I can’t exactly remember this thought from many years ago – So if it comes out somewhat strange… it may not be the exact thought I was thinking of -I mean this occurred to me a very long time ago. But I’ll take a stab at it any ways. If you see a young girl… The idea of you as a young boy with that young girl…? Is that twisted? I don’t remember if this was the idea that I had many years ago but it was something -and I’m grasping for it. It’s probably not it -but something in that neighborhood… Currently, I don’t have the power to grasp the original concept, but I will leave this one as it is as a reminder hopefully….. It will come to me later…

ok I remember… I had an incident with a young girl when I was 13 and she was 12… I’m not sure what to think of reminiscing about that particular incident as an adult 🤷‍♂️ Afterall, it is a memory* THANK YOU LORD 🤷‍♂️

*It was some 20 or 25 years ago I found myself recollecting the incident is all -nothing really happened between us but I found myself wishing something had (mixed feelings)** – for one thing, it may have altered the course of future events. 🤷‍♂️

APPROXIMATELY 30 SECONDS LATER

**Things are coming to me more and more moment by moment and now thoughts from that recollection some 20-25 years are coming back to me now. What just occurred to me a moment ago was that at that time (I mean as an adult recollecting…), it was probably during the time I was working the 12 steps with my sponsor Granville-my sexual inventory. I was actually glad nothing happened because the poor girl was probably being sexually molested at that time by either her father, or her brothers, or both. For my part, it was probably a God thing….That evening we were at the drive-in theater with some other family, did some fondling in the back seat… When we got home, she came into the bedroom where I was sleeping, and I shooed her out. That was definitely my grandmother talking lol Anyways, what is the point of this post -not exactly sure. Maybe God will reveal it to me later. Thanks for letting me bramble -I guess this one was for me!***

***Bottom-line: This is not an isolated incident for young adolescent children. A lot of things can go very wrong with something like this:

•The niece of my dad’s common-law wife (essentially my step-mom)

•Pregnancy

•STD

•Strife between both families -Stepmom caught in the middle along with my baby brother…

I’m so glad God intervened -God; that was the point of this post!

What is it with these commercials where people simply use a spray or a plug-in to neutralize odors? Back in my day if there was a stench, you busted out with the cleaning supplies and cleaned it up, or shampooed it.

And what’s with these new cleaning supplies that don’t seem any different than the ones we’ve had for years?

And what’s with the word “stench” on TV in a commercial? You don’t use words like that!!!

You can take an invention from one place and Set up shop in another where nobody has ever heard of it before -and it’s like “you’re a genius”.

And what’s with the soft surface blah blah blah -and flushing the toilet? I flush my toilet all the ⏲, and my bathroom smells just fine -geeez 🤷‍♂️

We as Americans are not simply happy with what works. No there’s something else looming large in all of this:

•The system requires more and more money-cash flow

•Americans require the “next thing” to satisfy their restlessness, irritability, and discontentedness. What a fortunate coincidence. A perfect scenario to meet each other’s needs.

We’re not real keen on prevention in this country.*

We’re not real keen on practices the Japanese tried to instill in the work-place back in the seventies.

*Besides common men have a tendency to learn after the fact not before…. Not sure if it’s inherent dull-wittedness… or more of a matter of selfishness, or perhaps laziness (or both 😄): 🤷‍♂️

°I got better things to worry about

•Why bother -if it hasn’t gone wrong yet 🤷‍♂️

•Why bother projecting -afterall, I got my 🍽 (plate) full now as it is🤷‍♂️

I once heard that if you’re fortunate enough do something you love and -do it well (make a living) you’re a lucky man.

If you feel something brushing against you… Let me start over. Have you ever felt something brushing against you and there’s nothing there? It’s probably God, or an angel touching you -why not? 😇

A lot of women can get a man -but they can’t keep a man. Men have needs and wants as well.

It’s nice to see regular people in commercials instead of these movie-star types trying to make their way to the top!*

I like a good movie with a good plot and regular people.** Not continual sex and romance to capture the interest of a population that population that cannot enjoy a good plot with regular people in it.

I never met a woman who deserved to get hit -but I’ve met a few who asked for it.

I always thought it was strange -people going to act in school to learn how to act (human?).

*Do you think people get into show business to be mediocre? To get bit parts? It would certainly be refreshing.

**It’s an insult to the American public to imply that they have to be entertained by yeah it’s tamed by sex, beauty, romance continually in order to have their interest held.

650 posts thus far* -simply put; from God, to me, to here! They have simply been pouring out succession -in neat, orderly fashion. WOW! We’ll just have to continue on and see how it goes. A bit tiring, frustrating too when I can’t write them all down fast enough and forget one or two -or when I get a little lazy -and hesitate. THEY ARE SO VIVID -AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, I STILL GET DUPED INTO THINKING I CAN WAIT TIL I GET HOME FROM… OR FINISH THAT LAST DISH IN THE SINK AND THEN… 🤷‍♂️

* Since we have been throwing in multiple postings within one post… We’re probably looking at a 1000 to 1200 I’m guessing. Absolutely Awesome Possum!!!

I don’t share for me in meetings -I share for the people who are around me in the meeting. Especially people who are new. This may go against conventional AA but that’s how I roll as Lennelle would say.

I’ve heard a lot of people in meeting say they make amends for themselves only-to stay sober. I guess that’s the way it used to be for me. But these days I do it for 2 reasons instead of one:

1. Stay sober

2. Because Alcoholics Anonymous has given me back some of my humanity. I like the idea of knowing that making an amends helps make people feel better and believe the world isn’t all bad.*

*I like it also when people trust me for example, and I come through for them even though some people are not unwilling to do so (trust) 😏

One man’s simplicity is another man’s complication (complicity would fit in there perfectly (rhyme) -but it’s the wrong definition I’m looking for 🤔 (I also had to look it up 😄). In Alcoholics Anonymous we have a saying “keep it simple”. But just because something seems complicated to one (the listener) -doesn’t mean it’s complicated to another (the speaker).

YIPPEE -the birds are starting to fly South!!!!👏

I don’t know of anything in the literature of Alcoholics Anonymous that says that anything that a person did disqualifies them from being a member. And that’s from God Himself! It’s not people you need to thank so much as God for his infinite love and acceptance of us where we’re at.To completely accept a group of people not at their highest -but at their lowest… of years.

Why God-made Alcoholics 🤷‍♂️