Program people share and applaud my victories, but it is their ability to accept my weaknesses that keeps me coming back. ~  Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 945-946).

Honesty of the kind
we know only in ourselves
but finally in these rooms
recognize in others – most —
and thus relax, releasing fictions
long held to keep others from knowing
as only we could of the falsity of face
we present. A community of strangers
come together, oddities who shed isolation —
finding the rest of our lost tribe
waiting in the rooms ready to accept,
to love, to welcome us
home to a family we chose
for our innate kinship.