Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
I have on occasion caught myself staring into the mirror and seeing a bold-faced pessimist staring back. I see a guy with more doubt than faith, and a damn sight more preoccupation in the past than hope in the future. I ask myself, “Paddy Boy, what’s happened to your faith?” The thing is, when I attempt to answer my question, all I come up with is … Continue reading A Simple Faith
Thank you all for taking time to read Just a Thought. Marsha and I so enjoy bringing the posts to life each week. It was 10 years ago that I first began sharing thoughts with fellow travelers in recovery. In 2015, at the suggestion of Geoff Nixon and Matias Caccione, the weekly Just a Thought blog was born. The midwife to birthing each post has been … Continue reading A Thought on “Just a Thought”
This sculpture entitled ‘Kindred Spirits’ stands in a Park in the small town of Midleton in East Cork,Ireland It tells the story of how two nations came together in a dark and tragic time and through a simple act of kindness found their Kindred Spirit The story also illustrates that when I choose to harvest the learnings from my own suffering they become the food of life for … Continue reading Kindred Spirits
Friends, Several of you have asked how to comment on a blog post. It’s very easy. When you receive an email of the post, click on the post Title. This will link you to the website and you can read the post from there. At the bottom of the post will be a “Comments” section, and you can type what you like. You can also … Continue reading How to comment on a post
Friends, I would like to introduce you to Just a Thought. The really big life-changing breakthroughs we experience in our lives sometimes begin as tiny thoughts planted in our brains by someone else who has had a breakthrough, kinda like finding an oasis in a desert. It is when we pass on these tiny thoughts that are crystallizations of real experiences that we save one another. … Continue reading Just a Thought: An Introduction