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Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 06:55:53 AM

leave the basics, i never have to get back to them. truer words were never uttered, and the basics here is what got me clean in the first place, plus a few more little tricks of the trade i picked up along the way. here is where i start to rationalize what i do on a daily basis is the same as i have ever done. the fact is, i do not go to a meeting every day, i do not do twenty minutes of step work a day, i do not beseech the POWER that fuels my recovery in prayer, whenever stuff gets tough and i do not live every moment in spiritual principles. i do, however, have a program of daily recovery, a recovery ritual, if you will, that started way back before i was actually any sort of committed to a program of recovery, that probably pushed me over the edge, when push came to shove and my desperation was greater than my denial.
as i consider what has occurred over the past year and especially over the past few months, physically, emotionally and certainly spiritually in my life, i can observe that the changes i have the desire to manifest, are being manifest in my life. when i got on the scale yesterday, before my procedure, i was seven pound lighter than the last time i was on the scale a few months ago. i have done the reading for my step work and am letting that sink in, before i start my writing assignment. this morning, i have to step up my training a tad bit and have decided to do so in the gym, rather than on the streets. emotionally, i actually feel like working for my paycheck today, after feeling meh about work for the past ten days. that brief inventory is more than indicative enough that i am at least doing the bare minimum to stay healthy and perhaps i could step it up a bit more. it also demonstrated that i am doing better than just getting by.
as i get to the end of what is on my mind, i have a bit of hope that things will not be as bad as i think they may be. all around me i am starting to see the signs of a huge amount of anger, awakening and starting to cry out. no, it is not the snowflake Cybertruck owners, whining about being persecuted, it is the rank and file citizenship that is starting to regret their votes as their man makes their live less desirable than they were before he came to power. how that plays out and if it will be enough, is yet to be seen, after all the fascists know the playbook to keep the masses in check. i just have to do my best to let go and do my part, just for today. ฏ\_(?)_/ฏ

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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

2) When harmony no longer prevailed throughout the six kinships, filial
sons found their manifestation; when the states and clans fell into
disorder, loyal ministers appeared.