self-emptying (erin jean warde)

self-emptying

“Folks can change their ways much as they want to. But I don’t care how many times you change your ways, what’s in you is in you, and it’s got to come out.”
—James Baldwin

In the earliest inklings of my desire to be sober, I would have told you that I brought all of myself to the table. In truth, I brought a distinct cocktail of equal parts w…