December 11, 2025

 This is my primary blog and not my god box blog. Sometimes they overlap. My word from my god box today is anonymity. So, I have been having conversations with various people about anonymity and how anonymous we should be. I had a meeting with a friend at ten and that went well. I re-connected with someone I haven't heard from in over a week. That is going well also. I have another meeting this afternoon and I'm going to a gratitude meeting tonight.

On the subject of anonymity, it's okay for me to say if I am in alcoholics anonymous, but it's not okay for me to say you are, if you are. Alcoholics Anonymous is not a secret society, although many of its members wish to keep their membership in it a secret. So, we sometimes advertise that we are available to those who need a solution to their drinking problem but we try not to brag that we are sober and dictate that everyone else should get sober too. That would defeat our purpose.

As with many problems, we tend to overthink things. If I make a post on social media that I have been sober for 28 years, and you click like on the post or make a comment about how long you've beem sober, then I have caused you to break your personal anonymity by making the original post. As if I had the power to make you react a certain way. Similar to all the posts about that orange guy down south, if I choose to make a comment on that post, then that is my choice. If you click like on my post about how long I've been sober, that's your choice. And, for the record, I have been sober 28 years and I didn't get this way by not talking about it. If I see an opportunity to be of service by mentioning it, then I will. I'm not doing it to get a pat on the back for a job well done.

I have to get going. I have a lot of cookies to bake and not just for tonight. Because of the festive season, there will be a lot going on over the next little bit, so I better get to it.