Month: April 2020

Many boring times the story has been told. “I’ll quit drinking when I’m dead.” Sounds like the typical drinker. Makes for a dull life. The story repeats itself for years like an echo. Worn out scenarios about a stuffy life. Similar to sitting in a broom closet. The seagulls,the beach, the waves flopping in all day long. Orchestra of the sea. Each wave singing their own tune. Time to walk out of the broom closet and see a better life. Sobriety has a certain hidden loyalty contained within. Have to be loyal to being sober to understand why. Now it’s time to write a new book. Telling the world how much better life is being sober. Filling the printed page with your intelligence. Explaining the easy steps on how to become you. It all begins with loyalty to sobriety and making a solemn promise to yourself.

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Sometimes funny stories contain a serious lesson. Embarrassing to admit they apply to our lives.

A friend once told me. I’m standing here broke. Spent all my money drinking and the bartender rolls around the corner with a brand new car that I helped pay for. Quit addictions and own a car of your own.

He also told me. I don’t understand it. The dog is out in the backyard chained up. And they have me out on the loose. The dog is more tame than I am. Ever notice how happy the dog is at home? Stay home and be happy too.

Backyard firepits is where friends and marshmallows get toasted. At the same time. Learning to cook is a good thing. Making ourselves the main course is a little ridiculous. We become the toast of the town.

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You gotta make like you wanna kneel and pray

Then a little bit of soul will come your way

When your girl is gone and you’re broken in two

You need a little bit of soul to see you through

As you go through life trying to reach your goal

Just remember what I said about a little bit of soul

Little bit of soul. Song by the music explosion 1967

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We talked about things getting better. But they still looked the same to me. Could be a nearsighted heart seeing what it wants to see. Take me to the highway. Take me far from here. These days I’m not seeing anything too clear. I need another point of view. Someplace I’ve never seen. Keeping my eyes wide open. I’ve been looking for an answer and I’ve got a long way to go. But when I reach that place I know I’ll find what I’m looking for.

Take me to the highway. Song by the doobie brothers. 1989

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We all stand together with a similar identity with whom we follow and learn from. We need a light to help us find the road to take us to our destiny. Leaders like authors and composers to teach us the beginning steps. Leaders to guide us into an ethical life. Pirates will lead us into a life of misery. Addictions starts this way. By a person or a description that had hidden warnings we could not find or wasn’t told. Their intentions are to leave out the truth to trick us to follow them into deception. We all trust people in life and sometimes we have bad results. Someone comes along and shows us where the deception was hidden. We begin again the proper way and slowly merge into a sensible life. We leave the dark side of the addictions life and into the light to see our future ahead of us.

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The many years of my sobriety is hard to believe at times. A good feeling knowing how long it’s been. People have asked me if those stories are right. The truth is they are. The good feeling being sober. Seems like a dream sometimes. Hypnotized is a calm focused state. The feeling keeps on coming. I wouldn’t stop it if I could.

Now you know it’s a meaningless question. To ask if those stories are right. Because what matters most is the feeling you get when you’re hypnotized. Seems like a dream they got me hypnotized.

Hypnotized. A song by Fleetwood Mac 1973

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A paupers cemetery beside the dusty road. Years have passed since the gravestones were clearly in view. Someone who cared for the elements of the living is clearly their sense of duty. Occasional curiosities about the lives of the mysterious occupants resting there. Long gone but never completely forgotten. Concern from a stranger the live person never gave himself. Strolling through the rows of the present state of death and the fine trimmed lawns. Some names have faded including the word unknown on a few markers. Along with the memories of the kind souls who put him there to rest. Resting in a paupers grave is not the worst thing. Shows caring toward the poor. When he was alive little concern to visit him. The church groups stop to recite a prayer for the lost soul. All that remains is a brief statement of his life on his gravestone as a truth to the world. A lesson learned and encouraged to never repeat it.

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Start of the voyage begins with a christened ship. For a cruise,amuse,or ruse. To follow the journey of the eagles wings or search for the golden goose. Find hidden treasure or find none. Moonless nights unable to know where home is. Ship on rough waters caused by the whirlwind lost in fear and confusion. The creation of detailed plans the journey begins. Sailing within a charted course with powerful winds in every sail. Land is sighted and home awaits. Staggering to the iron gates. Beyond this point is our home at last. Others will travel down the road to a quiet inn for the weary traveler. Gathering their thoughts searching for a solution to their present hardships. Before beginning their journey home. Addictions will divide us. Some survive the storm. Others will reside with the dead. As captains of our own ship plan the course we choose to sail. Calm waters or a stormy sea. The bright full moon and fog drape over the tombstones. Casting a shadowy haze over the names of the remembered and forgotten. The one’s who received their last rites and the one’s who were denied. Who strived for a holy life and who for ruins. Either way there is always a prayer waiting for them at graveside. This sailing voyage is christened with our first drink.

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We begin the tragic journey down the addictions disaster road to nowhere. Offered simple solutions to help us from passersby as we casually refused and held on to our own wicked intentions. Why do we tolerate this madness? Walking happily arm and arm to the devil’s ball. A place for all my devils to have a ball. Walk into the devils domicile greeted by the famous midget and fork. Smiling to greet us all. Welcome to the freaks ball. Another devils ball disaster made to order. Follow the crowd to the evil gate for an evil filled evening one and all. Put on your devil suit and grab your pitchfork. We’re going to a party of fire and evil. Let the party begin. Starts promptly beyond this iron gate. Don’t be late. Devils are waiting.

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The standard of right and wrong that was established by Jesus Christ and then taught by his disciples. It is based on two foundations: Loving God and Loving People. The word moral comes directly from the Latin “moralis” “Proper behavior of a person in society”. “Pertaining to manners”. Before we can have a moral world we need to improve ourselves first. It starts with the moralists who teach the world and show us the way to become improved and it’s been working this way for centuries. All the people who find it helpful to live a better life and a sober life have a feeling of happiness that it’s better to learn to improve the soul and the world than to destroy humanity with addictions. By living the Christian Moral Code the whole world will change. Just live it nothing hard about it we are better off with it. Why go out and get into trouble and keep adding hardship to your life? Makes no sense to be a nobody so be a somebody. Be a good person. Live by the Christian Code not the hooligans code of the drunken binges. No good living a life of abuse you can’t tell me it doesn’t bother you. Be sensible and straighten up and fly right before it’s too late. The Christian Code and being sober will save your life so latch onto the moral teachings that is in the bible to give you the value you need to be somebody that you will care about for years to come then someone will come along and care about you. This always works.

Just a little caring for the self goes a long way.

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