January 19th, 2012
-I was in a discussion when asked, if and when I finally become connected with the woman of my dreams, what size breasts would I want her to have?
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-That was an unanswerable question, because it was the wrong question. The size of a woman’s breast is not of interest to me. What does matter to [...]
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January 13th, 2012
The following ideas have helped me.
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-I do not doubt that my pre-program thinking was and is insane as is suggested in Step 2 of the 12 Steps.
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-However, I do not remember a time in my past where my thinking has been sane. If that were true, why would I want to be RESTORED to the [...]
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December 29th, 2011
A man goes into a bar, walks to the very last barstool and sits down. He orders a bottle of whiskey. When he gets his whiskey he pours a shot and downs it. Then he pours another shot and downs it and continues doing that
shot after shot.
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Finally. the bartender said “Pardon [...]
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November 7th, 2011
-To enjoy all the love and respect in the hearts of my family and friends without weighing down all these lovely people with my expectations.
-To meet my great grand kids before I go home.
-I have learned to love more openly and more deeply. I wish for a woman who would treasure my love.
-To [...]
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November 1st, 2011
The following Ideas have helped me
-First of all I believe in Heaven because I was raised in a religious tradition that taught me to think that way.
-I believe Heaven because I want to believe. Ideas like re-incarnation have no appeal and offer me no comfort. I want to be with the the people I know [...]
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October 25th, 2011
The following ideas have helped me.
-Many of the character defects that beset me are there because those behaviors felt necessary for survival when I was growing up in a harsh and legalistic home.
-I have always been driven by an almost obsessive drive to be emotionally healthy. That is especially true of my desire [...]
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October 23rd, 2011
The following ideas have helped me.
-Coming to believe is such a gradual process that I often do not perceive my own growth. Then something will happen or someone will say something that shows me I have been steadily growing.
-The idea of a leap of faith has not ever worked for me. Faith comes [...]
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October 16th, 2011
The following ideas have helped me.
-I grew up in an intensely dysfunctional home. I had to be all things to all the people by whom I was raised.
-For that reason I never had much of an understanding of who I was. Put otherwise, I never had much of a picture of the person I was [...]
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October 3rd, 2011
The following ideas have helped me.
-I have never liked the idea of living a balanced life. It sounds so boring to me.
-A friend of mine said to me the she wanted to live able to cry to snot and laugh to pee. That may be crudely expressed, but it is also a beautiful desire
-Here is [...]
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October 2nd, 2011
“The Book of Mormon” Is a smash hit musical currently on Broadway. I am told that the play is not anti-religious. Even the Mormons agree. I have seen short clips of the musical and from what I have seen it has the virtue of being hilarious.
The recovery program to which I belong has a saying [...]
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