These years past fruit lacked sweetness for I existed on sugar, syrup, corn syrup… the “real” sweets in any transmutation. Yet cleansing myself of these toxicants I’ve learned fruit has tastes even without the sauces and toppings I was wont […]
Continue reading »Telling the Truth without Reporting the Facts
I am a judge. I swore people in. I had them swear to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth. I am a lawyer. I prepared clients. I told them to listen to answer the question they were asked to […]
Continue reading »Curious Mental Phenomenon
You may think this an extreme case. To us it is not far-fetched, for this kind of thinking has been characteristic of every single one of us. We have sometimes reflected more than Jim did upon the consequences. But there […]
Continue reading »Too Smart Means Trouble
You can’t be too dumb to recover but it’s easy to be too smart. Dumb, insecure, convinced you’re without hope, that you’re a loser is the perfect frame of reference to listen, to follow the suggestions as though they were […]
Continue reading »Compulsive
It’s a comfortable refrain ringing through an OA meeting, compulsive overeater. In recent years we’ve played with the phrase, but just overeater, changing it places to simply eater. But we can say it so often it loses it’s punch. Compulsive: […]
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