Recovery’s the goal, progress presumed, yet expecting perfection jerks me back to disease. An ever shrinking chunk of me remains unrepentant, unreachable, unloveable, ugly. Others enter these rooms obnoxious, argumentative, angry, unloveable. Love, though, knows no bounds, reaches across to unlovely. […]
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Feel the Love
A stranger, I walked into the rooms, scared, hurting, terrified to come, expecting failure in due course, like immediately. It felt different, though, warmer, like hope lurked, flirting around my chair. Like love — and I grew to believe you […]
Continue reading »The Greatest Possession
Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have — the key to life and happiness for others. (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 124) Humiliation, shame, rage — hurling dung on the hopes of family, treacherous dealing […]
Continue reading »What I Already Know
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. Epictetus They say you can’t be too dumb (though usually more courteously) but you can be too smart to understand the Twelve Steps, to get recovery. […]
Continue reading »A Hostage Mess
I write down poetry prompts when I hear them, store them sometimes for years. This one I actually used before on March 9, 2014. Don’t take a hostage you’re not willing to shoot. ~ Congressman Mike Conaway And then what? […]
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