Love and Tolerance

For the first couple of years of my sobriety, one of my mainstay meetings was a noontime group that met daily. My drinking pattern toward the end had been to start drinking around noon and that meeting gave me a real sense of security. The couches were seedy, the room was dingy, the meeting was sometimes quite small, but it was home. Most of the regulars had less than a year, so sometimes the discussion focused more on problems than solutions, but there were a few people with three years or more who tried to keep us focused on living the AA way of life.