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| 1. | . . .what suggestions they have for improving the magazine and for reaching a wider audience The fact that the Grapevine is by AA members for AA members. | January 2000 | |
| 2. | 3-8-97 (by Ishmael H.B.) California -- Thinking about that first drink of beer. The sound of air escaping the bottle. The smooth kiss of its glass lip. The warmth of its amber tongue sinking into every cell of my body. It isn't far from this thought to the nearest convenience store. Two years of sobriety are flashed down the toilet in fifteen minutes. I drink a six-pack and go to sleep. 1-6-97 4 a.m. | January 2000 | |
| 3. | A Hard Spiritual Labor (by Valery M.) AA reached our city, Krasnodar, situated in South Russia a few miles to the north of the Black Sea, in 1993. We now have a six-year history of liberating people from alcohol addiction following the Twelve Steps. Our group, Sissitia, consists of twelve participants. In our city of 700,000 people we have a few anonymous alcoholics, but the number of those who still can't give up this charming practice is overwhelming. We can bring the horse to water, but we can't make it drink. This proverb illustrates the attempts of the AA movement to expand in our region. We make ourselves known in all the mass media, people come, listen, and go back to the delirium of getting drunk ... | January 2000 | |
| 4. | A Magazine for All Ages (by Agnes M.) Arizona -- In my twenty-first year of sobriety I discovered that the Grapevine is not just for newcomers. In my earliest days in AA, my kind and patient sponsor finally gave up on getting me to read chapter five of the Big Book. She understood that my constant whining meant that I couldn't comprehend anything with thoughts so erudite nor with such long sentences--i.e., anything over three or four words. Of course I explained to her that I was unique and that chapter five didn't apply to me anyway. | January 2000 | |
| 5. | Anonymity-- (by Diane O.) California -- I believe that anonymity--the spiritual substance of it--is more important than ever today. The spiritual substance of anonymity--self-sacrifice--is the cement that binds us, that allows us to stay alive and well and growing. Most of us arrived in AA as egomaniacs, power drivers, manipulators, glory seekers, and islands unto ourselves, self-obsessed and possessed. Here we learn that each of us is only a small part of a great whole; we learn that our unity is the most cherished quality that we possess; we learn that our lives and the lives of all those to come depend on this unity; and we learn that our AA heart would cease to beat without that unity and that therefore our world arteries ... | January 2000 | |
| 6. | Archives--The Invisible Craft (by Judit Santon) When I started to work at the Archives of the General Service Office in 1994, I was genuinely amazed by the long history of archival service within the Fellowship. The GSO formally opened its Archives Department in 1975, but the first efforts to collect, protect, and preserve the history of the Fellowship were started as early as the 1950s by the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W. | January 2000 | |
| 7. | Are We Y2K Compatible? (by R. S.) Montana -- There's a lot of information out there about the new millennium and getting everything to be Y2K compatible--from your ATM to your VCR. Seems like we in the Fellowship might not be an exception. When I think about AA in the next millennium, I wonder where I'd like to see AA go in the next one hundred years. What are my hopes and dreams for this Fellowship of men and women who surrounded me and gave me back my life? What would I like to see in the future? | January 2000 | |
| 8. | Back to the Future (by Anonymous) Japan -- Where should AA go in the twenty-first century? It is nothing short of miraculous that Alcoholics Anonymous exists in some 150 countries today. But the on-the-ground reality in most nations is that the growth and success achieved by AA in its native United States remain far from being fully duplicated. | January 2000 | |
| 9. | Before and After (by Gretchen G.) California -- I was twenty-seven when I got sober. I went to meetings, read the Big Book, called my sponsor, got active as group secretary, picked up ashtrays, and washed cups. I also kept my apartment picked up, watered my plants, played with and fed my dog, worked at a boutique, and tried to learn how to live sober. | January 2000 | |
| 10. | Cybriety (by Susan B.) My first support group was AA, but it wasn't the traditional meeting that people first think of. My AA group was on the Internet. | January 2000 | |
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