[barb dwyer]

Hi {{{ jimhere }}}

I want you to know - I actually THOUGHT about you during that meeting ... LOL

Like I said - I'm not sure what I actually witnessed that night - I only know it was amazing. And HP was in the driver's seat. I know that much without doubt.

The coolest part, for me - was being a part of a forty-something silent 'group conscience' ... I mean, forty something people just looked at each other, and things were turned over to the oldtimers present, who did most of the sharing. Everything was 'overlaid' with alcohol, if that makes any sense. Compared with, but more 'overlaid' ... I apologize for not being able to better articulate what happened.

Well, I know what happened …
Spirit took over and reached out to help that man … that’s what happened.

I don't know enough about the official groups structural stuff to know if it's one of those meetings you talked about. I DO know, it's a meeting that the community most responds to ... maybe it's why it's evolved into what it has become - I surely don't know.

When the meeting was over, he was surrounded by the oldtimers, so I tend to think they were doing exactly what you wrote about - finding him someplace where more of his own problem is the focus and all that.

There are lots of meetings in town, all day long every day ... open, closed, men, women, book only, step only, oldtimer, all that. There's several that I go to during the week. They're different ... and I've tried to incorporate them into my routine as well. I like the different energies at the different groups. That's why i'm trying to get a group together to 'road trip' ... many of these more rural AA's don't get much traffic, and we all know how the newcomers are the ones who keep things lively. It's a plan for the spring and summer, of course ...