Getting ready for work. Drinking some iced tea. Glad I started this thread.
Something I just figured out is that the the benefits of sobriety are subtle, and a lot of them are negative benefits in the sense of certain things and conditions NOT happening, as opposed to the immediate and noticeable effects of the other.
Must be patient and appreciative of the subtle things and the absence of things.
Please feel free to keep posting advice and reinforcement. Thanks! I really appreciate all your contributions.
I need to shed the rest of that old skin and leave it behind.