:: sweettalk ::
the musings and minutes of the committee meetings in my mind| [::..about..::] |
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| :: age: 41 |
| :: ancestry: english, scottish, irish, german, french |
| :: education: finance, real estate, sociology, economics |
| :: gender: male |
| :: home: dallas |
| :: orientation: gay |
| :: politics: libertarian |
| :: religion: christian |
| :: sign: pisces |
| :: species: homo sapiens |
| :: status: single |
| :: vocation: financial analyst/grad student |
| [::..recommended..::] |
| :: cybertheo |
| :: ethnic lounge |
| :: fate delivers |
| :: my quiet life |
| :: the search for love in manhattan |
| :: truck808 |
| :: usinpeace |
|
| [::..neighbors..::] |
| :: sometimeshappy |
| :: force of mouth |
| :: computer academic underground global headquarters |
| :: no smorking |
| :: serial experiments |
| :: radical wacko |
| :: archipelapogo |
| :: random thoughts from a large head |
| :: brilliant corners |
| :: communications paradigm shift |
| :: evaporated |
| :: prairie point |
| :: unadulterated text |
| :: time runs with an ax |
| :: portia of venice |
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| [::..reading..::] |
| ::
came to believe by alcoholics anonymous |
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twelve steps and twelve traditions by alcoholics anonymous |
| ::
the alchemist by paul coelho |
| ::
dune by frank herbert |
| ::
the death and life of great american cities by jane jacobs |
| ::
wherever you go, there you are by jon kabat-zinn |
| ::
if the buddha dated by charlotte kasl, phd |
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atlas shrugged by ayn rand |
| ::
we the living by ayn rand |
| [::..listening..::] |
| ::
time & tide by basia |
| ::
buena vista social club by buena vista social club |
| ::
born by bond |
| ::
michael buble'
by michael buble' |
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time out
by the dave brubeck quartet |
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dvorak: 3 great symphonies
by antonin dvorak |
| ::
a day without rain
by enya |
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crazyhorse mongoose
by galactic |
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joao voz e violao
by joao gilberto |
| ::
town called earth
by greyboy allstars |
| ::
josh groban
by josh groban |
| ::
synkronized by jamiroquai |
| ::
turnstiles
by billy joel |
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come away with me by norah jones |
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les miserables
by les miserables international cast |
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solo para ti by ottmar liebert |
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the best of matt bianco by matt bianco |
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listen without prejudice
by george michael |
| ::
trickle by olive |
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piano concerto no. 1/ rhapsody on a theme of paganini by sergey rachmaninov |
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wish by joshua redman |
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what's new by linda ronstadt & the nelson riddle orchestra |
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seal by seal |
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duncan sheik by duncan sheik |
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...all this time
by sting |
| ::
mercury falling
by sting |
| ::
under the covers
by dwight yoakam |
| [::..links..::] |
| :: all consuming |
| :: biz stone, genius |
| :: blo.gs |
| :: blogdex |
| :: blog matcher |
| :: dive into mark |
| :: extreme tracking |
| :: globe of blogs |
| :: technorati link cosmos |
| :: weblogs |
| [::..archive..::] |
:: Thursday, May 29, 2003 ::
God, I offer myself to Thee to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self that I may better do Thy Will. Take away my difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life. May I do Thy Will always.
Oh, that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would always be with me, and that You would keep me from evil.
Thank You for keeping me sober today. Amen.
Service ... is love in action, love “made flesh”; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products. -- Sarah Patton Boyle, The Desegregated Heart
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth. -- Shirley Chisholm, first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress, as quoted in I Dream a World by Brian Lanker
After I completed what little work I could find to do yesterday, I ready everything possible on DallasNews.com, Yahoo! News, and Slate.com. At the end of the day, I heard Doug talking about the Fixed Asset internal audit to his boss, and it sounded as if they worked everything out in preparation for Friday.
I stopped by home before heading to Nate's house for our Rebellion Dogs study group meeting. We discussed Tradition Two and Tradition Three and feasted on Drumsticks.
By the time I got home at 9:30, I was so tired that I could barely keep my eyes open. I took my meds and went straight to bed. I had very vivid dreams but can remember none of them right now. I slept for over ten hours and discovered why when making coffee this morning. I drank nothing but decaf all day yesterday.
While sitting outside on my kitchen stoop this morning, it dawned on me that I need to begin doing more service work. All my recent actions have been centered around myself -- my finances, my love life, my sobriety, my goals. I need not be concerned about my motivations for doing the service work, but just do it. I also need to be willing to make mistakes along the way as did the men in the traditions we discussed last night.
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