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You may have noticed a link at the bottom of my sidebar for Me Not Meth -a project of the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. I’m giving them an extra plug here because they bribed me with a groovy t-shirt.
Yes. I’m cheap. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 12th step, California, California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV, Joel Schumacher, Outdoor advertising, Renée Zito, Service, USD
Over the last couple of days I’ve occupied my spare time building a custom search engine using Google’s search service. You’ll find it at the top of my sidebar. I have painstakingly included every single blog listed on the Top 100 Sober Blogs to be the exclusive sites searched for results on this engine. [...]
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 [...]
Tags: alcoholics anonymous, first Area Assembly, Idaho, Oregon, Owen, Robert, Service, translation equipment, Willingness
As much as I hate cross talk in a meeting there are times when sharing what needs to be shared and not cross talking seems almost impossible. Side conversations are annoying, too, but often less so. I’m afraid I participated in both yesterday. Actually I managed the cross-talk thing more successfully. [...]
“School and work are fine - and that is what we do between meetings”
Karl M., Covina, CA
“Why do we have to listen to the same people tell the same stories at every meeting?” Norman leaned over and asked me that at a meeting last night. He’s right, of course. We hear the same people share [...]
Tags: 11th Step, 12th step, 2nd step, 3rd Step, Faith, Hope, Service, Spirituality
“Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure; having this seal,
The Lord knoweth them that are his.”
Timothy 2;19
If the meeting I was at last night was the first AA meeting I had ever been to, I am quite sure I would have ran out the back door and never returned. Perhaps I should lower my [...]
Tags: 12th step, 2nd Tradition, 3rd Step, Faith, God, Service
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 [...]
Tags: 11th Step, 12th step, 9th step, God, Grace, Gratitude, Justice, Service, Spirituality
Zach is intelligent, charming, good looking, cool - and he knows it. Young people from the end of the fabric he’s cut from have these shiny Tyvek exteriors reinforced by all the self confidence and self esteem that money can buy. I’m not really sure how it happened but I recently became [...]
Tags: 12th step, 1st Step, Honesty, Service, sponsees, sponsorship
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