I rather appreciated your ideas about the subtle insanity, which precedes the first drink, but I was confident it could not happen to me after what I had learned. ~ The Big Book and A Study Guide of the 12 Steps […]
Continue reading »Anger Turned Inward
Depression. Severe despondency, dejection, feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy. Depression is anger turned inward, self-hatred, self-loathing, capitulation. I would not negate the very real physical state. At the same time I know the anger is real, is palpable, is utter and […]
Continue reading »Are We There Yet?
Over two thousand miles an hour the moon moves. I stand here, looking at it, and don’t see it budge. But if I were to mark it on the plane of the sky and an hour later look again, it […]
Continue reading »Why Did You Hold On?
Maybe in the beginning I forgot about abstinence, forgot I had changed my way of looking at life, forgot for a moment that I was in recovery. Those times, though, are long past and I know when I’m about to take […]
Continue reading »Like Seeing a Black Hole
(Based on a conversation with Jeff Johnson) A black hole, a dense mass in space so packed it lets out no light. They’re million of miles away, not something we could drop in on even if approaching without being whirled […]
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