Category: Recovery
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Grace
Grace is of music . . . and the wind, invisible to my eye.Grace is of my heart and soul, my guardian, first and last friend, celebrator of my spirit.Grace is hard to understand when I demand to touch and see. It is the answer in between the lines.When I am utterly exhausted, grace keeps…
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Good thing too
Last night PK shared that since he’s sobered up he hasn’t been in the practice of regularly breaking the Ten Commandments.And I thought, it sure is good that there isn’t a commandment, “Thou shall not masturbate.”
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Overheard
There is a big difference between saying what you do and doing what you say.Learn to listen; listen to learn.Many of us fail to recognize opportunity because most of the time it is disguised as hard work.I’m not one of those people who has memorized the Big Book. I figure that’s OK because it’s all…
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Still no answer
No one has yet been able to tease out the precise mix of genetics, temperament and environment that makes one person a recreational user and another a lifelong addict, but clearly there is no single cause.Time, Balding, Wrinkled, and Stoned, 23 January, 2006
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Been there?
I have totally been there. About five or six years ago I shared at the Thanksgiving gratitude meeting that I was grateful that I didn’t have to kick the shit out of the cat. Grady had taken a dump right in front of the back door and had covered it up with the rug. I…