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the musings and minutes of the committee meetings in my mind

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[::..about..::]
:: 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



[::..reading..::]
:: came to believe by alcoholics anonymous
:: 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
:: 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'
:: time out by the dave brubeck quartet
:: dvorak: 3 great symphonies by antonin dvorak
:: a day without rain by enya
:: crazyhorse mongoose by galactic
:: 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
:: come away with me by norah jones
:: les miserables by les miserables international cast
:: solo para ti by ottmar liebert
:: the best of matt bianco by matt bianco
:: listen without prejudice by george michael
:: trickle by olive
:: piano concerto no. 1/ rhapsody on a theme of paganini by sergey rachmaninov
:: wish by joshua redman
:: what's new by linda ronstadt & the nelson riddle orchestra
:: seal by seal
:: duncan sheik by duncan sheik
:: ...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..::]

:: Friday, July 23, 2004 ::

gratitude

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.

A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, act 2, sc. 7

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience,” Essays, Second Series

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust, “Regrets, Reveries, Changing Skies,” no. 12, Pleasures and Regrets

I've awoken feeling relatively better the past couple of days. That does wonders for my mood. Yesterday was a good day. I've made progress on the reconciliations at work. Eric called and he's following up on the referral bonuses I've earned. I went to dinner with Mom and Dad at the Olive Garden last night and then chaired the eight o'clock AA meeting at Lambda on humility. I'm just thankful to have more energy again. Thanks God.

:: Kyle 5:26 AM 2 comments
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:: Friday, July 23, 2004 ::

gratitude

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