This is a good reading for me today. "What's so important about being right?" anyway? In the past I always had to be "right" it really bothered me if I was proven to be wrong, or just thought of as "wrong". I guess my self-esteem somehow came from proving that I was "right" in some way.

Today I can say "you may be right" and let it go. I don't have to be "right" all the time either. I am not perfect. I am not God. There is only one that is always right, and that is my HP, whom I chose to call God. I can rely on Him for answers and not have to judge my A.

Thank God for this program and thanks debilyn for asking me to post these daily readings. It has helped me to really "think" through each one every day.

Yours in Recovery,

Overcome

yes, thanks for posting these. I have read this before and needed to read it again.

Your all very welcome, but the thanks really goes to debilyn, one of our moderators, who thought having some literature on the board would "make it a more alanon home to have" with the literature postings. Glad my service could be of help to anyone. It's been the most help to me for every day I get the privilege of posting these readings.

Thanks,
Overcome

Hi (((Overcome)))

I am worried about your posting of the daily readings out of copyrighted literature.

While I fully understand your doing this out of wanting to be of service to your fellow members it is not allowed by the WSO to post their copyrighted material without their permission electronically on the internet.  With written permission, you may post small excerpts from their copyrighted materials, but never substantial passenges, such as a full daily reading out of one of our daily readers.

I am sure you understand that literature sales is the primary source of income which allows the WSO to continue to be of service to Al-Anon members world wide.

It states in the Al-Anon/Alateen service manual that "The WSO does not grant permission for substantial reprints of CAL".

It further states that "Whenever a violation of copyright comes to the attention of the Board of Trustees, it is the responsibility of the Board, through its duly appointed representative, to notify the violator.  This is necessary to avoid the invalidation of the copyright".  In short that reads to me that if they don't try to stop those from violating the copyright then the copyright will become invalid.  The WSO...who is us..Al-Anon...would then lose the rights to the material...and the potential income it generates.  Which as stated above, would be very detrimental to Al-Anon's efforts to support each other world wide.

With all due respect to Debilyn or any of the other moderators, no one here at MIP has the authority to "allow" the posting of copyrighted material.  And by the way that is not just CAL either...thats ANY copyrighted material.

I do not mean to offend you or anyone.  I am just concerned.  I also feel it is my duty to try to point out when I think something that is potentially harmful to this sight is going on. 

I don't want to lose this place.  And I don't want to potentially hurt Al-Anon as a whole either by depriving it of resources.

I have been hoping for days that one of the moderators would address this issue so that I wouldn't have too but I realized today that it is just as much my responsibility as theirs to help to protect this place and my program.

Please know I point all this out with nothing but kindness and concern.

Yours in Recovery,
David