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90 days, april 10

Looking back, I think I’d begun the process of the fourth step from the first few days.  Like my life was all contained in a one big box, and I took it in my hands, flipped it over so everything fell on the floor, and said here’s nothing.  What dust is kicked up.  What shattering …

April 10, 2012 – 10:17 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

Honoring the flaw, daily reflections January 21

There is much talk of bottoms and the necessity to find god in order to get sober.  That may be how others have done it.  It wasn’t that way for me, and I don’t believe such things would ever really work.  Firstly, because bottoms are relative, can always grow worse, and in my worst moments …

January 21, 2012 – 8:54 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)