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I am beyond furious and my sponsor is out of town. It happened again. I finally got last week’s paycheck cashed on Wednesday and today this week’s check bounced. Obviously, in spite of what my employer says, I need to find a new job. Read the rest of this entry »
I seem to have to try things over and over before I actually incorporate the experience into knowledge. One of the things I learned in treatment was that trying new things increases my optimism.
I put new brake pads on my scooter yesterday. I’ve never seen a brake pad in my life. After that I did [...]
#1. “This would make a great reality show.”
What’s weird is that “Baby Borrowers” is actually pretty cool. Some of these teenagers are horrible people. Horrible. The good news is that their boy or girlfriends get to find out. The absence of cash and prizes certainly brings out a different quality in people. I honestly only [...]
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 [...]
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I’m moving. At the end of the month I’m moving. And I am moving in to my own [...]
Funny how a lonely day,
can make a person say,
“What good is my life?”
Funny how a breaking heart
can make me start to say,
“What good is my life?”
Funny how I often seem
to think I’ll never find
another dream in my life,
till I look around and see
this great big world is part
of me and my life.
Sometime when I [...]
embrace
c.1300, from O.Fr. embracer “clasp in the arms, enclose,” from en- “in” + brace “the arms,” from L. bracchium (neut. pl. brachia). Replaced O.E. clyppan, also fæðm.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Last night, late, I stepped out on my front porch to smoke a cigarette. I still smoke cigarettes. For some reason [...]
“Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We [...]
This morning’s post is probably more anecdotal and personal than most of what I write here. I know I tend toward a rigorous focus on ‘the solution’. It is , really, an essential part of my recovery as well as being an entertainment. It is a few minutes spent with close attention to my spiritual [...]
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