“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this
marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.” ~ Jimmy Breslin

Stopping the habit of drinking alcohol is the easy part,

staying stopped is the hard part.

With the help of a Higher Power and friends who

have been there and done that the transformation

of the physical, mental and spiritual being from problem

drinker to useful citizen can be accomplished,

one day at a time.

Don’t drink, go to meetings, and let that marvelous personality

shine through so that you may be of maximum service to self,

others and your Higher Power.

Happiness is rescuing your true personality form the wreckage of the past.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss

SPECIAL EDITION

Say happy birthday to the Ole Curmudgeon

No. 82, 1/31/1944

Poem:

do I need an hour to be happy ? ? ?
are we the animal social ? ? ?
small talk and being chatty
a habit, a routine, devotional

using a libation to open up
inhibitions and morals erased
deluded to drink from the loving cup
dreams and thoughts that are not chaste

and then comes the morning after
do I remember being happy
tears of regret drown out the laughter
the mind stretched like pulled taffy

introduced to a new way of living
choosing to be happy all of the time
turned from self centered to giving
from the grandiose to the sublime

every day filled with laughter
a sober life is all that matters

Me and the Boss

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

Do you have a mind??

Do you know where your mind is??

Do you know what state of mind your mind is in??

Are the squirrels, who are chasing the nuts in their cage,

making your mind go around in loud circles??

Are you happy??

If you are not happy, ask your Higher Power, family and

friends to help you learn happy.

Learn to go to happy places with happy people and

learn to do happy things.

Pray for the guidance and the courage to seek out the happy.

Happiness is having a mind to be happy.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss