Because I'm an Alcoholic p338-348

Hello Friends,

This week we review Because I'm an Alcoholic p338-348. Also a reminder, we will be meeting next Wednesday the 30th for our speaker meeting.

I hope everyone is looking forward to a couple days off for Christmas and New Years. Even though I don't celebrate Christmas myself (the whole jew thing and all) I would like to wish everyone a terrific holiday season and a Merry Christmas.

End of year can be a challenging time. With the dinners, parties, gifts, traffic, endless lines, taxes, marchamo and so forth, December is Jam Packed! The energy in the air is almost at a constant fever pitch and if we're not careful, it's easy to get carried away. The results can be impatience, intolerance, irrationality, irrationality, Road Rage and basically every other negative emotion antithetical to what the season is supposed to be about.

In times like these,  I try to remember what the Desiderata says "Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here"

It's important we remember we have the choice of which emotions to entertain today. So step back and breath, take stock of what's really important and "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence."

Wishing you a Merry Christmas,
David t.

2015 Meeting Dates

11/26/14 Speaker Meeting <Roy M>
-->Reading: 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.>
--> Reading: 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.>

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

07/29/15 Speaker Meeting <Adam S.>
08/26/15 Speaker Meeting <Kevin M.>
09/30/15 Speaker Meeting <Fred D.>
10/28/15 Speaker Meeting <Owen A.>
11/25/15 Speaker Meeting <Roy M.>

12/02/15 My Chance to Live p309-318
12/09/15 Student of Life p319-327
12/16/15 Crossing the River of Denial p328-337
12/23/15 Because I'm an Alcoholic p338-348
12/30/15 Speaker Meeting

1/06/16 It might Have Been Worse p348-358
1/13/16 Tightrope p359-368
1/20/16 Flooded with Feeling p369-374
1/27/16 Speaker Meeting

2/03/16 Winner Takes All p375-381
2/10/16 Me an Alcoholic? p382-387
2/17/16 The Perpetual Quest p388-397
2/24/16 Speaker Meeting