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THINGS TO DO AND PLACES TO GO Third Weekenders Camping Pinezanita Campgrounds & RV Park
Where: 446 California 79, Julian
When: October 18 - 22
Contact: Bill H: holmes.family.8925@gmail.com
Group and District Treasurers Workshop Where: Recovery Center, 9940 River St., Lakeside When: Saturday, August 24, 1:00 - 4:00 pm Contact: dcm_11@area8aa.org
61st ICYPAA Entire Psychic Change
Where: Boston Marriott, Copley Place, Boston When: August 22 - 25
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
Monterey Bay Area Round Up Keep it Simple
Where: Monterey Conference Ctr, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey When: August 30 - September 1
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
Carlsbad Annual Labor Day Picnic Where: Calavera Hills Community Park
When: Monday, September 2, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
16th Annual AA
San Diego County Men's Banquet
Where: Golf Club, 1750 San Pablo Dr, San Marcos
When: Friday, September 6, 6:00 pm
Contact: Jeff K. @ 760-271-6677 or Mike R. @ 760-518-3766
35th Annual Laguna Mountain Harvest Moon Kickback
Where: Lake Henshaw, 26439 Highway 76, Santa Ysabel When: September 27 - 29
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
Emotional Sobriety Workshop Where: Church, 6556 Park Ridge Blvd., San Carlos
When: Saturday, October 12, 1:00 - 4:00 pm Contact: dcm_12@area8aa.org
2020 International Convention Where: Detroit, Michigan
When: July 2-5, 2020
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
Big Book, Chapter 7; Working With Others page 89
"Practical experience shows that nothing will so
much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill."
Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Traditions Long Form; Step 12, page 192 "And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the principle of anonymity has an immense spiritual significance. It reminds us to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all."
Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
Big Book page 354
"It Might Have Been Worse" "Could I be an alcoholic without some of hair-raising experiences I had heard of in meetings? The answer came to me very simply in the first step of the Twelve Steps of A.A. 'We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.' This didn't say we had to be in jail, ten, fifty, or one hundred times. It didn't say I had to lose one, five, or ten jobs. It didn't say I had to lose my family. It didn't say I had to finally live on skid row and drink bay rum, canned heat, or lemon extract. It did say I admitted I was powerless over alcohol - that my life had become unmanageable. Most certainly I was powerless over alcohol, and for me, my life had become unmanageable. It wasn't how far I had gone, but where I was headed. It was important to me to see what alcohol had done to me and would continue to do if I
didn't have help." Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
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