Seeds Chapter 8 Page 43

numb it after she was gone. Like spraying the roots with weed killer. And eventually it left.

He stops writing. He was back to focusing on the time after she was gone. The darker but clearer times, times of focus, but not things he wanted to mix into an entry about her. He turns to another page and begins yet another entry.

It would be easy to label me back then as a drug addict but my use of chemicals was more functional. A way to enhance my ability to heal or vision or strength to achieve a certain goal, a way to keep the focus on something.

I used them to be more “in” the environment and not somewhere else… dreaming of the past… distracted. I wanted to enhance the experience and block out my