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milkwood


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I've been drifting down a bit recently and then I had a wonderful day out with friends and I can't tell you how much that has raised my spirits.  

It is so easy to stay at home here but being with others really is important for me.  In the morning I went and had coffee with a girlfriend and her family.  She had made a wonderful coffee and walnut cake - my favourite since I was a little girl and I even have a routine for how I go about eating it!  In the afternoon I went for a truly magical walk with some other friends and some young people who were staying with them.  We were ten in total and we walked up a river, through a gorge and sat on some rocks before returning back to base.  Walking up stream, with water up to our thighs at times, was challenging and intriguing.  I could feel the water holding my feet down on the rocks on every step.  Returning with the flow of the water was rejuvenating and great fun.  Hop. Skip. Jump!  Splash!!  Loved it.



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thank you for sharing this! very happy you felt some good feelings!!! hugs



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Dear Milkwood Thank you for sharing such an important alanon tool. Participating in fun with a group of friends, sounds simple, but it is something I easily discard when I forget to take care of myself. How great it was to read about your day and see, taste and feel the experience.!! I loved your share

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Milkwood!  I so enjoyed reading the simple pleasures you chose for your today.  I am still smiling.



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Thank you milkwood for sharing. I am so glad you had a good day. It's amazing how our good days seem to revive  and rejuvenate us. Finding that inner peace, our serenity, is what it's all about.

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biggrinI could feel the giddiness in your story...loved it, loved it, loved it



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The program works when you  work it an I got the metaphor of your feet being held to the rock...grounded!!  It does that for me also. I have been asked by the local fellowship a lot lately, "How are you doing Jerry F"? and each time for me that is an inventory question...honest and grateful...and my responses are repeatedly, I have absolutely nothing wrong going on in my life.  It all is and all is acceptable.  I told my sponsor this morning when he asked me that question, "I love the feeling of being powerless, and having a grateful life".  It's the feeling of being blessed and I was standing with a half dozen other guys who were feeling the same way...go figure; no drugs or alcohol anywhere.  Mahalo Akua...Thank You God.   ((((hugs)))) smile



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