I stepped on the cactus when? Two, three years ago? I backed over it, my foot covering the whole plant without even feeling it there. A weed to begin with, tiny, insignificant, only of value for tenacity in springing up […]
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How Screwy…
… the knowledge I now have, it is hard for me to recall how screwy the whole thing sounded—the blind leading the blind, a union of drunks, all banded together in some kind of a spiritual belief! (Alcoholics Anonymous, Kindle Locations […]
Continue reading »Prisoner of Pride
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride. ~ Pietro Aretino (For Today, Kindle […]
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I’ve been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: “Rationalization is giving a social acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.” ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 550 (4th edition) So, I […]
Continue reading »Now I See It
They’re old patterns, well worn, automatic, my triggers. I know them. Well. Through long years I’ve felt them in my gut, denied vociferously when accused, seen them in hindsight, felt normal with them until I couldn’t stand them, loathed them, […]
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