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Sat, Apr 15, 2023 11:41:11 AM


🤞 honesty 🤞
posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2023 11:41:11 AM

 

has become second nature to me, over the minute that i have been clean. i was a terrible bald-faced liar, but i was quite skilled at manipulation and telling just enough of the truth to get someone to believe what i wanted them to believe. living a lie for decades on end taught me to be circumspect about what was going on and that behavior did not stop once i got clean, in fact, it got even worse for the first five =years of my recovery journey. starting with picking the last day i mused as my clean date, because i was given the choice to do so.

Denise W.
Thirty-four (XXXIV) years clean!
Keep coming BACK.
Greg C.
Congrats on FIVE (V) years clean.

this morning as i sit here i feel as if i should be sad and morose on this the second anniversary of my Dad's death, and yet all i feel is a bit numb and a bit down. i know that having an expectations of what i “should” be feeling is only ammunition to blow myself up and today i am not willing to go there. i will just be present for what is happening in my life, and move on.
not a whole lot of anything else still shaking in my life today. i have an obligation to go fulfill to the HOA. i have some chicken wings to get and consume. i have a book to finish and i am sure more than one episode of something to binge on, later this afternoon. i know that i am okay and living the best life that i can and on that note, i will wrap this up with the thought that i am grateful i can be a part of the land of the living, just for today.

∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ 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) It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this disease
that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease. He knows
the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he does
not have it.