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One of the reasons I started going to Al-Anon meetings so many years ago was because I was fighting constantly with my older brother, who at the time was a very active alcoholic. I used to say such horrible things to him, often right in front of his children. Of course, fighting with an alcoholic will not change the alcoholic's behavior,
... read full entry >by Charles Bukowski, from The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
for Jane
225 days under grass
and you know more than I.
they have long taken your blood,
you are a dry stick in a basket
is this how it works?
in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.
when you left
you took almost
everything.
I kneel in the nights
before tigers
that
... read full entry >About 15 years ago, and for a period of several years, I had a very difficult time dealing with a brother's alcoholism. (To a lesser extent, I also had issues with my father's drinking.) One of the things I did to help me deal with my co-dependent behavior was to go to Al-Anon meetings. And in Al-Alon they give you a little book with daily
... read full entry >I just wanted to post some pictures of my cats, Jasmine and her daughter, Athena. Here are a couple of pictures of Jasmine.


You may not be able to tell in the photos, but Jasmine is a little bit of a fatty. Before she was taken off the streets, she was a stray pregnant cat and then a stray nursing cat. I suppose she never quite forgot
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