12 Steps Blog
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What a long, long weekend. Sobriety is filled with firsts. Whenever I’ve begun to feel comfortable and well rounded in this program, seems like I always find a new challenge to face, a new layer of the onion to peel and learn somehow to yet again grow a bit. I’m a VP of Sales for…
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funny… copy and paste these links regarding the Twain and MLK quotes: http://gizmodo.com/#!5798029/those-mlk-and-mark-twain-quotes-youre-spreading-on-facebook-and-twitter-are-fake Haha, even funnier, the original quoter had it right, but people didn’t see her quotation notes: http://www.good.is/post/that-martin-luther-king-quote-is-fake-use-these-instead/ Wow, and the Twain one, of which I could have sworn I read in his autobiography, this is what I found almost unanimously everywhere I…
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Few people really do their own thinking. As Mark Twain said, the only original thought written down was either Adam or Eve. That being said, too much deferring of your thoughts, or living by other people’s opinions can be hugely detrimental to your life, and most especially if you’re in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.…
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It was fitting that after a long day worrying over a woman, over yet another situation I have absolutely zero control of, a friend of mine called and offered me tickets to an Opera performance of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” which translated means, “All women are like that”, I’m told but upon researching a little…
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Ego Rape Land soft again into my arms, Deny the duplicity, deception of charms. Awaken the truth, the light and the way, Set aside the pettiness, and seize the dying day. Time slides by in endless waves, Yesterdays tombs, flooded crypts and caves. Regrets forever sealed, mistakes piled on tragedies, Against the grain we raged,…
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Wow, the print on demand arrangement still being pondered, as I wonder why they would claim on my splash page on Amazon that there are only 3 copies left, and to order soon, they throw fuel on the fire with yet another jaw dropper. The book is now for sale, not at the 24.95 I…
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Well the book launched yesterday! I was very excited as I didn’t realize it was basically automatic from the acceptance of the proof with Lightning Source. I was putting pressure on my graphics designer/web designer who was basically stalling and putting it right back on me, which drove me a little batty. So I was…
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