Step One. Life Sucks. I can’t do this. I can’t manage my life. Step Two. Somehow, somewhere there must be a power greater than I who can manage my life even if I have to act as if or make […]
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What Do You See?
“There’s something Cezanne said that I think about a lot, something like, ‘I know what I am looking at, but what am I seeing?’ That’s what reviewing feels like to me. It’s very much to ‘re-view,’ to see again, to […]
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I was to analyze my character defects before tomorrow. And to write a poem. So, two birds, one stone. Procrastination, failure to take action, that’s a biggy! Frequent anger. at me as much as toward anyone else. Overly anxious…can I […]
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Step Four. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Fear often predominates as we begin Step Four. After all, we’e searching for Resentments, hurts we’ve nourished for decades, our part in starting lifelong feuds. Fear has a place. […]
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Selfishness — self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without […]
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