Sometimes it´s important to get away from the life we know in order to see it more clearly. Just for today, I can be grateful that I have been able to take a wonderful tropical vacation on an island in the Carribean. Amidst fresh fish, mangos, a hot sun and clear swimming pool water, I am able to contemplate my life. It´s funny though how my co-dependent issues follow me around the world. Despite being miles from home I still attract stray broke pot-smoking musicians. How do they find me? I must have a vacancy sign flashing ¨CO-DEPENDENT VACANCY.¨Sigh. I guess just for today I can still practice saying ¨No.

My traveling partner Krista has been waking up with a black tongue every morning. I think it´s due to the pepto bismol that she´s taking to avoid geting sick from the water. She fears that it´s some mysterious tropical disease whose only symptom is a black tongue. I´m learning that it´s important not to laugh at other people´s fears. Just for today, I can respect other people´s neuroses, just as they respect my own.