Forty years ago I was darned good at math but lousy at arithmetic which yanked some rugs. I never practiced the piano enough, and scales? I saw no use in those, disdained the repetition. Yesterday I played tech guru, piddling […]
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Paradox of Healing
But if you decide to work on your relationship post-affair, you must accept a hard truth: Another affair can happen. This is the paradox of healing, Seidel said. ~ Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. How can another hurt heal an owie? Sure, sometimes […]
Continue reading »The Bridge of Reason
Some of us had already walked far over the Bridge of Reason toward the desired shore of faith. ~Alcoholics Anonymouspage 53 Reason has no substance, no load-bearing span. But reason can bridge as a verb, can bring minds together. And […]
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They had told of a simple religious idea and a practical program of action. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 9 A simple religious idea: Believe as you want to believe, but know you’re not god, that a power greater than you […]
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With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough gin concealed about the house to carry me through that night and the next day. My wife was at work. I wondered whether I dared hide a full bottle of gin […]
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