Things I am grateful for 18 March 2022, in no particular order

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13. Thank you, Its the basic things I need to hear

The war in Ukraine has me kind if feeling fragile. Idk how, but I kind of woke up in a AA meeting around 30 days into it. It was around this time of year. Virtually everything in my life had been ruined. An on and off girlfriend had told all of my friends and family that I "wouldn't make it". I stayed sober for a year after that just out of spite. No way was I going to allow her to be right. By then I had met Dr Dave and Sgt Earl. Two very unlikly saints I think now. Saved my life literally. That ws the spring of 92. Six months later in a coffee shop I was sitting with them, Sgt earl said I was the least likely guy to make it when he saw me come in. He would say things like "you still have a watch and a mother that loves you, you won't make it". He would squeeze a tennis ball during the meeting and when I asked him about it he said he "had to" otherwise he would punch out one of the regulars .LOL. I miss them. Thanks to Bill and Bob for AA and everyone that ever went to a meeting.