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Dubious Luxury
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.” Big Book, p83. Woke with the grouch and the anger. Wanted to write a thousand words on it. Continue reading
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What I Told Them part one
What did I tell them? Go to meetings. Get a sponsor. Develop a spiritual practice. Do this or die. Maybe not quite that “do this or die” but I talked about death. I don’t know what else works, but I know what has worked for me. Maybe something else works. I do not know. What Continue reading
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Sweep
In sports, a sweep is defined as winning all games in a series with a minimum of three games won. Continue reading
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Bob Stinson Is Dead
Bob Stinson is deadStillAs are many othersSuch as Grant HartAnd a friend of mine named BillMore everyday, more and more One can read of Bob’s last daysOr Grant’s, or even Bill’sIf one can find that poem I wroteIt all comes down toMaybe tomorrow, yes tomorrowI can leave this stuff behindTurns outThere isn’t alwaysOne day more Continue reading
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Standing in Awe
To see the moon and be awestruck. The red moon reflecting the sun’s light through the smoky last night and be dumbstruck by the miracle of the moon The miracle of that rock orbiting our earth. The miracle of that rock that was expelled from this earth when a mars size object collided with this Continue reading
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Hibakusha— the shattered
Hibakusha Survivors of the atomic bomb whose minds were shattered Reading Barry Lopez. Or listening I can’t grok it anymore. The death we visit upon people. The war. The raging wars. The Saudis killing refugees trying to cross the border. The famine. The everything. This miracle of life that we spend so many resources to Continue reading
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Consider the Orchid
Consider the orchid. Consider the orchid at the grocery store. Consider the display of orchids at the grocery store. Consider the white pots. Consider the green stem. Consider the stick that supports the stem. Consider the bloom. Consider the flower blooming. Consider the beauty. Then I think of the orchid purchased bought home consider the Continue reading
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Awareness
Friday Talk Good morning. My name is Paul, and I am an alcoholic. Monday I decided that I would talk about the eleventh principle: Awareness of God. It was the best choice and the worst. Awareness of God. I have spent the last 4 days wrestling with it. And all of my resistance. My legendary Continue reading
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Question 2: Commentary
Perhaps read this first Sat Shikantaza for twenty minutes in Caribou. Literally. Not in the lotus position. Not in the half-lotus position but seated on a bench in Caribou. Thinking about question 2 above. What is crossing over? Goalless meeting the goal. Letting go of thinking to be in non-thinking. Trying to still the intellectual Continue reading
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