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To love myself more perfectly.

October 6, 2008 in Service | 7 comments

It’s funny, the ideas that people get about the relationship between loving others and loving themselves. The conventional wisdom is that learning to love oneself is essential to loving others. Yet 12 step programs insist that we must place others ahead of ourselves in order to recover. I was at a meeting the other night where [...]

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Occam’s Razor Burn

August 25, 2008 in Honesty | 8 comments

I just hate it when I suddenly realize the truth behind those stupid things we say to each other in meetings. Keep it simple, stupid? Don’t you dare call me stupid. Motherfucker. But there you go. I am making too hard a work of a simple thing. Recovering addicts and alcoholics everywhere, from every walk of [...]

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Plant Status Update II

May 31, 2008 in Uncategorized | 5 comments

I killed the plant. I killed the plant. But the cat loves me and I love the cat and the cat’s leg is healed and the cat is the bright spot of my world right now. At the moment she’s lying under my arm with her paws on the keyboard near the near the number pad watching [...]

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Grand Illusion

March 23, 2008 in Hope | 11 comments

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. The light is not an illusion. The tunnel is. -unknown I noticed this sign above the door of a meeting I occasionally go to and it just struck me. It seemed profound enough, but it wasn’t till I woke up this morning and read Sweet Pea’s post where [...]

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Day 75 - Meth Menace

March 30, 2007 in Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction | 4 comments

I wanted to share this article with you. It’s among the best written and most comprehensive I’ve ever read. During my first battle with crystal meth addiction I lived in Long Beach, CA. Even then, back in ‘92, Long Beach had a bigger crystal meth problem than anywhere I had ever been, [...]

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Grand Illusion

Day 75 - Meth Menace

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