I don’t mind getting ripped off so much if it’s for a good cause. But if it’s for drugs, or for a date, or to get laid, or for a hooker… or to impress someone…

KNOW GOD! KNOW PEACE!

NO GOD! NO PEACE!

Know Pain! Know Gain!

No Pain! No Gain!

I had been thinking about this one for some time and just couldn’t remember how it went. And in the moment when I thought to start this particular blog… “MAGIC”

I believe our moods and our attitudes and the thoughts we propagate or embrace have an impact on outcomes -free God’s 🤲 or tie God’s 🤲

I heard a guy say in a meeting many years ago “I’m addicted to outcomes”. That made more sense to me… I’ll call you when you get home

This place aint even close – Normally, when a human being makes an attempt at something, they generally get close or closer with each attempt. True or not true? OK, in the town I’m living in these people aren’t even close. Close to what it takes to form a community!!!!!

I saw a sign in my dentist’s office decades ago that said floss only the teeth you want to keep. And I thought to myself 🤔 ‐”Work only the steps you want to work in your life”.

The one with the most variety isn’t the 1 who gets up the earliest it’s the 1 that has the most God in them.*

*And no… it’s not necessarily the home of the most time either.

Alcoholics are notorious for their defiance. Is a matter of fact somebody was going on and on in the meeting this morning about in this morning about speaking up with somebody with time decides are going to try and infringe thein French they’re programmed on a newcomer. 2 points:

•Personally, I don’t have my program I have the program. So if I’m speaking, chances are I’m a chances are I’m in line with this program.. It would be a dangerous thing for you to get the 2 confused and in the process of defining define an individual in the meetings end up defining the program itself.

• If I order you to go to meetings or I order you to go get a sponsor and work steps…. What are you gonna do, not go, die despite me?

Which is more powerful, physical muscle or spiritual muscle?

I care about people I just don’t care for some of them 🤷‍♂️

Do you have any idea how many people’s best friend is a dog?

Alot of people donate bookoo money to charities because they themselves, or a loved one suffered a fate of the very same nature. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A CANCER SURVIVOR TO DONATE TO HELP FIGHT CANCER!!!!

Alot of people will throw tons of money @ a cause but won’t roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty working directly with the sick and needy.

Alot of people throw tons of money at various causes -knowing they’re gonna get it back and then some.

Some people only do things for the notoriety. My aunt and Uncle did a lot of service work for the church and various groups within the church… I remember asking for a ride one time and my aunt telling me sorry I’m not going in that direction I remember asking for a ride one time and my aunt telling me sorry I’m not going in that direction.

When I start to get in touch with me I start to discover what’s inside of me (and feelings associated wirh…)

Some women might take issue with some of the experiences I’ve had with women. Some of the observations I’ve made of women. But if those same women share their experiences and their observations with regard to men-I would probably think about it for a minute, and likely agree with many of the shameful and disrespectful ways we yes we as men have treated women. But then again, I’m more open minded than most. And less fearful of the truth in many areas.

I was told a long time ago in treatment that when your feelings call me your thoughts come in your actions all match up… I was told a long time ago in treatment that when your feelings call me your thoughts, your actions all match up…!

Stop taking responsibility for what other people do and don’t do. It’s not all about you.

Someday they won’t even have to enter our bodies to register our DNA signature. People will be walking around in the world and the authorities will know who you are but by recognizing your DNA without without even having to violate you.

It’s time for all of humanity to take a leap forward into the 21st century with regard to who they are and not just not just our technologies and our knowledge. Bid not just the elites of the world but every man, every woman, every child!

I see myself make mistakes in other areas and I wonder how many I make here with regard to these writings?

I remember crossing the neighbor’s yard one time in San Francisco-Daly City actually. My cousin Tony and his friend Louis were with me and and I was behind them -and got caught by the neighbor. They kept going, I stopped and listened to her when she told me to come to her. I don’t remember what she told me but I remember her taking me inside and giving me some chocolate chip cookies. I was always the one to get caught as a child. On a side note; given my reputation as a young boy (or the simple fact I was an outsider -I learned much later… I was the scapegoat) I would often get blamed by my aunt and uncle for a lot of things*. My point is that throughout my life I’ve seldom felt that I got away with they with things. On the other ✋, growing up I would see my cousin and his friends get away with things all the time… with my cousin’s mom and dad…. things they wouldn’t let me get away with… In a lot of ways they got in far worse trouble than I did -and in some cases are now dead at an early age. While it’s true, it did damage my sense of “self worth and equality”; It also instilled me a sense of “vulnerability and accountability” which prompted me to set limits to my choices and behaviors later in life.**

*When my Uncle would gather the 4 of us together and as who did…

•I would laugh because I had this nervous laugh. You know when you get nervous you laugh-but my Uncle took it as disrespect.

•One time with a belt in his hand, he asked who wanted to go 1st -I was the 2nd to the youngest and volunteered. I learned very early on that the sting went away much quicker it’s much quicker if I was busy watching everybody else get it after the fact 😄

At some point several years ago I got 5 tickets in like 14 months. All these people running red lights and I would barely early skim passed and get a ticket and then another and then another and then another. Haven’t had my phone and was doing one of my writings and I had it down below the window and the cop somehow managed to see it and pull me over for that. Then God told me, I want you to remain accountable and on the up-and-up (never about these others). The other thing he told me 🤔 Some people, that’s all they’ve got in life is there rebellion against the law and the law and other things like that (some feeling of worth or empowerment in a world that appears to either have forgotten them or seemingly has no use for them).

Women think there are the ones doing the choosing. But when you rely on other men to show the initiative you’re only choosing from a small pool of men who are actually choosing you.**

** If you are relying on the Sharks of the World to show the initiative because you’re too arrogant or afraid to show initiative on your own then you will get what you get -so 🤔:

“If you don’t like what your (not) getting, stop (not) doing what you’re (not) doing!”

As soon as we (begin to) remove ourselves from the equation -VOILA! 🤷‍♂️

Except for the part where mankind took a wrong-turn, what God set in motion -with the creation of the universe with man in mind- 🤔 is nothing short of INCREIBLE’!!!!!

If someone takes issue with you, judges you, rejects you… -there’s about a 50% probability it tain’t (ALL 😁) you -now try convincing your average citizen of that though! God has been taking the brunt of man’s barrage of self-will-run-riot*; what with all its’ flaws… simply put, THE WORLD’S A CRAZY PLACE -REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY THINK PERSONALLY 🤷‍♂️ For example:

•People make the wrong choices ALL THE ⏲

•People make 👎 choices ALL THE ⏲

•People choose THE WRONG PEOPLE ALL THE TIME (it’s human nature, especially for a woman, to feel safe and comfortable -even if it means feeling disrespected and unloved somewhere down the road).

•And finally…**

*The Alcoholic is not the only one these days guilty of self-will-run-riot. As I have been getting better in AA -this country appears to have taken a turn for the worst. 🤷‍♂️

**Perhaps one of the most damaging patterns I experienced in my childhood was that of constantly being blamed -an atmosphere of absolutely no accountability on the part of those around me***. AND IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME IN EVERYDAY LIFE AS AN ADULT. The world would have us believe we’re the proverbial “square-peg in the round hole” and that is the most damaging thing…

***People apparently don’t like to apologize-admit when they’re wrong

Chocolate chip cookies 🍪 I remember crossing this lady’s yard in San Francisco… Along with my cousin Tony and his friend Louis…

The thing about Alcoholics Anonymous that I think is unfortunate is: that a lot of people hide the way they really feel; hide what’s really going on in their lives -and when new people come in who are all shaken up and hurting and their lives are a disaster…. they feel very isolated, and unique in their situation.

One of the worst things that take place in this country is that we’re not allowed to be who we are and still receive receive the basic necessities and comforts in life. This has 2 very basic drawbacks:

•We can’t be ourselves calm and we can’t open up about who we are and what’s going on in our lives truthfully -so we stay as sick as our secrets*(**)

•We train people to lie and deceive and not be real and truthful about who we are and who we are not they are not in order to get what society has to offer (WHAT WE OURSELVES NEED TO SURVIVE IN MANY INSTANCES).

I started noticing this pattern with women when I was going to college – If they weren’t interested (lie) or were spoken for:

• They would mention a boyfriend or a husband within the 1st minute.

If they were interested:

•They would ask you what you do for a living in the 1st minute.

So one day we’ll talk into this young lady -Sure enough, within the 1st minute she asked me what I do for a living. My response, “I’m (independently) poor 😄!” The rude… just walked off.

*It should be wrong that people who step forward and tell the truth are punished. “We should be encouraging not discouraging such behavior”. Certainly the second part of the aforementioned statement is correct.

** I think women in a lot of ways are much more healthy emotionally because maybe because they more readily open up to one another where as men….

***Women hate that men lie and deceive to get what they want. But there’s another side to that coin.. Is it the man’s fault that he can’t get what he wants by showing who he truly is? There’s gotta be a balance in here somewhere.****

**** Sure, we have to work hard and become better people and be dynamic in our lives… but at the same time there’s gotta be some acceptance of who we are and where we’re at in our lives as well. Acceptance from others (so we don’t feel the need to deceive, be ashamed…)… (and from our selves).

Mankind always has to come up with some funny little name for something.

How do we know it was released out of a lab by accident? There’s nothing like a live trial with a live subject right? Covid could have been a trial run. I don’t trust have a mankind as far as I can thrower.

We trust politicians in Washington (and locally) with our lives that we shouldn’t even trust with our own wallets.

LIFE IS FLIMSY, EVER-CHANGING… BUT GOD IS NOT! SO WHEN LIFE CAN NOT OR WILL NOT AFFORD YOU… GOD CAN! GOD WILL! 🤷‍♂️That’s about Ihow I feel right now -like LIFE CAN’T! LIFE WON’T! SOOOOoooo…

•7 am meeting -not much has changed

•People, out and about -not much has changed

•Got a text from my brother few minutes ago -cousin just passed away from Covid