February 2009

Feb 16, 2009 Just for Today

February 16, 2009

The easier, softer way. I have come to understand that my good life, in general, is not easy. By that I mean having good things – like being sober, having a happy marriage, being employed in a fulfilling job, etc. takes some doing on my part. If I don’t put the effort I am just [...]

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Feb 13, 2009 Humility

February 13, 2009

Friday the 13th? No problem. I was born on a Friday the 13th so I think it is a lucky day for me. Today the meeting was a reading and discussion about the seventh step from the 12 x 12. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. My quick take on all that….. I have [...]

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Sunday February 8, 2009

February 8, 2009

I just went for a wonderful walk with my wife. It is a blessing to be sharing my sober life with someone I love, respect and enjoy being around. An added bonus with a walk today was a break in the cold weather. It was in the mid 40′s which is the warmest it has [...]

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Saturday February 7, 2009

February 7, 2009

A nice morning with a day of possibilities ahead. I’m grateful to be alive, married and have love around me. I’m grateful to be sober, relatively sane and have an interesting life. Challenge. That is my immediate sense of the day. I need to go to a meeting, the library, finish a paper, sort through [...]

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Garden Variety Drunk

February 4, 2009

photo by mrhayata When I was a few years sober I spent a summer in New Jersey and kept hearing people saying “I was a garden variety drunk.” I wasn’t exactly sure what this meant so I did what I was taught, I asked someone (sidebar – Normal people know to do things like this. [...]

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