Sandy B. — Apollo Beach Anniversary — Day at a Time (2005)

RS-G136 · MODERN ERA · AA · 2005

Sandy B.

Apollo Beach Anniversary — Day at a Time · Apollo Beach, FL
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SpeakerSandy B.
EventApollo Beach Anniversary — Day at a Time
LocationApollo Beach, FL
Year2005
EraModern Era
FellowshipAA
Duration56:08
RS NumberRS-G136
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Well, I'm going to raise this up a little bit. Hi everybody, my name is Sandy Beach and I'm an alcoholic. How are you all doing? Well, I want to congratulate you on another anniversary. You really know how to celebrate over here, and how to attract people from all over. You know, our groups, we do all right in getting a lot of the local people, but we don't get people coming roaring over from out of town. So I really think it's wonderful. And I'm sure if you reflect back on the number of people that are sober and the families that have been affected in just three years, it would take a long time to add them all up. And that's the impact that an AA group has in the community. And it happens, you know, a day at a time, so you don't really notice it. And then if you go back and go, yeah, I remember when he came in, he came in, you'll see that it's made a big difference in the Apollo Beach community. And then each one of the people who gets sober, then they're treating people different as they go about their daily routine. And instead of disrupting 31 people a day, they're adding to their serenity. And so this multiplies on out, and there's a great contribution to the society around us. And it's just amazing what happens with one AA group or one person, one alcoholic talking to another. I was on the bill tonight to talk about the 12 traditions. And, you know, I was reading the card about Annie P. And I just said, that card is telling me that we don't need to hear about the traditions tonight, that we could hear about them some other night, and that maybe what we ought to hear about is a day at a time. So with all apologies to the tape cover that says 12 traditions, I'm going to change my mind. For those of you that I haven't met, my sobriety date is 7 December 1964. I came in in Washington, D.C. with a lot of great AA-ers. Some of them are still around. Some of them have gone up to meet with Bill W. upstairs. And we had our wonderful old-timers, you know, the people that brought AA to Washington, D.C. Some of them were still…

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