Growth.  Expansion.  Recovery.

These three phases are the components of an auroral substorm; in the sobriety journey, recovery from addiction, our daily lives…we experience all of these phases in some capacity.

For nine years I was in the throes of an alcohol addiction.  I attempted to take my own life.  I endured an emotional break which included physically harming myself.  

I wanted to die & attempted to drink myself to death on many nights.

Yet in sobriety I discovered photography; and through photography I fell in love with the aurora. 

I found a place to be free.  To reflect.  To heal.  A place where traumas vanish.

A place to grow, expand, recover.

“Book II - Continuum” is the second collection in my long term body of work, where journal entries connect with the aurora to offer insight, hope, and honesty in recovery.

“In darkness there is opportunity - not only in finding the light, but also in becoming the light.”

(This book will consist of two parts)

Book II - Continuum (Pt. 1)

A vessel for something...  
...maybe that something is a vessel for nothing.  
Nothingness in all of its might...  
...time & space, followed by space & time.  

Endless fog, endless angst…     
…hope is lost within each gain.  
Plausible, optimal, hospitable...  
...blasphemy thrives off ones inner pain.  

Once embedded, deeply believed...  
...one would ask, yet never receive.  
Cope with loss, cope with grief...  
...succumb to self by way of the inner thief.  

Time & space, space & time...  
...nothingness in all of its might.  
Seemingly always this vessel awaits,   
Eager to shine in the darkest of nights.  

Vessel

What is the value?

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