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[Sunlight81]

I love it, can I steal it?

By way of introduction, My home group is the Easy Does It Riders. We are an AA group not a club. We go by the traditions. Members of three clubs attend our meeting. We do a lot of family activities. We have a fishing contingency and a golfing one. We meet in Lemon Grove, CA at 7am on Sunday mornings. You're all invited.

[BillJ]

Welcome aboard! Got pics of you and/or your bike?

Probably won't be visiting anytime soon, but thanks for the invite! Back atcha if you're ever down Tejas way.

[Rarly Harley]

Welcome Sunlight. I've got an Easy Does It patch on a vest also. A Club was formed here in the Soo in the early 80's. When I moved back home in 1993, the club had disbanded. I got permission to try and resurrect a chapter and put the patch on my back, but no takers. There is one surviving sober member from the original group, but the rest went back out. Too bad....Glad you are here. Keep posting....

[The_Hammer]

Looks like we got yet another fellowship of sober and clean bikers forming, huh Rar?

[toad]

Welcome Sunlight81, we have an "Easy Does It" AA group in Mansfield Mo.

The first time I heard "I love you and there's not a damn thing you can do about it," was at a meeting I attend in Fordland Mo., at the State Prison. This one inmate named Danny, who had been in AA for years prior to his last relapse and imprisonment; he would always speak and quote from the Big Book which he had memorized by page and paragraph. At the end of his talk he would tell the group (up to 160 guys) his "I love you" speech..................Danny got out of prison, and we have not heard from him. He is from a town not too far from me, and he is not going to meetings......I doubt if he would mind you using ILYATNADTYCDAI......One thing I learned from Danny was that it takes more than having the Big Book memorized to stay sober..........toad

[TonyB]

Welcome to our little piece of the pie....

[best]

Welcome.
We still have space at the curb and the coffee is always hot.

Sit a bit and share a little.

[swmnkdinthervr]

Welcome Sunlight...

[Sunlight81]

The Easy Does It Riders had it's 30th anniv Mother's Day '07.
I don't see how to add a pic. I changed my avatar temporarily.

[BillJ]

I opened a free account at Webshots. I upload my pics there, and then use [img]Picture URL[/img] to post 'em here.

[best]

ImageShack® is another one that can be used as well.

Same thing...[ IMG] ..... [ /IMG]

[Sunlight81]

[toad]

Very nice Ultra..........Rarly has a Classic the same color.



Share this with me please, it is not pointed at anyone, just something I came across this afternoon.......toad

"You worry a lot about your past defects. Don't, please, thrash around too long in guilt. Learn what you can from past negative experiences, and move on. Guilt is insidious and counterproductive. You are a perfect child of God. It shines through in your sobriety. I see it, and so do others. Make yourself see it. . . No need to feel guilt; simply get rid of the thing you feel guilty about. A wonderful way to do this is to reverse your shortcomings by reaching out to another drunk. It works."

The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 1], p. 86.

[Sunlight81]

Thanks for the quote.
I'll share this.
When I was out there, feelings were a liability. My goal was to stay numb and I was good at it for a long time. I'm a graduate of the John Wayne school of feelings. Life's a party, 'till someone ticks you off, then you get angry and break something and go back to partyin'. Angry and high, what a cocktail! To have feelings was to be vulnerable. That meant people could get to you. And if they could get to you, they never left you alone.
In navy rehab they wanted me to have a feeling. I couldn't do it. The best I could do was say, I didn't like you bothering me to have a feeling, yesterday. They said, that's good, now, try having a feeling today.
They invited me to look behind my anger. They suggested that behind my anger might be fear or hurt. I invited them to have a romantic evening with themselves.
It's been a long journey.
It turns out that my willingness to feel is the doorway to peace and love.
When I got here, I was a piece of crap because I had done piece of crap things and I knew that was the way the world judged a man.
I found out that I was the son of a loving God, who had done piece of crap things. That I no longer had to do those things and there was a way to make it right.
Guilt is a feeling that I have done something wrong.
Appropriate, if I just made my wife cry.
Inappropriate, if I can't look in the mirror for something I did 10 years ago.
Shame is a feeling that there is something wrong with me.
Appropriate, if I feel a sense of limitation, humility.
Inappropriate, if I feel unworthy or unlovable.
That's what the 12 Steps are for, and yes, that's what therapy is for.

[Jazzed_N_AZ]

Originally Posted by toad

..... got out of prison, and we have not heard from him

....and he is not going to meetings

....it takes more than having the Big Book memorized to stay sober..........toad

For me, knowledge of the program just made my using a little more like "insanity in action" and I knew it.

I still used though.