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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I Am Not My Brother’s Keeper
I knew how to run your life though mine was out of control. I learned a great lesson when finally I admitted I was powerless over addiction and my life was unmanageable. At that point I began, at long last, […]
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These are my expectations for myself, and I’ve had to let go of them for others. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 2836). I am the master of the universe, the dictator of all things, responsible to see that the world […]
Continue reading »Jealous of Destitutes
The ability to maintain abstinence through the struggle of homelessness, the pain of emotional relapse, and the fear of financial insecurity are evidence to me of a power greater than myself.~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2822-2823). What a powerful testament! […]
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A hundred years of nights and days since Robert Frost surveyed two paths, while time caromed through history’s maze and culture burst with heat that crazed the china mores of the past. A simple time, a wooded place, within, without, […]
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