Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
”I suggest to you that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. I suggest to you, furthermore, that when you feel that you could almost have written the book yourself — that’s the moment when it’s influencing you.” ~ E.M. Forster, I stumbled … Continue reading A Road Less Traveled
“The little bit you and me might change the world,” Malloy smiled, “It wouldn’t show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We’d never see it, but it’d be there.” ― James Jones, From Here to Eternity ???? I found these picture of my grandparents from 100 years ago. It reminded me how they survived their troubled times and what lessons can be … Continue reading The Hundred Year Perspective
“The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball”. ~ Tom Seaver The 90 by 40 Project is the name Kevin Scobee has given his effort to train himself into throwing a baseball at 90 miles at hour — before he turns 40. That’s like a 40-year-old running a 4:30 mile or a sub-3-hour marathon. There’s a lot that goes into throwing a fastball. … Continue reading The 90 by 40 Project (by Kevin)
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” ~ T.S. Eliot There are days when life seems much too unmanageable, When the ‘fate gods‘ have all conspired against me, When my powerlessness really pisses me off, When the Serenity Prayer is wholly undecipherable to me. Days in which it seems I’m in way, way over my head. On … Continue reading And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
When I first heard this Hans Christian Anderson story, I couldn’t have been more than ten. It had been rendered into a children’s play which my mother took us to see. What A Good Man Does Is Always Right ~ A Story by Hans Christian Anderson There was once a very old farmhouse in the country, with a thatched roof, with all sorts of moss … Continue reading Embracing the Unexpected