Shock and awe. No not an undercover ops mission but my reaction to the information my eyes are absorbing from this computer screen. Riots. Ones that make you shiver and shake. Ones that make you cringe and wonder how a human being could do such a thing? The mob mentality. One starts the brawl and [...]
Tag archive for "Just for today"
the many faces of recovery
I see all these folks writing about “happy”. That recovery is this sugarcoated plastic smiled “O.M.G” malarky. That’s not been my experience. Not even a little. Sure I’m a basically happy person, but I’m also sad and melancholy and afraid and hopeful and angry and and and … I believe the definition we’re looking for [...]
amazing.
I’m in heaven. Walking around my old college campus (yes i graduated from Akron U.) which is now filled with thousands and thousands (and yes thousands) of drunks; laughing, crying, hugging, sharing, LIVING … Founders Day style. Talk about being surrounded with God-consciousness, or if you prefer a power greater. Puts life’s little petty issues [...]
Emotional Intelligence, I Love Recovery
tis’ better to give AND receive.
I was talking with a friend at work yesterday. Per usual it was a good conversation filled with the real deal cream filling center of down and dirty. He looks at me and says oh so calmly… “When exactly do you think you’re going to learn to receive?” Ahem. Excuse me? What do you mean [...]
How do I DO this stuff?, Inside my Mind
i don’t like … this meeting.
Ever walked into a meeting and felt like you were home? How bout the opposite? Walked into a meeting and felt unwelcomed and like you didn’t belong? Like you walked right into the middle of Recovery Clique central? Now. I know what you’re gonna say … there are no strangers only friends we haven’t met yet. [...]
not love.
so. yeah. i don’t have a regular blog post tonight. but i do have some poetry. i know … *groan*. but this? this is important to me. and long. and to any of you who have suffered abuse by the hand of someone who says “i love you” you’ll get this. addiction often lends itself [...]
how important is it anyway – or – dancing with the sixth and seventh steps.
One of the best phrases heard at a couple decades worth of meetings… “If it doesn’t directly affect your breathing then it’s none of your business.” Oh how this rings true for this sober sometimes sassy girl. So easy to get caught up in life’s drama. He said, she said, they said, it said. (It? [...]
the “MEAN”
Yesterday was an odd day. I was going to write about a slogan or something ‘rote’ straight from the recovery toolbag, but as usual I need to write about the things that are happening right now. I mean that’s what recovery is about yes? Learning to be clean/sober and most of all ‘right minded’ through [...]
Emotional Intelligence, Inside my Mind
success???
Like most people, I tend to stick with what I know. What I’ve experienced. What is comfortable. Even if it doesn’t look comfortable from the outside. Matter of fact sometimes our lives (my life) can look like one big case study in psychosis based on past history. But it’s SAFE. To me anyway. Been down [...]
defining insanity …
As my good pal and a personal hero, Al Einstein said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. This goes in the annals of recovery phrase-isms as well … keep drinking/using and expecting somehow-someway-somewhere it’s going to get better. Using every superhuman power at our [...]
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