Antony and Skip of TEN/28 split their time between helping clients tell their stories through video and photo and making a new mini-documentary every week for 2019.
All tagged sober living
We’ll get there. but first you have to have the context.
On a not so chilly December night I walked into my first meeting for people who feel powerless when it comes to the adult beverage.
The first person to speak to me was the wife of one of the “old-timers” in the meeting. She took one look at me and said, “... right in there,” as she pointed to a room to my right.
I’m an alcoholic.
That’s one of the greatest sentences I have uttered out loud and I say it often in private meetings all around Nashville. The sentence keeps me grounded in my recovery. It reminds me of something important. It allows me to be open, to grow, and to learn and love.
And yet, until six months ago I never realized how high the horse was that I was riding while saying it. It took someone important to me to die for me to realize.
In fact, the contractor or the tech start up is more in line with what we actually do than any of the above mentioned assumptions. It is true that there is a level of creativity and artistry we shoot for in our work but at the end of the day we are making a product to sell, plain and simple. That said, the deconstruction of what the product is and who the buyer is proves to be the most difficult part for people willing to chat with us longer than five minutes to understand.
“I want to thank the Justice Department for seeing this, this horrible thing... And I didn’t speak them by the way, just so you understand. They saw the horribleness of a nine year sentence for doing nothing... You have murderers and drug addicts- they don’t get nine years. Nine years for doing something that no one can even define what he did.” -President Trump
