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just for today

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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Simple Things

January 17, 2009

I took the bus today and had strong emotional reactions to two things that happened during my trip. A young girl got on the bus with a few of her friends. She had headphones on and was singing along with what must have been her ipod. She was not signing loudly and had a pleasant [...]

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Friday October 18, 2008

October 18, 2008

Just another sober day. Some things seem to be well to me and others could be better. One part of the could be better side of things is my spiritual condition. I’m not feeling as well connected as I feel I should. Perhaps I need to do more prayer and meditation. On the good side [...]

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Insomnia

September 20, 2008

As a sober drunk I am also – just human – and as such have many other issues. One of these is not being able to sleep well. This has been a lifelong problem, starting before I even began drinking. And I had my first drink at 13. Tonight I am sitting in a hotel [...]

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Saturday August 9, 2008

August 9, 2008

In one week I will be getting married. I’m forty-three and so glad I waited this long – first I needed to find God, then find myself, and then find the person that I will spend the rest of my life with. I don’t see anything wrong with having things be different for other people. [...]

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