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Co-host of Crosstalk the Podcast. Sober since 8/11/13.

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As America turns 250, I wanted to share my favorite moment in the past 250 years. #Cubs

[DOM @DOM_Frederic]

THE LAST THING THIS LEAGUE WANTS TO SEE

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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Frank Michael Smith @frankmikesmith]

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me trying to decide if I should sleep or not cause I love sleeping but I love my free time at night even more

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🚨 New Episode Alert: “Don’t Drink and Don’t Be an Asshole.”
Billy B. shares hitting bottom during COVID, getting sober for his daughter, and finding help through SMART Recovery. Real talk on accountability, recovery, and hope. 🎧 #recoverypodcasts #soberpodcasts #

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And her deathbed playlist is elite:
🎵 Gimme Shelter — The Rolling Stones
🎵 Black — Pearl Jam
🎵 Karma Police — Radiohead

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New episode out now: Step 2 – The Evidence File 🎙️

What if some of the strongest proof in recovery is found by looking backward?

Magoo shares how Step 2 and the principle of hope helped change everything. Sober since2001, she talks about her “evidence file”

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— all the moments when life should have gone completely off the rails, but somehow didn’t.

Sometimes the evidence has been there the whole time.
You just have to be willing to see it.

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“As someone who used to go to shows to get high and escape, today I go to shows and I’m friend-seeking... I’m connection-seeking. I go to give people hugs, to catch up with friends, to be part of something.”

The Recovery Movement Inside the Jam-Band Universe
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