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"God. Thank You. for Good Health... for Good Food... for Clean Water" My Mantra... I Say this While Breathing Deeply and Relaxing... a How to Guide to Finding Balance...

(Inhale) God... (Exhale)
(Inhale) Thank You... (Exhale)
(Inhale) for Good Health... (Exhale)
(Inhale) for Good Food... (Exhale)
(Inhale) for Clean Water... (Exhale)

Repeat... 

Of Course... This can Be Expanded to Many Things I'm Grateful For... In a Way, This is a Traditional Saying Called "Grace" done before meals... 

I Tried doing a Mantra Written in Sanskrit, a Language I Don't Speak and Cannot Understand but It Just Seemed WRONG... So I wrote this One In English... I Usually Repeat the "God, Thank You" Part before every Item I'm Grateful For... 

Another Statement I say While Breathing Deeply is: "My Mind is Completely Relaxed, My Body is Completely Relaxed. and I'm Going Deeper and Deeper into a Hypnotic Trance..."

I Just Watched a Positive Uplifting Movie Called "The Secret" - Well Worth Watching... and Applying it's Meaning to My Life... Can't Possibly Hurt... SO, I'll continue Eating Good Food, Taking the Medicine that my Doctor Prescribes... Reading, Writing and Pondering the Meaning of Life, The Universe and Everything!

What IF "The Secret" was True? What is the Effect of TV News Where The Entire Nation Focuses Our Attention on Horrible Things? Talking Heads Endlessly Screaming "Danger Danger" and Promoting ANGER?

God, Thank You. I Am Healthy. I Am Well... My Mantra... I Say this While Breathing Deeply and Relaxing...

The Secret is a 2006 Australian-American spirituality documentary consisting of a series of interviews designed to demonstrate the New Thought "law of attraction", the belief that everything one wants or needs can be satisfied by believing in an outcome, repeatedly thinking about it, and maintaining positive emotional states to "attract" the desired outcome.
The film and the subsequent publication of the book of the same name attracted interest from media figures such as Oprah WinfreyEllen DeGeneres and Larry King.

I've heard this same message often before... 
and then...
There's the Song: "You've got to accentuate the Positive, eliminate the Negative, Latch on to the Affirmative, Don't Mess With Mister In- Between..." Johnny Mercer... 

and then There is "The Balance" by the Moody Blues... It's the Answer to the Question of Balance on that Classic Sixties Record... 

After he had journeyed
And his feet were sore, he was tired
He came upon an orange grove
And he rested
And he lay in the cool
And while he rested, he took to himself an orange and tasted it
And it was good
And he felt the Earth to his spine and he asked
And he saw the tree above him
And the stars
And the veins in the leaf
And the light
And the balance
And he saw magnificent perfection
Whereon he thought of himself in balance
And he knew he was.
Just open your eyes and realize the way it's always been
Just open your mind and you will find the way it's always been.
Just open your heart and that's a start
And he thought of those he angered
For he was not a violent man
And he thought of those he hurt
For he was not a cruel man
And he thought of those he frightened
For he was not an evil man
And he understood, he understood himself
Upon this he saw that when he was of anger or knew hurt or felt fear
It was because he was not understanding
And he learned compassion
And with his eye of compassion
He saw his enemies like unto himself
And he learned love
Then he was answered
Just open your eyes and realize the way it's always been
Just open your mind and you will find the way it's always been.
Just open your heart and that's a start
Do you, do you, do you, do you realize?
Just open your eyes and realize the way it's always been
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Just open your mind and you will find the way it's always been.
Just open your heart
Just open your heart and that's a start...

Yes... Quite a lot of Wisdom there,

Speaking of Health:
I've heard so many people say that they don't get a flu shot because they rarely or never get the flu. I don't understand why people view this as a reason not to get the flu shot. I hardly ever get the flu either, but I get the flu shot every year because on the off chance that I DO get the flu, I want to do whatever I can to make sure I don't get extremely sick from it. I don't understand the logic of "I don't get the flu shot because I never get the flu." Do people say this about everything they get vaccinated against? "I never got a polio vaccine because I never get polio." "I never got a measles vaccine because I never get the measles." It's an illogical argument.

Of Course, Logic is not used by the Anti-Vax Crowd... They make decisions by following orders given by FOX NEWS and other QAnon FREAKS... and... THOSE PEOPLE DIED more frequently from COVID 19 than people that Got the Vaccine... WONDERFUL! We Certainly Don't Need PEOPLE LIKE THAT in the Future. Thank you for dying!

Math Jokes, Memes and Cartoons... Laughs a Plenty... Plus FREE Meme: "If We Can Ban Books, We Can Ban Assault Rifles." on an American Flag!


Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42 
Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42

Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42

Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42

Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42

Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42

Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42
The Red Line is Also Curved.
Because it is Drawn on a Sphere...
The Earth!

"If the cosmos were suddenly frozen, and all movement ceased, a survey of its structure would not reveal a random distribution of parts. Simple geometrical patterns, for example, would be found in profusion — from the spirals of galaxies to the hexagonal shapes of snow crystals. Set the clockwork going, and its parts move rhythmically to laws that often can be expressed by equation of surprising simplicity. And there is no logical or a priori reason why these things should be so."

— Martin Gardner, "Order and Surprise," 1985 

(actually, There is No Need for Cessation of Motion... Just Open Your Eyes and SEE!)

Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain (1776-1831). She obtained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with mathematicians like Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss, despite early resistance from her parents and challenges posed by society. She was a leader in the field of elasticity theory and received the top honor from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her article on the subject. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem laid the groundwork for mathematicians to continue studying it for hundreds of years. She was unable to pursue a profession in mathematics due to discrimination against her sex, yet she worked independently all of her life. Before her death, Gauss had recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but that never occurred.

Math Cartoon and Meme - Jokes - a collection by gvan42

Do you think there will ever be a machine that will think like human beings and be more intelligent than human beings?

What is your take on this?

Let us read Richard Feynman’s Answer:

"First of all, do they think like human beings? I would say no and I’ll explain in a minute why I say no.
Second, for "whether they be more intelligent than human beings" to be a question, intelligence must first be defined. If you were to ask me are they better chess players than any human
 being? Possibly can be, yes, "I'll get you, some day".

-Richard Feynman" 

meme "If We Can Ban Books, We Can Ban Assault Rifles."


It's Not Right to Mock Stupid Republicans. Often, It's Not Their Fault. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome IS REAL... Remember the Words of Lady GAGA... They Were Born That Way!

and Others Have Suffered Permanent Brain Damage from a Lifetime of Alcoholism... For Example: Rude Julie Anna... His BRAIN IS FRIED!

Rude Julie Anna - Fried Brain meme

Other Republicans are Stupid Because they were "Home Schooled" and Their Teachers Were Poorly Educated... Others Grew Up in the American South... NOT Famous for the Quality of the Public SKOOLS... Imagine how Difficult and Confusing Life Would Be is You Couldn't Read or Write... and Arithmetic was a Mystery unless You Had a Pocket Calculator... 


Lady GAGA Says that God Makes No Mistakes... BUT... Yo Mama Coulda Made a Buncha Mistakes! What If She was a Drunk and a Trailer Park Meth Monkey? Smoking Tobacco While Preggers? Then You are Very Likely to Vote Republicriminal!

Remember: It would be totally RUDE to Make fun of a Person Rolling Around in a Wheelchair... For Example: Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott... It's all a Part of God's Plan that a Tree Branch fell on Greg's Back and Made Him a Cripple... It's as if God was Punishing Him for a Lifetime of Doing EVIL... Instant KARMA? 

and It's No Surprise that tRUMP was able to Fool the Poorly Educated Rural Racists... a Fast Talking New Yorker speaking to A Bumpkin... 

and tRUMP was Selling HATE... and Someone to BLAME... Just Like Hitler's "Our Problems are All the Jews Fault." tRUMP Blamed Blacks, Mexicans, Women's Libbers, Gays and College Graduates... and that Message was Cheered by Uneducated White Men... whose Lives were Falling Apart...  back in the 1950s a Man Could get a Factory Job and Buy a House for His Wife and Children... and If We Just could Travel in Time to Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear... Before Civil Rights, Before Women's Lib, Before Gays Came out of the Closet, Back when we Just DEPORTED Mexicans when the Harvest was done... and Back when a Man Could Get a Good Factory Job even if He Dropped out of High School to Take Care of his Pregnant soon to be Wife... 

Well... Guess What Retardo! Time Travel Does Not Exist... We are NOT Going Back to the 1950s... 

Andy Roonie at his Typewriter




Home Schooling is a Bad Idea. Guaranteed to Raise Poorly Educated Children That are Susceptible to QAnon Brainwashing... and MUCH MORE Goes on at Public School... For Example:

Team Sports... Children Learn How to Get Along With Other People and Work Towards a Common Goal... and IN LIFE there Will Be Many Other People... For Example: AT WORK... It's Useful To Have Years of Practice Getting Along...  

The Bottom Line is That REAL TEACHERS Are Better at Teaching... Especially Science and Math... There Really is More to Science than "God Did It." There is More to Math Than Pushing Buttons on a Calculator!  

and I'm in Favor of Teaching ACCURATE American History... For Example: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOaUnSmJr8

The Song "Teach Your Children" by Crosby Stills, Nash, Young and Garcia has an Excellent Animation... all about American History... 

Another Thing we Learned in School was SEX EDUCATION... I'm Really Glad I Learned Where Babies Come From...  It Isn't STORKS!

ALSO... I was a Member of the Drama Club and Performed in School Plays... I played Music in Bands and Performed at School Assemblies and At The Teen Club... You Can't do that with Home Schooling...

AWAKEN QAnon FREAKS!

I was Duped - QAnon Shaman
This Post was Motivated by: 
Some Guy on FaceBorg Said:

Ugh I just got an email from a far right group saying homeschooling is best to avoid indoctrination of 'our' children. I've been teaching my son how not to be indoctrinated by anyone, including myself. He will not be indoctrinated in the home and he won't be indoctrinated outside it if I've trained him well enough in critical thinking, reasoning, and respect for opinions across the spectrum of human thought.

One teacher said : "Parents, I don't have the persuasive or indoctrinating powers some of you might think I have. If I had those powers, I'd probably be using it to instill good hygiene and study habits in your kids, but alas I don't" (paraphrase). I loved all of my teachers - even the 'bad' ones as they taught me something else entirely.



I've been BLOCKED from Posting on FaceBorg for 3 Days Because I Said: "I'm so Old that I took LSD at a Grateful Dead Concert. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!" - In Response to an "I'm So Old" meme...

Thankfully I Have 12 Other Social media sites! Of Course, I'm Welcome to READ FaceBorg... and SHOP on FaceBorg... but NO WRITING!

anyway... Now I'm Back... and NOT writing about "Forbidden Subjects"

Grateful Dead meme - original art by gvan42 - psychedelic

Here's another "I'm So Old" Statement...
"carriage return" ... That's what the ENTER Key is Called on a Typewriter... I took typing class in High School but never actually typed anything... in College or at Work... I have used a Mimeograph Machine... To make Posters for Teen Club Dances... I Scratched large letters and Pictures on the Master Form... I Have used a Slide Rule during College Chemistry Class...Since I Graduated High School in 1972 I was Right on the VERGE of the New World... Men that were in the Class of 1971 were Drafted and Had to Go To Vietnam... but MY Classmates Registered for the Draft but Never were asked to KILL ANYONE... Wonderful!

Link to My Zazzle Webstore: https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan

Let's Teach Reading, Writing and Arithmetic In School. Why Did Florida Ban Math Books? So The GOP Could Teach "Alternative Facts" Like 2+2=5 also known as Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.

Math alternative facts meme by gvan42 purple64ets

Remember Kellyanne Conway? The Lady that said "Trump's Not Lying, He's Using Alternative Facts." She's in the News Again Saying: I Don't Want an Old White Man Telling Me What to do With My Body." - She's Pro Choice! A Brainwashed TrumpNik® but a Sane Human First!

Kellyanne Conway - the Leaker meme - gvan42 purple64ets
Was She "The Leaker" That Told "The Whistleblower" all about Trump's Perfect Phone Call to the President of Ukraine? It HAD To Be an Insider!
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I Really Enjoy the TV Show Jeopardy. I Wonder if there is a Similar Quiz Show for Republicans? Instead of Winning by Knowing Truth, The Winners Would be The Person That Could Repeat Trump's Lied Best!


Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome - meme - gvan42 - purple64ets


and I read on FaceBORG:
Don't be like Wal-Mart. Don't use lobbyist to bribe politicians so you can let taxpayers supplement the wages you should be paying your workers, then spend more money so mass media will convince the taxpayers the employee is the bad guy when he needs to use a food card to feed his family. Then pay some more money to lobbyist so your multi-billion dollar record breaking profit corporation can evade paying taxes that would help America! The six owners of Geed-Mart make about ($200,000 a day each). Yes really. You pay extra taxes to help them pay their workers. Did you know you also pay extra taxes to supplement CEO bonuses? BTW you think you are saving money when you shop at Greed-Mart. Your not. As well this is not just Wal-Mart. It is hundreds of multi-billion dollar record breaking profit corporations doing the exact same thing to us America.

Freedom Quest - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 purple64ets

Freedom Quest - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 purple64ets

Freedom Quest - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 purple64ets

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Interesting Author: Derrick Jensen... deep ecology - and David Grinspoon - How we can engineer our way out of global warming.

http://www.derrickjensen.org/

Required reading at Humboldt State University: A Language Older than Words... about inter species communication... Like between Me and My Cats... 
 http://www.derrickjensen.org/work/books-dvds-cds/

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Interesting author: David Grinspoon - Deep Ecology - How we can engineer our way out of global warming.

Yes, we are clever monkeys... We can figure a way to solve our own problems. Looking at our history over millions of years, we have figured out how to survive every time and it's likely that we will do so this time too. Geoengineering might work!

I saw him talk about his book at the Smithsonian Institute and his words were uplifting. Just because we have not come up with the solution yet is not cataclysmic because there are smart people being born every day. Maybe one of them will think of something new. Like a giant air conditioner that moves excess air pollution into space...


Quote from the Amazon webpage about this book:
For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures. By comparing Earth's story to those of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows what a strange and novel development it is for a species to evolve to build machines, and ultimately, global societies with world-shaping influence.


Bees Love our Crepe Myrtle Tree. Blossoms all year round... Helping Wild Bees Survive.
Bees Love our Crepe Myrtle Tree. Blossoms all year round... Helping Wild Bees Survive.

CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY With an Exercise Bicycle Power Generator. ZERO POLLUTION. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery...


Hundreds of Thousands of exercise Bicycles
ALREADY EXIST and they Create ZERO Electricity...
Let's All Email PELOTON and ask them to
Build USEFUL Power Generator Bicycles!
Bicycle power generator. HSU CCAT
detail of Bicycle Power Generator showing the Belt Driven Alternator... and MY SHADOW

What if we installed electric power generators on every exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt State University

If You Can't Go To an AA Meeting, Here are All the Words We Read... "MEETING FORMAT", "The AA Preamble", "HOW IT WORKS", "MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM", "THE TWELVE TRADITIONS", "THE PROMISES" and Many Many More...

MEETING FORMAT
Hi everybody, welcome to the (day & time) meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, ________ Group. I’m an alcoholic and my name is ______.
Shall we open the meeting with a moment of silence followed by the Serenity Prayer.
Read the preamble (What Is A.A.?), on the other side of this sheet.
Have someone read How It Works .
Have someone read The Twelve Traditions.
Have someone read More About Alcoholism.
Ask if there is anyone within their first 30 days who would like to introduce themselves
Any visitors from outside the area
Any birthdays
Anyone here for their first meeting ever.
Read The Announcements.
Ask if anyone has something to discusss, or suggest a topic. (If the meeting is large, ask that comments be kept relatively short.)
Pass the basket for our 7th Tradition around ½ hour to 45 minutes after the meeting has started.
Meetings are 1 ½ hours (ending at 1:30 PM, 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM ), but the group conscience can decide to allow the meeting to run longer.
To close, read or have someone read The Promises or other approved A.A. literature (such as page 164 of the Big Book).
Announce we will close the meeting in the usual manner.
Stand and recite The Lord’s or Serenity Prayer as a group.
Enter the amount of the 7th Tradition money collected, date, & time of meeting on the envelope. If there were book sales or H & I contributions, list separately. Turn in to the landlord.
Turn off coffee maker, fans, heater and lights. Make sure the hall is clean and ready for the next neeting. Confirm door is locked when you leave.

Keep Coming Back - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42


The AA Preamble
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

One Day @ A Time - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42

HOW IT WORKS:
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest. Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it - then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely. Remember that we deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power - that One is God. May you find him now! Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.
Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with it!” Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
(c) That God could and would if He were sought.


MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM:
Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death. We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that were regaining control, but such intervals - usually brief - were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better. We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet. Despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to believe they are in that class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic. If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can do the right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to him. Heaven knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to drink like other people! Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with or without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums - we could increase the list ad infinitum.


THE TWELVE TRADITIONS
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
2. For our group purposes there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every A.A. group ought to be full self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

THE PROMISES
If we are painstaking in this phase of our developments, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest is our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. (pages 83 - 84)

THE SERENITY PRAYER:
God Grant me the Serenity to Accept the things I cannot Change, Change the things I Can and the Wisdom to Know the Difference.

Photo of Mom's AA Chico, CA. Meeting Hall...

This hall was closed by the city health department.
It was a miracle when it was alive... 
 It Was in the Haven Motel...

NEW LOCATION:
Mom's AA 
  • 2109 Esplanade Ste 110, Chico CA 95926 [MAP]
Mom's has meetings every day of the year... 
rain, sleet, snow, fire, heatwave, earthquake... 
they still have a meeting... 

AA Slogan - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42

AA Slogan - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42

A VISION FOR YOU
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God.
Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows.
Clear away the wreckage of your past.
Give freely of what you find and join us.
We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit,
and you will surely meet some of us
as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.
May God bless you and keep you - until then.
(page 164 of the book Alcoholics Anonymous)

Prayer of Saint Francis:

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.

Thank You! Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42
Thank You! Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42


MY MEDALLION
I always carry my medallion,
A simple reminder to me
Of the fact that I'm in recovery
No matter where I may be.
This little chip is not magic
Nor is it a good luck charm.
It isn't supposed to protect me
From every possible harm.
It's not meant for comparison,
Or for all the world to see,
It's simply an understanding
Between my Higher Power and me.
Whenever I doubt the cost
I paid for recovery,
I look at my medallion
To remember what used to be.
It reminds me to be thankful
For my blessings day by day,
And to practice the principles
In all I do and say.
It's also a daily reminder
Of the peace and comfort I share
With all who work the Program
And show they really care.
So I carry my medallion
To remind no one but me
That the Promises will unfold
If I let God work for me.
submitted by Roger... THANKX

Let us also remember to guard that erring member, the tongue and if we must use it, let us use it with kindness & consideration & tolerance.
Part of Dr. Bob's Farewell speech... Quoted from the book "Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers" a fine book.

"If you want that feeling of uselessness and self pity to disappear, quit being useless and pitiful." A favorite saying of Tom from Eureka...
The Touch of The Master's Hand...

'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer
Thought it scarcely worth his while
To waste much time on the old violin,
But held it up with a smile.
"What am I bidden, good folks," he cried,
"Who will start bidding for me?
A dollar, a dollar" --then, "Two!" "Only two?
Two dollars, and who'll make it three?
Three dollars, twice;
"Going for three --" But no,
From the room, far back, a gray-haired man
Came forward and picked up the bow;
Then wiping the dust from the old violin,
And tightening the loose strings.
He played a melody pure and sweet
As sweet as a caroling angel sings.
The music ceased and the auctioneer
With a voice that was quiet and low,
Said what am I bidden for the old violin?
And he held it up with the bow.
A thousand dollars, and who'll make it two?
Two thousand! And who'll make it three?
Three thousand, once; three thousand twice;
And going, and gone!" said he.
The people cheered, but some of them cried,
"We do not quite understand
What changed its worth?" Swift came the reply:
"The touch of the master's hand.
And many a man with life out of tune,
And battered and scattered with sin,
Is auctioned off cheap to the thoughtless crowd,
Much like the old violin.
A "mess of pottage," a glass of wine;
A game -- and he travels on.
He's "going" once, and "going" twice,
He's "going" and "almost gone."
But the Master comes and the foolish crowd
Never quite understand
The worth of a soul and the change that's wrought
By the touch of the Master's hand.

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