When you talk to people you get to know them more than when you’re just with them. ~ Manny Carneir0 Real talk — vocal, sure, but email, texting, postal mail… The earnest exchange of ideas, one speaks, then the other, […]
Continue reading »Measured by My Friends
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ John F. Kennedy When I was in the food my friends were as well… or they weren’t my friends. I didn’t want to eat […]
Continue reading »Loving Them Back
At the same time my sponsor and other old-timers who had taken us under their wings loved us back to rejoin society. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 5th edition, page 443 Broken people, unable to love, refusing to accept the idea anyone […]
Continue reading »Supreme Sacrifice
There are many situations which arise out of the phenomenon of craving which cause men to make the supreme sacrifice rather than continue to fight. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Locations 187-188) To give up your life, to make the supreme […]
Continue reading »All You Need to Begin
Thus we grow. And so can you, though you be but one man with this book in your hand. We believe and hope it contains all you will need to begin. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Locations 2041-2042) We can want […]
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