Around the Tables

Around the Tables, I am learning each day to try to express in my daily living the principles which AA has given, not only to me, but to the world. I cringe when I hear references to "earth people" or "those out there," as though we AAs had some exclusive hold on sober, mature, serene concepts of living--and perhaps even more provincially, as though we were the only ones practicing such concepts. The mere reference to our fellow human beings as "them" damns the pretense.