The Shape of Things to Come

In the book Alcoholics Anonymous there is a chapter called "A Vision for You". Wandering through it recently, my eye was caught by this startling paragraph written a short five years ago. "Someday we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at his destination. To some extent thin is already true. Some of us are salesmen and go about. Little clusters of twos and threes fives of us have sprung up in other communities through contact with our two large centers---" Rubbing my eyes I looked again. A lump came into my throat. "Only five years," I thought. "Then but two large centers--little clusters of twos threes--travelers who hoped one day to find us at every destination."