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Men are Deep Thinkers
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I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold iced tea. The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking. My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing and I said 'nothing'. The reason I said that instead of saying 'just thinking' is because she wou...
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AA meetings in Uzbekistan?
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Hi all, I'm Dave P, first post here. I do a fair amount of traveling and I've had the great fortune of finding AA meetings all over the world. In a few weeks I'll be traveling to several places in Uzbekistan (mostly Tashkent, Samarkand, Khiva and Bukhara). But so far I have had no luck locating any AA meeti...
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Living Now
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It hurts. This stuff we work through. It hurts and I want to make the pain go away. It was my kid. We were all talking about 'our' kids. And it hurts. My old solution when in pain was to crack a bottle... I don't have that solution now. Instead I am learning honesty with myself. I am learning acceptan...
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Being Sober, (& retired) Can be Fun!!!
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Yesterday I was at the Villages' (an area in north Macon which is full of retirees) Publix (our large food chain in Georgia) buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Owen the Wonder Dog. I was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant?...
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Today's Gift
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You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, And show the world all the love in your heart, Then people gonna treat you better. You're gonna find, yes, you will, That you're beautiful as you feel. --Carole King "Act as if." There's magic in behaving the way we want to be, even t...
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Sunrise Quote
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"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." - E.E. Cummings
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Grapevine
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September 18 "The inner energy that is love connects all the parts of us - our emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual selves."
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Been a Long Time... Had to Check In
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HI Family! Victoria here. It has been a few months and I wanted to check in about why that is. My first piece of news is I am still sober. Celebrated twenty months sober on the twelfth of this month. Next piece of news is I found full time work as a merchandise supervisor at a local Walmart Nei...
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Just for today.
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Have I stopped to thank God for His blessings or am I continuing with my petitions for more gifts? Today I will stop and take time off to thank Him and to praise Him and to honour Him.
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Sunrise Quote
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"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm." - Sir William Osler
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The interventionist...
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by Joani Gammill. My wife just gave me my early birthday presents one of which is this book. Joani Gammill is one of us and for the first 15 pages she spoke from inside of me. Her voice coming from my memories which are accompanied with the emotions of walking thru our disease of addiction. I won't...
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Need a ride to meetings 19th Ave & Cactus area
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I am returning to aa more broken than before, i want to attend meetings but have no transportation, if you can help please post
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Welcome to MIP Ullysses (Al)
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We're glad you found your way back to AA Al ... many of us don't ... I was about your age when I made it back ... glad to have you with us ... God Bless, Pappy
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Today's Gift
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The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. --Marcus Aurelius AntoninusIt's awesome, the power we each wield in the life that unfolds before us. The inclination of our thoughts invites that which we encounter, which is that which we expect to find. What we can become or exp...
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Grapevine
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September 17 "Though all alone out there, an AA from the Marshall Islands still claimed his group had three members, to wit: 'God, the book Alcoholics Anonymous, and me.'"
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Triggers
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Early in my step work I learned of HALT (Hungry Angry Lonely Tired). I payed attention. I still pay. I notice when I'm in the middle of triggers and letting the HALT run my life. The realization that I have a choice to make now. Right now. Can be overwhelming and make me want to run even further into m...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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September 16, 2013 Quote of the Week "Once you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I've always heard that alcoholism is a disease of perception. For example, when I first got sober I kept hearing that it was a disease, but I never really saw it that way. Once I s...
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Today's Gift
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How important is it? The young man in the meeting was very angry and upset. His lawnmower had broken down. He was having a cookout in his back yard that evening, the yard "looked terrible," and he'd paid a lot of money for that mower! After he went on for some time, an older woman gently interru...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart; pursue them." - Author Unknown
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Sunrise Quote
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill
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Grapevine
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September 16 "Am I strong enough? Am I willing to commit my life and my heart at an even deeper level to doing whatever it takes to keep moving forward?"
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Daily Reflections / As Bill Sees It
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Daily Reflections HOPE Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to change the world by the weeken...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Was yesterday a disappointment? I am sorry. But this is another day. The earth has turned around since yesterday. Face the New Day with good cheer!" - Henry F. Henrichs
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Today's Gift
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. --Abigail Van BurenHow did we get so convinced that our way is usually best? That surely didn't come from a lifetime of constant success. How did we get fixed in our thinking on a given issue? Not from a track record of first exploring all other al...
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Man! Active alcoholics are a pain in the a**
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There's this guy I know. He was pretty instrumental to my realizing I was an alcoholic, and getting sober. He introduced me to AA. In and out of the program himself for over a decade, he knows how to talk the talk- an expert at manipulation. After distancing myself from him, I have recently had to interve...
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All Natural
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God's love is everywhere, in everything no matter where I go. -- Edited by justadrunk on Sunday 15th of September 2013 07:00:47 AM
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Sunrise Quote
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"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud
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Today's Gift
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When one knows Thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of many. --Rabindranath TagoreWhen we make a person-to-person telephone call, we want to be connected with one particular person. If that person is not in, we ma...
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Curious , numbers & letters.
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Just curious , has anyone bought a house or car because of th st # or st name , or a car because of th rego # or letters . If so can you share . My current addy & has been for 18yrs , is 8493 . I thunk 8+4 & 9+3 = 12 X 12 . Had to be a Great place for an alkie . And I just told th Everloving it had a great view, but thu...
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Everything changes
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I remember my sponsor saying to me when we first met that I would be surprised at how EVERYTHING would change. My attitudes towards all sorts of things that had nothing to do with drinking. I sort of thought 'yeah, yeah, okay'. Well, I'm finding that to be true now (of course). I am really starting to doub...
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Today's Gift
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Communicating when I finally gave up on my partner. He believed that the love of his life, if he ever found the Right One, would fill all the gaps of his own personality. She dreamed that her perfect match would always respond gently, never willfully. After the honeymoon phase they naturally began to f...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Planning is bringing the future into the present so you can do something about it now." - Alan Lakein
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Grapevine
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September 13 "I am learning how to cope with life, people, and situations, not as I want them to be, but as they really are."
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More of 'Kids Say The Darndest Things!!!'
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Kid's Voices========Ever notice how a 4-year-old's voice is louder than 200 adultvoices?Several years ago, I returned home from a trip just when a stormhit, with crashing thunder and severe lightning.As I came into my bedroom about 2 a.m., I found my two childrenin bed with my wife, Karey, appare...
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Sunrise Quote
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"A true friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be going down." - Arnold Glasgow
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Grapevine
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September 12 "Ever so slowly, I could feel myself changing. Things that had seemed important were no longer important. There was inside me a warming, a softening, a stirring, as the petals of a rosebud stir almost imperceptibly into a blossom."
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Amends after 12 years... "I am an addict"...
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http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/09/10/dnt-thief-returns-money-12-years-later.wtvf.html
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Sunrise Quote --- This one is 'extra' Special!
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Grapevine
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September 11 "Alcoholics Anonymous has given me something of real value that I can share with others."
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Today's Gift
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We don't always understand the ways of Almighty God (or your Higher Power)(I added that) - the crosses sent us, the sacrifices demanded . . . But we accept with faith and resignation the holy will with no looking back, and we are at peace. --Anonymous Acceptance of our past, acceptance of the conditio...
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Two Years!
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Two years...two amazing, challenging, awesome, soulful, enlightening years sober. I am still as tickled pink as I was when I picked up a one month chip, still as grateful and hopeful, but much less fearful. It's been quite the journey to get here. This past year has brought some sad good-byes but it h...
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The major amends...
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yet to be done. Elite's post created a bit more urgency because I've been waiting for assurance or maybe a guarantee(?) that "them and others wouldn't be hurt". I contacted the fellowship in that country for support so that I can start and then hand it back to HP for review and suggestio...
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Just sharing a piece of the MIP story and me at a speaking at a convention.
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sittin'in the takeaway
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Because sometimes only a chickin tika calzone will do.
There's summst on the tv miley cyrus....ain't that achy breaky heart cyrus' daughter? He must be so proud.
Jees. Electronically 'enhanced' voice. Dressed like a stripper dancing like a pole dancer.i feel old. What's the world coming to.
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Learning to wait.
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One of the delusions I had when drinking is that I was a man of actions! Self destruction count? i knew I wanted many things and wanted them on my terms and immediately! truth is, most all did never happen. Hard to do more than dream from a barstool or sitting around the couch getting lit up. So I have noti...
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Revolving door
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I am in the revolving door of sobriety and relapse. I am in danger of losing my family, my job, everything. I nearly died from withdrawal in February of 2011. I've tried all of the drugs to combat my alcoholism. The only one that worked, Antibuse, nearly killed me faster than the alcohol. I am agnostic an...
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It doesn't have to be
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I pointed to two old drunks across the bar and told my mate, "That will be us in ten years." He said, "That's a mirror, you dickhead!"
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Thoughts and Prayers needed for one of our members
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Sobrietyspell (Danielle) had a very close call of the medical kind, and is recovering from a procedure. Please send positive thoughts, prayers, her way. Thanks Dean
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odd sort of day yesterday
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Had that nagging feeling yesterday. Yesterday was supposed to be significant and I couldn't think why.
I felt disturbed all day. Worked hard. Was productive. Got things done. But felt edgy.
Went to my home group. Met a man 69 days sober who toldd me he was living five minutes at a time because his head...
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Today's Gift
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.--Hannah ArendtResentments keep us in the past, a past that can never be relived. Resentments keep a stranglehold on our mind. They keep us from appreciating the beauty of a moment. They stop us from hearing the loving voices of friends. We forget that we h...
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