Steadwell

Grateful for sobriety today, Dieter and to visit with my good bud from Hawaii whom I hadn't seen in close to 30 years.

Steve

Rusty Zipper

hope you had a great time with the old bud steve

Steadwell

Grateful for Dieter, RZ, Sneezy and my many, many other followers - both of 'em.

Okay, Grateful for all y'all!

Steve

Sneezy

And grateful for that very useful phrase "all y'all"

Steadwell

Spent half of my life (a half of a century) in Texas, some of it rubbed-off on me - I reck'n.

Grateful today for many things!

Steve

Sneezy

I use it all the time, Steve - nothing means quite the same thing!

Steadwell

Grateful for the beautiful weather the last couple of days!

Steve

Steadwell

The beautiful weather changed today, at about 4:27 pm. It was autumn this morning, now its winter.

Oh well, I am grateful for making it to a new meeting group where I found a great comfort level. I realized that one of the key members of the group is a long-time friend of the family and we had lunch afterwards, his treat.

Perhaps I've found my sponsor?

Steve

Steadwell

Went to a meeting this afternoon and intend to go to another tomorrow. I'm grateful for the groups we have around here, though there aren't as many as there used to be. There aren't as many people around here as there used to be either, I guess that would explain it.

Steve

Rusty Zipper

did you find a sponce steve?

Steadwell

Hey guys! I got a ride to the meeting with a prospective sponsor, the guy I mentioned in a previous post, though I didn't feel it was quite the right time to ask him - yet.

I went to a different group tonight, my home group which meets every Saturday evening. When I say home, it is right across the street, so that's about as home as it can get unless it were conducted right here in the house.

I am grateful for having an enormous amount of supportive resources nearby!

Thanks for your concern!
Steve

PS - Rusty, I like the avatar, it's very appropriate for this time of year!

Steadwell

Grateful that I scored my own "Big Book" at the meeting last night!

I've had 2 copies over the last 28 years (the first when I was 24 from my initial experience with AA at the Aquarius group in Dallas) which got lost somewhere down the line, just like everything else, tangible and intangible, up to and including my sanity at times. But this one will be like my sword "Bible" and will be with me at meetings and on my bedstand next to me every night. It will be a working copy with notes scribbled in the margins, phone numbers in the back and all.

And when it's my time to graduate to the next realm, I want that "Big Book" near me and looking at least as worn and used as I will when that time comes.

Steve

Rusty Zipper

here's my old clunker steve'o

and it's worse since that shot was taken,

there are so many notes in it,

one canardly read the pages!



it's on third generation duct tape

Steadwell

Grateful in more ways than I can count.






Well, there's 2 of 'em anyway.

Steve

Sneezy

Hi Steve, Hi Dieter (what a gorgeous kitty he is, Steve)

Hey - I think you need to baptize that book with a little duct tape

Rusty Zipper

lol sneeze!

Steadwell

Grateful for the lead at our last open-speaker meeting. His story told of how he grew up in a practicing family of bar owners and that he had never known any other life-style except that of drinking, smoking, gambling and carousing, ever even existed until he was in his mid-twenties. Now in his mid-fifties, he's been in "recovery" ever since.

My question is, how can a person be in "recovery" when they had never known "covery" to begin with?

I know, "recovery" is a term for ongoing sobriety, but I thought I would mention the irony of it in this case.

It was an enlightening talk, but I had a gut feeling that it was "canned", especially when talking to him afterwards. Oh, and the guy is a licensed counselor now.

It's all good!

Steve

Rusty Zipper

for me steve'o

i wouldn't cap on the sematics of it.

instead, just say stored to sanity! lol

Steadwell

Last night's open speaker meeting featured, no speaker. There was a different chair-person (her first time) who handled things very smoothly. Being that it was an "open" meeting, there were some nursing students and alanon attendees and when we all voted to open up for general discussion, about 2 minutes of complete silence (it seemed like 20) followed. Then some of the regulars, who never stay quiet for too long, started up and we eventually ran over our allotted time. It turned out to be one of the most rewarding Saturday meetings (my staple group) that I've ever experienced there.

Grateful for our Saturday "open speaker" meeting group.

Steadwell

Grateful for another day of wellness! Being that this is my first visit in a while, I hope all of mi comprades at SR are well as well.