SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
Buttons and More Buttons; The March to 1k Subscribers
I’m grateful there’s always an episode of Law and Order available to watch. I’m grateful to see how much I was wrong about. I’m grateful for possibilities and bright orange sunrises. I’m grateful for a quiet day and a chance to get pointed in the right direction. I’m grateful to be useful. I’m grateful to be sober today.
SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
Hi there and welcome to Sunday and the Sunday Gratitude Extravaganza! Why is the “Extravaganza?” I actually have no idea, but I kind of like it and I very much like the logo—-so we’ll figure it out. Kind of a build it and they will come type of venture. While you’re sorting out what that even means…
Five Things… [to ponder today]
Great News! It turns out those folks sitting in AA meetings saying they had all that sobriety were telling the truth!
Is this the greatest song by a band that didn’t really exist?
Or maybe it’s this one.1
Is that the “Very Hungry Caterpillar” melting?
Who needs ChatGPT when you have the Infinite Monkey Theorem?
I know I always talk about how much we have going on over here. But here’s a preview of what’s coming down the pike:
A new episode of Breakfast with an Alcoholic is coming out this week featuring the very dynamic Lindsay V. You definitely won’t want to miss that!
In other news, we’re launching an AA meeting on Zoom beginning on March 14:
Catchy name, right? We’ll be on Zoom every Tuesday night at 7pm beginning on March 14th. This will be an “Open” meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, meaning it’s open to anyone who’s interested in seeing an actual AA meeting. We’re going to style it as a “Beginner’s Meeting” and we’ll focus on the Big Book and the first Three Steps. Of course, we will ask observers (civilians, non-alcoholics, whatever you prefer being called) to observe and respect the AA traditions of anonymity. There are lots of things that could be discussed around those traditions, and I have my own views, but it’s never cool to blow other people’s anonymity.
And, since it’s good to have a project, we will be launching the much discussed Big Book Study Group later in March as well. We’ve come up with an eight episode format that will cover the first Three Steps and the first Six Chapters of the Big Book. Our aim is to provide a pretty solid introduction to the Big Book, like a survey class in college, get people interested and then help them go out and work the steps with their Sponsors. We’re hard at work on guides to help facilitate alcoholics and addicts doing the work that comes after the treatment center, after the intervention, after the sober house, whenever—but it’s the actual work of recovery, the work that will finally let you find the path and stay on it.
We think this is all pretty exciting stuff and hope you do, too. Here are the last couple of things for today. We’re looking to build something pretty cool and that we think will help people. If you’d like to support us—well, we’re not going to say no. There are two easy ways to do it, you can upgrade your subscription (and that means a ton to us) and/or you can tell your friends about us! We’re good with either and both.
And announcing the:
TFLMS March to 1K Subscribers Karaoke Challenge
Here’s the Deal:
If we get to 1,000 subscribers in March, I will be very, very pleased.2 So pleased, I will be willing to perform the song of your collective choosing at a public Karaoke location with witnesses and videos and, for better or worse, it would all be posted here and on the Internets generally. This would mostly involve the better portion of you dear readers getting just one person to join us here.3 That doesn’t seem like a lot to ask.4
I’m deadly serious about this.
Maybe it could be this:
I’m totally serious about this. This song is on a number of current playlists. Seriously, “I’ve never been much for writing, what do you say to a dream that’s dying, a fragile lifeline that’s untying, oh no, whoah oh oh, now I can’t face the sunrise, that lightens up a road to nowhere.” Pretty serious stuff for a band with Mom and five kids (Danny is probably the median age).
Did you get the clever “March” thing?
Also, wouldn’t it be cool to be able to tell people how you discovered this back in the beginning? You can totally have all the credit.
Do you know how early I get up EVERY day…