Joelle speaks at the St. Columbkill's round-robin: the Knievel breakthrough

pivotal · 17 Nov YDAU

• When: Tue 17 Nov YDAU (2009), night
• What: At the round-robin (attended unsupervised, Johnette minding the sick and quarantined at the House), the Kentucky pipe-dweller newcomer Wayne points veiled Joelle to the podium "as if he gut-intuited some sort of kinship, affinity of origin"; speaking, she discovers why she could never stay off freebase — she'd counted days like cars Evel Knievel had to clear, an impossible accumulating arc — and that she can instead choose it "for one endless day." Her "But For the Grace of God" grammar complaint (her own since the White Flag meeting) gets laughs.