by Art Nicklaus | Nov 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Bill Murray, in his “sailing” scene from one of my favorite movies “What About Bob.” Someone I know and love refers to themselves from time to time as the “Black Sheep of the Family.” I know this person well, and they are NOT any...
by Art Nicklaus | Nov 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
I love this poem by Jane Kenyon and the many virtues it illustrates: perspective, wisdom, gratitude, awareness and so on: I got out of bedon two strong legs.It might have beenotherwise. I atecereal, sweetmilk, ripe, flawlesspeach. It mighthave been otherwise.I took...
by Art Nicklaus | Nov 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
This photo of Julee on an obviously old Roman era bridge was taken in October 2010 as we walked the Portuguese route of the Camino de Santiago. To “increase our Virtues bandwidth,” we must spend some time contemplating and practicing the virtues. The...
by Art Nicklaus | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
November, 2010, Julee & I at Trevi Fountain in Rome Step 11: “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” I just want to say...
by Art Nicklaus | Oct 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Twelve Steps and the Virtues. (Part 4) Step 8) “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” The first eight of the twelve steps remind me of the “Contemplation” prompts for each of the Fifty-two virtues in Little Book...
by Art Nicklaus | Oct 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Guess who???!!! Little Julee Archer (Nicklaus)! The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Part 3) 5) “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” There’s that word “admitted” again. As I pointed out, it can be found in...
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