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Just Another Cycle of The Tide

"Perhaps the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of the relationship is valid." - Gift from The Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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30 Days Sober: You Don't Do It for Anyone Else

So I took the first steps to my first meeting because of other people, but I could not stay for them.

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Suspending Disbelief

I drank to numb this reality. I drank to pursue it. I drank to find the truth. I drank to un-know it.

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I Can Fly

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Two Hands

These are the two choices. These are the two lives. I offer you my hands: one life in one hand, one life in the other. It’s a decision you can postpone but not evade.

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Just Keep Going

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Time to Stop Waiting

What I didn’t know then and would not know until recently, was that eventually, alcohol would do the exact opposite of what it made me feel at that time. It would continually and gradually narrow the possibilities, steal my power and chip away at hope.

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