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Thanks Michael, hope all is well with you.
today is the next step in the journey......paw
Thank you Michael! How are you doing?
Keep coming back!
Ann
Michael. Please share. Haven't heard from you in a while. What are you up to? You can e-mail me if you want. C
Living a happy, joyous, and free life by embracing the mind, body, and spirit.
Hello to all my recovering brothers & sisters.
just want to say that i am doing well and living life on lifes terms, not always having things going the way i would like them to but overall i am sober and realitivly happy, a couple of relationships that didn't turn out he way i would have liked but at least i walked away from them with dignity and behaved appropriately, as an adult. One major change is the fact that Alcohol & Drugs played no part whatsoever in the break up's.
one of the many issues that keep haunting me is my past, yes my criminal backround. It keeps me from getting employment that would better advance my financial goals. I know money can't buy happiness but it but it is an important part of society today.
It is my hope that the economy picks up because that is a factor i feel in my not getting the work i prefer. With so many people out of work employers get swarmed with applications for well paying technical jobs and screen for the cream of the crop, and having a clean criminal record plays a big part in the hiring phase.
So for all of the young people that still have clean backrounds and are just discovering they have a substance abuse problem , i urge you to take my advise and get it right as soon as possible and keep your good name , because our family and friends may forgive us but society is another story altogether. When it comes time to apply for a position that you know you are perfect for and you have all the skills to proform that job, that D.W.I , possesion of a controled substance , that disorderly conduct, or that fight you had back at that party where you were arrested and caught that assault charge is going to pop up when they run your SS # and the computer starts to spit out two or three pages of how much of a screw up i was back then.
on the positive note of things . Today i am going camping for the weekend with my best friend who is proud to hang out with me after my recovery and keeps telling me how much he respects me and how i am a power of example. i am meeting his two son's in narrowsburg N.Y. where he has property on the delaware river. I play with my nephew almost every day he is two years old and he looks just like me when i was his age,, i love him so much. these things would not be possible if i were stuck in some bar, crack house, or shooting gallery or in jail or dead. This is what keeps me going and gives me much graditude.I know i don't post much these day's and i have my reasons. i do not give advise other than what my experience has been through my journey of addiction and recovery and i do not use this site or the internet as a replacement for making meetings. I take what i hear at meeting that i feel will help me and i leave the rest. I do not respond well to attacks on my posts, some of the replies i have read come from people i feel are not addicts at all and havn't a clue of what they are saying.
I responded to a post where a mother was struggeling to save their child and was attacked for being brutely honest and the fact still remains, no one can save us from ourselves! sometimes we hard core Addicts /Alcoholics, have to go through hell before we get to heaven. I believe in interventions , but when they fail and a loved one is doing more to save that person then the person themselves, I feel that isn't helping at all it's most likely a co-dependent, caretaker issue and that person would be better off taking care of their needs and hopefully be stronger and better equipt should the Addict find their way back and really want's the help. I know it sounds harsh but these are proven facts.
One last thing is i didn't like it much when this site added the recovery coach program. I miss a few good people that were once a part of the family but i feel this recovery coach thing put lines up and when crossed with advise, violated the rules of engagement for recovery coaches because the advise was free of charge. Why would i pay for a coach when i can get a sponsor for free at a meeting? I was posting regularly to one person in piticular and was told when they became a recovery coach that they could no longer give advise because it violated the paying recovery coach program.
Michael, thank you so much for sharing that with us. I remember well when that little nephew was born, hard to believe he's 2 now.
Have fun camping, I know how much you enjoy that.
And as for the 'attack' posts, some people have trouble with the bare facts when they're either in full addiciton or enabling and they have to learn for themselves.
Understand completely about the recovery coach program. Seemed to 'break up the family' so to speak, but I guess that's life. I try to keep in touch as much as I can. You know you can email me anytime.
Good Morning, Michael.
Good to hear that you are doing well. Everyone is struggling with the unemployment situation. I hope that things begin to look better for you. Try the workforce centers, temp services, anything you can do, so that you can get temporary unemployment. I have a friend in NYC that needed money recently and posted on craig's list to clean homes. She made enought to survive. Maybe you can look for alternative work until the job situation begins to change.
You seem to be growing and I hope you have found some peace and gratitude in your day to day journey. There are a lot of benefits from sobriety and enjoying life and life's gifts are definitely a part of it.
Some of us are still here on site, and some are not. Either way, we would like to see you participate and share with us more often. We have some new members as well!
Glad you shared with us. Your friend, C
Hi Michael!
Glad that you are doing okay! Hope your camping trip was fun! As far as the people that want to attack or yell at you, I would agree with PAW. They are still dealing with their raw emotions. They need someone to yell at, so instead of their families we get yelled at. It is not pleasant, especially since we are on this site in our free time trying to help someone. Just let it go! Hope we hear more from you!
Thanks for the info Michael.
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BREAKING: 9/11 Families March on City Hall As City Seeks to Stop Fresh Probe of Attacks from Going on November Ballot; NY Supreme Court Hearing 9:30AM Tuesday Will Determine Fate of Referendum New York City – Yesterday, The New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group comprising 9/11 family members, first responders and survivors, led 300 New Yorkers from Battery Park to City Hall in protest of the City’s attempt to block the referendum for a fresh probe of the 9/11 attacks from going on the November ballot. Today, the Court ordered litigants to present arguments before Judge Edward Lehner at a hearing scheduled for 9:30AM, Tuesday at the New York Supreme Court, Room 252, 60 Centre Street. On Sunday, 9/11 family member Manny Badillo welcomed the crowd at Battery Park, "Today we are marching peaceably to let the world know that the City of NY is defying the will of the people to have one question on the ballot, the question to have a proper independent investigation to answer 100% of the questions raised by the 9/11 families." Mark Crispin Miller, author and professor of Media Studies at NYU spoke of the lack of accountability. He noted that after 9/11 "no heads rolled"; until recently when Obama adviser Van Jones was forced to resign because he signed the "9/11 Truth Statement" in 2004. http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633 Miller said he too signed the statement and would sign it again "in ten seconds." At City Hall, Daniel Sunjata, star of Fox’s “Rescue Me”, gave a rousing speech challenging the integrity of the 9/11 Commission. Specifically he cited the fact that 60% of the Commissioners have admitted deficiencies their own investigation. Speaking about the City’s challenge to NYC CAN’s ballot initiative, Sunjata said, "Although 80,000 New Yorkers have voiced their desire in writing to include on November's mayoral ballot, the referendum for a new investigation, the City has responded by saying it has no jurisdiction into the murder of 3000 of its own citizens. Look at the lengths to which they have gone to evade allowing the residents of this city a chance to vote for answers and accountability." Bob McIlvaine wrapped up the rally emotionally, saying, “I have one job in life until the day I die… to find out who murdered my son." On Friday, the Court-appointed Referee submitted his recommendations in which he sided with the City. This morning, the Petitioners’ attorney, Dennis McMahon, filed a motion requesting a hearing to allow for arguments challenging the Referee’s “fatally flawed” report. According to McMahon, “No other case pending in the New York courts has a higher priority, so we expect a judgment this Wednesday.” 9/11 family members, first responders and survivors will be attendance at the hearing tomorrow morning. If the Petition overcomes all legal challenges, goes to the November ballot and passes, it would lead to the creation of a local, independent commission with subpoena power that would be tasked with comprehensively reinvestigating the attacks.
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