failure | failure
May.05.2013
Last weekend, I tried to write "The Torch Bearer." Tried, as in formatted and reformatted the original version countless times over the course of several hours, using two different word processing programs. Each time I previewed the copy I'd pasted to my Redroom page, all my...
|
Feb.16.2013
If you are not a failure by your own standards, you haven't set them high enough.
|
Dec.31.2012
December 31
FAILED SOUP AND DISTRUST OF BURGUNDY
What keeps me coming back to meetings and step work is an abiding mistrust of booze. Despite promises and advertisement, hopes and folklore, I couldn’t rely on drinking to take me where I wanted to go and I...
|
Nov.08.2012
Sheldon Adelson lost at least $54 million betting Mitt Romney would win the 2012 presidential post. Over a billion dollar's-worth of similar bets were placed. I'm pleased over it, but not because I take joy in other people's misfortune. What I'm feeling is a profound sense that justice...
|
Oct.01.2012
I finished my coffee and reflected a bit after posting 'The Writing Month'.
I'm down on myself a great deal because I have high expectations for myself. Ditto, I'm down on life and others because I have hope and faith that we'll all be better people than we let ourselves.
But in...
|
Jul.27.2012
Step 8 in our TAKE ACTION plan is about sharing our successes…and our fails. Even our epic fails.
Some of you might have seen me post on Facebook today that I pulled out a box of clothes from the closet and found that I can now fit into two pairs of jeans and about ten skirts that I haven’t...
|
Jul.13.2012
In the movies, I’m at my dying aunt’s bedside, a band of loving cousins surrounding me. I’m singing a song she used to sing with my mother and other aunts and uncles a long, long time ago. When they’d sit around the kitchen table, harmonizing, laughing and simply embracing life. And I,...
|
Jun.04.2012
The good news is that I've failed at just about everything, especially the important stuff: relationships, parenting, writing, teaching. You name it, and I've screwed it up. Cutting of contact with people for years, making enormously bad decisions for my sons at regular and predictable ...
|
Dec.08.2011
Someone said, “No one ends up where they aim…not even God.”
Really? Not even God? Surely, this person was not suggesting that God sometimes fails?
Yes, come to think of it, I suspect God does. From the beginning, didn’t creation become one colossal failure? And, centuries later, Jesus...
|
