“It was so cold where we were,” one man boasted, “that the candle froze and we couldn’t blow it out.” “That’s nothing!” said the other. “Where we were the words came out of your mouths in little pieces of ice and we had to fry them to see what we were talking about.” (Courier Journal…
Thought about our existence
The very fact that we exist makes it impossible to avoid affecting others positively and negatively.
Dad’s helper
A little boy was helping his father move some books out of an attic into more spacious quarters downstairs. It was important to this little boy that he was helping his dad, even though he was probably getting in the way and slowing things down more than he was actually assisting. But that boy had…
Page 66 of AA Big book
“We began to see that the world and its people really dominated us. In that state, the wrong-doing of others, fancied or real, had power to actually kill. How could we escape? We saw that these resentments must be mastered, but how? We could not wish them away any more than alcohol.” — Alcoholics Anonymous,…
How I Got into the Movies
How I Got into the Movies By Gunter David When I was eighteen years old, I came to America from Tel Aviv to break into the movies. It was a secret I kept from my parents, whom I had sold on the idea that I was leaving home to study journalism. Forty-five years later, I…
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