Addiction Recovery Story #23, Snowdrop: Beauty & Strength in a Baby Bulb

I’m popping up again, reporting from the green couch (eight-pound white puff dog, Sug, snoozing by my side now) to write in real time about my efforts to recover from compulsive overeating/sugar addiction. I pledged on January 31, 2121 to record what came up when I put down the food. It is March 15. Miss Sugar Addiction really and truly digs in her sharp designer heels and does not step off easily.

Tiny , mighty — and lovable — Snowdrops. Image source HERE.

The dolly-sized snowdrop, a perennial, has a single small, drooping bell-shaped flower with petals.

Known by various names, in 1753, it was labeled Galanthus (from Ancient Greek gála, “milk”+ ánthos, “flower”).

New species continue to be discovered.

Most flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (March 20/21 in the Northern Hemisphere), but some flower in early spring and late autumn.*

So I am a Snowdrop, a late-blooming one.

Some people join a 12-step group and arrive at/walk in abstinence quickly. Some do not fall back into that painful, erratic, poisonous place. I marvel at them.

I have been consistently attending weekly 12-step meetings, sitting on folding chairs in church rooms, since Figgy was in high school (about 2012).