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Posted: Sun, Jul 14, 2019 01:29:33 PM

just by removing the drugs, certainly was part of my early recovery. in fact i **felt** that i looked **normal** enough to set out on self-will and end up in places that were risky to my recovery process. ah, but that is a story i have told before and does not need to be repeated today. what i learned in that little trip of being “normal␅ was that i am till an addict and although sheer willpower kept me clean that night, i lack the strength to fight that battle for any length of time, so i accept the means of recovery that is at my disposal. that being said:

Wayne,
another trip around the sun, CLEAN!
Fifteen (15) years of JFT!
Congrats my friend, keep coming back and coming back clean.


today, as i write this little ditty, i am waiting for AAA to come look at my partner's car, to see why it will not start. whether or not i will make the meeting to help congratulate my peer on his achievement or not, has yet to be revealed. i am on-call and making that meeting will require that i have a car, so if the pager goes off i can rush home to deal with it. i am certainly willing to allow the love of my life, borrow my car and if it is something more than a bad battery, then that will be what i do, as her car will need to be towed to the shop to be taken car of in the morning. all the trappings of a normal life! as the AAA battery technician will be here any minute, i think i will wrap this up and say i may be socially acceptable today, but i am still an addict, every day.

∞ DT ∞


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🏁 a benefit of recovery. 🏁
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🚀 enjoying the benefits 🚿
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✺ lasting recovery ✺
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∫ enjoying the benefits ∫
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¾ acceptance from others and society is nice, ¾
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⁄ i know that looking good is NOT enough ⁄
266 words ➥ Saturday, July 14, 2012 by donnot
¿ looking normal is very different from being normal ¿
971 words ➥ Thursday, July 14, 2011 by donnot
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602 words ➥ Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by donnot
δ my life starts to look normal -- just by removing the drugs δ
622 words ➥ Tuesday, July 14, 2009 by donnot
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380 words ➥ Monday, July 14, 2008 by donnot
δ acceptability in the eyes of the world is a benefit of recovery; δ
542 words ➥ Saturday, July 14, 2007 by donnot
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α it is not how i look α
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looking good
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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 1

1) It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry
it when it is full. If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened,
the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.