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“Simply tell him that we will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past. We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him what he should do. His faults [...]
I’m totally double dipping today. Sorry. I spaced it that today is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. I’m not Jewish, but I am fascinated by their faith, their culture, and their traditions. And this day is particularly important in the Jewish faith and it speaks to me in terms that I relate to [...]
First of all, thank God for the steps! I wouldn’t be able to tell this story without them. I wouldn’t because I would be trapped in the story; sucked in to the familiar familial drama of the tree from which this nut fell.
Last Friday night I had dinner with my sister and her two [...]
How could we make amends?
So it’s one more round for experience
And I’m on the road again
And it’s going to take some time this time.
-Carole King
I am so relieved to finally have this chapter over with. Well, this part anyway. My relationship with the Department of Corrections is far from over, but the big [...]
This post was originally published Feb. 10, 2008 and was taken down pending adjudication of another case. Now that has been done and I am restoring the post.
To choose what is difficult all one’s days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
W. H. Auden
They tell me I seemed relaxed; that I did not seem [...]
This post was originally published Feb. 13, 2008 and was taken down pending adjudication of another case. Now that has been done and I am restoring the post.
“No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail in everything.â€
Francis T. Murphy
I am, [...]
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another’s little lapses.â€
David Storey
I ran into a friend at a meeting last night. A friend who’s company I parted on not so friendly terms some months ago. A friend about whom I have written much 4th step inventory. While I have been diligent about [...]
“Easy doesn’t do it. Easy never did it. Nothing worth doing has ever been easy.”
- Unknown
That’s one of the mottoes I (pretend to) live by.
There are others, of course, important ones. The more important they are the harder they are to live up to. For example, “Remember who you [...]
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