Our will is nothing more than our thinking apparatus… What is my life? My life is nothing more than my actions… All action is born in thought. (Charlie P) A television show demonstrating thought before so simple an action as […]
Continue reading »Clutched Tight
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. —Jan Glidewell (Quoted by Laura Drake,The Sweet Spot) Hurry into the grocery store, need three things, a cart’s excess. […]
Continue reading »A Thousand Times
When I first joined AA, I thought the Big Book’s program of action was saying a thousand things. I slowly began to understand that it is saying a few simple things a thousand times. ~ Drop the Rock: Removing Character […]
Continue reading »Sweet, Sweet Spirit
There’s a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place, And I know that it’s the Spirit of the Lord; There are sweet expressions on each face, And I know they feel the presence of the Lord. ~ Doris Akers My family […]
Continue reading »The Exertion of Restraint
Search for the words exertion with restraint and delve into medical mishmash. “serotenergic” “biotechnology” “arrhythomogenic” “anomalies”… For normal folk talking, for the down-to-earth they seem not to fit, to clash, to speak at odds, running off different directions. Exertion is […]
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