Amazing story

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
Mr. Owen is grilling a BUTT (as in Boston) for guests — and us — later; if you call in time, you might can come, too. We're in the phone book.
Catching up on some reading earlier, I found an amazing story in the New York Times Magazine from July 20. David Carr, a media columnist for the Times, wrote about his decades-long history of drug and alcohol abuse. And how he lived to tell about it.
It's sad only in the way that you realize how much time he wasted; and how many people he hurt. He doesn't seem to write to bring pity on himself, but perhaps as a wake-up call for others in the same situation.
It's pretty amazing, as well, that an obvious gift of words enabled him to rise to the heights of his profession.
A snippet from the piece:
"I always thought that people who spent endless amounts of time drilling into their personal histories are fundamentally unhappy in their lives, and I'm not. I'm ecstatic in my own dark, morbid way and subscribe to a theory of the past that always allows the future to unfold: We all did the best we could."
Read it all here.