Memory Is a Choice & What’s True Changes
What happens when we get sober from belief, identity, opinion, and story?
“Memory is a choice. You said that once, with your back to me, the way a god would say it.”
—Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
In 2020, the year I stopped drinking, I wrote an 85,000-word memoir that remains in a folder on my laptop, unpublished. The book changed in the writing and changed me in the writing. Also my past, present, and …