I am a gazelle being hunted. I LOVE..the ocean..california..new york..aa..lily..
ruby..laughing so hard my face hurts..board games..las vegas..old people..playing poker..music..
physical and emotional warmth..jemaine clement..
the sun..memories..
the child within..eggplant parmesan..pictures..
chocolate..surrender..photography..recovery..
dancing..san francisco..animals..giving gifts..
getting gifts..the spirit of the universe..
thoughtfulness..snow..quantum physics..costume parties..miller & reilly..swinging on swings..my family..lilacs..my job..my friends..new york accents..a lap full of kittens..waking up & realizing I still have a few more hours to sleep..weeping willows..movies..a mug of hot coffee on a cool winter morning..vacations..my sponsees..a freshly baked cookie after coming in out of the rain..chicago..coffee..snuggling under the covers with the one I feel safest with..hippies..anthropologie..santa..a good book..a free afternoon..my life.************Earl Nightingale - The Strangest Secret (part 3 of 3)
He tries every known means to get the jay-walking idea out of his head. He shuts himself up in an asylum, hoping to mend his ways. But the day he comes out he races in front of a fire engine, which breaks his back. Such a man would be crazy, wouldn't he?*********************************************************
**Did they get you to trade, your hero’s for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?*******************************************************
****We are average Americans. All sections of this country and many of its occupations are represented, as well as many political, economic, social, and religious backgrounds. We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table. Unlike the feelings of the ship's passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined.The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action.
(Big Book, 4th Edition, p. 17)
