After twenty one
years sober I think I know myself and can say, proclaim, and think as I please.
Not exact matches
That's a
sobering thought — for the first time in
years, we're trapeze artists without a net.
I've been
sober in AA for quite a few
years and have felt that I had to hide or defend my lack of belief in a higher power, but I
think much of that discomfort comes from my need to fit in.
It is a
sobering thought that Richard Wilbur, the two - time Pulitzer Prize - winning poet (1957, 1989) who was named poet laureate of the United States in 1987, is now ninety
years old.
But using many of the same methods, by the grace of rational
thinking, I've been
sober 23
years.
She herself followed a spiritual path alighned with American Indian belief system, but she expressed to me that Highe Pwer meant anything you Believe to be more powerful than you... after deep
thought over much time I found that I believe the ocean was more powerful than me and began the path of giving over my poerlessness to the sea... been
sober for 24
years and thay has evoved int not just the sea, but rocks.
I
think of Mr. P., a business executive and church member, who after many
years of periodic binges had been happily
sober in AA for three
years.
As each
year passes, I want to spend more and more time outdoors, and the
sobering thought that we need to preserve it becomes more and more real.
All this is
sobering to those who
thought Albany was starting to get its act together, based on the adoption of the state budget on time last
year and the passage of several major pieces of legislation.
«Future studies will need to very carefully investigate and access the toxicity of titanium suboxide nanoparticles in the human lung, and this could take
years, a
sobering thought considering its potential danger,» Hochella said.
The only
sobering thought is that we might have to wait another 10
years to see its completion.
Beginning to
think she needs help, several other isolated events related to drinking sees Kate going to AA meetings with Dave, himself a recovering addict and
sober for nine
years.
When ENR reads about people like Skyline High's Anisa Mughal, he is reminded of a quote (slightly altered to fit ENR's circumstances) from Tom Lehrer: «It is a
sobering thought to consider that by the time Mozart got to be my age, he had been dead for 16
years.»
But it's also
sobering to look at this overview of our work, for me encompassing 40
years, and to
think about where we go from here.
You can learn about the
sobering findings extracted from Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana (
think about 100 -
year megadroughts) here:
I
think, then, that it was the intention of this site to provide the
sober scientific analysis of the facts behind the hype of the press stories, such that people wouldn't over-react to the latest natural disaster and then over-compensate when we had a
year with below - normal hurricanes / tornadoes and assume that the scientist's had shouted «Wolf!»
I
think the language of catastrophism, chaos, doom — whatever you like to call it — has actually
sobered up, in the UK at least, having peaked about three or four
years ago when newspapers such as The Independent ran dramatic front pages on a regular basis, a new umbrella body for activists called Stop Climate Chaos came into existence, Roland Emmerich had the Atlantic Ocean freezing in an instant in The Day After tomorrow, and a leading thinktank lambasted a portion of the British press for indulging in «climate porn».
Most people don't
think about keeping their home damage proof until they go to compare homeowners insurance rates and are given a
sobering reminder of just how much out of pocket they actually spend each
year.