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	<description>Tales of Recovery from Crystal Meth Addiction</description>
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		<title>Gradually things got worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is my favorite phrases in the book &#8220;Alcoholics Anonymous.&#8221;  It is part of chapter 1, Bill&#8217;s Story and it is in a place where he has described his life and his alcoholism to that point in pretty graphic and heartbreaking detail.  &#8220;Gradually things got worse,&#8221; he says, though one can hardly imagine how.  Things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies From Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we found we could not place money first. For us, material well-being always followed spiritual progress; it never preceded.&#8221;  -Alcoholics Anonymous I&#8217;m still doing my usual routine, staying close to sober friends, attending meetings, writing inventory when it is indicated, seeing my sponsor regularly; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Kicks My Ass</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/travel-kicks-my-ass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived home Saturday night, slept most of the day on Sunday and I&#8217;m still tired.  Overall I had a wonderful time though.  There was a little tension with one of my travel companions who I found to be astonishingly self-centered, but I&#8217;m sure I played a part in that.  Managed, in the end, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Spiritual Foundation</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/spirituality-principles/a-spiritual-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12th Tradition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about the value of anonymity.  I&#8217;m not altogether convinced that there really is such a thing; not in the absolute sense.  It exists in greater and lesser degrees and we see famous people straddle the line all the time.  In 12 step recovery we have secret code words and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmixed Attention</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/spirituality-principles/absolute-unmixed-attention-is-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Absolute unmixed attention is prayer.&#8221; -Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace I realized a long time ago that I can trace the decline of my spiritual health, and a decline in the quality and quantity of my writing, to the date I got a television.  For a good year and a half, writing was a form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.&#8221; -Alcoholics Anonymous, page 58 Some of us have tried to hold on to them without even knowing that is what we&#8217;re doing, until it bites us. I was thinking about my conversation with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make a Motorcycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was 12 I lived around the corner from Kris. He was the most naturally athletic kid I&#8217;ve ever met. He was fantastic looking.  He had 3 older brothers and they all had &#8216;toys&#8217; &#8211; motorized toys.  Dirt bikes and snowmobiles and ATVs.  He was fearless and he was cool and I was intensely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sinner Among the Saints</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/a-sinner-among-the-saints/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/a-sinner-among-the-saints/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is so strange, and so strange that it is comforting to be again in the company of my family and among people who share my religious heritage. The Church (of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints &#8211; the Mormons) take a very dim view of homosexuality and of drug addiction. Now that the addiction [...]]]></description>
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