Month: December 2013

Family of our Dreams – Episode 54

In the book, How Al-Anon Works, in the discussion of Step 1, it says, “We may never have the family of our dreams…” What is the family of your dreams? How does your family fall short of your dreams? What have you tried to do about it? How has recovery helped you to relate to…

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Waking – a meditation

  In the grey cocoon of light the mind finds metamorphosis, makes from the wreck of what she was the wings of what she is.   Ursula K. LeGuin — Waking   I have been thinking about “spiritual awakening”. I heard a speaker, who said, that “spiritual awakening” is just what it says: that we “wake…

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Recording Episode 54 Live

We will be recording Episode 54 – Family of our Dreams, live on Sunday, December 29 starting at 2PM EDT (which is 1900 GMT). Please join us using this “listen live” link (also in the right sidebar). If you are on an iPhone, iPad or iPod, you will need to install the Mixlr app, then search…

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forgiveness – a meditation

  Show me how to love the unlovable Show me how to reach the unreachable Help me now to do the impossible Forgiveness, Forgiveness Help me now to do the impossible Forgiveness It’ll clear the bitterness away It can even set a prisoner free There is no end to what its power can do So…

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Outage!

I’ve heard from some of you about our recent outage. Here’s what happened, as best I can tell. A group of machines, all of which appear to be located in China, were downloading pages from our site at a high rate. I think they were looking for places to post spam comments. It got bad…

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