I need my friends, those I know, those I never met. We share Recovery and know each other for we share a common obsession. More alike often than our family or long-cherished friends, They’re more like me and understand my […]
Continue reading »Let Me See What You Show Me, God
Grant me, O Lord, to know that which ought to be known; to love that which ought to be loved; to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is precious in Thy sight, to blame that which […]
Continue reading »The Manchild
Written immediately following the hearing on April 19, 2000 I am the judge. He is the man child, just past the watershed seventeenth birthday. Before three other judges he is an adult, charged with adult misdemeanors. In my court he is […]
Continue reading »Everything in Life Is a Choice
Everything in life is a choice. The key is to make those choices from a place of joy and abundance and happiness—from the energy that flows through everything, including you—rather than making a choice based on fear or lack or […]
Continue reading »Needing People
Attaching ourselves to others seems like a natural response. The feeling of aloneness, of separation from others, is palpable and haunting. So then we cling to whoever wanders too close, much like a moth to flame. This isn’t something to […]
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