A writer in a blog on an online recovery site says, “What is addictive thinking? Well, the answer is actually quite simple. It is the bridge that allows us to deny what we intellectually know to be true and allows us […]
Continue reading »That Book
I’ve read the Big Book. Three times through, plus a year reading random pages, know it, quote it, apply it. Time to more on, to other books, to history, to others inspired by the book. Why not? What’s to lose, […]
Continue reading »Home Lies Ahead
Home was Lubbock when I moved to Quanah,Quanah when I went to college, and thenso many years until I’d not lived theresome forty years. I sit in the houseI’ve owned these sixteen years. Home?Sure. But I sit in group, hear […]
Continue reading »Bottoming Out
After a couple of days in dollar hotels and one night in the pokey… (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 219) Skid row or hoosegow,breaking ritzy chairsor ER-panicked patching,morbid obesity multiplied,prostitution or a life of crimeto score the hits —seems like bottom, feels like […]
Continue reading »fear, we think…
This short word somehow touches about every aspect of our lives… Sometimes we think fear ought to be classed with stealing. It seems to cause more trouble. (Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 67-68) Such a little word, is fear,yet so totally dominant.It sneaks in back doors,breaks […]
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