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Been feeling strange all day. Tired, a little melancholy... I think it;s just "one of those days"
been poking around a little bit online, trying to find some more information about "Women's Studies" because quite honestly, I think that may be something I could really thrive in, at least academically. But talking about school is a ways off... I need ( Read more... ) -
OA: Of Initiations and Better Days
Celtic Tree Month of Rowan Begins!
January 21 - February 17: The Rowan Moon is associated with Brighid, the Celtic goddess of hearth and home. Honored on February 1, at Imbolc, Brighid is a fire goddess who offers protection to mothers and families, as well as watching over the hearthfires. This is a good time of year to perform initations (or ( Read more... ) -
OA: For Today: We are Not a Diet Club.
"The process of changing a lifestyle is more important than reaching a goal or measuring performance." -Theodore Issac Rubin
There are many fundamental differences between diet clubs and Overeaters Anonymous. But perhaps the major difference is that in OA preoccupation with diet and weight loss is replaced by the vastly more interesting, ( Read more... ) -
OA: A New Day
"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on with all wisdom that experience can instill in us." - Hal Borland
Whether it is the beginning of a new year or a new month, week, or day, it's tempting to make resolutions, to swear off, to promise reform. Before OA I did not know that these pledges were misguided attempts to be in ( Read more... ) -
Metal Rabbit Year Predictions, for those interested!
THE METAL RABBIT YEAR 2011
(February 3, 2011 - January 22, 2012)
In Rabbit years, life slows down. After the tumultuous and difficult Tiger year we lived through (or didn't) in 2010, we all need to decelerate. Nature must have planned it. Give people a horrible Tiger year, full of war and pestilence, struggle, strife and ( Read more... ) -
OA: Gee, The Traffic is Terrific!
I am going to be a little off in my For Today readings, just because yesterday's seem to mean so much more to me.
December 22nd
"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Commend all to God(dess), and then lie still and ( Read more... ) -
OA: Support
"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one person can make me do what I am capable of doing: myself. But I need as much support as I can get from friends, sponsors and every single one of the OA members who go to meetings week after week.
It is important to be clear in my mind ( Read more... ) -
OA: Forgiving the Need to Survive
"Nature does nothing uselessly." - Aristotle
What does it take for any living thing to grow straight and true to itself? And if survival is threatened or growth interfered with, what further measures are needed?
There is a natural force in all things that keeps pushing to make them as true to the original as possible.
If compulsive overeating ( Read more... ) -
OA: Keep it Simple
"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leads to another." -E.B. White
Life, on the whole, has been pretty simplified for me. I don't have to worry much about rent. I have enough funds every month to know I wont starve (Like I would ever let that happen!), I have clothes that fit and the internet at ( Read more... ) -
OA: Sacred Awe
"The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic, and more despairing: Sacred Awe!"
- Nikos Kazantzakis
One of the greatest blessings a compulsive overeater can hope for is a capacity for awe: to be filled with a sense of mingled wonder, gratitude, and reverence for ( Read more... )