and I quote ........

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

todAAy i AAm grAAteful & thAAnkful

for the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.  Here's a bit of it .........

"A.A. is not a plan for recovery that can be finished and done with.  It is a way of life, and the challenge contained in its principles is great enough to keep any human being striving for as long as he lives.  We do not, cannot, outgrow this plan."

"A complete change takes place in our approach to life.  Where we used to run from responsibility, we find ourselves accepting it with gratitude that we can successfully shoulder it."

"Now there is a sense of belonging, of being wanted and needed and loved.  In return for a bottle and a hangover, we have been given the Keys of the Kingdom."

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. 

~Norm Papernick