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Graystone
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 Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject: How do you or do you celebrate your anniversary? |
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I will cross the one year mark in October - for the third time.
Here the custom is to pass a card around for signatures during meeting with birthday cake & metallic medallion marking the year for the person after the meeting. Twice before I’ve celebrated in the usual fashion one and two years before slipping.
My plan is to pick up the generic plastic blue chip without fanfare at a Saturday meeting I attend. |
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GeoffS
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: |
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On my anniversary I try to share my experience strength and hope at a meeting of alcoholics anonymous.
Quietly mentioning it can give hope to others that sobriety is possible. |
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Dallas
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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On my sobriety birthdate -- I try to figure out how I can double up on doing what I did the year before -- that kept me sober. 
If alcoholism is a progressive condition -- and I do believe that it is -- my alcoholism gets stronger each year -- and I'm normally unaware of it -- because I'm living in sobriety.
Cunning. Powerful. Baffling. Even when sober. If it wasn't -- would you be crossing the one year mark -- for the third time? Something to think about.
Perhaps, what's getting you through the first year, the cards, signatures, candles, cakes, chips, dips, the meetings, the work, whatever you're doing, etceteras... is not enough to get you through the second year.
Best wishes,
Dallas B. |
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GeoffS
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Good point Dallas.
The Big Book of alcoholics anonymous doesn't mention candles and cakes and chips and dips (mentions slips alright).
Maybe if we focus less on the ego inflating bells and whistles that were added later and more on the ego deflating nuts and bolts that Bill and Bob talked of, we might all do better at this thing. |
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Tim
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| GeoffS wrote: |
The Big Book of alcoholics anonymous doesn't mention candles and cakes and chips and dips (mentions slips alright). |
Let's get rid of the AA meeting coffeepot, too, while we're eliminating things not mentioned in the Big Book |
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DebbieV
Joined: 21 Jun 2007
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Location: Silverton, Co
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| Keep coming back Tim. |
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Tim
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| DebbieV wrote: | | Keep coming back Tim. |
It's probably best with some posts to read them and move on. And I should remember the lines from the AA Grapevine Statement of Purpose, and apply them to this forum as well.
"The awareness that every AA member has an individual way of workng the program permeates the pages of the Grapevine, and throughout its history the magazine has been a forum for the varied and often divergent opinions of AAs around the world."  |
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GeoffS
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| The coffee pot is mentioned elsewhere in AA approved literature Tim, as I'm sure you know. |
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Tim
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| GeoffS wrote: | | The coffee pot is mentioned elsewhere in AA approved literature Tim, as I'm sure you know. |
Thanks for the information, Geoff. And thank you for your monthly AA history posts. I look forward to reading them each month. |
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Dallas
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Before anyone gets any ideas of bailing out on meetings... THEY ARE mentioned in the Big Book:
| Bill W. wrote: | "In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary
to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be at -
tended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual
way of life. Aside from fellowship and sociability, the
prime object was to provide a time and place where new
people might bring their problems."
pg 159-160, Big Book |
Dallas B. |
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GeoffS
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:40 am Post subject: |
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Dallas? Is that true?
Where did I put that Damn meetings book? |
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Dallas
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Just look for the Big Blue one that has the largest stack of dust on it.
Just joking GeoffS. I know that your copy of the BB is well read.
Yep. It's right there on the pages of the Big Book that I mentioned above, starts at the bottom of the one and then finishes on the other. I know -- because I got corrected on it once! So, I made sure I didn't forget it!
What's funny for me was: I had also read this in Dr. Bob & the Good Oldtimers, book... which explained what the meetings were for.
~ "a meeting to be at attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life. Aside from fellowship and sociability, the
prime object was to provide a time and place where new
people might bring their problems."
I was studying AA history and old-fashioned AA as it was in the beginning, and was awed at how different the meetings are at the time.
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DiggerinVA
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Location: Williamsburg, VA
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| Dallas wrote: | J
I was studying AA history and old-fashioned AA as it was in the beginning, and was awed at how different the meetings are at the time.
Dallas |
I'm currently working on that stuff now. Truly amazing. Also the way the program was rolled out to the newcomer. Where I live it took 3 try's for me to find a sponsor and about 5 months. |
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Dallas
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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I understand.
If I hadn't already been sober with the Steps already taken before I moved to where I live now -- I'm sure I'd be a gonner. Well, maybe not. I'm not about to find out... |
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Todd_in_Tulsa
Joined: 22 Sep 2009
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Location: Tulsa, OK
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: 20 Years Next Week |
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Hi Group,
Just found the group!
For my anniversary, I'm starting an OPEN recovery group at my church! Used to attend something like it years ago with my wife, and we miss it around Tulsa...We'll have a pot-luck, meeting, and I expect a good turn out from the church, their spouses, and the community....YUM - potluck!
Love ya guys...Look forward to getting to know you, and contribute.
Todd
| Dallas wrote: | Before anyone gets any ideas of bailing out on meetings... THEY ARE mentioned in the Big Book:
| Bill W. wrote: | "In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary
to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be at -
tended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual
way of life. Aside from fellowship and sociability, the
prime object was to provide a time and place where new
people might bring their problems."
pg 159-160, Big Book |
Dallas B. |
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