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Dave Harm


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Hi Everybody...

I just wanted to stop by and share some personal thoughts with you.  The first board I ever belonged to on MIP was this one.  As time moved on, I joined a few others and found a home at one of them.  Though I do come back here every now and then, after all, in the MIP world, this is my "home group."

I just wanted to say, with my experiences on other boards, this board - the AA board - is the model of what the other boards should try to achieve.  There is so much support and caring here... it is hard to believe... you really all deserve to pat yourselves on the back for a job well done.

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OK, my post title "Let's Get Honest."  Every day in my e-mail, I get a thought for the day from an AA website.  This one hit home and kind of fit in with a poem I wrote in 2006, which was used on he West Coast for the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month campaign.  So I made a video from it... and I'm sharing it here with you as my way of saying "thank you" for having such a healthy and supportive board...




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There is so much support and caring here... it is hard to believe... you really all deserve to pat yourselves on the back for a job well done.

No, I'm one of those who can't pat myself on the back. This is something whether it be an alcoholic or anyone else needing help. I've always been selfish thinking of myself & nobody else. Taking instead of giving. Helping others...this is the way I should have been living all along & for that I can't take any credit.


Loved the video clip!!!!

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You are part of what makes it another sort of home group for me. Back atcha Dave.

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Thanks Dave...for the story and hope.  smile

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Thanks Dave, well done, and you are a big part of what makes mip so special to me. Thanks also for the work that you've done on the other mip board, I've been enjoying it much more since you became a moderator there. I love your poem and the video and music is very cool.

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Thanks, Dave.  I appreciate your service.

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For me, doing an "honest inventory" means, on occasions, giving myself a pat on the back! ..........er............just not too many! biggrin

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Very neat video, thanks for sharing it.

My sponsor told me I have permission to give myself a pat on the back every once in awhile, just dont break my arm doing it.

God, and AA deserve most of the credit. I will take very little. I did do some work and the days that go well, and Im happy, I did alot of work. And the days that dont go so well, and Im not so happy, but I trudge thru , well I do some work on those days too.

Theres no magic in this program. But it most certainly is a miracle when I go to bed at night and put my head on my pillow and Im sober smile.gif

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