Much homework, and some snow, I think....

The weather report is lousy with snow, beginning this afternoon and stretching into the wee hours of tomorrow morning. Depending on who you talk to it's either a foot or 5 inches we'll be getting. In either case, let this be the end of winter, with all of its greyness and solemnity. I am looking forward to sunnier climes and balmier breezes, shucking off the heavier clothes of the dark months and digging my feet into a pair of sneakers.

One of the stranger hobbies I have, engaged in very rarely, is surfing the net for anti-AA websites. They are out there, and the webmasters are uniformly angry, bitter, resentful, and somewhat fearful of AA and any 12-Step recovery program, actually. Most of them have tried it and balked at the idea of self-investigation and discovery. Almost all of them are still drinking or doing drugs and blaming AA for brainwashing people into submission. The word 'cult' is thrown around willy-nilly and there are many disparaging remarks about the 'God-thing'. Oh well, I guess they didn't hear all the stuff about a 'god of their understanding' or getting sober to actually have a life outside of AA. Plus, I don't think AA is a cult. If it were, no one would be allowed to leave and if they did, we would hunt them down and force them to come back.

I would also be 'King John' and you would all be my willing and subservient followers.

Laugh. That's a joke.

Last night at a local meeting a girl shared about being kicked out of her re-hab and wanting to use, and how she thinks AA is a cult, and an offshoot of the church, and that all she will have in her life is work and meetings, etc...The poor thing is barely 21 years old. She hasn't lived enough life to actually have lost one yet. How would she know the difference?

Anyway, here's a picture I took a week or so ago...


Johnnyboy