Happy 75th Birthday AA
Twenty years ago on a cold snowy winter night in Akron Ohio, a co-worker and I visited the home of Dr. Bob, Co-Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Over the course of the evening a dozen or so members of the Founders Fellowship dropped in for support, fellowship and some black coffee. It was an absolute honor to hang out in Dr. Bob’s kitchen and talk about sobriety with a direct line to where it all started. At that time they were celebrating 55 years of helping Alcoholics stay sober.
Imagine the lives that have been touched in the past 20 years. Teens who were attending AA at that time are now parenting there own sons and daughters trying to figure out if they are in need of a meeting and the Fellowship that helps people of all ages stay sober
In honor of this 75th Birthday, this is an excerpt from the Minneapolis Star Tribune from July 9, 2010.
“My name is Chas. I’m an Alcoholic. I stumbled into my first AA meeting in the fall of 1997. I had been a hard drinker for 20 years, and a serious drinker for 10. I had lost my job, was about to lose my family and was having serious health problems. My Doctor said that I had to stop drinking.”
“That was impossible. Life without alcohol was unimaginable. I had been an anxious kid and a morose teenager. I’d suffered from depression and panic attacks. Drinking wasn’t a problem but a solution: Booze made me feel normal.” This is why your kid might be dating a drug, getting high isn’t a problem, it’s a solution. Thanks for the great insight Chas.
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