All human beings have an innate resistance to obedience.
General George S. Patton
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About Me
- Enchanted Oak
- I'm a poet, gardener, and freelance writer who lives in California by the coast, in a small town surrounded by pastures, woods, and vineyards. Other things I am: recovering LA magazine editor and recovering alcoholic, wife of a tolerant man, mom to two beautiful daughters, mistress of beagles and cats, lover of mysteries and photography, a survivor of suicide, depression, addiction, and sundry minor ailments. I write for a living and write poetry for life.
My Credentials
“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.” (Oscar Wilde)
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My Therapist
You’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem. (Eldridge Cleaver)
My Crazy Potato
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. (Norman Vincent Peale)
Cat Invents Hearing Aids!
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (Thomas Edison)
Without Fail
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” (Art Linkletter)
No Comment
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. (John W. Gardner)
Survival Tip #19
My strength lies solely in my tenacity. (Louis Pasteur)
I'm a recovering Lutheran
"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road." (Martin Luther)
A Philosophy of Life
“It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” Samuel Johnson
Go Figga
Visitors are beautiful people.
My AA Recovery Story
I got sober in 1990 after a life of drug and alcohol addiction, and I had 15 wonderful years. Then I moved and left my homegroup behind. I didn't replace my sponsor, who had died. I didn't work with newcomers, and I went to only one meeting a week. Ultimately, I didn't stay sober. I experienced that strange mental twist, and I picked up. But I jumped back into the program, and my life has continually gotten better. I'm married to a man with 23 years of sobriety, and we work our program at home. AA is the hub the wheel of my life revolves around. I've been able to explore a creative side of my personality that once lived only under the influence of drugs. I have perfect moments during each of my precious days. We are none of us invulnerable to that strange mental twist that precedes the first drink, and all that stands between us and the drink is our constant thought of others. My prayer these days is: God, do your will in and through me today. If I can be an inspiration to others, then my life is rich. God bless you all.
Rosebud on Ice
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet)
11 comments:
Glad to know I am SO human!
In fact, if you do not tell me what to do..I'll probably end up doing it!
That gorgeous flower took its good old time to come out and be seen and enjoyed--it must be human?
Even the Golden Rule is work sometimes.
Too true. I think it is heightened for alcoholics. For this one, anyway.
glad for the reminder!! explains why I am constantly reminding myself to stay focused
Love that rose, but is shatters so after it blooms...just like many of us.
hehe...you think. smiles.
hope you are having a wonderful day chris!
Thank you.
What a beautiful rose! And yes, aren't we all human and flawed each in our own unique way.
My hubby likes to remind me occasionally that no one can tell me what to do, oh, they can tell me but I won't be told. Ha.
And rightly so!!! I think it is much more fun being the opposite.
I think so too.
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