I’m grateful for the snow flurry that started just when I sat down at my desk. I’m grateful for quiet mornings and the chance to think. I’m grateful for the way the world moves around me and grateful to get to watch. I’m grateful for how words look on a page. I’m grateful to be sober today.
It might be; It could be; It is….
The Saturday Gratitude Round-Up
Where seven days of gratitude and associated musings are squished into a very tidy bundle (at least we think so!)
As always, click on the picture to read that day’s Gratitude List or associated musing (and I’m now including a bit of the text as a further inducement to read them):
Daily Gratitude List 1.8.23
The Power of Imagination
“My life these days is full of mind-boggling coincidences; instances where the right result falls into my lap without me needing to engage in any concerted action or manipulation. It’s harder for me to imagine that I led my life in the darkness for so long, somehow convincing myself that the glint off the wine in my glass was sunlight. Sobriety did end my drinking, but it was the beginning of pretty much everything else for me. It started with a simple act of imagination—that was all that was necessary for me to make my beginning.”
Daily Gratitude List 1.9.23
Sober Girls Edition
“My point is, I have spent so much time trying to figure out the things that make me happy now that I am sober, the things the relight the fire, and those things have really be here all along.”
Daily Gratitude List 1.10.23
What’s Cooking?
“We’re simply sharing how we managed to get sober ourselves and how we work to maintain, deepen and expand our recovery. Our aim is simple: Share the lessons we learned and the work we did. Julia Child’s brilliance was that she showed you precisely how she did it, showed you exactly how you could do it, and that sparked a lot of people to finally believe, “I can do this!”
Daily Gratitude List 1.11.23
ABC
“So that’s one cool thing, but it’s not the only cool thing. It turns out that we alcoholics tend to be some kind of Ninja-trained, special operator-style, elite force capable of daring hostage-type rescue missions for the still sick and suffering. Ok, that’s not exactly how the Big Book puts it…”
Sober Girls-Daily Gratitude Mash-Up
1.12.23
My fear of change can be traced all the way back to the snake tattoo that I have on my leg (that I got in a blackout) a few years ago that means to me, “If a snake never shed it's skin it would be stuck in the same tiny body forever. So I must shed my skin and adapt to change as well, in order to grow.”
Daily Gratitude List 1.13.23
Friday the 13th
“Old ways of thinking about things had to become old ways of thinking about things. I took things for what they were, instead of writing my own story around them. I realized there were lessons and growth in facing fears and despair and sadness; that there was beauty and peace in facing fears and despair and sadness. I began to believe that there was a part of me that was still indeed divine, had not been too despoiled in all of the alcoholic funhouse days, a shaky, slightly unsteady pilot light that could still be tended…”
And was the week that was here at Sober HQ!
Thanks for Letting Me Share