Welcome to episode 3005 of the recovery show. This episode is brought to you by

Eileen and Clay and Patricia. They used the donation button on our website.

Thank you, Eileen and, and Patricia for your generous contributions.

This episode is for you.

We are friends and family members of alcoholic sonatics who have found a path to serenity and

happiness.

We who live or have lived with a seemingly hopeless problem of addiction understand as perhaps

a few others can.

So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery.

Before we begin, we would like to state that in this show we represent ourselves rather than any 12-step program.

During this show we will share our own experiences,

the opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them, take what you like and leave the rest.

We hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life.

My name is Spencer and I am your host today and as you can probably tell I'm not in my usual

studio I'm in fact standing out on a dock on the shore of Lake Leilana in Northern Michigan.

So you might be able to hear wind noise, wave noise, and who knows what else.

As you might have gathered from my introduction, I'm taking a little vacation this weekend with my wife.

We are, as we say in Michigan, up north.

We came to the Lillena Peninsula and that's the pinky, if you hold up your right hand and sort of makes the shape of

Michigan's lower peninsula and Lelandau Peninsula is the pinky in your hand. So we came up here to visit my cousin, whom we really haven't visited

in over a decade, and in hopes of seeing some nice fall color because that's what happens here in the US and in Michigan in the fall.

We've been saying for years that we ought to do that you know we ought to go up north

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