Sober alcoholic role models? They seem to be few and far between. Alcoholism apparently has not yet come out of the cultural closet. Is it voodoo fear? Are we zombies in recovery? Am I to wear some 'scarlet letter' and die in shame? Is there an historical A.A. paranoia that feeds itself instead of helping a world of alcoholics not yet in recovery?
Change yourself, Jim. Talk to yourself, Jim. The world can wait. Is it me who must find patience?
Yes, Jim, yes.
“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. “
Oscar Wilde
Did you know that you would get this far? Did it turn out like you thought? What do you control and what controls you? Are you finally tiring of questions asked? Is letting go the ultimate control?
from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 88)
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