Running The Circus
April 2026 | Getting into General Service | Featured Section

Running The Circus

Concept Seven tells her that AA is a living, breathing Fellowship kept alive by us—the people who once couldn’t keep a cactus alive

Let me be perfectly honest. For the first several years of my sobriety, anytime someone brought up the Traditions or Concepts my eyes glazed over like a donut in a church basement. You’d see the smile on my face, but inside I was internally muttering, Here comes the dictatorship nonsense.

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