Around AA

My very first reaction when I received this loving invitation to address the question of substantial unanimity was "Poor me, why do I always have to get the tough ones?" My second thought (following very closely on the first) was to get our happy archivist to do the research for me, which I would then summarize and present as a detailed, foolproof set of procedures and guidelines to apply directly to all circumstances. (Those of you with an alcoholic mind will of course immediately recognize the big Ego and the attempt to go for the easier, softer way.) And then the third thought (which came only long after) was that I was stuck with this and I would have to stumble through in my own clumsy way.