Self-Portrait #2 — The Journey Continues
It’s as if 2015 thru May 31, 2019 never existed.
First edition end of June 2020 [first published on my Medium page late September][now with substantial December re-write][ some of this is restated in later essays you may have read]
I didn’t even realize when I wrote my 2013 self-portrait that I was on a Journey to the East (reference to a Hermann Hesse book). That leg of the spiritual journey plateaued October 4, 2014, the day I ran my second 1:41ish half marathon in 4 weeks and ended in early 2015 when I got bored of being clean and sober around people that weren’t.
Five years later….
The Cataclysm
This supersonic leg of the journey started March 19th:
“Hello, I had hoped we would meet one day under different circumstances and write this mostly in the present tense. My name is Greg Maidman, I am a close friend and confidante of Lindsey’s. In fact, I love her. I am the person who went to the precinct and pushed and accompanied the police to check on her after they were being dismissive the previous day. I have never experienced such…
