Boldness to barge ahead, wisdom to discern course, gutsy enough to dare, sagaciousness sufficient to pause. Fearless? Unlikely. Plowing past panic, the essence of recovery, the beginning of heaven.
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Sought and Found
I found him! I win! Clever, how hidden he was, out in the open where I thought I’d looked but like those puzzles when words are secluded in random letters in plain sight but darned near impossible to spot! You […]
Continue reading »Don’t Let Go of Me
I hurt, I ache, I’m alone no matter who may crowd around. It’s been so these long years — I know you understand, feel it in your hug, see it in your eyes. We stand, hold hands, ready to leave. […]
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Denigrated by mother, pummeled by life and love, full of self-loathing that converts camera and mirror to weapons crushing her spirit, a question, unexpected, dredges abuse, looses tears. Healing begins, courage to open to probing, to words. Daring to acknowledge […]
Continue reading »Reliance, Not Defiance
No man, we saw, could believe in God and defy him, too. Belief meant reliance, not defiance. (Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 31) Defiance – bold, brash disobedience. The stuff of damnation, of bitter, angry god. But I […]
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