Not an auspicious start.

I've had the flu.  Part of my housebound routine has been to resume writing poetry at a site called The Starlite Cafe.  I'm sure there are many other places I might find more congenial.  I've been to a few which have not lasted, and a few more where my welcome wore out.  I posted a challenge poem today.  I played fast and loose with the challenge phrases to create couplets following the Steps of OA.

Recovery Step one occurs once you believe In yourself is no reprieve Step two is taken with assent To guiding wisdom transcendent Step three unites your will with It Find and follow Yield Submit Step four takes a fearless look To the future clean of gook Which confessed upon step five To God and sponsor lets you strive By step six to willing be Stop holding on to a memory Step seven taken on your knees To One who from all defect frees Step eight now memory requires Of persons harmed by mean desires Step nine implores you find and mend Where further harm does not attend Step ten is lifelong vigilance The misdirected man repents Step eleven quiet and still Listening for the Master's will Step twelve announces life set free In all respects shared gleefully Multi-Challenge -- MOVING ON 'believe in yourself' 'look to the future' 'holding on to a memory'

Hiatus

I didn't blog during Advent, as was the intent, here or elsewhere.  My excuse is that Advent is about listening and watching outside ones self.  Good blogging probably the same.  And I'm too drawn toward navel gazing.  Not very entertaining.  And not a posture where one might see stars, much less follow.

The season now is Epiphany.  The dogs are fed scraps.  And rulers come to declare from among the least of us, one among and above them.  Whatever that says, and good things were said on Sunday, it says to me that those who try to stop me, in doing so, validate me.  There are a zillion qualifications to that.  Do they need to be stated?