It’s simple cause and effect, the desire to look good, the need to tell others what we want them to believe, our truth as we’ve constructed it. But the result isn’t an improved image but a lowered head…not really because […]
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How Not to Make Amends
I resented you for years, you old fart, for your meddling seemed always to make my best-laid plans fizzle, fade, die on the vine and I would have sworn your collective efforts secured the failure of all good things. Honestly, […]
Continue reading »Futility and Fatality
We have listed and analyzed our resentments. We have begun to comprehend their futility and their fatality. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Location 1014). Who can rant and rave about wrongs perceived and entertain a wisp of a thought these resentments might be […]
Continue reading »A Hostage Mess
I write down poetry prompts when I hear them, store them sometimes for years. This one I actually used before on March 9, 2014. Don’t take a hostage you’re not willing to shoot. ~ Congressman Mike Conaway And then what? […]
Continue reading »I Dare You
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 58 It’s right there, the Big Book dare. You doubt it? Fine! Prove it wrong. Thoroughly follow our path! How, you ask? Admit you’re […]
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