Wednesday, March 21, 2018
21/Secrets & Lies
My lovely and soft-spoken neighbor, a retired nurse, was an impressive gardener, knitter, swimmer, and seamstress. Watching her work in flower gardens that could have been painted by Monet, or dive like a graceful arrow off the side of my boat, I never suspected the alcoholism she hid so well.
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So many do.
ReplyDeleteGiven how openly I drink, I don't think I'm hiding my alcoholism yet. Or AM I?
ReplyDeleteGood question. I'm sure people think I drink much more than I actually do, given my frequent references to chardonnay on social media. And it's Thursday ...
DeleteYay, Thursday!
DeleteI wonder if I upped my drinking game would my gardening improve?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't count on it. LOL I don't know how she did it. For that matter, I don't know how we got any work done in the afternoon after all those lunches with alcohol in NYC in the 1960s.
ReplyDeleteFor as often as I drink (pretty much daily), I cannot imagine functioning at work with day drinking.
DeleteA lot of professional people are alcoholics and no one knows. I don't think that alcoholism can improve on gardening though. Too many drinks and you'd be pulling more plants than weeds. lol
ReplyDeleteHer drinking never showed. I had many conversations with her, and never suspected. But after she died I was told she began drinking every morning. Maybe a person can be an alcoholic without drinking enough to become impaired?
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