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Thursday, November 5, 2020

It's All In How You Look At Things


Rickicisms! Do you remember those? The late, great Rick D., an esteemed OA long-timer published his 70 program musings in the Foothill Intergroup newsletter over (at least) the last 10 years. At the October 26th, 2020 Intergroup meeting, the intergroup board voted to begin running a monthly Rickicisms on the the OA Footnotes blog. So, hold on to your hats people, we bring you...Rickicisms.

Fear and Perfect Program Person


I went to the Pasadena noon Thursday meeting today on Zoom.  As so often happens, I received a multitude of “God Shots” from listening and participating. It’s a writing meeting, and so I ended up with several lines of focused writing.  Today’s subject was fear, and the prompt was this: What action do I take when I become conscious of fear’s presence?