Sober Musicians: Treating Life Well

Happy Birthday Dan!!

Gabe — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:24:45 GMT

May this be your best,
most magical year ever.
I love you,
Molly

For Those Still Struggling

Gabe — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:12:54 GMT

God grant us the serenity,
to accept the things we cannot change,
the courage to change the things we can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Blessings out,
to all those who feel unsure and can't make the choice,
to be, "done".

Another celebrity trainwreck

Gooch — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:46:36 GMT

Corey Haim dead at 38.

What a waste.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100310/...o/us_obit_haim

WOW! I'm jazzed!

TomTerrific — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:40:51 GMT

I just heard one of my songs on the ray-dee-oh! First time in something like 8 or 9 years!

OK, it was a put-up job. Brian, our bass player and my sponsee, has a show on his college radio station, a couple of hours a week. This was an all-request show and I jokingly requested some Spiny Norman. He said "send me some". I sent him the recording of "Rainbow" that I did for my early 90's album. He loved it, even though we already play it in the show, so the song was no news to him.

Still, it's about a buzz and a half to hear your stuff on the radio, even if exactly three people are listening.... :toothy:

Funny recovery jingle

TiffLA — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:05:26 GMT

I thought this concept was cool. Check out this "Love Jingle". I guess it's a 14 day account of this guy's journey through the 12 Step Program.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

or you can find all the videos at www.lovejingle.com

What are your thoughts? I have watched the other 6 episodes (tomorrow episode 8 is available). I think it is funny and raw.. curious to see how it ends

big rains on the way

blizzardm17 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:32:15 GMT

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steven dimartino---Trouble is brewing however over the Mississippi Valley. A strong disturbance, which has already produced severe weather over Oklahoma and Texas, will slowly move east towards the northern Mid Atlantic on Thursday.

I expect clouds to increase through the day on Thursday with rain develop towards the evening hours as a warm front approaches. The warm front will remain over the region on Friday, producing periods of light to moderate rainfall, especially along and ahead of the warm front.

As the surface low pressure system redevelops over Virginia on Friday evening through Saturday, the combination of high pressure to the north and low pressure to the south will lead to a strengthening easterly wind from the surface to 700 MB. This strong easterly fetch will produce periods of steady moderate to heavy rain over much of the northern Mid Atlantic, but especially along the immediate coast of New Jersey and much of Long Island. There will also be an increasing threat for coastal flooding due to the persistent easterly wind through Saturday afternoon.

The coastal low will move just to the east of the New Jersey coast on Saturday evening with periods of heavy rainfall, especially from the Delaware River Valley on through southern Connecticut and Long Island with up to 2 inches of rain possible on top of the rainfall that has already fallen from Thursday evening through Saturday afternoon. The upper low associated with the coastal low will capture the coastal low on Saturday night and cause the storm to become vertically stacked. This will lead to the low pressure system stalling over the New York City metropolitan area, but also lead to rapid weakening as well. Due to the low pressure system at the surface and at the upper levels, remaining over the region, the threat for scattered showers will continue through Sunday evening.

some are calling for over 5 inches of rain with this system for parts of the northeast

E, S & H made obsolete

Sugah — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:53:46 GMT

Hi, folk. I was going to post this in the 12 Step forum, but I think it's applicable to more than just 12 stepping. I might only know one solution that works, though I don't purport that it's the only solution. So, I'm here.

Online recovery forums have been a supplement to my face-to-face recovery program for a long time. Here, I'm at home, though I visit a number of other places that are -- shall I say? -- outside my comfort zone. And I think that's good for me -- I don't presume to be understood like I do here. I have to contextualize my E, S & H a little more other places where folks don't know me so well.

Anyway, you all know here that my "experience" runs the gamut from booze to licit and illicit drugs alike. I seem to find myself sharing most often with opiate addicts, maybe because in meetings and around here, I come in contact with quite a few drunks -- so, that experience with opiates shouldn't go to waste, right? I mean, everything's useful in the right circumstance, right?

Except it's not so much anymore. I find myself sharing my detox and recovery experience with someone hooked on pills or heroin, only to have someone follow me up to say -- cold turkey detox is archaic, cruel, no addict should be expected to go through it, it's a sure prescription for relapse, etc., etc. Essentially, "Thanks for sharing, Sug, but C/T is old school, and we don't kick it old school anymore -- we've got suboxone now."

And I guess I'm developing a little bit of a resentment. I don't wish it had been any other way for me. Once I was free, all I had to do was learn to live free. I didn't get free to find myself on a leash, you know? And I realize I do judge the quality of recovery using my own as a yardstick. I'm trying to let go of that. I'm trying not to do it.

I don't want anyone to pat me on the back, but, man, it's frustrating. Just about the time someone online starts finding hope that he or she can do this thing, someone else pipes up, paints this glorious picture ("No more cravings! Just take a $#%@ pill every day!"), and off they go, in search of a doctor that paves the easier, softer way.

Wow, looking back, I guess I'm a little more resentful than I thought. And I know my ego is involved. I'm hoping that by putting it out there, I can get over it.

Thanks for letting me share.

Peace & Love,
Sugah

Gratitude

Gabe — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:24:09 GMT

In an effort to keep us all in an "attitude of gratitude" I am going to suggest that anyone who would like to participate, post five things they are grateful for every day.

1. My glorious children. They are the light in my life.
2. My safe haven, my place to be "at home".
3. All the people who have shown love and compassion for my son in his time of loss.
4. A husband who loves me.
5. My sister, who is also my best friend.

God, I Miss Good Guitar Players

Gabe — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:09:22 GMT

I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
Gonna pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again
Amen.
Say it again
Amen.
I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening?
I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
When the morning light comes streaming in
You'll get up and do it again
Amen.

Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender
Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
And the junk man pounds his fender.
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait
For the ice cream vendor
Out into the cool of the evening
Strolls the Pretender
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there

Ah the laughter of the lovers
As they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others
But to choose off and fight
And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams
Sail out of sight

I'm gonna find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams
And then we'll put our dark glasses on
And we'll make love until our strength is gone
And when the morning light comes streaming in
We'll get up and do it again
Get it up again

I'm gonna be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
where true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender.
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender.

Say a prayer for the pretender
Are you there for the pretender?
Say a prayer for the pretender
Are you there for the pretender?
Are you prepared for the pretender?

YouTube Video
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The Garden...This Year

Gabe — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:56:42 GMT

Hope springs eternal.
That is what planting seeds is about.
Hope,
that maybe,
somehow,
things will grow and life will get better.
It's been a tough winter for my boy and I.
We planted "Dad's Marigolds" a while back.
They are beginning to sprout.
He brought home a lovely geranium from school last year that we brought inside,
and kept healthy over the winter.
Tonight, we put one jalapeno,
one green pepper,
two tomato and
two bean seeds in to sprout.
A small indoor project to watch and tend until the weather gets nice enough to move
our garden outside.
Here's to melting snow and green growth outside.

Success

Gabe — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:02:05 GMT

Putting negative possibilities out of your mind allows you to focus on tasks that need to be addressed in the moment so you can achieve success.
We often sabotage ourselves by letting distressing hypothetical situations that may or may not come to pass depress us and keep up from pursuing our goals.
When you choose not to harbor pessimistic thoughts,
your mind becomes free to concentrate on the practical aspects of realizing your aims.
You won�t be distracted by a fear of failure or anxious visions of potential roadblocks. Instead, you�ll look optimistically toward the future and consider your path in a solution-oriented and pragmatic way.
When you push negative thoughts out of your mind today,
you will have more mental energy to devote to proactively pursuing your goals.

~From The Daily Om

Just because they rocked...

Big Rob — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:41:43 GMT

Stumbled across it tonight. God bless the guitar player !

Anyone else ?

Do you think he might have been drinking?

garyd — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:34:29 GMT

MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) - An Elma man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a one-car crash near Montesano.

Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel said Monday that 50-year-old Roy M. (maybe we should preserve his anonymity) was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday night and called a relative to pull his car out of the ditch.

When family members arrived they found Messenger electrocuted. Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn't see the live wire.

Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through the body.

For The Ladies

Gabe — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:29:48 GMT

A man wakes up in the hospital bandaged from head to foot. The doctor comes in and says, "Ah, I see you've regained consciousness. Now you probably won't remember, but you were in a huge pile-up on the freeway. You're going to be ok, you'll walk again and everything, but....your penis was severed in the accident and we couldn't find it."

The man groans, but the doctor goes on, "You've got $9000 in insurance compensation coming and we now have the technology to build a new penis. They work great but they don't come cheap . It's $1000 an inch."

The man perks up. "So," the doctor says, "you must decide how many inches you want. But this is something you should discuss with your wife. If you had a five incher before and get a nine incher now she might be a bit put out. If you had a nine incher before and you decide to only invest in a five incher now, she might be disappointed. It's important that she plays a role in helping you make a decision."

The man agrees to talk it over with his wife. The doctor comes back the next day, "So, have you spoken with your wife?"

"Yes I have," says the man.

"And has she helped you make a decision?"

"Yes" says the man.

"What is your decision?" asks the doctor.

"We're getting granite countertops."

round 4 ?

blizzardm17 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:39:39 GMT

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steve d--Another winter storm is possible by Wednesday as a moisture loaded area of low pressure exits the Gulf of Mexico and moves towards the Mid Atlantic. The exact storm track is still in question at this time, however the areas most likely to receive accumulating snowfall from this storm will be over the Philadelphia metropolitan area up through north-central New Jersey and the immediate New York City metropolitan area. Given the development of the 500 MB pattern in this time period, northeastern Pennsylvania through the Hudson Valley, and Connecticut will likely have limited impact from this storm.

gimmie a break:snowplow: