Normal doesn’t dictate the order of clichés. Trim and fit, mean and lean, mighty and high — some work as well, though all feel askew. Truth can dwell in dissonance. How often has fatigue come first, as old, sick patterns […]
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Love Like Crazy
People loved me when I was crazy. I want to be like that and love other people who are crazy. ~ Kaitlin You loved me like crazy when insanity clutched me, pulled my strings — when I channeled Lady Macbeth, guilt […]
Continue reading »Recycling Roadmarks
Like a trail winding up a mountain, as the twirling blade of an auger, circling from one up escalator to the next and next and next — the path seems an endless loop without perspective to detect the climb. We […]
Continue reading »I Could Begin
It wasn’t A.A. that had the closed mind, it was me. The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. ~ Twelve Steps and […]
Continue reading »As Willing as the Dying
Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there discover the fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become open-minded to conviction and as willing as the dying can be. We stand ready […]
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