Hi all,
    Just me puttering around with fingerpaints today. It seems like a good evening to make a mess - as long as someone else cleans it up.

The term situational awareness is a term often used by people involved in combat situations. Knowing exactly where you are in relation to all the things going on around you. What is a danger, what is not. Being in these situations long enough, one can develop a sixth sense that is considered supernatural by others less well informed.
    As a drunk lurching, stumbling and clomping my way through the garden of life I developed a modicum of alcoholic situational awareness. How to look sober when drunk, when a free drink is nearby, when to avoid responsibility, ducking trouble, lying through my smiles - I learned how to play the ism' game. For me it was second nature and I was successful for many years. Too many for my taste.
    Then I ended up running out of chips in that game. Which brought me to AA and here - I was lucky. Many are not.
    I've had to learn whole new forms of situational awareness. I can now sense when a situation I am is is not heathy for me. I learned to observe and learn as opposed to hear and react. I can look at life on life's terms and accept what is placed before me - without getting spun up over it.
     But I believe the best awareness I have now is that of my spiritual condition. When it needs sprucing up, I can feel it - which is a very good thing for this drunk.
     Because my spiritual condition is what empowers me to use that recovery sixth sense for all the needs I now have. Without it I am blind and vunerable - to that disease that would just as soon see me dead. 
     So I guess it pays for me to keep contact with my Senior Partner as close as possible...

Nuff said,
Dennis