Happy St. Patrick's Day. What an appropriate day for me to talk about hope and how it can be cultivated. I spent many St. Patty's Days in the bars drinking green beer or martinis with their green olives. That was a time in my life that I was very short on hope and didn't even realize that's what was missing. I was miserable, for sure, especially when sober, but couldn't put a name on the misery. However, I was convinced that if only others would change, I'd be just fine. That's what sent me off to my first 12 step meeting, in fact. Alas, that wasn't t[...]
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1 First let me say that I am delighted to see that some of you have been responding to my new blog. Please invite your friends to do the same. We learn from one another. I certainly don't have many of the answers to life's problems but I have learned to seek the solutions from fellow-travelers on this path we share. Because of the very recent release of my newest book on hope, I want to share another one of the essays from the book today. I want you to get a feel for what's there should you be interested in going to amazon.com or Hazelden.org or your closes[...]
