I want to serve. Not just because… well, not even because I’m co-dependent. That’s not wanting to serve, it’s manipulating to endear… anyway, as I was saying, I want to serve. But three hundred six times today I’ve pushed “scan” […]
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Our Real Purpose
Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Location 1188). What a deal for a people pleaser! I can do that, help all the people around […]
Continue reading »My Way
But I know better, understand the way the thing should go and when you tell me “fourteen syllables” unstressed then stressed you contradict the way I like to write and force a scheme inherently constrained and lacking depth of thought, […]
Continue reading »What Does Archie Teach Edith?
She learns to do what she agrees promptly encouraged by his disappointment expressed as anger when she slips. She learns to get her worth from inside, independent of his appraisal of her. She learns discretion as to where lines must […]
Continue reading »Me at Almost 68
(I wrote this a while ago. I’m 68 and three months now and they took my blood the last two times I offered it.) My knees may hurt but they don’t grumble much with a mile and a half at […]
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