ChloeRose63

Signing in for 24 more at3:00pm

bluedutch

24 more. 1:39pm

AlcoholFree66

Tuesday 6.30 am - slept in so running late for work! Committing to another 24 hours of sobriety.

aussieblue

24 more please

8.10 am in Auss.

Hevyn

Thankful for a clear-headed Monday here in New York at 6:17pm. Please may I have another 24.

VikingGF

Happy Double Cheeseburger Day! While I'll pass on the burger (working on getting all healthy these days) I will take another 24.

Dee- you look so different, I didn't recognize you! Love the new look.

Kaneda8888

Another 24 hours of hope, inspiration and sobriety pls ! Its 9:14am here !

Jeremiah2911

Day 5 and I want another 24 hours. REALLY having a hard time hanging in there tonight. You all help so much! 7:31 in the midwest US

Bubovski

Yes, I'l lhave 24!



"That I exist is a perpetual surprise, that is Life" Rabindranath Tagore.

Zencat

Me Too 24!

charleesavedme

I forgot to check in earlier. We're having an ice cream crisis tonight...someone is eating my daughter's mint chocolate chip. As long as the ice cream thief leaves my chocolate peanut butter cup alone, things will be okay.

Take care, everyone.

biminiblue

Viking, too funny that it is cheeseburger day...I think Courage is going to use cow as the animal of the day...




appropriate or ironic?

courage2

Good evening, friends!

Welcome to GentleSoul & unitedguy! Whoever you are, whether you’re new to SR, new to this thread, or just coming back, we’re glad you’re here today!

Congratulations to HeartsAfire on 1 month by the calendar and to all, for today!

Here’s a special shout-out: Today marks 100 days on which I’ve kept a list of people posting to this thread. There are a couple of small gaps in the list, when I was away or just lost the record somehow. But I’d like to note that for every single day I have a list recorded, 100 days, three names appear on it: 1NewCreation, Gilmer, and grtgrandpa! Thank you 3 for showing me the way to show up!

And thanks to everyone – whether you missed 100 by only an odd day or two or you’ve been 100% consistent since you started, or you’ve shown up time and time again despite obstacles and setbacks – if you’re here now, that’s the most important thing! Here’s the list of those who’ve made part of their commitment to sobriety include posting on this thread from about 8:30 p.m. Eastern time September 14 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern time September 15:

1newcreation
afloatsober
airwick
AlcoholFree66
altoids
Alynn
Alysheba
ANewDayNYC
ardy
aussieblue
BarbieKen
Beanie25
biminiblue
bluedutch
Bubovski
BuddinK
calico
casinva
charleesavedme
ChloeRose63
Chrissy2014
Coldfusion
courage2
DancingDiva
DaneK
Dee74
domedou
erfra7
Findingtheway
Flynbuy
ForMeForThem
gameofthrones10
GentleSoul
Gilmer
Goat
Grateful11
grtgrandpa
Halfvictory
HeartsAfire
Hevyn
j808
Jeremiah2911
jsm273
Kaneda8888
Kiya
Kris47
least
Mags1
Marcher13
martina12
michaels_w
Panacea
rachelle77
sickofthiscrap
Sky2012
SnowDawg
sobernfree81
sthlondonab
tgirl
tootsl1
unitedguy
VikingGF
yukonm
Zencat

Last entry for spirit or recovery animals: the cow. No one here asked for the cow, but I post on the cow because I’m very fond of a cow-person on SR tho not on this thread (so far), and I lived in India for a year, where it can hardly help rubbing off on a person to look at the cow as a sacred animal. Hindus venerate the cow through gho pooja and especially on holidays like Pongal and Divali.



The cow is the mother animal. The comfort animal. The breast that’s the source of only goodness and no gall. As children we long for her, reach for her, cry for her, and eventually we begin to learn that what we crave & perceive as the source of everything that nurtures us can also hurt us and reject us. So we don’t worship our mothers, but we always keep that longing, don’t we? And the cow embodies that longing, that adoration of the nurturing mother who can never really exist in the world we inhabit.



For images and quotes from the Vedas about cows and the god Krishna, the divine keeper of cows, see this website: Glories of Mother Cow (Vedic Quotes) | Save the Cow. Here’s one Vedic verse: “When Lord Krishna plays the flute, the surabhi cows become completely enchanted. The cows then make many great rivers of fragrant milk flow from the great mountains of their udders, rivers that join to become an ocean, an ocean of milk like a great moat surrounding Goloka on all sides. These cows are kamadhenu cows, cows that fulfill all desires, for from them flows an ocean of milk.”



I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in the next 24 hours!

Grateful11

Thanks Courage2!

I am in for another 24. 8:33pm CST.

BarbieKen

HeartsAFire congrats on 30 days! Courage, thank you for writing about the cow,in particular the sacred cow. I'm looking forward to what you will be sharing with us tomorrow. I'm signing in for the next 24 hours of my recovery, thanks to my HP & AA.
. Bobbi

VikingGF

Oh, gosh, the comfort animal was the food of the day! You were right, biminiblue. Poor cow.

biminiblue

I'm pretty sad that that is the end of the Spirit Animal tradition.


I liked it. I like animals more than I like people.

Today I saw wild porpoises. It's always a good day whenever that happens.


Disclaimer - **Warning** the next paragraph is about an injured animal - skip it if it will bother you...








Disturbingly, I saw an injured bird - and couldn't figure out what if anything to do about it - it was in a state park, far from help, and it was a large seagull that could have hurt me if I tried to capture it, so I didn't. I still feel bad. I prayed for it to have a painless death. Sorry...it's been bothering me and I feel like I should have done more, but didn't know what...it's going to die a death of starvation, more than likely. Hoping someone feeds it or captures it. ugh.

Well...there were porpoises. I didn't drink. *sigh*

michaels_w

Mojave time, 7:30pm.

That is so much our house, csm. lol. "Ice cream crisis", oh nooo. Guess who gets the blame for being the culprit, in our house. I won't say, but the initials MW, will suffice.

I'm in for another 24, please?

May we all keep joy and serenity, on our hearts.

peace.

courage2

Don't be sad, bimini -- you can revive it whenever you want just by posting on your own animal yourself or if you prefer, you can suggest one to me. In fact you (or anyone) can PM me to suggest just about any idea you'd like me to post on -- but I might find some topics hard. And on my own idea list, I have lots more animals planned -- you'll see.

Just a reminder that I don't have a monopoly on wordy posts on this thread you know -- it's free territory here for anyone to post their animals, personal stories, places, inspirations. That's the way it's set up.

biminiblue

Courage, I really enjoyed it! I guess I could be grateful for how much joy it brought me.

So, I am grateful.

I already chat too much around here - have you seen my post count in six months? Yeah, don't encourage me