The Aventura errand-privilege and sober celibacy

texture · ~Nov YDAU

• When: ~Nov YDAU (weekday supper-shopping runs; the specific quiche run 9 Nov YDAU)
• What: As Staff, Gately cooks weekday communal supper, does the weekly shopping, and drives Pat Montesian's mint 1964 Ford Aventura — some of "the profoundest spiritual feelings of his sobriety" attach to this car, though he drives like a lunatic, rationalized by "Progress Not Perfection." Recovery-state details: he switched to menthols at four months clean as a quit-strategy; he hasn't had sex in almost two years and has "never had sex sober yet."