Post by caressa on Nov 26, 2007 15:28:05 GMT -5
Quotes from the book 'ALKIESPEAK'
by Andy A. of Australia
People think that they're going to get sober
by osmosis and going to 90 meetings in 90 days.
But there's only one way
to obtain and maintain sobriety
and that's through the progam
folded within these 164 pages.
- Ted H.
Quotes from the book 'ALKIESPEAK'
by Andy A. of Australia
Knowing why I was an alcoholic doesn't help.
The ship hits an iceberg,
it's sinking, everyone is rowing away.
But you're on the deck saying;
"I'm not leaving this baby
until I understand what happened."
- Clancy I.
Quotes from the book 'ALKIESPEAK'
by Andy A. of Australia
I was waking up with
someone I didn't like
- and I was sleeping alone.
- Anon.
Quotes from the book 'ALKIESPEAK'
by Andy A. of Australia
I spent fifteen years out there
looking for my girlfriend.
Then I came to the program and got sober,
and I went home one day and I found her;
She was my wife.
And ain't that the story of the alcoholic?
I spent all that time
looking for something I had all along.
- Norm A.
Quotes from the book 'ALKIESPEAK'
by Andy A. of Australia
I'm the type of alcoholic
that when I stop drinking,
for all practical purposes,
that's where my alcoholism begins.
- Bob D.
Quotes from the book 'ALKIESPEAK'
by Andy A. of Australia
The more my head swells
the less my mind expands.
- Anon.
I had never read these before. There were a whole lot more but do to the cut and paste rule, I won't bore you with more.
I like them because I know a Ted, a Clancy, a Norm, and just about every group has a Bob (or a Bill, a Don, a John). All long timers in the program and it could have been them sharing around the table. They are simple and so real to me.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.