Chapter 1 Alcohol Is Power
"I ENVY PEOPLE WHO DRINK - at least they know what to blame everything on." - Oscar Levant
I did once envy people who drank. That, of course, was before Alcohol taught me what Addiction feels like on the inside. I was a Bartender when I first got Sober 26 years ago. I remained Sober for that first year only. Eight years of being on and off the wagon followed. I've seen the BLAME, SHAME & PAIN of Addiction in my childhood, before my first drink, during my 30-year Drinking Career and in all the years since.
Just about everything Oscar Levant is Famed for saying is a little off-center as if from his slightly askew perspective he may shed light on the hidden humanity he allows the reader to reveal (almost in secret) to themselves.
DRINK RESPONSIBLY is my granddaddy OXYMORON.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Oscar Wilde opens Chapter 1 (Alcohol Is Power) of All Drinking Aside.
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"Because you are alive, everything is possible." - Thich Nhat Hanh
Being OVERLY OPTIMISTIC has some possible DRAWBACKS. If or when failure ensues, as it inevitably on occasion will, Self-Blame and a sense of Moral Failure may result rather than a Realistic Humility and Reassessment of Goals and Strategies to Achieve them.
This very moment is Theoretically Impossible. After all, who could have predicted it? Every moment has many potentialities and possibilities. "If you're dead, there ain't much happenin'!" falls short of the logical conclusions one is to gather from this Quote by Thich Nhat Hanh.
If I can survive ADDICTION (& I have), a Good Life is at my feet and RECOVERY is POSSIBLE, DOABLE & IRREPLACEABLE.
I am more aligned with this Quote than is perhaps comfortable to admit. How do I explain that? I BLAME YOU, CULTURE OF RECOVERY!
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Oscar Wilde closes Chapter 1 (Alcohol Is Power) of All Drinking Aside.
Resolve to read it. Explore your own mind within its pages. Check out the 5 Star Reviews on the Amazon page while you're there: http://amzn.to/1bX6JyO Enjoy.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Frederick Nietzsche (pictured) opens Chapter 2 (Psycho Analysis) of All Drinking Aside.
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"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." - Thich Nhat Hanh
PANIC ATTACKS & AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS. Drinking took me there and still I could not let go. For 30 years, the Drinking Life was the only Life I knew. Eventually, even Relapse felt familiar.
The world seems never quite the way I perceived it yesterday. I must be gentle with myself. Letting go can be learned. Letting go of yesterday, retaining lessons learned and letting in the present moment. Life is impermanent. Wave after wave, yesterday, today, tomorrow, letting go.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Thich Nhat Hanh opens Chapter 3(Color Me Empty) of All Drinking Aside.
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"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." - Garrison Keillor
On Reflection, this Garrison Keillor Quote led me to this Favorite Verse:
“Halfway to Nowhere and Another Drink”
There was a time when I was not there,
But I did not know it yet.
I would drink to forget,
Forgetting what I did not know.
Not yet.
I did not know yet.
Where was I then, when I was not there?
For years I lived somewhere between myself
And the next drink.
I would drink to forget what I could not think,
Halfway to nowhere and another drink.
I was grieving and I did not know it.
Someone was dying, but I could not feel it,
Feel my own dying.
I could not own it because it owned me.
Denial is so hard to feel,
Yet, there it is, standing next to you.
You: Halfway to nowhere and another drink.
[from All Drinking Aside]
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Garrison Keillor
closes Chapter 3 (Color Me Empty) of All Drinking Aside.
Resolve to read it. Explore your own mind within its pages. Check out the 5 Star Reviews on the Amazon page while you're there: http://amzn.to/1bX6JyO Enjoy.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Samuel Johnson closes Chapter 5 (Maintenance Drinking) of All Drinking Aside.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
The Yiddish proverb which opens this post is from Chapter 6 (This Disconnect) of All Drinking Aside.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Alfred North Whitehead opens Chapter 7 (The Bottleneck) of All Drinking Aside.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Pearl S. Buck opens Chapter 8 (An Alcoholic Is) of All Drinking Aside.
Resolve to read it. Explore your own mind within its pages. Check out the 5 Star Reviews on the Amazon page while you're there: http://amzn.to/1bX6JyO Enjoy.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This Quote by Carl Sandberg (pictured) closes Chapter 8 (An Alcoholic Is) of All Drinking Aside.
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