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when suddenly, and without any warning,

October 11, 2008 in Perseverance, Willingness | 7 comments

it started to snow. Snow! I’m not freaking kidding. And not just a little snow, either. The forecast was for a little rain.  A 40% chance of rain. And we got snow. It was the earliest snowfall ever recorded here, beating the previous record by two days and 1/2 an inch, and while it has melted off the [...]

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Day 500 - A Step Away

May 29, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

It’s not a recognized milestone of course. I just happen to like the number, and considering that in the early part of this blog, in it’s first incarnation as methedup, which is republished here, I truly was counting days so I thought I’d just revisit the practice. There is a place in the book that [...]

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Letting Go Without Giving Up

May 18, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

I spent yesterday in service to AA. I began the day at 7 AM with my friends Owen and Robert driving to Oregon to attend my first Area Assembly, the semi-annual meeting where the General Service Representatives (me) from around southern Idaho (the area) gather to conduct the business of Alcoholics Anonymous. It [...]

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Sideways

January 9, 2008 in Honesty | 5 comments

“There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.” - Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 58 That pretty much describes me at any given point in my history; emotionally and mentally ‘disordered’, gravely. I have at various times been diagnosed with everything [...]

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Signs of Damage

January 6, 2008 in Uncategorized | 6 comments

I am a head injury patient. I am. There is hardly another explanation. I sat in a meeting and shared about it and of course I was told to work the steps. Of course there is some truth in that, truth I sometimes ignore out of an objective bias against people [...]

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