Daniel Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes We need to be dreamers, we need to dream again in order to live again. The recovered life is a … Read more
“No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.” ~Harry E. Fosdick Life can be funny at times. No matter how long we are at it life has a … Read more
How to get out of the Rut! Getting stuck in a rut is not a fun experience. When the days get long and your attitude dwindles to mediocre at best it is time to do something different. The recovered life is proactive living. There are several things you can do to help shift the momentum … Read more
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. – Sophocles I was blessed and had the privilege to take my son Liam to freshman move in day yesterday. It was exciting to say the least. I could see the apprehension all over him, the school was a … Read more
CHAMPIONS RISK what others DARE not; DREAM what others think impossible; DO what others say can’t be done. – Jason James Hun I am with or meet new champions every day. The champions in life to me are those folks that begin life anew. The folks that say, “enough is enough”. The ones that mean … Read more
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman As alcoholics and addicts when we are actively using we have nothing more to look forward to then more … Read more
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?” – Dolores Huerta Forgiveness absolutely goes both ways. We need to forgive ourselves as well as forgive others. For some of us this concept is a contradiction and causes us to be disturbed at times. Yet the truth is simple, if we can not … Read more