SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
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I’m grateful for a visit with the AG. I’m grateful for getting something hard done. I’m grateful for the way being on the path feels. I’m grateful for a perfect morning on the pirate balcony. I’m grateful to be sober today.
LAST WEEK ON TFLMS:
An Alcoholic in New York
I’m a 58 year-old alcoholic living and writing in New York. How I got here is kind of a long story. Shakespeare wrote “brevity is the soul of wit,” and I do like to think of myself as kind of a witty alcoholic, so I’ll try to be concise. I ended up here in NYC because I didn’t really know what else to do and literally had no place else to go. I’d always loved it here and had always wanted to live here. If I was headed for the end of the road, I thought it might as well be somewhere nice.
No Shortcuts
I'm grateful for a calm, cool run in the rain that energized me for the rest of the day. I'm grateful for being able to manage our basement situation in an even keeled manner. I'm grateful when perspective comes at opportune times in order prevent me from spiraling into a defect. I'm grateful for figuring out a way to work as Harper uses my entire lap and the majority of my arm to fall asleep. I'm grateful that my tendencies to be a creature of habit have transferred over to how I engage with this Program. I'm grateful for shares reminding me to truly appreciate that a lot of the basics in my life are covered and the need for more isn't always a required pursuit. I'm grateful for not fighting or fearing uncertainty, but rather using it as opportunity to grow with the Steps as an effective framework. I'm grateful for a passage about empathy I read years ago in "To Kill A Mockingbird", where Scout is standing on Boo Radley's porch for the first time, continuing to stick with me into adu…
TFLMS Weekend: Where Sobriety Isn’t Just a Consequence…
(last weekend)
SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
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