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caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 1, 2011 2:51:52 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 1, 2011 2:51:52 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote ...And the unlived life is not worth examining. - Serenity Sam.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 1, 2011 23:31:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 1, 2011 23:31:39 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote It takes a whole lot of medicine darlin', for me to pretend I'm somebody else.- 'Guilty' Randy Newman.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 3, 2011 14:07:55 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 3, 2011 14:07:55 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote If everyone approached getting their driver's license like they approach the Twelve Steps, I'd have the highways to myself. - Ted H.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 4, 2011 8:50:08 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 4, 2011 8:50:08 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote Alcoholics Anonymous has the best record for recovery from alcoholism in the world. Why not avail yourself of the best. - Bede.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 5, 2011 11:29:23 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 5, 2011 11:29:23 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote We're all here because we're not all there.- Fr Joe M.

BW EOR Lifeline Posts: 2,417	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 5, 2011 17:18:35 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by BW on Mar 5, 2011 17:18:35 GMT -5 Thank God for the NOW
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Alkie Speaks - March Mar 6, 2011 10:37:35 GMT -5

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Post by caressa on Mar 6, 2011 10:37:35 GMT -5

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I look inside these bars and know that seconds and inches are between me and that girl sitting on that barstool, or that person vomitting on their shoes, or that one getting beat up around the corner. It's just seconds and inches. - Sharon B.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 7, 2011 0:14:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 7, 2011 0:14:24 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote Being a speaker is not the measure of an alcoholic. Some of the finest speakers I've heard in AA died drunk. And some of the finest AA members I've ever known never spoke from podiums. - Gayle W.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 8, 2011 10:14:59 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 8, 2011 10:14:59 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote I had an open mind; everything went right through. - Anon. (Reminds me of what I heard at a meeting, "Don't keep such an open mind that everything falls out of it.")

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 9, 2011 5:32:34 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 9, 2011 5:32:34 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote Serenity is being able to stand still and sit amidst the storms and conflicts of life - And we're going to have plenty. If we're not having storms and conflicts, we're not living. - Kate B. ( Quoting Fr. Barney. )
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caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 10, 2011 2:36:20 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 10, 2011 2:36:20 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote God washed my eyes with tears until I could finally see. - Anon.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 11, 2011 3:23:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 11, 2011 3:23:31 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote I'd drink to get relaxed but by the time I got relaxed enough I was unconscious - Dave.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 12, 2011 0:26:29 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 12, 2011 0:26:29 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote You may be the only copy of the AA Big Book that someone ever reads. - Unknown origin.

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Alkie Speaks - March Mar 13, 2011 2:56:38 GMT -5

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It's clean and sober across the board. I don't get to take chips in AA for 60. or 90 days or a year, if I'm smoking pot or doing a little social heroin between meetings. Even if pot wasn't my drug of choice. - - Earl H.

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Alkie Speaks - March Mar 14, 2011 12:34:15 GMT -5

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I didn't think my sponsor could read for the first six months. I'd say; 'John, I need a better paying job.' and he'd say: 'Read page 127, what does it say on page 127?'
I'm expecting to find a credit card application there or something, and it says; 'Material well-being always follows spiritual progress, it never preceded. - Chris C.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 15, 2011 0:34:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 15, 2011 0:34:39 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote I hear some say that their best thinking got them into AA. My best thinking didn't get me here - A power greater than myself did. - Al A.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 16, 2011 7:01:21 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 16, 2011 7:01:21 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote I was a functioning alcoholic; I had a wife who worked. - Sean A.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 17, 2011 2:31:44 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 17, 2011 2:31:44 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote Fear is a darkroom where negatives are developed. - Anon.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 18, 2011 6:11:23 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 18, 2011 6:11:23 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote I know I've been spared from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. I know today that it's a miracle standing up here in front of you. I know it. - JoJo S.

caressa Guest	Alkie Speaks - March Mar 19, 2011 5:05:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by caressa on Mar 19, 2011 5:05:31 GMT -5 Alkiespeak - Book - Quote My sponsor says 'Mark the places where you find God and go there often.' AA meetings are a place where I find God - I think that the power of God is in the group. - Chris C.

joeykins: Update MajestyJo is in rehab hospital again having trouble standing up and vision issues. Has not been able to log in as no internet. Shes in good spirits and requested that i mention Tammy and Lin so they dont worry. Apr 8, 2021 6:44:01 GMT -5

loras: So sorry to hear that JO has passed.BW I agree God muat have needed her in heaven.Such a shock for me to FINALLY be with a computer again and the first place I came to only to find out that JO has passed..

. I will be back looking for Lin and others. Jun 20, 2021 7:32:46 GMT -5

bluidkiti: I got a message from BW today. She said she has had computer problems and been pretty sick. She said that she hopes she is on the mend now. Please keep her in your prayers. May 2, 2023 16:51:52 GMT -5