Got Green?

Danny Boy - sung by a young Irishman named Declan Galbraith




One of my favorite Irish hymns.



todAAy i AAm grAAteful & thAAnkful

In the 6:30am meeting I attend each weekday, we read a few pages in the Big Book every Tuesday. We finished the entire book for the 4th time (since Jan '04) yesterday. I really like the fact that someone goes around printing new words, sentences and paragraphs from time to time and inserting those additions without any of us seeing them do it. I suppose they put those same additions in your book too, eh?

that I held my tongue and kept my composure yesterday when a bank V.P. got a bit uppity with me and tried to force an unwanted financial product on me. After I informed him that I could take my dollars to the bank next door, he settled down. Young kids these days.

that I've now been alive for 56 years; 10 years longer than I thought I'd live


Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
- Merry Browne

Give me more (please)

A picture from my last real celebration of St Patrick's Day, in 2004. This was at Griff's, a bar of which I am still a part-owner, albeit a silent investor these days.


One of the things that I have come to realize in my recovery is that I rarely have enough. It seems ingrained in me that more is better; more is necessary.

This ugly trait really rears its ugly head in my personal relationship with Hayden. If it didn't surface with him, it would be with someone else. It seems like when I get what I want or what I ask for, I still want more. It's like I can never be happy with what I have. It's something I'm working on and probably will be for the remainder of my days. Then, of course, Bill W. in all his wisdom, wrote about this very thing ...

"For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, page 71

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."
-Lou Holtz

Paddy's Day

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