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Self-righteous anger

March 24, 2012

Around the clubhouse lately, there seems to be something in the air, and it isn’t spring! I don’t know what it is, or if it’s always been there and I just haven’t noticed. I’m talking about gossip! The 12×12 says in the chapter about Step 6: “Self-righteous anger also can be very enjoyable. In a [...]

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Sharing…

February 12, 2012

I was on Facebook the other day, and found out that my sister-in-law was complaining about my brother’s drinking on a public forum. I got a little self righteous and angry, and typed out a scathing response about airing dirty laundry out in public, and just before I hit send, my rational side said NOT [...]

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A stray day

January 28, 2012

Toward the end of my drinking, it was pretty much round-the-clock — for breakfast it was shots of whatever left-over rot-gut scotch I had lying around from the night before (had to get some kind of booze in me if I wanted to even think about food staying down), and then had to grab a [...]

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Miracle

January 18, 2012

When I was new to the program, I heard a word I didn’t know the definition of. The word was perdition. As the fog began to clear my, sponsor recommended I look it up, and when I read its meaning I knew it accurately described my state of being – perdition means complete spiritual bankruptcy. [...]

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