Corking the Bottle

I've reprinted some alcoholism quotes before from   https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/alcoholism . I think it's worth passing on some more to save you from looking up this site for yourself. “I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness.” ―  Dina Kucera,  Everything I Never Wanted to Be “Perhaps people felt there was nothing more they could do, you know? After all, how can someone be helped who doesn’t see the need? A Christian counselor I saw for a while described such situations as, “a White Elephant everyone can see but no one wants to deal with; everyone ...

Here are some gems from A.A. meetings I found to be worth mining: Choices and reactions are the only things we have control over. The more I know the less I know. What if someone said, "I am going to control your life." I would say no way! But that's what I allowed alcohol to do. Sometimes I wish my brain had put the breaks on my mouth. People at A.A. poked me in the I. When I drink I break out in stupid. At New Year's: I let my resolutions go in one year and out the other. Poor me! Pour me another. FROG -- Fully Relying on God. (See my blog post on February 18) Religion is different spokes on the same wheel. (attributed to Thomas Merton) Speaking of Thomas Merton: