Guideposts – August 2019

20 al, you need a time-out. That’s totally normal. But before you step away from the conversation, commit to a specific time to ...

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22 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 PH OT OS BY MA TT HE W^ GIL SO N I woke to pounding. BAM, bam, bam. What was that racket? I got ...

23 right,” I said. “We should have talked.” Lonny tried to hug me, but I pulled away. He understood that taking down the swing s ...

24 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 we’d unpacked. Whatever adventure they tackled on it became my own: pi- rates who hauled loot to ...

25 the yard—bare brown from years of sneakers scuffing the grass under the swings. I thought about the joy of those little boys, ...

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27 I t was a beautiful July evening, the sky still bright. I had all the win- dows down as I drove home from work, the smell of ...

28 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 He’s the most popular motivational speaker of his generation. But his success began in failure Y ...

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30 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 veteran players said. “Keep other teams from signing you.” The Colts cut me instead. I was re-si ...

AP PH OT O/J OH N^ R AO UX 31 out for me as I watched out for him. I had to remake myself inside and out. I pored over the Bible ...

32 CO UR TE SY TR EN T^ S HE LTO N mother had given me way back in high school. On the cover was a football with the initials NF ...

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34 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 PH OT OS BY SC OT T^ J ON ES Finding Alice BY BOB L., Brooklyn, New York I was diagnosed with te ...

35 sixty-fifth birthday. The gratitude I’m talking about is my astonished thanks for the happy, stable and emotionally abundant ...

36 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 life and filled me with such gratitude. I started drinking heavily in high school. I can’t pinpo ...

37 The following steps went deeper. I had to make amends to people I had hurt, ask God to remove my shortcomings, pray often and ...

38 in AA, I’d learned it wasn’t healthy to try to read other people’s minds. “Ev- erything okay?” I said. “What are you thinking ...

CA RO N 39 Healthy relationships are one of the primary casualties of substance abuse. Addiction above all is a disease of isola ...