The meeting is growing me. Jhe T Why go to meetings? I could read the literature, pray, meditate, work the steps, I’ve been to meetings for years, could almost quote the Standard Meeting Format. Why goto meetings? Because every one […]
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And I Don’t Even Know Your Name
It’s the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity. ~ Vint Cerf We decry anonymity, want to be known, but now and again the very bane leading to loneliness, isolation, alienation sloughs […]
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We come for the weight loss, for recovery of the body. That’s all we’ve sought our whole lives through, convinced once the body’s right everything else falls in place. We find when we come they speak of other recovery… of […]
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Distance looms, impossible chasms, between where we are and where we want to be. Between who we are and who we want to be. It’s too far, I’ll never reach it. I might as well stay, save, sound, albeit miserable, […]
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A room in the basement, easy access except the elevator hasn’t worked for years. Stairs down to the meeting, up to go forth. How pleasant for people whose obesity, diabetes and other complications make it unaccessible. Colorful non-rectangular frames filled […]
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