It may really be a wildflower, It may really be a wildflower, but I’d bet most compulsive eaters would agree, it’s a description of their life now, or before Recovery. Spreading describes how problems once small propagate endlessly. Dog is […]
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Plutonium
Plutonium is not normal, made by bombarding something else explosive. It’s heavier than 80 percent of elements. In public exposed to air it forms a dull surface not wanting to be seen. It looses weight slowly, taking almost 88 years […]
Continue reading »Wasted Lives
Bottom of the barrel, dregs in the mug, a plastic grocery bag become a surrender flag giving up from the treetop. A hole dug so deep it’s become a grave. Hope seems in vain but hope anyway. Better is the […]
Continue reading »What Was the Last Straw?
For me, knowing I was killing myself. For Dee, being weighed on the freight scale. For Jody, breaking his grandmother’s chair. For Sue, weighing 74 pounds. For Chrissy, waking in the hospital alive anyway. For Vanna, not finding slacks she […]
Continue reading »At the End
We carefully work the Steps, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine. Then Ten, Eleven and Twelve… continuing the first ten. But at the end of the Steps, we’re spreading the message, increasing the fellowship and newcomers […]
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