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๐ŸŒซ terribly flawed ๐ŸŒซ

Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2021 07:42:14 AM

this morning what i was struck by was the irony of my admission of believing i was broken was the number of times i said to a sponsee, friend or peer, that were certainly NOT broken and that lie was keeping them from moving forward. man oh man, was that a slap in the face, this morning. i am sure part of my denial about what the real lie for me, was to assuage my fragile self-image. i was “better” than the average bear, if i never owned my belief that i was broken for a very, very, very long time. i am truly amazed how long i held on to the lie that was keeping me from moving forward.
moving forward this morning, i have two feet or so of heavy wet snow to rearrange and plenty of time to chill today, as my car will not make it down my alley-way. it is nice though, to be able to stay clean for long enough that i GET to see others achieve “long-term” recovery:

Larry Q.
SEVEN (7) years clean!
Keep coming and being a 'part of' my recovery


i really at am a loss for words today. grateful that they found something wrong with my Dad in the hospital. sad that he threw an abscess and needed to go in the middle of the night, by ambulance at the start of a historic snowstorm. hopefully there will be enough traffic up and down my ally this morning, to let me get out of the house, later this afternoon, so i can go visit him. the time has come, however for round one of snow removal, or better put snow re-arrangement. it is a good day to be clean and even if i am stuck in my house, i have enough to do to keep me busy.

∞ DT ∞


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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 2

2) How do I know that it is so? By these facts:--In the kingdom the
multiplication of prohibitive enactments increases the poverty of
the people; the more implements to add to their profit that the people
have, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan; the more
acts of crafty dexterity that men possess, the more do strange contrivances
appear; the more display there is of legislation, the more thieves
and robbers there are.