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Sick As Your Secrets?/Transparency   What a great reminder tonight, and it tied in to closing off my personal inventory. I, like many others, had secrets buried deep inside of me that I honestly thought I die with. No one ever had to know. Today I am aware that these secrets caused guilt and shame daily, and some I had buried so deep that in my own Disneyland, they were off the radar screen. I’d heard people say you are only as sick as your secrets. As I started my journey to a new l... Read More

  Are You A Friend of You?   In doing an inventory, this was one of the questions I asked myself. I continue to ask it on a regular basis. How would I feel about doing or witnessing certain actions to or being done to a friend? In this context, I’ve inflicted things on myself I’d never wish on another person, and allowed things to happen to me that I’d stop if I saw them being done to a friend! This was and sometimes continues to be a shocking truth! As Eleanor Roosevelt is... Read More

GRATITUDE-HOW QUICK I CAN FORGET   The last few days I have a wonderful opportunity to spend time at a golf club I belong to. Late yesterday we played a “fun” competition where the winners enjoyed a great steak dinner and those who finished second had beans. Nice beans, with franks, they were. I listened to a few folks who were unhappy about beans, and other things at the club. How come we don’t get it? There we were, a group of people surrounded by beauty in nature, wearing our... Read More

The Truth of the Steps-A Recovery Day   Interesting day today. It’s interesting when you go to a closed 12 step meeting and run in to someone you know from another part of life. I have no concerns about people knowing I’m in recovery. I accepted that I was powerless over a few things fourteen years ago, and that began my journey. For me, anyone who thinks “less” of me because I abused mood altering stuff is likely someone I really don’t want to know. Today, at the meeting, w... Read More

A New Earth-Chapter 10   At 60, I guess I’m approaching old age, not something our current society cherishes. Yet in many societies, and societies past, the older are honored. Why? With age, for many, comes the ability to get deeper in the meaning of life, the ability to “be”, and “be” conscious. At mid-life I began a journey, at 60; this book brought a new level of consciousness to my spiritual inventory! It was interesting to see the role of “older” people touched on in... Read More

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