Its Time for Goodbye

This will be my last post on this blog.  There was a time in my life that this blog was "it", the place I wrote almost daily (over 1,500 posts total) and where often there was a great dialogue (or debate) going on in the comments.  I wrote on many topics and shared lots of personal thoughts and stories.  It was fun.

Then along came heroin.  It crept into my son's life and owned his very soul (it still does).  I became front and center in my life so I started a blog called "Needle and the Damage Done".  When he seemed to be doing well (false!) I changed the name to "Recovery Happens".  Recently I changed its name once again to "My Life, His Addiction".

So, from now on, if I have something to say, even if it doesn't relate to addiction, I will be writing over there.  I still update my Quotes blog and my Images blog about once a week.

Sadly, my two favorite blogs have become dusty, cold places where I only occassionally post.  I will keep both Layla's Classic Rock and Gone But Not Forgotten because they still get lots of hits from Google searches.

Thanks for all the comments, good times and friendship.  I realize only a few people still read here (Hi Joey!) but I am still in touch with many people from the "old days" of Writing From The Inside Out :)

I'll leave this blog with a song that my son likes, Trent Reznor wrote it, but Johnny Cash's version really gets to me:





Nine Inch Nails
"Hurt"

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way