I didn’t know despair was a destination, but here I am at the end of the road — nothing out there but water deeper, farther than death. That’s, of course, going on the way I’ve walked, slowly losing all. Not without […]
Continue reading »And Dance
Music of recovery swells, fills the rooms, envelops beyond, expands to the stratosphere. We hear, marvel at harmonies where dissonance reigned, feel cadences as close as heartbeats, wonder at refrains in differing tongues, divergent styles, antithetical genres yet real, earnest, […]
Continue reading »They Just Fade Away…
She came, set up chairs, greeted people, shared, led meetings. She came, helped set chairs, greeted friends, read, left. She slipped in late, pulled a chair from the stack, stayed a while, left. She ran by as the meeting ended, […]
Continue reading »The Potential, the Promises and the Power
I came to believe that a Power could where I was impotent, inadequate, a failure. I decided to offer my life, my will daring to believe the entanglement of knots I’d tied, trapping me inside, snaring me into bondage, would […]
Continue reading »The Self-Pity Problem
When the whole world is against me, when I can telegraph just how bad it is, how wrong, then you can see what a martyr I am. I can wallow in self-pity and be succored by yours. But real healing, […]
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