Upon mentioning to my lil’ ole blogspot here to some folks, I’m always asked “Do you really loooooove recovery?”  *snicker*  Of course this gives folks a reason to tease me; always epic fun. However it brings up a good point. Do I really love recovery and what the hell does that mean anyhow? Look at [...]

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Boundaries. Slippery little suckers they can be. When to go, stay, say “Shup”, or comere … who knows what’s what? Just like anything else in recovery, it’s an issue of internal fortitude.  Giving a little may mean allowing an inch to become a marathon, while standing firm could spell certain catastrophe. I mean really. The [...]

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Spiritually absent or spiritually aware?  Prefacing this idea of spiritual or the conscience if you’d rather with no monikers of anything. No specific god speak or whatnot.  And certainly not the judgment pounding good/bad, right/wrong pundits in their habits of shame. What fits or what doesn’t, what works or what will not, what it is [...]

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hint, hint. wink. A little snide here, a bit of  self absorbed there, a smidge of jealousy, a whiff of demanding.  First getting to know someone whether ethernet induced or “real” life (lol what is real anyway?), you always have hints.  An inkling, if you will, of things to come. Prescient subconscious nudges of “WTF” [...]

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Let us share in the joy of the season. Holidays can be very hard (if we choose them to be).  Let’s stay in the hope that can come from the smallest of joys.  I’ve had several folks I know share such stories after reading my post on the holidays.  One dear friend made me cry [...]

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We hear all this and that about L O V E … I mean do we really know what this is?? I hear it’s an action, a belief, a feeling, a way of life, a way out of hell, a home. Life itself, this “love thing”, is a continuous expedition. A search and rescue to [...]

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