Try to stop and smell the flowers sometime... I just ran 3 miles... randomly in the middle of the night. It was awesome. I am grateful I can get my ass off the couch daily to exercise.
Jonathan
Random post tonight...
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,--
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
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