Alcoholics Anonymous

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 17 "I am a student of life just trying to learn how the universe works. The most powerful lesson I have learned is that it all happens inside me. My perception of any situation is in my control -- I have a choice about which way my mind will react."

Ricky61 · Ricky61

People, I have over 6 years of sobriety, I think. I have had 3 setbacks or relapses (very short, one nighters) since 1/10/2008. How does this work ? My last dance with the bottle was March 22, 2012, officially. What kinda chip can I expect at a meet...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Happy Valentine's Day Everybody. This is the "Day of Love", and speaking of love

......I am going to really start watching my words I use and try to be sure I word things lovingly

. I think my HP, who is God for me, wants me to be loving

and caring towards others and I re...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

You have brains in your head, and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.Lowell Thomas

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Today's message comes right after a post from John about 'anger' and how to deal with it ... very timely I thought! How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. --Marcus Aurelius Anger shatters our calm. Some of us show it in loud bursts; others just quietly stew. Sometim...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I was very surprised to see these mourning doves on a wire behind where I live yet again. The colder it got, I kept expecting them to disappear. I thought they would be in the south basking in the sun by now--not here where it has been snowy and so very cold lately. These guys reminded me of the people in...

Ricky61 · Ricky61

I was just sitting here thinking about my favorite activities that I used to do when I was drinking. One of my favorites was art. I would have a few beers and get out my sketchpad and draw stuff. I had convinced myself that the beer would steady my ha...

Butterfinger · Butterfinger

Not able to get to a meeting so I felt like I should check in somewhere. This seemed like as good a place as any

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

ah remembering th "Halts" , I got taught > Hungry Angry Lonely Tired or Thirsty Serious or Stupid Happy Appreciative Lovable Teachable Honestly Actively Lovingly Tolerant Horny Angry Lonely Tired Halts & Fear Hope Acceptance Love & Tolerance Stops , Forgetting Everythin...

John · John

While at a meeting last night, I put my keys, phone and cup of coffee under the seat I was sitting in. A woman sitting behind me, quietly took my keys and left the meeting. No one in the meeting thought anything of it. I went outside about half way through it, not knowing my keys had been taken... walked int...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Alcohol came first... Before Family Before Food Before Financial Security Before Friends Before My Health Before My Sanity Before Living..... Alcohol Became the Most Important Thing to Me!!! I remember thinking...

gonee · gonee

I thank God for another birthday. He has been kind to me despite my squandering His gifts. I was the arrogant, selfish alcoholic, who got sober by the grace of God and nothing else. The AA book's chapter to the Agnostic, silenced my arrogance and this psalm from the bible challenged me tremendously, to...

justadrunk · justadrunk

-- Edited by justadrunk on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 04:35:32 PM

Butterfinger · Butterfinger

While my life has improved in unimaginable ways I can't help but notice that I'm still not very nice in my personal life at times. I can be condescending, argumentative, confrontational, flippant, impatient and difficult. I'd like to not be those things but it just seems like it's part of my persona...

John · John

I have read a lot of post this morning regarding Valentines Day... everything from well wishes, to feelings of loneliness. I remember the first Valentines day card I got in school. I was in the second grade. She put it on my desk. And I immediately fell in love with her! LOLThen I discovered she gave...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Ha! The joys of looking through my email messages in the morning

I've been getting all these ads for painless face lifts, weight loss, life insurance, funeral insurance, Publisher's Clearinghouse (which I entered, and regret doing so because everyday I get multiple emails telling me...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Coping with FamiliesThere are many paths to self-care with families. Some people choose to sever connections with family members for a period of time. Some people choose to stay connected with family members and learn different behaviors. Some disconnect for a time, and then return slowly on a dif...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Love doesnt make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.Franklin P. Jones

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 14 "With respect to its own affairs, the collective conscience of the group will, given time, almost surely demonstrate its perfect dependability. The group conscience will, in the end, prove a far more infallible guide for group affairs than the decision of any individual membe...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side. --Hugh PratherDestiny has its own course in each of our lives. And our movements with others who are special will thankfully be parallel at times. However, our paths will shar...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I never understood alcoholics joking about this disease when I first started going to AA meetings. Finally can laugh at them myself and here are a couple which I hope don't offend anyone, but if so..sorry about that (I didn't write em).... How many alcoholics does it take to change a lightbulb? Just o...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Anybody else getting this funky white sticky stuff? It's really coming down in VA! People are already going crazy. Traffic is a mess, stores are packed with people stocking up on their bread, milk and beer (not me on that last one). It's a good night to find an old movie on t.v., make some hot tea :coffeec...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

A cheap brand of AA is Not a bargain. AA has a wrench to fit Every Nut that walks through the doors. AA is a "check up , from the neck up" AA is Not for people who need it , AA is Not for people who want it , AA is for people who Do it . AA is the highest priced club in the world , f you have paid your dues , Why N...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Hi Lord If you take 1 minute to read this prayer, imagine how many prayers are going up for our country. Hi Lord, its me. We are getting older and things are getting ....bad here. Gas prices are too high, no jobs, and food and heating costs too high. I know some have taken you out of our schools, governm...

debird17 · debird17

Hi all I hope you are all doing well. I'm on my 115 day of sobriety and even though I come to this board at least once a week I don't always post but I find much wisdom on this board and you all give me so much help just reading your posts. I go to a meeting every morning and in the beginning I felt I had so much to sh...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

What if?I was talking to a friend one day about something I planned to do. Actually, I was worrying about how one particular person might react to what I intended to do. "What if he doesn't handle it very well?" I asked. "Then," my friend replied, "you're going to have to ha...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. Theyre about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.John Kerry

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 13 "Empathy, not sympathy or pity, is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate."

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Did you hear there's a new 12-step program for people who talk too much? It's called on-and-on-anon.

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

A newcomer asked his sponsor about the difference between a non-alcoholic, a potential-alcoholic, and the hopeless-alcoholic, explaining that he was confused by this terminology in the Big Book. So the sponsor took the new comer to the raunchiest bar in town. Upon arriving, they stopped out ba...

Ricky61 · Ricky61

Got a sweet tooth ?

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.Nelson Mandela

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

This is fast and won't cut into too much more of your time. I added a bag of shredded coconut (Dollar Tree) and 3/4 bag (you can add whole one) of semi-sweet chocolate bits to the a box of chocolate cake mix and other things the box calls for (3 eggs, 3/4 cup oil, 1 cup water--I think that is what it says). Then...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.--Walker I."I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating thoughts are expressions of shame. Because repeated thoughts turn into beliefs and long-held beliefs tur...

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 12 "Clearly, the chief mark of restoration to sanity is our not taking the first drink."

bikerbill · bikerbill

Ok. POF. What a minefield. Full of users and cruisers, hiders and sliders. Have to be sodding ruthless at the dating game. Had one date. Lovely woman. Looked like felicity kendal on her profile pic. Which was ten years old. Went for dinner. Pleasant personality but she's a chucker. Went to the bathroo...

d_willing · d_willing

Tonight's my 90 in 90 completion and I will get my 3 month chip. It feels good to have done the right thing this time around. I am quite sure I'll continue my daily meeting attendance though, seems to be working, life's getting a little better. Constant vigilance is what I need. (and yes, I am doing a lo...

Butterfinger · Butterfinger

Yesterday was "Family Day" where I live. It's a provincial statutory holiday and something I would've scoffed at a year ago and refused to acknowledge. Actually I probably would have just used the day off as an excuse to go out and get drunk. This year I spent it at home with my family. We all...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Strange meeting last night. I know we are not supposed to share what we hear in meetings so I will be vague and just ask if someone says something which comes across to me as derogatory about AA's program, would it be cross talking if I share that I don't agree? There were quite a few newcomers there and I wa...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Although I have had willpower at times when I was an active drinker, it didn't last long. I could go a day, two even longer. My willpower didn't hold out. I was reaching for a drink to "calm down". I would tell myself all I needed was one drink to take the edge off and relax and then I could go on abo...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Good afternoon.... I know I can be long-winded so will try to make this brief... Just got off the phone with my mom a while ago. Haven't seen her in the last few years because mainly of my drinking--you get it I know. Our relationship has been better since I have been sober and we have been emailing/phonin...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

and to think , when I got here . I a PhD . But for my case it was a > Poor Helpless/Hopeless Drunk. with a Lot of I - S - M's . @ th top of th list was - Incredible Short Memory I sponsor/sabotage Myself I Self Me In Side Me but ended up with Incredible Spiritual Moments it could get worse , I could be nuts - Not Us...

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 11 "From the moment I pulled open the doors to my very first meeting, I felt something different, something good was going to happen. Those doors, which at the time I believed to be the heaviest ever made, allowed me to walk into a new way of life."

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.Ayn Rand

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. --Calvin Coolidge There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to act respectably. We can't go back and undo our past. But we can act and behave respectably today, so that when we close our eyes...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Many thanks and much gratitude to Goingtotry for telling me about Kahlil Gibran. I don't think I have ever heard of him. I started reading some of his amazing quotations and searched to see if he had any about this subject. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read and wanted to share. On...

bikerbill · bikerbill

My alkie obsessive compulsive behaviour has led me to keep a log over the past few weeks. it don't matter what time I go to bed. I get out again wide awake after exactly 5h48m. I've tried getting up for a pee and going back. I've tried getting up and doing something boring. I've tried just laying there...

Jerry F · Jerry F

at AA by the Bay my Sunday version home group which is a very very nice place to celebrate mine. Yesterday was my 35th anniversary and it was nice and today it was nicer because my sponsor was in the house and another very special alcoholic both of whom have anniversaries coming up. Robert has his tomo...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

the steps came in 3X3 hurrah hurrah , the steps came in 3X3 hurrah. the 1st Three steps did Pick Me Up , Hurrah . the next three steps Did , Clean Me Up , Hurrah. I worked the next three steps to Make up These last three steps DO Keep Me Up , Hurrah , Hurrah . In early sobriety I became a group secretary - I did - ope...

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	Grapevine (Preview) February 17 "I am a student of life just trying to learn how the universe works. The most powerful lesson I have learned is that it all happens inside me. My perception of any situation is in my control -- I have a choice about which way my mind will react."	Mike B.	2	270	Feb 17, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Aint got no chips ! (Preview) People, I have over 6 years of sobriety, I think. I have had 3 setbacks or relapses (very short, one nighters) since 1/10/2008. How does this work ? My last dance with the bottle was March 22, 2012, officially. What kinda chip can I expect at a meet...	Ricky61	24	802	Feb 17, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	A Reminder to Myself About Postings (Preview) Happy Valentine's Day Everybody. This is the "Day of Love", and speaking of love......I am going to really start watching my words I use and try to be sure I word things lovingly . I think my HP, who is God for me, wants me to be loving and caring towards others and I re...	betterthanyesterday52	10	514	Feb 17, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) You have brains in your head, and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss	Pythonpappy	2	239	Feb 17, 2014 by june
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.Lowell Thomas	Pythonpappy	3	210	Feb 16, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Today's message comes right after a post from John about 'anger' and how to deal with it ... very timely I thought! How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. --Marcus Aurelius Anger shatters our calm. Some of us show it in loud bursts; others just quietly stew. Sometim...	Pythonpappy	3	218	Feb 16, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	A Pic I'd Like To Share With You (Preview) I was very surprised to see these mourning doves on a wire behind where I live yet again. The colder it got, I kept expecting them to disappear. I thought they would be in the south basking in the sun by now--not here where it has been snowy and so very cold lately. These guys reminded me of the people in...	betterthanyesterday52	4	505	Feb 16, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Used To drink and .... (Preview) I was just sitting here thinking about my favorite activities that I used to do when I was drinking. One of my favorites was art. I would have a few beers and get out my sketchpad and draw stuff. I had convinced myself that the beer would steady my ha...	Ricky61	7	531	Feb 16, 2014 by davep12and12
	Just checking in (Preview) Not able to get to a meeting so I felt like I should check in somewhere. This seemed like as good a place as any	Butterfinger	6	313	Feb 16, 2014 by RubyTues
	Heard @ Meetings (Preview) ah remembering th "Halts" , I got taught > Hungry Angry Lonely Tired or Thirsty Serious or Stupid Happy Appreciative Lovable Teachable Honestly Actively Lovingly Tolerant Horny Angry Lonely Tired Halts & Fear Hope Acceptance Love & Tolerance Stops , Forgetting Everythin...	Zoomtopz	3	290	Feb 16, 2014 by Mike D
	My car stolen in a Meeting!! (Preview) While at a meeting last night, I put my keys, phone and cup of coffee under the seat I was sitting in. A woman sitting behind me, quietly took my keys and left the meeting. No one in the meeting thought anything of it. I went outside about half way through it, not knowing my keys had been taken... walked int...	John	7	683	Feb 16, 2014 by Butterfinger
	Alcohol Came First (Preview) Alcohol came first... *Before Family* *Before Food* *Before Financial Security* *Before Friends* *Before My Health* *Before My Sanity* *Before Living.....* *Alcohol Became the Most Important Thing to Me!!!* *I remember thinking...*	betterthanyesterday52	3	455	Feb 15, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	54 years old today. (Preview) I thank God for another birthday. He has been kind to me despite my squandering His gifts. I was the arrogant, selfish alcoholic, who got sober by the grace of God and nothing else. The AA book's chapter to the Agnostic, silenced my arrogance and this psalm from the bible challenged me tremendously, to...	gonee	12	600	Feb 15, 2014 by Mike D
	:) (Preview) -- Edited by justadrunk on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 04:35:32 PM	justadrunk	8	767	Feb 15, 2014 by justadrunk
	Will I always be a jerk? (Preview) While my life has improved in unimaginable ways I can't help but notice that I'm still not very nice in my personal life at times. I can be condescending, argumentative, confrontational, flippant, impatient and difficult. I'd like to not be those things but it just seems like it's part of my persona...	Butterfinger	27	1180	Feb 15, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Valentines Day... memories pressed between the pages of my mind... (Preview) I have read a lot of post this morning regarding Valentines Day... everything from well wishes, to feelings of loneliness. I remember the first Valentines day card I got in school. I was in the second grade. She put it on my desk. And I immediately fell in love with her! LOLThen I discovered she gave...	John	4	2419	Feb 15, 2014 by Mike D
	In My Message Box This AM....."Don't Give Up Until You've Dated a Cougar" (Preview) Ha! The joys of looking through my email messages in the morning I've been getting all these ads for painless face lifts, weight loss, life insurance, funeral insurance, Publisher's Clearinghouse (which I entered, and regret doing so because everyday I get multiple emails telling me...	betterthanyesterday52	9	435	Feb 15, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) Coping with FamiliesThere are many paths to self-care with families. Some people choose to sever connections with family members for a period of time. Some people choose to stay connected with family members and learn different behaviors. Some disconnect for a time, and then return slowly on a dif...	Pythonpappy	0	276	Feb 15, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Love doesnt make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.Franklin P. Jones	Pythonpappy	0	394	Feb 14, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) February 14 "With respect to its own affairs, the collective conscience of the group will, given time, almost surely demonstrate its perfect dependability. The group conscience will, in the end, prove a far more infallible guide for group affairs than the decision of any individual membe...	Mike B.	1	308	Feb 14, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side. --Hugh PratherDestiny has its own course in each of our lives. And our movements with others who are special will thankfully be parallel at times. However, our paths will shar...	Pythonpappy	1	332	Feb 14, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Humor is Good for Us...... (Preview) I never understood alcoholics joking about this disease when I first started going to AA meetings. Finally can laugh at them myself and here are a couple which I hope don't offend anyone, but if so..sorry about that (I didn't write em).... How many alcoholics does it take to change a lightbulb? Just o...	betterthanyesterday52	19	580	Feb 14, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	It's Snowing!!!! (Preview) Anybody else getting this funky white sticky stuff? It's really coming down in VA! People are already going crazy. Traffic is a mess, stores are packed with people stocking up on their bread, milk and beer (not me on that last one). It's a good night to find an old movie on t.v., make some hot tea :coffeec...	betterthanyesterday52	6	480	Feb 13, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Heard @ Meetings (Preview) A cheap brand of AA is Not a bargain. AA has a wrench to fit Every Nut that walks through the doors. AA is a "check up , from the neck up" AA is Not for people who need it , AA is Not for people who want it , AA is for people who Do it . AA is the highest priced club in the world , f you have paid your dues , Why N...	Zoomtopz	2	394	Feb 13, 2014 by Ricky61
	Good one for today ... (religious content) (Preview) Hi Lord If you take 1 minute to read this prayer, imagine how many prayers are going up for our country. Hi Lord, its me. We are getting older and things are getting ....bad here. Gas prices are too high, no jobs, and food and heating costs too high. I know some have taken you out of our schools, governm...	Pythonpappy	3	360	Feb 13, 2014 by Mike D
	Checking In (Preview) Hi all I hope you are all doing well. I'm on my 115 day of sobriety and even though I come to this board at least once a week I don't always post but I find much wisdom on this board and you all give me so much help just reading your posts. I go to a meeting every morning and in the beginning I felt I had so much to sh...	debird17	8	536	Feb 13, 2014 by Stepchild
	Today's Gift (Preview) What if?I was talking to a friend one day about something I planned to do. Actually, I was worrying about how one particular person might react to what I intended to do. "What if he doesn't handle it very well?" I asked. "Then," my friend replied, "you're going to have to ha...	Pythonpappy	3	240	Feb 13, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Values are not just words, values are what we live by. Theyre about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.John Kerry	Pythonpappy	1	354	Feb 13, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Grapevine (Preview) February 13 "Empathy, not sympathy or pity, is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate."	Mike B.	2	389	Feb 13, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Another one...... (Preview) Did you hear there's a new 12-step program for people who talk too much? It's called on-and-on-anon.	betterthanyesterday52	4	444	Feb 13, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	MY FAVORITE!!!!! (Preview) A newcomer asked his sponsor about the difference between a non-alcoholic, a potential-alcoholic, and the hopeless-alcoholic, explaining that he was confused by this terminology in the Big Book. So the sponsor took the new comer to the raunchiest bar in town. Upon arriving, they stopped out ba...	betterthanyesterday52	4	365	Feb 13, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	craving sugar (Preview) Got a sweet tooth ?	Ricky61	6	497	Feb 12, 2014 by Mike D
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.Nelson Mandela	Pythonpappy	2	261	Feb 12, 2014 by Mike B.
	Extra Special Chocolate Cake for Your Valentine or AA Meetings! Special Alert to PAPPY! (Preview) This is fast and won't cut into too much more of your time. I added a bag of shredded coconut (Dollar Tree) and 3/4 bag (you can add whole one) of semi-sweet chocolate bits to the a box of chocolate cake mix and other things the box calls for (3 eggs, 3/4 cup oil, 1 cup water--I think that is what it says). Then...	betterthanyesterday52	9	391	Feb 12, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.--Walker I."I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating thoughts are expressions of shame. Because repeated thoughts turn into beliefs and long-held beliefs tur...	Pythonpappy	1	285	Feb 12, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Grapevine (Preview) February 12 "Clearly, the chief mark of restoration to sanity is our not taking the first drink."	Mike B.	2	197	Feb 12, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	sittin' on my hands again. (Preview) Ok. POF. What a minefield. Full of users and cruisers, hiders and sliders. Have to be sodding ruthless at the dating game. Had one date. Lovely woman. Looked like felicity kendal on her profile pic. Which was ten years old. Went for dinner. Pleasant personality but she's a chucker. Went to the bathroo...	bikerbill	8	541	Feb 12, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	90 in 90 (Preview) Tonight's my 90 in 90 completion and I will get my 3 month chip. It feels good to have done the right thing this time around. I am quite sure I'll continue my daily meeting attendance though, seems to be working, life's getting a little better. Constant vigilance is what I need. (and yes, I am doing a lo...	d_willing	11	548	Feb 12, 2014 by Stepchild
	Family Day (Preview) Yesterday was "Family Day" where I live. It's a provincial statutory holiday and something I would've scoffed at a year ago and refused to acknowledge. Actually I probably would have just used the day off as an excuse to go out and get drunk. This year I spent it at home with my family. We all...	Butterfinger	11	511	Feb 12, 2014 by gonee
	Would This Be Considered Cross Talking? (Preview) Strange meeting last night. I know we are not supposed to share what we hear in meetings so I will be vague and just ask if someone says something which comes across to me as derogatory about AA's program, would it be cross talking if I share that I don't agree? There were quite a few newcomers there and I wa...	betterthanyesterday52	12	677	Feb 11, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Can Willpower Alone Keep An Alcoholic From Drinking? (Preview) Although I have had willpower at times when I was an active drinker, it didn't last long. I could go a day, two even longer. My willpower didn't hold out. I was reaching for a drink to "calm down". I would tell myself all I needed was one drink to take the edge off and relax and then I could go on abo...	betterthanyesterday52	20	1628	Feb 11, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	How Much Info Is to Much Info to Tell Relatives About Our Sobriety (Preview) Good afternoon.... I know I can be long-winded so will try to make this brief... Just got off the phone with my mom a while ago. Haven't seen her in the last few years because mainly of my drinking--you get it I know. Our relationship has been better since I have been sober and we have been emailing/phonin...	betterthanyesterday52	15	511	Feb 11, 2014 by Butterfinger
	Heard @ Meetings (Preview) and to think , when I got here . I a PhD . But for my case it was a > Poor Helpless/Hopeless Drunk. with a Lot of I - S - M's . @ th top of th list was - Incredible Short Memory I sponsor/sabotage Myself I Self Me In Side Me but ended up with Incredible Spiritual Moments it could get worse , I could be nuts - Not Us...	Zoomtopz	2	456	Feb 11, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) February 11 "From the moment I pulled open the doors to my very first meeting, I felt something different, something good was going to happen. Those doors, which at the time I believed to be the heaviest ever made, allowed me to walk into a new way of life."	Mike B.	3	384	Feb 11, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.Ayn Rand	Pythonpappy	0	349	Feb 11, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. --Calvin Coolidge There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to act respectably. We can't go back and undo our past. But we can act and behave respectably today, so that when we close our eyes...	Pythonpappy	0	391	Feb 11, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	On Death by Kahlil Gibran warning religious content (Preview) Many thanks and much gratitude to Goingtotry for telling me about Kahlil Gibran. I don't think I have ever heard of him. I started reading some of his amazing quotations and searched to see if he had any about this subject. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read and wanted to share. On...	betterthanyesterday52	4	468	Feb 11, 2014 by Butterfinger
	now, I'm not complaining. ... (Preview) My alkie obsessive compulsive behaviour has led me to keep a log over the past few weeks. it don't matter what time I go to bed. I get out again wide awake after exactly 5h48m. I've tried getting up for a pee and going back. I've tried getting up and doing something boring. I've tried just laying there...	bikerbill	7	458	Feb 11, 2014 by bikerbill
	Birthday Sunday (Preview) at AA by the Bay my Sunday version home group which is a very very nice place to celebrate mine. Yesterday was my 35th anniversary and it was nice and today it was nicer because my sponsor was in the house and another very special alcoholic both of whom have anniversaries coming up. Robert has his tomo...	Jerry F	5	345	Feb 10, 2014 by mikef
	Heard @ Meetings (Preview) the steps came in 3X3 hurrah hurrah , the steps came in 3X3 hurrah. the 1st Three steps did Pick Me Up , Hurrah . the next three steps Did , Clean Me Up , Hurrah. I worked the next three steps to Make up These last three steps DO Keep Me Up , Hurrah , Hurrah . In early sobriety I became a group secretary - I did - ope...	Zoomtopz	4	314	Feb 10, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
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