Lines in a poem I wrote about my father: How many months have I failed to call home? I don’t tend to make phone calls even to people I love! That hundred pound phone we speak of in Recovery is […]
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From a Fellow Bozo
Let me first say I’m just another Bozo on the bus. I’m no authority on how to do Recovery. But I’ve certainly done my research. identifying how to fail, to fall on your face. It took two sponsors for me […]
Continue reading »A Splendid Torch
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid […]
Continue reading »What’s the Why?
Nietzsche says that he who has a “why” to live for can endure any “how.” ~ Brooks, David. The Second Mountain (p. 30). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. An early Recovery writer said, “The gradual elimination of selfishness in the […]
Continue reading »The Big Picture
…over the long run, continuance, consistency, and perseverance overcome everything else. And the small upward steps, taken every day, will end up lifting you to the heights. God has called you not only to love, but to keep loving; not […]
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