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Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2016 11:48:28 AM

something more.
Phase two we wait -- phase one went well we are safe and sound in the USA and waiting for our next hop home. It has been a long morning of movement north and west, and now that I have a bit of down time, I am going to post my first live post in a week. Oh I have a few others that I will be adding over the day, but I wanted my live one to go first. So there just may be a flurry of activity on this site after a week of ghostly silence.
First off I am clean and in no danger of graduating the program any time soon. I have had a few “bright” ideas over the past week, as the “normal” vibe was starting to rub off on me. Yes and the tropical attitudes were as well, after all mon I am from Colorado and I do not want to even total up the number of times in the past week I was asked if I brought something legal down to the tropics with me. So it goes, the lesson this addict learned was it is not a very good idea to slack on meetings before vacation and to be prepared for unwarranted assumptions once the other 85% figures out that I am from Colorado. What a concept, accepting who and what I am, and taking steps, not only the 12 in the book, but making preparations for being out of touch, before I get out of sorts.

TJ
Congrats on 6 years clean
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Looping back to the notion of becoming something more is not a bad place to be. The past two weeks has been an exercise in what I can do and just get by. Getting by is okay, but I do not do this gig, day after day to just scrape by. I stay clean just for today, because I want to thrive PERIOD. I have seen what happens to addicts who settle for just getting by and I am unwilling to subject myself to that abject misery. No sir, no way I want to be something more today that I was yesterday, even if that means that I have to listen to and implement a new idea or three. Anyhow I m going to work on getting the rest of my vacations posts up and posted, so watch out friend, family members and fanboys, I am back.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

1) He who knows these two things finds in them also his model and
rule. Ability to know this model and rule constitutes what we call
the mysterious excellence (of a governor). Deep and far-reaching is
such mysterious excellence, showing indeed its possessor as opposite
to others, but leading them to a great conformity to him.