If you think you’re ugly just remember that the people who gave you that skewed sense of beauty by which you are gauging yourself aren’t worth your time anyway. (Facebook status) I came to the rooms deficientin self-esteem, unable to […]
Continue reading »Pink?
Why’s the cloud pink? What makes that the color of delirious early recovery or achieving the groove again? When are clouds pink? At sunset! Well, maybe at dawn sometimes. Is that the connection, beginning, looking toward the full glory? “Paragon” defines pink […]
Continue reading »Drip Drip Drip
I sit in a waiting room,fear-ridden for my ineptitude.Jerry says the oil is leakingbut the man says it’s full —after asking if I’d checked levels,year of the Altima – and I askedif there was something inside to open the hood. […]
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That was growth, but if we wished to grow we had to begin somewhere. (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 47) “Let’s start at the very beginning,a very good place to start.”A-B-C. 1-2-3. Do Re Mi. First things first. Admitted we were powerless. Recovery is […]
Continue reading »A Hundred Forms of Fear
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 62) I didn’t mean to do it — whatever it was.I wasn’t thinking about you. Sorry, […]
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