Happy New Year!
Thanks Anna! Happy New Year to you as well ~ and to the whole SR family! 
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, Anna and all!!
the second half of 2018 was super-overwhelming for me; renovating a house, selling a house, moving houses, writing two major grants, launching a business, launching a volunteer program to teach kids about computer science, being Daddy to my four children (one a toddler now), being a husband to my incredible wife, holding down a demanding career, running for re-election on my local school board...... it burned me out more than a little and left me no time for being present here.
I miss you all and in 2019 hope to spend more time here again. I've found the holiday period - during which I stayed mostly at home and spent time with family - to be insightful. I've seen the toll that all the giving of myself has taken. I now have to take steps to minimize my commitments.
Perhaps one of the pitfalls of a sober life with an addictive personality is the tendency to fill ourselves up with too much of something overflowing into other areas of life.
While all the efforts I put forth were in service and in the direction of goodness - they also came with unsustainable personal sacrifice.
I hope in 2019 to work my 'program' toward balance. I'm sober - yet I have work to do in striking balance. Perhaps that is a life-long endeavor.
In any case, I miss you all, I hope to be here more (yet also in balance) and I wish you ALL a sober 2019.
the second half of 2018 was super-overwhelming for me; renovating a house, selling a house, moving houses, writing two major grants, launching a business, launching a volunteer program to teach kids about computer science, being Daddy to my four children (one a toddler now), being a husband to my incredible wife, holding down a demanding career, running for re-election on my local school board...... it burned me out more than a little and left me no time for being present here.
I miss you all and in 2019 hope to spend more time here again. I've found the holiday period - during which I stayed mostly at home and spent time with family - to be insightful. I've seen the toll that all the giving of myself has taken. I now have to take steps to minimize my commitments.
Perhaps one of the pitfalls of a sober life with an addictive personality is the tendency to fill ourselves up with too much of something overflowing into other areas of life.
While all the efforts I put forth were in service and in the direction of goodness - they also came with unsustainable personal sacrifice.
I hope in 2019 to work my 'program' toward balance. I'm sober - yet I have work to do in striking balance. Perhaps that is a life-long endeavor.
In any case, I miss you all, I hope to be here more (yet also in balance) and I wish you ALL a sober 2019.
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