SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
| Magic in the Air | Coexistence | Bad Neighborhood | TFLMS Weekend | Much, Much More |
I’m grateful for a babysitting gig in Boston. I’m grateful for the way the world spins and getting to rock a baby to sleep. I’m grateful for sweetness, kindness, love and the way back. I’m grateful to be sober today.
LAST WEEK ON TFLMS:
song of the week:
Magic in the Air
I struggled mightily to get sober. It took me ten really hard years of failure and loss and desperation to get one year of white-knuckled, antabuse-backstopped sobriety. Then I moved to New York, lived alone and began finding my way, bit by bit. Listening to music and exploring the city, riding the ferry, wandering in the museums or Central Park. I fell in love, really and truly. With the City of New York.
Coexistence
I'm grateful for talking through tough situations with those whose opinions I trust - it's such a gift getting out of my own head. I'm grateful for an anniversary meeting where folks who've known me since the beginning of my sober journey are celebrating their own special milestones. I'm grateful for a fellow sharing a favorite phrase of mine from the Big Book "trudge the Road of Happy Destiny", which also reminded me that this is a journey, not a final destination. I'm grateful for allowing myself to go through the rough feelings I was experiencing and not adding to the agita by thinking why am I not behaving perfectly now that I'm sober. I'm grateful for the sponsee being a source of inspiration for how I invest in my own sobriety. I'm grateful for regularly participating in AA because I can feel it really paying off during the rougher periods. I'm grateful I've been able to maintain commitments to my Zoom and IRL AA meetings since both formats mean a lot to me. I'm grateful for del…
TFLMS Weekend: Where Sobriety Isn’t Just a Consequence…
(last weekend)
SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
| Grateful and Willing | False Summits | Luck of the Irish |TFLMS Weekend | Much, Much More |