SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
| Beware the Ides of March | Brainwashing | Sober and the City |TFLMS Weekend | Much, Much More |
I’m grateful for seeing what I couldn’t. I’m grateful for schnitzel and real friends. I’m grateful for a super foggy day. I’m grateful for farmers markets, bookstores, and, of course, record stores. I’m grateful to understand I’m placed where I need to be placed. I’m grateful to be sober today.
LAST WEEK ON TFLMS:
song of the week:
Beware the Ides of March
It was a beautiful spring day, as I recall from the walk to the Logan Tavern. I sat on my favorite stool, ate terrible, dry chicken wings, watched basketball, guzzled sauvignon blanc and thought about what a gift I had been given. F*** everyone, I am what I am and that apparently is a remorseless, pretty hopeless alcoholic.
Brainwashing
I'm grateful for exercise being such an uplifting part of my day. I'm grateful for nature serving as a powerful visual to put my problems, my grievances in context and nudging me to get out of self. I'm grateful for the poignant phrase "as the road gets steeper the views get better" to frame how life grows in AA. I'm grateful for continuing to recite the mantra "this too shall pass" as a means of more easily letting go of negativity whenever it arises. I'm grateful for my daily gratitude practice becoming a core part of how I engage with Step 11. I'm grateful for reflecting on the ways humility is tied to gratitude. I'm grateful for Harper keeping me disciplined around my routines. I'm grateful for feeling incredibly satisfied with all that I have today and not finding old instincts for 'more' or 'better' seeping into my psyche as much. I'm grateful for more readily accepting life's myriad of beautiful imperfections.
TFLMS Weekend: Where Sobriety Isn’t Just a Consequence…
(last weekend)
SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
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