Speaker Meeting - Remembering our last drunk

Hello folks,

Just your weekly friendly remind for the Wendesday Night Riverside Men's Group (still getting used to saying it!). Anyways, this week we have a Speaker Meeting. I'm thinking it may be time to reset the speaker list, we've been doing the once monthly speaker meeting since January of 2014. Maybe we cut the list at a year? 

I actually just got to share my story recently. The 5-7 minute version of it anyway. I was in Tamarindo last week at the "Waves of Serenity" Group and they asked me to open the meeting with 5-7 minutes of my particular brand of experience, strength & hope. All I could recall was the nightmare I had lived in Tamarindo about 10 years ago on spring break with my college frat. We were in some bar at the Tamarindo Circle and I'd started a fight with some local to earn flirting rights with some gringa (hope she was good looking at least, can't recall).

A few punches were thrown and as we went down grappling at each other a piece of rebar sticking out of the ground caught enough of the other guy's neck to cause some serious bleeding. The whole town thought I'd killed the guy and basically formed a lynch mob. I later found out I didn't kill the guy but that was after they'd destroyed the rent-a-car and smashed my friend's jaw with an Imperial beer bottle fracturing it and causing him some weird short-term memory loss for the rest of the night.... but I'm sober now so life is groovy!! (that's the short version of it at least).

The meeting was great and when I left I walked out to the Tamarindo circle to find that this time my rent-a-car was happily in one piece. Those around me had little to worry from me starting some bullshit fight that would get them injured in the process. Furthermore, I had no fear, regret or shame whatsoever the next day about what I'd done.

Two things occurred to me; 1- With experiences like these, and we've all had something or other like this, it's no wonder we suffer that vague fear of impending doom -- Doom was impending and we were right to fear it!! and 2- What a relief it is to have that feeling slowly begin to dissipate.

Best Regards,

David t.

2015 Meeting Dates

01/29/14  Speaker Meeting <Shane B>

02/26/14  Speaker Meeting <Fred D>

03/26/14  Speaker Meeting <Pete T>

04/30/14  Speaker Meeting <Clive T>

05/28/14  Speaker Meeting <Todd P>

07/30/14 Speaker Meeting <Dave W>

08/27/14 Speaker Meeting <Edwin H>

09/24/14 Speaker Meeting <Larry H>

10/29/14 Speaker Meeting <David t>

11/26/14 Speaker Meeting <Roy M>

-->Book: Being Sober and Becoming Happy

01/28/15 Speaker Meeting <Steve W.>

02/25/15 Speaker Meeting <Gerard P>

03/25/15 Speaker Meeting <Mark D.>

--> Book: A New Pair of Glasses by Chuck C. 

04/29/15 Speaker Meeting <Russ W.>

05/27/15 Speaker Meeting <Omar P.>
06/24/15 Speaker Meeting <Ricardo A.>

--> New Book: Personal Stories back of Big Book of AA <--

07/22/15 Dr.Bob's Nightmare p171-181

07/29/15 Speaker Meeting 

08/05/15 Alcoholics Anonymous Number Three p182-192
08/12/15 Gratitude in Action  p193-199
08/19/15 Women Suffer Too p200-207
08/26/15 Speaker Meeting

09/02/15 Our Southern Friend p208-218

09/09/15 The Viscous Cycle p219-231

09/16/15 Jim's Story p232-245

09/23/15 The Man Who Mastered Fear p246-257

09/30/15 Speaker Meeting