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Index to: Life Sucks Better Clean
More Recovery Meditations For Hard Cases

Life Sucks Better Clean is a recovery blog in which, when the spirit moves, I put in thoughts, observations, meeting stories, jokes and sayings heard in meetings and from the recovering. Below are the titles and links to particular meditations. Sometime in the future I will be selecting the best of these and publishing them in book form as a sequel to my Yesterday's Tomorrow meditation book released by Hazelden. Who will publish Life Sucks Better Clean is still a question at this point because there is some discomfort concerning the title, which is not going to change.

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LOOK FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."  Thomas Edison

 

 

BOMBING ZOOM MEETINGS

Like we didn't already have enough opportunities to grow.

ONE #$@%*! DAY AT A TIME!

Going to any lengths to keep clean

When It Rains It Pours

Going to any lengths to stay clean getting longer

Dragon Slayers: Open For Business

There's something deadlier than Covid-19 out there.

The Enemy of Change

Adapt, Improvise, overcome, or die.

The Oldtimer's Dictionary

Or What Gooses the Gander is Good for . . . Something.

Covid-19! Shortages! Cancellations! What'll We Do? What Will We Do?

We are so good with change. But now it's change or drop back into the nightmare.

Hugs and Bugs ~They're everywhere! They're everywhere!

Think the Corona Virus is a good enough excuse to quit meetings?

New Day's Resolutions ~Some more of that one day at a time stuff
THINKING ABOUT REHAB? ~Is there life after recovery?
Life Sucks Better Clean ~ Table of contents
How To Design A Higher Power —Believing is Seeing
Taking Miracles For Granted —You never learn anything by shouting
The Dues —“No fees or dues” isn’t quite accurate
Getting In The Groove —The fallacy
AGAIN . . . and again, again, again . . . —Going back is a choice
Small Meetings —Moving ego aside
The Ouching —How to get to laughter
Getting Up One More Time —Lesson from PyeongChang
A Happy, Safe, Grateful, and Sane New Year To You All
Lonely And Alone For The Holidays —Behind enemy lines
Bah, Humbugs! —Milk and cookies? Really?
Who Did It? —Meet the enemy
The Meeting Today —Things learned
Independence Day —Who celebrates, and for what?
The List Maker —Who is making yours?
Focus & Early Recovery —Away, fly, away
What Price Sanity? —Very inexpensive and costly
Black Gloomy The Dragon —Be aware
How Does Your Garden Grow? —Parable and quotation
Hot Air —Another parable
An Unnatural Act —Sharing and Miracles
Instant Resentments? —Who do you know?
Death On Death's Terms —On that better deal
I Never Got Into Trouble With Pot —War gaming
The Addict As Optimist —Attitude and gratitude
Word —Walking the walk
Where To Mark Time? —Maybe . . . ?
Rethink That Higher Power Thing —Another parable
Question For The Day —?
Dead, Drunk, and Stupid —Pick Your Path
Testing Love And Faith —Yet another parable
Blokes —What can you do with recovery?
Hope —Things just might get better
Peace On Earth, and Yeah . . . Right —The price of tolerance
What Makes Great? —Use the tools
Anniversaries —It’s much more than the snacks
Helpful Thoughts —An open mind
Faith For The Faithless —Another test
Growth Moments —Dealing by dealing with
Recovery: An Action Program —Do it or lose it
I’m Only Hurting Myself —Just think about that
Just What Are Old-Timers Good For? —A test
Wants And Needs —What do I need the program for?
Your Higher Power Is Talking To You —Careful what you ask for
Living On Borrowed Time —For the clock watchers
Something New To Worry About —Worry
Smart And Dumb —Nolan’s Observation
Tombstone Sobriety —Ain’t no using when you’re dead
Thanksgiving —Looking for the good
The Promise —A chance choice
When Expectation Fails —How to multiply your misery
Post Election Woes —Acts still have consequences
Trump – Clinton: Think About It —Acts have consequences
Without Low Self-esteem I’d Have No Esteem At All —Putting it together
Who Am I? —Tough question to answer honestly
So, What Is A Drug Anyway? —Good to know
First Things First —What you make more important is important
Up and Downs —Two plus two still equals four
The Stats —Something you can change
Humility Is . . . —It's not humiliation
One Of These Days . . . —Another character trait
Signs of Character —How more than what
How To Remove A Fly —Can you hear me now?
What Message Are You Carrying? —Newcomers can tell
Food For Thought —Life is tough
What's It All About? —Just a word on freedom
It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere! —Searching
Using the 600 Pound Telephone —Reasons to call
"I've Tried Nothing And I'm All Out Of Ideas" —Battle cry
How To Stay Off The Menu —Tarter sauce
Letting Go —An important difference
Stealth Denial —As long as you're not going anywhere anyway
Recovery: Whose Job Is It? —Important answer within
Revelations —Three Things You'll Never Hear From An Addict
Power and Powerlessness —Things that are in your power
A Useful Prayer —This one is a big help
Drug Snobbery —When reality calls
First Days —That better way
A Thought For The New Year —Wisdom
Don't Pick Up? If I Could Do That . . . —Doing what it takes
Not Lost In Translation —The meaning of meeting
New Year's Resolution —The worst day of my life
Happy New Year . . . and what? —Beginning a gratitude list
HAPPY . . . Whatever —Merry —what did you say?
Changes —Scenes from real life
Gratitude and Focus —Achieving gratitude
The Family End —It doesn't matter who takes the drug
Are You On Your Own Team? —HP can't do it alone
Had Enough? —And just what is it going to take?
We Can Fix It —Maybe; Maybe not
A Life Second To None —Better than using
Hello, Reality —Introducing life without chemicals
Balancing Balance —Using the program or abusing it
One More Good Morning —Not taking the bait
What About Rehab? —Tired swimming with the sharks?
A Portable Recovery —Handling change
Reaching For Help —Strong enough to lift that phone?
Never Give Up! Never Surrender! —Making alliances
May You Be Safe From Dragons —The green and mean
All That Glitters Is Not Gold —Getting off your ass
Beware The Malignant Flyspeck —The problem inflation problem
The Slip —How are you doing?
The Program Is For the Birds —Another parable
The Financial Insecurity Blues —A parable
Good Morning, God! —A visit from an old ghost
Unity and Recovery —Do I miss it?
It's 3:00 AM – Do You Know Where Your Serenity Is? —Sleeplessness
A Simple Program —How to do it
The Hit List —Envy can kill you
The Missing Member —Don’t short your team
Wiggle Room —Adapt, improvise, overcome
The Problem —Mirror mirror on the wall . . .
Perspectives —We aren’t supposed to be here
Looking For The Light —Or a parachute
What's On Your List? — Priorities
What's Important? —Something new
Life Really Sucks Better Clean —The next ten minutes
Channeling The Inner Human —Making yourself a good day
Every Act Is A Spiritual Act — Big choices
This New Day —Some useful prayers
Balancing Act —What are you chasing? What’s chasing you?
Life's Tough —And it really is tough enough
A Man Called Brian —A Parable of perfection
Seeker In The Rain —Stop, look, and listen
Inner Peace, Inner Peace—Not quite all better
Instant Gratification vs. Life —Why try? Here’s why.
Growing Up In NA, by Hannah Huggins
Program Acronyms —Store High In Transit
Resentments & The Passive Shit List —The secret to letting go
3 AM And The Ever Diminishing Suck — Going for the whole package
Gratitude Short List —Some days
Why And How Gratitude —Doing the long list
A Reach For Happiness —A reason or two for coming back
The Next Ten Minutes —Thoughts when parting
Two Wolves —What’s the voltage in that thing?
Addendum —A group effort
Looking For A Better Deal —If it’s too good to be true . . .
Uncle Jimmy —Some of the people you meet
A Dream On My 30th —The secret to success
Holiday Blues —Your Option
Revenge or Justice —And who gets the bill
Resentments —A parable
Vision —Seeing is seeing
The Recovery House Rules —Unity not uniformity
Recovery Or What? —Testing the waters
What Are You Willing To Do? —Facing the monster
Meeting Addiction —What to do
The Way To Go —The winning way
The Parable of the Sparrow —Giving things a second look
The Prayer and the Plan —Whose plan was it anyway?
Change —The comments more interesting than the post
Solving Problems —Maybe my sponsor was wrong
Focus —Twelve step roadmap
Fear—An old familiar feeling and a choice or two
A Cry For Help —There are places to go
The Old Timer From Massachusetts —A parable
The Parable of Willy Red Tag —There may be more to learn
The Parable of Harvey and Jesus —Had enough yet?
The Parable of Thomas and the Juju —As we understand HP

 

Life Sucks Better Clean —Reality is still real

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