November 6

PICK ME SIX NUMBERS

Knowing all the page numbers and quotes out of the big book, but not being able to apply them, is like knowing all the winning lottery numbers with the inability to buy a ticket.  Telling my story has little or nothing to do with public speaking.  Recovery has so much more to do with willingness than studiousness.  Popularity contests, policing meetings and service politics is a circus I have attended far too often.  Empty rooms sporting great curtains do not a home make.  Comprehension is no substitute for acquiescence.

Stock your mental stream so there is something to catch.

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Uggs

This is a big hurdle until it becomes a little step.

I will struggle with it as long as it takes

for me to see it as something I can conquer

a bit at a time, then, often as if by magic,

it will melt into curbside snow

and I can slosh through it in my boots.

I am vanquishing obstacles,

which seemed insurmountable mere months ago.

I am not so much stronger than I was,

but I have stopped feeding the weakness in my mind

and this has made all the difference.