I can be a living example or a dying example of how the program works. (Voices of Recovery, page 16) Sometimes I’m an eagle, others a grackle. Sometimes my life is marvelous, a magnet for others, a delight for me, wondrous […]
Continue reading »“Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
The esprit de corps we sought in addiction, in all-you-can-eat buffets, in bars, in casinos, claimed to be there, masqueraded as staying there, but lied. It was a farce, a bait-and-switch, a mockery laughing at us from the depths of our […]
Continue reading »A Total Liability
… self-confidence was no good whatever; in fact it was a total liability. (The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 23) Easy response is, “I’m okay.” Funny. It’s been my mantra so many years, since “I’m fine” […]
Continue reading »Bankrupt
No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is […]
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