Alcoholics Anonymous

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

When I came in, they told me, "Let us love you until you can learn to love yourself." --AnonymousIt takes a long time to learn to love ourselves. So many things we've done seem hard to forgive. We might be trying to dig out from under tons of negative garbage, negative images. Fortunately, ou...

ChickenLittle · ChickenLittle

First meeting was an epic fail everyone there spent the whole meeting trying to tell me I'm just like them and if I don't agree I'm just in denial.. I related to some of the things that were said but I still don't identify as an alcoholic.... Today I am powerless over alcohol sure but I believe that in due ti...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.~ Peter F. Drucker

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The new is but the old come true; each sunrise sees a new year born. --Helen Hunt JacksonWe know that a totally new life can begin on any day of a year, at any hour of the day, or at any moment of an hour. That new life began the moment we decided to surrender and admit to powerlessness over a substance or an imp...

bikerbill · bikerbill

It feels like it's been an awful long time since I contributed to this forum so I thought this morning I'd look around and see what's happening. I was surprised to find a post from 2012 resurrected. The one about the chip system. Well anyway here were are, last day of the year and in a couple days it'll be...

justadrunk · justadrunk

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting GoThe New Year Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us dir...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.~ Curtis Carlson

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Reflection for the Day In the old days, I saw everything in terms of forever. Endless hours were spent rehashing old mistakes. I tried to take comfort in the forlorn hope that tomorrow would be "different." As a result, I lived a fantasy life in which happiness was all but nonexistent. N...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Welcome to MIP Janet ... glad you found us ... and Congrats on your upcoming 1 year anniversary ...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

IT's New Years day in Aussie . th world has not ended , ok so I Will keep my daytime job. Happy New Year My Fellow MIRACLES. Together We go forward . One Day at a time . we have No big shots One shot & we Are all shot

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.~ Steve Maraboli

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Time is a circle. The end is the beginning.Day by day, a year comes and goes. Today's end is the beginning of the rest of our lives. We take with us what we have learned today. We are the same and not the same.As long as we are alive, we will continue to wrestle with questions, seek answers, and solve problem...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; its what you share.~ Unknown

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Being less than perfect.It was not a perfect year. But is there ever a perfect year? Being clean and sober does not purport or offer perfection. It gives us a chance to strive for progress. When we keep our Higher Power in our thoughts and actions, we come closer to perfection all the time.Despite the di...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

December 29, 2014Quote of the Week"God handed me the menu. He didn't tell me to choose the shit sandwich." This quote seemed appropriate for the New Year because it reminds me that in recovery, with a relationship with a Higher Power, I have a world of opportunities open to me. In meeti...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.~ Soren Kierkegaard

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Has it been a year of growth?As any year draws to a close, we should reflect on how we have grown in sobriety. We should also identify changes during the year that enabled us to overcome bad habits and to move closer to better patterns of living.Though we never are guaranteed favorable outcomes, we shou...

The Ghost of Tipsy · The Ghost of Tipsy

This is my first sober holiday season since I was a child. I don't have the words to express how amazing it is that I am experiencing a Christmas this way with my babies and wife. I won't go into detail about the way it used to be because I want to focus on the positive right now. All I know is that I'm 100% prese...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.~ Mahatma Ghandi

Amigo · Amigo

The Peanut Gallery was an easy audience once they were warmed up by Princess Kandy Kane..Distributing "All they could Eat" candy. I posted picture through My avitar

WeDoRecover12 · WeDoRecover12

Check out our selection of AA talks by famous people, it turns out, they're just like us! The disease of alcoholism doesn't discriminate, but thankfully, neither do the 12 steps of AA. Enjoy this playlist, and if you like our channel, please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesnt lead anywhere.~ Frank A. Clark

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Love-abilityA friend of mine recently told me how he met his wife. He had watched her walk by his store every day for a year with her young son. She also happened to be a friend of his neighbor."Fix me up," he suggested to his neighbor. "We'll go on a double date. I really want to meet her.&...

Moe · Moe

I worry they won't welcome me. I am ashamed I need to find a sponsor and it's a group I can walk too? I'm disappointed in myself and worry about others being too.

justadrunk · justadrunk

For me... coming home like never before after a christmas party some years ago... saying the words to my inner most self... and logging in here... never to be the same again. Merry Christmas. I love you all. Xxxxhugsxxx.

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.~ Mahatma Gandhi

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Working todayAs we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.Am I ensuring a fruitful future by wo...

Jerry F · Jerry F

From Hilo...cloudy and cold and niiiiice. Wishing you all sober and sane and serene days. Our AA by the Bay, "Brunch before the Christmas Crunch" went awesomely well and wish ya`ll could have been with us. God Bless. (((((Hugs)))))

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Celebration is a forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of ego, of problems, of difficulties. A letting go. --Matthew FoxA holiday presents us with an opportunity to practice the letting go of this program. This is a special day to set aside our work and our routines, to put our problems and bur...

davep12and12 · davep12and12

Hi All, Today, 12/23/14, I'm celebrating 26 years of continuous sobriety. I just flew into southern California this morning to spend the holidays with my family and I'll be taking the opportunity to visit some old AA friends in some of my old meetings where I got sober. Happy Holidays to all, one day...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.~ Clarence E. Hodges

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

... [To] take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. --Thomas MoreWe take different kinds of pleasure in giving. Perhaps the purest is the gift to a child so young it doesn't really know who the gift came from; the pu...

Mike B. · Mike B.

December 24 "My miracle occurred when I became willing to go to any lengths to take action. Like the trapeze artist, it wasn't the knowledge of it being there -- it was the action of letting go."

Jerry F · Jerry F

There isn't any doubt and there is no effort to do anything other than accept that description. I was driving home from work with my wife and another passenger in the car. My wife is a very fear based person and her imagination seems to be addicted to it. It is safer for me to let her drive rather than...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.~ Joseph Addison

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. --ConfuciusSome of us were raised to decline generosity - to argue over who pays the restaurant bill, not to accept money for helping s...

Mike B. · Mike B.

December 23 "The first 100 members of this Fellowship, who hammered out the Twelve Steps, knew what they were doing. They could have made it two steps or ten steps or twenty-five steps, but they didn't. I don't think they put anything in they didn't think they needed. They were working the whole p...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

December 22, 2014Quote of the Week"When you own your part, you own your power." When I was new to the program, I dreaded doing my fourth step inventory. What possible good could it do me to list all my resentments I wondered? When my sponsor told me there was an invisible category called &...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.~ H.W. Dresses

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Keep your recovery First to make it Last. --Anonymous We all encounter places, people, and times of the year which trigger memories of our old lifestyle, pleasant or painful events. Holidays and family gatherings may be especially stressful times for us. There have always been a lot of expectatio...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Verse Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests. Luke 2:14 Quote Love came down on Christmas Day so many years ago and brought the greatest happiness the world would ever know. Peace came down on Christmas Day to fill the hearts of men with all the sweet tranquility...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. --Catherine PonderGetting mad at someone, a friend perhaps, is normal. Everybody gets mad sometimes. But when we stay mad for very long, it ruins all the fun we'd planned on having throughout the day. Staying mad multiplies. Sometimes it s...

thinking · thinking

sharing a book i had read couple week ago, alcohol is my personal future problem to be i guess, anyway the book teaches method of centralized and decentralized people's living condition. they titled it starfish and spiders. Wow that is where i have actually knew about the 12 steps open sys for AA? i en...

Amigo · Amigo

TOMORROW I dress as Santa... beard and all...I bribed my audience 3-10 by buying $100.00 worth of candy "That will get their attention"... I will be making Balloon animals and space helmuts for my audience. I will be bringing my guitar..but will be informing my audience " aint gonn...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A.A. Thought for the Day The satisfaction we get out of living a sober life is made up of a lot of little things, but they add up to a satisfactory and happy life. Don't worry about what life will be like without liquor. Just hang in there and a lot of good things will happen to us. Is my life becoming really w...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.~ Barbara De Angelis

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separateness - the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination. --Jeraldine SoundersWe are only alone in our minds. In reality, we are each contributing necessary parts offering completion to the wholeness o...

Amigo · Amigo

There are some people whom I am acquainted with who would not give the warmth of their urine to heat a soup kitchen in a Leaper Colony. Then there are those who are totally un-dependable.."How Do they think"? Amigo...do not ATTACK even in your thoughts the ACTIONS of others who IRRITATE o...

Wren · Wren

In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer----Albert Camus When things seem to be going badly and everyone appears to be against us, what do we see? Do we think things will never get better, or is there a ray of hope inside us that believes everything will soon be okay?...

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	Today's Gift - 1/3 (Preview) When I came in, they told me, "Let us love you until you can learn to love yourself." --AnonymousIt takes a long time to learn to love ourselves. So many things we've done seem hard to forgive. We might be trying to dig out from under tons of negative garbage, negative images. Fortunately, ou...	Pythonpappy	0	416	Jan 3, 2015 by Pythonpappy
	Can't I just be a problem drinker that has a desire to quit drinking today without being an alcoholic? (Preview) First meeting was an epic fail everyone there spent the whole meeting trying to tell me I'm just like them and if I don't agree I'm just in denial.. I related to some of the things that were said but I still don't identify as an alcoholic.... Today I am powerless over alcohol sure but I believe that in due ti...	ChickenLittle	13	789	Jan 2, 2015 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.~ Peter F. Drucker	Pythonpappy	0	374	Jan 2, 2015 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 1/2 (Preview) The new is but the old come true; each sunrise sees a new year born. --Helen Hunt JacksonWe know that a totally new life can begin on any day of a year, at any hour of the day, or at any moment of an hour. That new life began the moment we decided to surrender and admit to powerlessness over a substance or an imp...	Pythonpappy	0	349	Jan 2, 2015 by Pythonpappy
	Good morning brothers and sisters (Preview) It feels like it's been an awful long time since I contributed to this forum so I thought this morning I'd look around and see what's happening. I was surprised to find a post from 2012 resurrected. The one about the chip system. Well anyway here were are, last day of the year and in a couple days it'll be...	bikerbill	4	734	Jan 2, 2015 by Jerry F
	I'm so confused really? This reading - can anyone help? (Preview) You are reading from the book The Language of Letting GoThe New Year Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us dir...	justadrunk	10	771	Jan 2, 2015 by Jerry F
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.~ Curtis Carlson	Pythonpappy	0	392	Jan 1, 2015 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 1/1 (Preview) Reflection for the Day In the old days, I saw everything in terms of forever. Endless hours were spent rehashing old mistakes. I tried to take comfort in the forlorn hope that tomorrow would be "different." As a result, I lived a fantasy life in which happiness was all but nonexistent. N...	Pythonpappy	0	396	Jan 1, 2015 by Pythonpappy
	Welcome Janet K of Baltimore (Preview) Welcome to MIP Janet ... glad you found us ... and Congrats on your upcoming 1 year anniversary ...	Pythonpappy	1	367	Jan 1, 2015 by pinkchip
	1/1/15 (Preview) IT's New Years day in Aussie . th world has not ended , ok so I Will keep my daytime job. Happy New Year My Fellow MIRACLES. Together We go forward . One Day at a time . we have No big shots One shot & we Are all shot	Zoomtopz	6	520	Dec 31, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.~ Steve Maraboli	Pythonpappy	0	325	Dec 31, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/31 (Preview) Time is a circle. The end is the beginning.Day by day, a year comes and goes. Today's end is the beginning of the rest of our lives. We take with us what we have learned today. We are the same and not the same.As long as we are alive, we will continue to wrestle with questions, seek answers, and solve problem...	Pythonpappy	0	385	Dec 31, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; its what you share.~ Unknown	Pythonpappy	0	357	Dec 30, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/30 (Preview) Being less than perfect.It was not a perfect year. But is there ever a perfect year? Being clean and sober does not purport or offer perfection. It gives us a chance to strive for progress. When we keep our Higher Power in our thoughts and actions, we come closer to perfection all the time.Despite the di...	Pythonpappy	0	335	Dec 30, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) December 29, 2014Quote of the Week"God handed me the menu. He didn't tell me to choose the shit sandwich." This quote seemed appropriate for the New Year because it reminds me that in recovery, with a relationship with a Higher Power, I have a world of opportunities open to me. In meeti...	Pythonpappy	0	441	Dec 29, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.~ Soren Kierkegaard	Pythonpappy	0	308	Dec 29, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/29 (Preview) Has it been a year of growth?As any year draws to a close, we should reflect on how we have grown in sobriety. We should also identify changes during the year that enabled us to overcome bad habits and to move closer to better patterns of living.Though we never are guaranteed favorable outcomes, we shou...	Pythonpappy	0	355	Dec 29, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Thoughts on my first sober Christmas (Preview) This is my first sober holiday season since I was a child. I don't have the words to express how amazing it is that I am experiencing a Christmas this way with my babies and wife. I won't go into detail about the way it used to be because I want to focus on the positive right now. All I know is that I'm 100% prese...	The Ghost of Tipsy	9	638	Dec 28, 2014 by Jerry F
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.~ Mahatma Ghandi	Pythonpappy	0	322	Dec 28, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	My Christmas Gig (Preview) The Peanut Gallery was an easy audience once they were warmed up by Princess Kandy Kane..Distributing "All they could Eat" candy. I posted picture through My avitar	Amigo	4	316	Dec 27, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Speaker Tapes of Famous People! Alcoholics Anonymous AA AA Speaker Alcoholics Anonymous Speaker AA Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous World Services aa.org Alcoholics Anonymous World Convention Twelve Steps and Twelve traditions 12 steps xa speaker xa speakers Bill W Bill Wilson xa wedorecover12 we do recover 12 carry the message addiction treatment for alcoholism alcohol abuse substance abuse treatment addiction rehab (Preview) Check out our selection of AA talks by famous people, it turns out, they're just like us! The disease of alcoholism doesn't discriminate, but thankfully, neither do the 12 steps of AA. Enjoy this playlist, and if you like our channel, please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...	WeDoRecover12	1	7708	Dec 27, 2014 by Tanin
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesnt lead anywhere.~ Frank A. Clark	Pythonpappy	0	322	Dec 27, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/27 (Preview) Love-abilityA friend of mine recently told me how he met his wife. He had watched her walk by his store every day for a year with her young son. She also happened to be a friend of his neighbor."Fix me up," he suggested to his neighbor. "We'll go on a double date. I really want to meet her.&...	Pythonpappy	0	413	Dec 27, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Can I go back to a meeting after I had a lapse (Preview) I worry they won't welcome me. I am ashamed I need to find a sponsor and it's a group I can walk too? I'm disappointed in myself and worry about others being too.	Moe	10	827	Dec 27, 2014 by justadrunk
	A day of rebirth (Preview) For me... coming home like never before after a christmas party some years ago... saying the words to my inner most self... and logging in here... never to be the same again. Merry Christmas. I love you all. Xxxxhugsxxx.	justadrunk	2	498	Dec 26, 2014 by mikef
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.~ Mahatma Gandhi	Pythonpappy	0	353	Dec 26, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/26 (Preview) Working todayAs we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.Am I ensuring a fruitful future by wo...	Pythonpappy	0	332	Dec 26, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Merry Christmas (Preview) From Hilo...cloudy and cold and niiiiice. Wishing you all sober and sane and serene days. Our AA by the Bay, "Brunch before the Christmas Crunch" went awesomely well and wish ya`ll could have been with us. God Bless. (((((Hugs)))))	Jerry F	5	629	Dec 26, 2014 by Jerry F
	Today's Gift - 12/25 - Merry Christmas (Preview) Celebration is a forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of ego, of problems, of difficulties. A letting go. --Matthew FoxA holiday presents us with an opportunity to practice the letting go of this program. This is a special day to set aside our work and our routines, to put our problems and bur...	Pythonpappy	2	373	Dec 25, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Twenty Six years sober today (Preview) Hi All, Today, 12/23/14, I'm celebrating 26 years of continuous sobriety. I just flew into southern California this morning to spend the holidays with my family and I'll be taking the opportunity to visit some old AA friends in some of my old meetings where I got sober. Happy Holidays to all, one day...	davep12and12	9	532	Dec 25, 2014 by Jerry F
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.~ Clarence E. Hodges	Pythonpappy	0	337	Dec 25, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/24 (Preview) ... [To] take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. --Thomas MoreWe take different kinds of pleasure in giving. Perhaps the purest is the gift to a child so young it doesn't really know who the gift came from; the pu...	Pythonpappy	0	363	Dec 24, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) December 24 "My miracle occurred when I became willing to go to any lengths to take action. Like the trapeze artist, it wasn't the knowledge of it being there -- it was the action of letting go."	Mike B.	0	302	Dec 24, 2014 by Mike B.
	Cunning, Powerful and Baffling... (Preview) There isn't any doubt and there is no effort to do anything other than accept that description. I was driving home from work with my wife and another passenger in the car. My wife is a very fear based person and her imagination seems to be addicted to it. It is safer for me to let her drive rather than...	Jerry F	11	1387	Dec 23, 2014 by Tanin
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.~ Joseph Addison	Pythonpappy	0	398	Dec 23, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/23 (Preview) To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. --ConfuciusSome of us were raised to decline generosity - to argue over who pays the restaurant bill, not to accept money for helping s...	Pythonpappy	0	321	Dec 23, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) December 23 "The first 100 members of this Fellowship, who hammered out the Twelve Steps, knew what they were doing. They could have made it two steps or ten steps or twenty-five steps, but they didn't. I don't think they put anything in they didn't think they needed. They were working the whole p...	Mike B.	0	316	Dec 23, 2014 by Mike B.
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) December 22, 2014Quote of the Week"When you own your part, you own your power." When I was new to the program, I dreaded doing my fourth step inventory. What possible good could it do me to list all my resentments I wondered? When my sponsor told me there was an invisible category called &...	Pythonpappy	0	421	Dec 22, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.~ H.W. Dresses	Pythonpappy	0	346	Dec 22, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/22 (Preview) Keep your recovery First to make it Last. --Anonymous We all encounter places, people, and times of the year which trigger memories of our old lifestyle, pleasant or painful events. Holidays and family gatherings may be especially stressful times for us. There have always been a lot of expectatio...	Pythonpappy	0	325	Dec 22, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Weekly Thought (Religious Concept) (Preview) Verse Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests. Luke 2:14 Quote Love came down on Christmas Day so many years ago and brought the greatest happiness the world would ever know. Peace came down on Christmas Day to fill the hearts of men with all the sweet tranquility...	Pythonpappy	0	383	Dec 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson	Pythonpappy	0	316	Dec 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/21 (Preview) Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. --Catherine PonderGetting mad at someone, a friend perhaps, is normal. Everybody gets mad sometimes. But when we stay mad for very long, it ruins all the fun we'd planned on having throughout the day. Staying mad multiplies. Sometimes it s...	Pythonpappy	0	386	Dec 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Patrick STARfish@SpongBob or crowling spiders :- system (Preview) sharing a book i had read couple week ago, alcohol is my personal future problem to be i guess, anyway the book teaches method of centralized and decentralized people's living condition. they titled it starfish and spiders. Wow that is where i have actually knew about the 12 steps open sys for AA? i en...	thinking	1	387	Dec 20, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	What A Gig This will be. (Preview) TOMORROW I dress as Santa... beard and all...I bribed my audience 3-10 by buying $100.00 worth of candy "That will get their attention"... I will be making Balloon animals and space helmuts for my audience. I will be bringing my guitar..but will be informing my audience " aint gonn...	Amigo	2	513	Dec 20, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/20 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day The satisfaction we get out of living a sober life is made up of a lot of little things, but they add up to a satisfactory and happy life. Don't worry about what life will be like without liquor. Just hang in there and a lot of good things will happen to us. Is my life becoming really w...	Pythonpappy	0	351	Dec 20, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.~ Barbara De Angelis	Pythonpappy	0	386	Dec 19, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 12/19 (Preview) Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separateness - the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination. --Jeraldine SoundersWe are only alone in our minds. In reality, we are each contributing necessary parts offering completion to the wholeness o...	Pythonpappy	0	356	Dec 19, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Musings from a Sober Recovering... Spiritual Bully (Preview) There are some people whom I am acquainted with who would not give the warmth of their urine to heat a soup kitchen in a Leaper Colony. Then there are those who are totally un-dependable.."How Do they think"? Amigo...do not ATTACK even in your thoughts the ACTIONS of others who IRRITATE o...	Amigo	1	448	Dec 18, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Night Light (Preview) In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer----Albert Camus When things seem to be going badly and everyone appears to be against us, what do we see? Do we think things will never get better, or is there a ray of hope inside us that believes everything will soon be okay?...	Wren	3	637	Dec 18, 2014 by Tanin
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