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๐ŸŽ i got clean ๐ŸŽ

Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2025 10:51:08 AM

because someone else worked Step Twelve. i am no stranger to chaos and conflict in the fellowship. i often forget that clean times does not equal recovery, or always knowing what the next right thing to do is. coming to term with that has meant that i do not offer unsolicited advice nor do i attempt to make my shadow bigger or grander than anyone else in the room. humility, as log in coming to me, as i lived a life trapped in a fantasy world of always being right about every fucking thing.
as i get to my third and final day of creating my political fantasy AI image. i have found that it has been a fun distraction and it is time to let it go and get back to taking care of bringing home some bacon. life does not stop, just because i want to take a vacation from it. the past few days remind me of what it was like to live in obsession and compulsion. as interesting as it has been, i am starting to feel it working me over and it is more than time to let it go and return to real life.
i really am okay today and as this day grinds on, i will pay more attention to what i am being told, what i feel and how i am handling stuff. it is a good day to be clean. it is a better day to remember who and what i am, an addict in recovery, doing hi best to be a better person that i was yesterday.

∞ 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) He (who knows it) will keep his mouth shut and close the portals
(of his nostrils). He will blunt his sharp points and unravel the
complications of things; he will attemper his brightness, and bring
himself into agreement with the obscurity (of others). This is called
'the Mysterious Agreement.'