The Shaming Cycle

I watched a documentary called “All the Queens Horses”  about a lady named Rita Crundwell who was a city comptroller in the small town of Dixon Illinois. Rita lived alone and kept to herself.  No one thought too much about it because she had a large horse farm and she stayed busy caring for and showing […]

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Use What You Have…

I visited with my sisters in Kentucky yesterday.  We decided to go to the town of our father’s birth and search the cemeteries for our great-grandparents tombstones. I was captivated as I drove through the lush green countryside along the river banks.  Had my father driven these same roads?  What would he think about his […]

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Shame on You…

One of the best things about attending a twelve-step meeting is that you can talk about anything without fear or judgment.  You will not have anyone wag a finger in your face and say, “Shame on you.”  In fact, most of the time when I share, understanding heads will nod an affirmation of ‘I’ve been […]

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Humility and Honeybees

    Killing mosquitos reminds me of my program of recovery. You see mosquitos are pests.  They carry disease and make me itch.  It seems that it would be a good thing to kill them. But, then we started to notice that when we spray to kill these pests, we are also taking out large […]

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Using the Tools of the Trade

    Yesterday, I did a really dumb thing.  I took my contacts out to rest my eyes and could not find my saline solution.  Hoping that my daughter had left some of her solution behind, I ran to the upstairs bathroom.  There, I found a small bottle that looked a lot like my saline […]

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Advice, anyone?

  Sunday, my priest was asked about giving advice to others.  He said that we should never tell others what to do.  For one thing, most of us never listen to advice.  For another, as humans, we will never have all of the information that we need to advise others.  In fact, we learn best […]

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What Have You Done to Take Care of Yourself, Today?

I walk my dogs almost every morning. I take a shorter loop than I’d like, but the standard poodle overheats quickly, so I don’t go much further than a mile.  Most days, I will bring them home and wait till the end of the day and go on a longer walk for me.  I wait […]

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A Creative Ambient

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