Among them you will make lifelong friends. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 152 Friendship. What a marvelous idea, how lucky are those who experience it. How hollow this promise rings for us who have always felt friend-deprived. I once thought I […]
Continue reading »Only Today
It doesn’t matter what date you use for your “sobriety”. Today is the only day you can be sober. ~ Maureen Gibbons Counting the days should be glorious, should be exhilarating, encouraging, egging us on, enticing. Why, then, does it […]
Continue reading »Then Try Even Harder
How do you help someone who is self-destructive, without destroying yourself at the same time? Do you keep trying and trying, and then try even harder, or do you stop trying? (Candace Kearns Reads) Give up? Never! I will try […]
Continue reading »Chilling Vapor
…the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 151 Loneliness suspended in the air, a damp mass, it’s a palpable presence, icy, frigid, biting. Inclined to escape, second thoughts make us cringe at the idea, fearing an imminent […]
Continue reading »She’s Not Me
Yes, shes mine, but shes not me. I know who she is I know what she is but I’m not her. For my part in forming her, leading her, teaching her, supporting her I stand ready to make amends but […]
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