Back from Lost Wages....

Spent Thanksgiving weekend at a AA Roundup in Las Vegas. Had a great time and got a lot of fellowship in. My co-sponsor lives there, and the man who runs the Central Office is an old friend. Great Speakers and a lot of great Marathon meetings. Got a lot of recovery build up and feel really great to get back to Cleveland. The Sunday morning speaker brought up a good point that was new to me. He called it: The Baby Elephant Theory. When a baby elephant is being trained, his front left hoof has a rope around it and it is tied to a tree. He begins to pull and kick and move around for several days. Then he stops all the pulling and just stands still. He is used to the rope and no longer pulls. From that day on they just leave the rope go and when they want him to stand still they just tie the rope to a stake. He doesn't pull and just stands. That's kind of like when we first come to AA and we pull away and stomp our feet and walk away from time to time, until we get used to AA and then we just hang out and no longer fight it. It made a lot of sense to me. Time for a cup of coffee, see ya later. Bob