BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME

The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., had a flair for envisioning the future. He was what might be called a constructive worrier: he could easily imagine worst-case scenarios, but he could also imagine workable solutions to problems. By the mid-nine-teen-forties, Bill looked around at the Fellowship, and this worrisome question came to him: What will happen to AA when the old-timers are gone? It was a question that most AAs didn't want to think about.