When amends have been made, lessons learned, responsibility nurtured, maturation triggered…still, guilt lingers. For years. Decades, lifetimes, and beyond… guilt converges, amasses, amalgamates, melds like plastic peanuts in a land dump, perpetual, imperishable, perdurable. Useless. Toxic. Malignant. Pernicious. Toxic waste […]
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Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. ~ Marianne Williamson It’s major. Related to a premonition, perhaps, a […]
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I’m glad I have a family, those I’ll see today and those I won’t. I’m glad I’ve enough to eat and don’t have to consume all that’s on the table at which I sit, that friends and family will give […]
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…the unity of OA is a matter of life and death to us.~The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Locations 1213-1214). Organizations are important to who we are, what we are, how we fit. Some more than […]
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Once upon a time it mattered, the parentage, the birth order, the grandiosity of title, nobility. Children knew their place by looking at their parents when even kings couldn’t read and occupational secrets were handed from generation to the next […]
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