Thursday Night, Just Past Eight

I just got back from meeting with a group of friends.  I was dressed a little funny.  In 1994 I was, for the month of January, an inmate of the Silkworth Unit at Hazelden.   Tonight,  running out of comfortable t-shirts, I found a collarless shirt I had bought back then, at the Hazelden gift shop.  It has a fairly prominent Hazelden logo on the left hand side.   I'm told Hazelden doesn't have the gift shop anymore.  It never seemed right, that a suburb of hell should have key chains, t-shirts, hats and sweatshirts with the Hazelden logo.   I mean, it isn't Yale, is it.  And when I think of the real cost of the t-shirt, it makes me shudder.   You could go to Yale ten or eleven times for what that t-shirt cost me.