Gratitude List with No Historical Figures

• An appointment with a career counselor today
• I get to go to two meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous today
• Dinner with the women before Happy, Joyous and Free
• This weekend I get to camp with the cub scouts
• A most excellent night of sleep
• I remembered to pray this morning
• The third step prayer
• I get to serve today

  ¶ 5/31/2007 05:15:00 AM 5 comments

  Lucrezia Borgia and Gratitude

• Another day
• Hope
• Friends
• A kick-ass God

Today's shout out is to Lucrezia Borgia the infamous daughter of Pope Alexander VI.

  ¶ 5/30/2007 02:20:00 AM 6 comments

  Ulysses S. Grant and Gratitude

Today's shout out is to Galena Illinois leather shop clerk and United States President Ulysses S. Grant.

• A clear dry morning
• My allergies are good(partially due to the clear dry morning)
• S celebrated ten months of sobriety yesterday
• Yesterday's A.A. picnic was the best one yet
• Sam
• Chuck

  ¶ 5/29/2007 06:55:00 AM 4 comments

  Gratitude List

• An awesome weekend
• Rye Playland
• Abundance
• Dinner last night
• Today's A.A. picnic

  ¶ 5/28/2007 05:58:00 PM 3 comments

  Gratitude List & Pola Negri I would like to give a shout out to silent film star Pola Negri

• Today's road trip
• Another awesome right of restful sleep
• Good health
• A love of history
• And of course, my old buddy God

  ¶ 5/26/2007 06:12:00 AM 7 comments

  Gratitude List

• Last night's meeting


• How I treat others and how I treat myself matters


• Sam had no cavities at the dentist yesterday


• The confidence that comes with having God in my life

  ¶ 5/25/2007 05:01:00 AM 8 comments

  Gratitude List

• I got to be of service to two fellow Alcoholics before noon today
• Wednesday morning step meeting
• Laughter
• That priceless feeling of well being

  ¶ 5/23/2007 11:39:00 AM 6 comments

  So Much for Anonymity Just when you thought it was safe to go to a meeting, a database calling itself NNDB has complied a list of famous members of Alcholics Anonymous. Lucky for me, I am not on it.   ¶ 5/22/2007 06:31:00 PM 8 comments

  A Multitude of Things Where do I start? My mother drives me nuts! I know your mother drives you nuts too.

Yesterday, I got this chatty four page letter from her in which she casually mentioned that my 86 year old father is now in hospice care. The problem is that I do not know how to react to that. I have no idea if it true.

I don’t know why it is true or not because for as long as I can remember, my mother has been dying. I remember coming home from elementary school and her telling me that she was not going to live that much longer. She told me that she had some disease that she was not going to tell her doctor about because she wanted to die anyway. I remember her calling me in college (in the late 1980’s) to tell me that she probably only had a short time left. Why was she dying? “Oh a multitude of things,” she would say.

For the past ten or twelve years I would occasionally get the “your father is dying” call. Why was my father dying? Again she would say it was a multitude of things. Then I would rush home to find my father essentially unchanged from the last visit.


Is my father getting hospice care? Maybe? Will my mother tell me the truth? You got me.

Today I am grateful for:

• Alcoholics Anonymous
• I have been mothered by a number of wonderful women in the program
• My life today

  ¶ 5/22/2007 04:14:00 AM 7 comments

  Gratitude List

• Connection with God, my higher power
• Prayer
• Another kick-ass night of slumber
• Summer vacation is almost here
• Last night's 9th step meeting

  ¶ 5/21/2007 05:05:00 AM 5 comments

  Gratitude List

• An unexpected E-mail from a sponsee
• Yet another good nights sleep
• New Blogger
• A God who totally "gets me"
• Wonderful strong A.A. women to share my life with
• People who make me laugh
• Getting to see my son in the Shad Derby Parade yesterday

  ¶ 5/20/2007 06:13:00 AM 4 comments

 

• I can step back from insanity
• I can apologize
• I can start my day over at any time
• My worst fears were not realized, I did not turn into my mother afterall
• I am fuzzy

  ¶ 5/19/2007 08:01:00 AM 4 comments

  Gratitude List

• No more Cub Scout pack meetings until September
• An easy day at work
• The fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
• Last nights women's sex meeting(we read pages 68-71 of the Big Book)
• The longer I am in the program the less I care about the opinions of others
• I like me
• O.K. so maybe I am pandering for hits with the sex meeting thing(-:

  ¶ 5/18/2007 07:58:00 PM 9 comments

  Gratitude List

• I get to go the my home group(Women's Thursday Big Book meeting) tonight
• I get to have dinner with the women before hand
• God loved me long before I could love myself
• I am blessed in way too numerous to mention
• Sam is going to camp this summer

  ¶ 5/17/2007 04:57:00 AM 8 comments

  Gratitude List I promised myself that I would write a gratitude list every day for the next 21 days. So here goes:

• Another night of excellent sleep
• My allergies are barely noticeable today
• A new $50 gift card
• A fully planted garden
• My sponsees and what I learn from them
• The opportunity to work a short day today(and still get paid for a whole day)
• The opposite of dread(whatever you call that)
• A beautiful spring in New England

  ¶ 5/16/2007 05:50:00 AM 10 comments

  Gratitude List

• Sunshine
• God's blessings
• The Shad Derby
• Peace of mind
• Self Confidence
• The love of a good man
• My sponsees
• Ruth J (not one of us but, cool just the same)

  ¶ 5/15/2007 06:07:00 PM 3 comments

  Gratitude List

• A peaceful evening
• A clear head
• Reading with Sam
• Sam's new game
• Two cars that run(one of them even runs well)
• Serenity

  ¶ 5/15/2007 12:00:00 AM 5 comments

  Gratitude List

• Another excellent night's sleep
• My allergies are manageable right now
• It's not about me
• I get to serve others
• I get to ask for God's "protection and care with complete abandon"
• I get to depend on God today
• My lettuce seems to have survived the frost scare

  ¶ 5/14/2007 05:14:00 AM 6 comments

  Saving Our Souls "I came to A.A. to save my ass and I found out that my soul was attached to it." Anonymous  ¶ 5/11/2007 08:06:00 AM 14 comments

  Sam Sam could use your prayers again.  ¶ 5/09/2007 05:30:00 PM 14 comments

  Gratitude List

• Several nights of excellent sleep in a row
• A chance at a viable new career
• Tuesday morning's kick ass meeting on Alcoholics Anonymous
• Wonderful A.A. women
• Spring
• Sun
• New growth
• An awesome house(it is really God's but he lets us live here)
• Love

  ¶ 5/08/2007 09:51:00 PM 8 comments

  Alcoholics Anonymous is a Dangerous Cult A few days ago, Vicarious Rising linked to a Newsweek article about a rouge Washington D.C. based group of Alcoholics Anonymous. It seems the group has abandoned many of the teaching of A.A. in favor of their own potentially harmful ideas. The bad publicity has of course energized many of the A.A. is a dangerous cult folks, God bless them.

Today all I know, or for that matter care about is that Alcoholics Anonymous works for me. I resigned from the debating society long ago.  ¶ 5/06/2007 06:32:00 AM 32 comments

  Gratitude List

• A clear head
• A loving God
• A healthy boy
• A husband who takes care of himself
• A new day

  ¶ 5/05/2007 08:01:00 AM 7 comments

  Gratitude List

• The Third Step Prayer
• I can start my day over at anytime
• I planted marigolds yesterday
• I will always have The Program
• Manure that helps things grow
• With all the chaos swirling around me right now, none of it is mine

  ¶ 5/03/2007 01:04:00 AM 7 comments

  My Totally Crappy Day I had a totally crappy day today. Then I got home and I found out that two of my sponsees are in crisis. I got so involved in trying to help both of them that I forgot all about my totally crappy day.  ¶ 5/02/2007 02:58:00 PM 11 comments

  Gratitude List

• Sam seems to be in a better place than he was a month ago
• I have a new area of interest to explore
• Spring has finally come to New England
• I feel good physically

  ¶ 5/01/2007 02:29:00 AM 9 comments