WALLY: Oldtimers & Ming the Pug

[Guest guest]

Wally --

When I was a kid, a friend's mom had one of those snarfing little

pugs, with the bulging eyes, that would spontaneously start humping the leg

of anybody who happened to be sitting down at their home.

The stuff you heard at the meeting makes me think the spirit of

little " Ming " is still here on Earth, aiming higher now that he has an

angel's wings, attacking these oldtimer's skulls with the same enthusiasm he

showed for legs when he was a mortal.

Bob

----- Original Message -----

> When I was pretty new I brought it up once for a topic at a discussion

> meeting. As I recall, the oldtimers' answers were something like this:

>

> --First, where we get " courage " from is initially by relying on our

> sponsors, then the group, the Fellowship, the Higher Power.

>

> --Second, the " courage " is a special kind: just " to change the things I

> can. " And what can I change? Only myself, and even that only with Help. I

am

> powerless to change " people, places, and things " so my only option is to

> Accept them.

>

> So it seems that Courage turns out to be yet another of those AA " special

> words " in the language of non-thought.

>

> --wally