Apparently, having meetings is truly a luxury. I would never have guessed that with the quality of meetings I have to attend, with people introducing themselves as and-a's willy nilly, talking about cocaine in their nostrils and shooting dope, etc but even a meeting like that is better than Zoom where people of lesser means … Continue reading Learning to Stay Sober Without Meetings
Category: 12 Steps
The Newcomer – The Life Blood of AA… The Most Important Person
I guess that was bullshit. I guess the most important person really to anyone is themselves and their little plans and designs. Last week I was 12 stepping a guy I met through another endeavor. He, it turned out, is homeless in a city south of me about an hour and a half. I called … Continue reading The Newcomer – The Life Blood of AA… The Most Important Person
Our Common Welfare or My Common Welfare…Do You Know The Difference?
Our common welfare is thinking of ALL alcoholics - the ones who live wwwwaaaayyyy out in rural areas without cell phones or without internet. The ones in the dark districts. The ones who are afraid of catching some disease because they are old and have a low immune system. The ones that live in assisted … Continue reading Our Common Welfare or My Common Welfare…Do You Know The Difference?
Can It Get Weirder?
I was in a meeting today with a guy I know, who was in a full-on hazmat suit. I thought it was a costume when he swaggered in - but quickly realized it was for-real - he had a chip on his shoulder. People chuckled when he came in, and he took offense to this … Continue reading Can It Get Weirder?
First Sunday of the Month…
Our group does the Traditions... Here's what we talked about today... Tradition 1 - Our COMMON welfare... who is "our"? Our is ALL of AA and all future members - that means that the individuals who decided to close their groups up and go online - their welfare follows closely after the common welfare of … Continue reading First Sunday of the Month…
I Went To A F2F Meeting Today
There were 20 people there. Were we 6' apart? Not really... Of the people at the meeting...several of them were new - 1 with 25 days, 1 with a few weeks, 1 with 360 days, 1 with a year or so. All of them and many more talked about needing meetings. I went to a … Continue reading I Went To A F2F Meeting Today
A.A. and God Prevailed Today
I went to a group conscience of a group that is still meeting face-to-face, in compliance as an essential service to the police and state officials but has some members who want to shut it down. I have mentioned this before in previous posts - Why do some people think that just because they want … Continue reading A.A. and God Prevailed Today
Frequent Contact…
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very … Continue reading Frequent Contact…
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty - Humming and Dumbing - here we are, the average Joe alcoholic - comes in to AA because it's gotten annoying - that pesky disease of alcoholism - just getting very inconvenient- he just wants to get the wife off his back, get his job back, get back in the big bed...3 hots … Continue reading Humpty Dumpty
Today I Heard…
That the Health Department threatened the Clubs because they are non-profits - to shut them down if they didn't close, and they just closed - for fear of being "shut down for 6 months while they wait to go to court in contempt of the order" said the former manager of one of the club … Continue reading Today I Heard…
Anonymous Alcoholics 