#17 Endings, beginnings
On Tuesday of last week, Tempest (fka Hip Sobriety) was acquired by Monument, an early stage organization that provides MAT (medication-assisted treatment) and therapy to help folks stop drinking. That might mean nothing to you, or maybe it means everything. I don’t know how to talk about it yet, the same way someone might not be able to talk about an endless divorce that won’t stop coming for you, new papers served every time you think you’ve finally moved on; the same way you might not be able to talk about something you haven’t even begun to mourn.
On Monday I owned about 25% of Tempest, I own nothing of the new venture. Everything that attached me to it went poof on Tuesday, including any rights I have to my old materials and probably more things I didn’t spend a lick of time trying to figure out or defend. If I started this to get rich, as many have genuinely assumed of me, I would be, um, mad. But I didn’t. I started it …