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		<title>Gradually things got worse</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/gradually-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is my favorite phrases in the book &#8220;Alcoholics Anonymous.&#8221;  It is part of chapter 1, Bill&#8217;s Story and it is in a place where he has described his life and his alcoholism to that point in pretty graphic and heartbreaking detail.  &#8220;Gradually things got worse,&#8221; he says, though one can hardly imagine how.  Things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One breath at a time.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/hope-principles/breath-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the best thing I&#8217;ve done for my recovery in a long time is to start to sponsor a practicing Buddhist.  It has added a sense of urgency for me to revisit all that 2nd &#38; 3rd step stuff that I&#8217;ve struggled with ever since my surgery.]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies From Heaven</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/promises/pennies-from-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we found we could not place money first. For us, material well-being always followed spiritual progress; it never preceded.&#8221;  -Alcoholics Anonymous I&#8217;m still doing my usual routine, staying close to sober friends, attending meetings, writing inventory when it is indicated, seeing my sponsor regularly; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmixed Attention</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/spirituality-principles/absolute-unmixed-attention-is-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Absolute unmixed attention is prayer.&#8221; -Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace I realized a long time ago that I can trace the decline of my spiritual health, and a decline in the quality and quantity of my writing, to the date I got a television.  For a good year and a half, writing was a form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Ideas</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/old-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moments of Clarity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thelastchancetexaco.com/?p=1381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.&#8221; -Alcoholics Anonymous, page 58 Some of us have tried to hold on to them without even knowing that is what we&#8217;re doing, until it bites us. I was thinking about my conversation with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queers &amp; Weirdos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We don&#8217;t want anybody up here. We just tell people this place is nothing but a bunch of queers and weirdos,&#8221; my sponsor told me.  There is a kernel of truth in it, of course, but there is a sweetness about the place and the people there that is hard to describe. I exaggerated about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Lived Here You&#8217;d Be Home Now</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/if-you-lived-here-youd-be-home-now/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/if-you-lived-here-youd-be-home-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bedevilments]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thelastchancetexaco.com/?p=433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the late 80s and early 90s they were not an uncommon site along the freeways leaving downtown Los Angeles; huge condo projects festooned with banners that read &#8220;If you lived here you&#8217;d be home now.&#8221; When the topic was brought up at a meeting, what are you doing today for your recovery, it&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School and Work are Fine</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/schoo-and-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 13:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the same stories day after day after day.  Particularly in a small city like mine where the fixtures at the meeting don't really change.  It is actually one of the things I like best about blogging.  It gives me the opportunity to take a look at today and apply the lens of the solution offered in 12 step programs.  It helps me see the present more clearly.  It gives me new stories; new experience, new strength and new hope. ]]></description>
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