At this hour of the morning, while a snow storm is piling up beauty and nuisance outside our door, all is quiet as I think on two things that made today a blessing for me, and for others, and I thank God for the work He continues to do in the lives of those who [...]
Every now and then something will remind me of paradoxes I’ve wrestled with in a new way, and the thing that can trigger the memory can be trivial. For instance, take the graphic to the right, which I stumbled across while clearing out the deadwood on my system earlier this evening. Mac users can be [...]
It has been a little while since I’ve listened to Don Henley’s solo work, but the title of this post (from the song of the same name on his The End of the Innocence disc) says a lot about where I’m at right now. Bear with me - this might be entertaining for some of [...]
For anyone familiar with 12 Step recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous, listening in on a conversation between members of such a fellowship eventually will hear something about 12th Step work (“Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to [...]
June 19th, 1982 - not a terribly significant date in world history, but for my world it was the date that I now mark as my recovery anniversary. My last use of legal and illegal substances was technically the evening before, but it was the next day that I walked into a 12 Step meeting [...]
