Relentless days wrest center stage from forebears hardly ripe as calendars slough off each page with calibrated swipe. From Gerber pears to bubble-gum seems but a month or less and calculus replaces sums like tic-tac-toe to chess. So halt that […]
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Good Morning!
Keep it simple. Start it right. It’s a new day. Start by taking dogs out, repeating the Third Step Prayer as the water’s freshened, then circling the yard several times saying the Seventh Step Prayer, the Serenity Prayer, then the […]
Continue reading »I Will Not Tell You!
I ate three planned meals today, meals that met the meal plan I choose. But truth be told, I wandered through the kitchen when the plan was to eat nothing and instead I nibbled, not enough to impact the scales […]
Continue reading »Inability to Love Ourselves
We name as ills of our society sexual promiscuity and addiction to legal and illegal substances, including food. In every case the underlying cause is an inability to love oneself fully as God loves each of us. As a result […]
Continue reading »Staring into the Lake
She never moved, and I watched her a long while. She was kneeling at the shore of a lake, her knees in the water as little waves continued to roll in. I assume she watched her own reflection in the […]
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