Ahem.

"Well, the sun shines bright somewhere, always, on this good Earth, and I know for damn sure sometimes it's shined on me."

This is the beginning of a Dolly Parton song that neither she nor anyone else never wrote, but we're all grateful for some things. For instance, the hair-pull-lift, the motorbike ashtray and the easy elevation of drunk, homeless bums to sobre, fulfilling participants in society are some of the things we're all very glad that have never come to be.

Anyway, what I don't have right now in any sense is the concept of "sobriety." I have searched about a bit over the years, as it happens, but I now intend to search a bit harder in order, I suppose, to find it. I think I want it, but even that is muddled, and I need to know what sober means for and from a person who utterly and completely is.