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Poets Wanted Here
Your Newsletter Committee invites you to
participate in a monthly AA Poem feature. Please submit your original poems to: sdaa.newsletter@gmail.com – 200 words or less.
Total Calls 1,607
Central Office Phone Calls and Website Hits
Meeting
General
12 Step
Daytime
902
230
48
9am-9pm
Nighttime
306
88
33
9pm-9am
Website Hits
November
Total
87,484
3,816,501
Come Clarity
When you go to Nothing land,
It’s nothing you expect.
There’s nothing work for you to do, And nothing to protect.
Nothing places for you to go,
And nothing pain to feel,
Nothing sorrows for you to know, Because nothing here is real! Nothing sand on a nothing beach, And nothing tears to cry.
Nothing stars in the nothing sky, Where the nothing birds all fly. Nothing smiles to warm your soul, And nothing food to eat,
With nothing friends to help you laugh, At your nothing places to meet. Nothing to hear you scream in pain, Nothing to help you through,
Nothing sanity to obtain,
And there’s nothing you can do.
When you forget to see, forget to hear,
Forget to taste and smell.
You begin to know, begin to fear,
You’re in a nothing Hell.
While wasting away in the nothing sun, Choking on nothing air,
You suddenly hold to the hope,
There is Something out there!
You rise upon your something feet,
And something makes you run.
With all of nothing to make you stop,
Your journey has begun!
As the nothing trees all start to fade,
In their “nothing” sort of way,
A something sun dawns a something sky, Beginning a something day.
The nothing takes time, but will soon be filled, Allowing you to feel,
Happy and sad, the good and the bad,
And everything that’s real.
By Mathew S.
Birthday Gratitude
Name
City/Home Group Sobriety Date Amt. Enclosed
Please mail to:
San Diego Central Office
7075-B Mission Gorge Rd
San Diego, CA 92120-2454
All birthdays submitted will be published the month following submission. Please contact the newsletter chair if a birthday has not been published for two months following submission.
Happy Birthday to All!
Heidi H. 11/30, 2012 AA By The Bay
Many A.A. members celebrate their birthday by sending a donation of one or two dollars for each year of sobriety to Central Office.
If you would like to carry on this tradition, please fill out the form below.