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		<title>A grateful heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize, of course, that talking about gratitude on Thanksgiving Day is, at best, cliché.  Oh well.  Today is as good a day as any to set aside a bit of time to discuss the idea of gratitude.  It is a mistake, I think, to think of gratitude as a state of being, or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Sobriety</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never would have thought I&#8217;d have an opportunity like this again.  The end of my drug use, and even for the most part the first 3 years I&#8217;ve been sober, have been pretty uninteresting and I have actually become pretty resistant to change.  Variation kind of freaks me out.  I feel so secure in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from the dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am really feeling grateful for my life today.  And I&#8217;m feeling especially grateful for the time that I spent with my sponsor up in Atlanta and everything that has followed. Friday night I got to take one of my favorite people, Jill, the friend who let me detox at her house, out for dinner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little &#8220;thank you&#8221; prayer that it all turned out this way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in the early hours of the morning of the day after my birthday two years ago that I was given my first step.Â  It didn&#8217;t feel much like a gift at the time, but that&#8217;s exactly what it was; a gift of grace. Out of money and out of drugs, stood up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One More Round for Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[11th Step]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[9th Step]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How could we make amends? So it&#8217;s one more round for experience And I&#8217;m on the road again And it&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooray!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t care what the book says. If it&#8217;s not on the first 164 it&#8217;s hearsay. Acceptance is absolutely not the key to all my problems today. Honesty, open-mindedness and willingness play a much bigger role. So do humility, courage and perseverance. All of those played a critical role in helping me solve an overwhelmingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our primary purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brotherly Love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is to stay sober and to help other alcoholics (and addicts) achieve sobriety. When you&#8217;re first coming in, when you&#8217;re on the morning side of the mountain, tradition 5 seems like the dumbest or most obvious thing in the world. Duh. There is a song by Patty Griffin, I&#8217;ve talked about this before, called Up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zero to Crazy</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/zero-to-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[in about three days. Sunday I started feeling poor and by Monday morning I was well and truly sick. A trip to the clinic Monday afternoon confirmed what I already knew and put me at home in bed with a fistful of antibiotics to prove it. Since I got home from rehab I have gone [...]]]></description>
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