“He’s making me crazy I don’t understand. Why would someone say they were going to do one thing, then do something so different from what they say? He looks so good and talks so good. His promises sound so, so real, but then everything falls apart. I end up doing all this work, and he just disappears. I get so dang angry Then about the time I’m ready to blow a gasket, he calls, charms my socks off, and the whole cycle starts over again. I walk away, scratching my head and wondering, ‘What’s wrong with me? Did I just imagine this whole thing? Did I overreact?’ I don’t get it. I don’t understand,”

Maybe it’s time for an Al-Anon meeting.

“And when we’re talking on the phone, I feel like I’m the only one for him. But then when I see him, I know he’s lying to me. I know he’s seeing someone else and standing there looking me right in the eyes and lying about it. When I ask him, he says, ‘Your insecurity is enchanting, and you’re usually such a together person.’ I don’t understand why I feel so insane.”

Maybe it s time for an Al-Anon meeting.

“And then I catch him straight-out lying to me, and I blow up. I just can’t stand that lying stuff especially when

I knew all the time he was lying to me and he denied it. I put up with it and put up with it and then finally I can’t take it anymore. By the time I blow up, he’s standing there looking calm and serene and I’m acting like an insane person.”

Crazy people make us feel crazy. It’s not you. It’s him. How about that meeting?

“And then he calls a few days later, and he says how sorry he is and I can tell he’s sorry Before I know it, I’ve forgotten about everything that happened, and it starts all over again. I keep wondering whether I’m being used, and then I look at him and I just feel so guilty for everything I’m feeling and thinking. Oh yeah. That Al-Anon meeting.”

Step One: Powerless over people, places, and things. My life has become unmanageable. Take a deep breath. Say it again. Then say it one more time. Crazy people make us feel crazy It will happen every time.

Value: Detach in love. Disentangle. Un-embroil yourself from other people’s insanity so you can be restored to sanity. It’s a value many of us learned the hard way.

Source: January 2: Crazy People Can Make You Crazy | Language of Letting Go

Facing Our Dark Side (toddlohenry.com)
Daily Recovery Reading – December 15, 2011 (12stepsthinkaboutit.org)
The Crazy People File (nebraskaenergyobserver.wordpress.com)
Detachment With Love – What is it really? (k2togyarnsandwords.com)
Don’t Blame Yourself (or Others) (psychologytoday.com)
Downloads The Way Up and Out: Recovery from Alcoholism and the Al-Anon Companion Book (pyurbym.typepad.com)
Just Do It ‘Til You BELIEVE It (recoveryalongroute66.com)
The church is full of crazy people. (You + Me (WE) = Church: Part 2) (newequus.wordpress.com)
Marketing To Crazy People. (bizsetup.wordpress.com)
Have we gone mad? (1lifetale.com)
I’ll tell you what’s crazy! (jameshandlon.com)

January 2, 2012 0

Better days…

Happy New Year! May 2012 be your best year yet…

December 31, 2011 0

Simply brilliant…

David Byrne and the Talking Heads. Simply brilliant…

December 28, 2011 0

Bono, Christ and Christmas

As you celebrate Christmas, consider who we are celebrating. Music legend Bono puts it best when talking about Jesus Christ. In conversation with Michka Assayas he says, “Jesus being God isn’t farfetched to me. Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: He was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets…but actually Christ doesn’t allow you that. He doesn’t let you off that hook. Christ says, ‘No. I’m not saying I’m a teacher, don’t call me teacher. I’m not saying I’m a prophet.’ I’m saying: ‘I’m the Messiah. I’m saying: ‘I am God incarnate…’

So what you’re left with is: either Christ was who He said He was or a complete nutcase…I’m not joking here. The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me, that’s farfetched…The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That’s the point. It should keep us humbled. It’s not our own good works that get us through the gates of heaven.”

Source: Bono, Christ and Christmas | All Pro Dad

December 24, 2011 0

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

I first fell in love with this piece when I heard it in this form in middle school in 1972…

Now I appreciate this form much more…

Which one is your favorite?

December 13, 2011 0

Pachelbel’s Canon in D on Original Instruments

Some music can stop me in my tracks every time I hear it. Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of those pieces…

December 11, 2011 0

Reflections of my life

Ahhhh. This takes me back to deep reflections, pondering the mysteries of life in middle school…

h/t Presty the DJ

December 8, 2011 0

Your hands

Here’s a new favorite JJ Heller song that really touched me over the weekend…

November 7, 2011 0

Bono’s green guitar

Recently, Adam Bevell, who lost his sight more than two decades ago, attended his 20th U2 concert in Nashville. Throughout the show, he held up a sign that read “Blind Guitar Player: Bring Me Up!” And eventually Bono took him up on the offer by inviting him on stage to strum along to “All I Want is You” and then letting him leave with a parting gift. The green guitar…

via allprodad.com

October 21, 2011 0

Hail! Hail! Chuck Berry, the Father of Rock & Roll, Is 85

“If you had to give rock and roll another name,” John Lennon once said, “you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’” The man known as the father of rock and roll turns 85 today and he’s still going strong. To celebrate, we bring you this powerful 1958 performance of “Johnny B. Goode.”

via openculture.com