It was the second day of Christmas and the second day of Hanukkah 2005. I had spent the holiday with a friend who had lost his wife and his reason for living. The decision to return to Austin Texas from where I had recently moved was also prompted by the mother of my children flying […]
The least two likely of men , as they were less than kin and more than kind, more than friends and less than brothers. Bill was the consummate entrepreneur, someone of import I reckon, a mover and a shaker with a masculine allure was his conjured up self image. The appeal of notoriety and the […]
It is a room filled to the brim with dark shadows and with windowless screened in corners. Once the housekeeping is done the chair presents a theme that is readily and handily endorsed, the topic for tonight is Faith, let us begin as the incandescent lights are dimmed and all the wicks have previously been […]
Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried and waited to the very last instant before snatching the last remaining pork chop A donut sale at the local fast and grab, a glazed over feast a bakers dozen for 2.99. I was trying to refrain […]
To Christ I conceded the certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claim Him. Pg. 11 3rd edition Big Book He went on talking and told me that he had found the plan has a basis for love ,and the practice of Christ’s injunction Love thy neighbor as thy […]
T”was the day before the closing prayer at the Crested Butte mountain conference… The last early meeting out on the deck commenced hot on the heels of Friday mornings final meditation. The subject was “when the student is ready the teacher will appear” I was running late and slipped in about halfway through the meeting. […]
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously. Oscar Wilde Humility is a difficult subject at best, we for the most part associate humility with humiliation or being humble as being less than. I have come to the understanding that it’s not about thinking less of […]
eTo Christ I conceded the certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claim Him.   Pg. 11 3rd edition Big Book He went on talking and told me that he had found the plan has a basis for love ,and the practice of Christ’s injunction â€Love thy neighbor as thy self.†[…]
By Bob k “Jack Alexander, Saturday Evening Post, was also one of the friends to whom Bill sent material. Of the Twelve Tradition essays, Alexander has this to say: ‘The only serious (in my view) defect is that you have treated the old Washingtonian Society too briefly; most people never heard […]
A.A. has quietly acknowledged, primarily through one publication, that the early A.A. pioneers in Akron believed firmly that the answer to all their problems was in the Good Book, as they called the Bible. A.A. co-founder Dr. Bob said that all the basic ideas were taken from their study of the Good Book. And […]
Some people don’t know me and they don’t like me, some people get to know me and then they don’t like me, its none of my business what you think of me because you think so little of me anyway, if not in stature surely in time Now you are free to be your authentic […]
Happy Birthday Recovered Its all about the upholstery, the old stuffing has been replaced with the cushion of grace and a new skin that is scotch guarded with the humility of faith while the utility of the strong back to service is firmly put in place, this instead of ending up on the junk heap […]
THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE Happiness is way over rated as it is dependent on the immediate external circumstance. I.E. I am happy because I just won the lottery, I am happy because she said yes, I am happy because I just had purchased a new car, and just as quickly I am […]
Sisyphus was a Titan that was cursed by the gods to roll a boulder everyday up the side of a mountain and at night it would roll back down to the bottom and for him to repeat the task again and again for all eternity. When the gods came to gloat at his […]
Sitting at the edge of the lap pool I was appraising my physique once athletic and toned as it had boasted of strength and the glory of youth now reduced to a state of age and over indulgence, as it reminded me of the body of the laughing Buddha, this insight struck me […]
Alcohol and drugs are equal opportunity destroyers. The disease takes no heed to your particular flavor of addiction labeling it as such is the much greater affliction. The divisions started with Bill Wilson’s “singleness of porpoise” which I believe dose not hold any water, then or now creating the indignation of the drunken […]
Often times in the addiction recovery arena it is claimed that they have been saved by grace. Consider that according to Google (a thousand years hence the anthropologists will have concluded that as a society they all communed with an all knowing god named Google) that there are 140,000,000 drunks in the world. Accordingly to the […]
Sisyphus was a Titan that was cursed by the gods to roll a boulder everyday up the side of a mountain and at night it would roll back down to the bottom and for him to repeat the task again and again for all eternity. When the gods came to gloat at his […]
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