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New York Shitty Day Ender: Faces Of Recovery
Chris Arnade writes (of his latest series):
I was invited by Debra Vizzi, the head of VIP Services, to attend their Friday Morning Breakfast Club, a weekly support/inspirational meeting for addicts in recovery. Tatiana, 24, from the Bronx and now in the women’s residence, was one of many to stand up and share; she recited a poem she had written.
Tatiana started using drugs in ’06, initially weed, mushrooms, and ecstasy, but she quickly moved to heroin. The drug abuse led to her selling herself, and constant thoughts of suicide. Twice before, she has been through detox and rehab, and has now been clean for 99 days. “This time I’m getting clean for me, not for my family. That’s a big difference.” When she leaves the program she is hoping to get the last four credits to complete college and go into nursing.
When I asked her how she wanted to be described she said, “I am an eccentric piece of work. Addicts are sensitive people who often don’t know how to deal with their emotions.”
Please take the time to read her poem here, Strolling craigslist avenue for drugs. Tatiana’s picture is the first in a companion series that I hope to shoot over next few months called Faces of Recovery.
Thanks to the writer Cassie Rodenberg for all the help, and please check out her blog…
New York Shitty Day Starter: Pep Talk
Filed under: New York City
Taken by chudko.
New York Shitty Day Ender: Flight
Filed under: New York City
Taken by michah79.
From the New York Shitty Photo Pool, Part II: At The Laundromat
Filed under: New York City
Taken by hanshendley.
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Subway Love
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From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: At Handball Courts
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From The New York Shitty Photo Pool, Part II: To All Trains
Taken by John Fullard.
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: BFF
Filed under: Brooklyn, East New York, East New York Brooklyn, New York City, Stuff That Makes Miss Heather Happy
Chris Arnade (who took the above photograph) writes:
Jason (10) and his godbrother Derick (12) where playing in front of their house on an otherwise industrial stretch of Atlantic Avenue where they have been living with their mother for the last few years. While they were showing me their karate moves a rush of police cars came screaming by, headed a few blocks away where a woman was shot.
Derick told me that when he grows up he wants to be an NFL quarterback. Jason wants to be an artist; he spends his free time drawing Manga. Both insisted I come back and take pictures of them breaking boards with their bare hands, like “real karate masters.”
New York Shitty Day Starter: Lost In Art
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From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Columbia Street
This amusing bit of signage comes courtesy of Lost In Brooklyn. Great find!
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